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stareaskesis.bsky.social
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@stareaskesis.bsky.social
ex-academic, tax lawyer
Doesn’t sound like she had a choice
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“I was dating a teenager—what was I going to do, not pay for her education? What kind of man would I be?”
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Yes exactly. You said “actually” as if that was a disagreement but that is precisely my suggestion!
November 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I hadn’t noticed! I’ll check next time I walk Stephanie’s dog by there
October 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
More bad news for Cybertruck Guy: evidently his packages are getting stolen. The hits keep coming!
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It’s insane how much you nailed this
October 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Wonder if he broke up with his Ukrainian Jewish partner. How sad!
October 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Idk I don’t feel strongly about this either way I’m just kind of skeptical
October 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I don’t necessarily object but while I think civil judgments may work I’m skeptical that anyone who works at ICE is ever getting a criminal conviction, and a failed prosecution is potentially worse than none in terms of creating martyrs and inspiring vengeance
October 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I do worry about having various cabinet secretaries, tech oligarchs, children and stepchildren around in public life for decades. They won’t go away. But there’s not a workable way around it, I don’t think
October 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I think the impulse to want these people never to hold any kind of power again is right—“lock them up” is a shortcut, and automatic bar. But I don’t think it’ll work (not least because I’m sure they are immune)
October 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
In a world full of sorta conservative people with editorial roles in legacy media that far exceed their talents and on which they do not depend for income because they have (or have married into) dynastic wealth so the job is really more of a hobby, she’s a sorta conservative person with an editoria
October 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I haven’t listened yet I’m just basing this take on a few screenshots like this and a 5-second clip I heard this morning on a podcast but I know I’m right
October 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No longer experiencing any pressure to cryptically hint at having a politics, to cater to lonely nerds, or to underwrite her over-educated fanbase’s projections of intellectualism, her latest is a concept album where the concept is “Ke$ha but unironically (and less fun)”
October 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Sometimes a fine is just a fee
October 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
It’s wild to me how these discussions proceed as if it had turned out that Kirk’s killing was plotted by a local DSA chapter. “Political violence is violence against us all” ok well if you define it broadly enough to include this then… is it?
September 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The parallels with Harris seem to me under appreciated. Fancy elite lawyers who leveraged identity-based self-narratives into political brands, total political chameleons with no charisma, selected for high office by popular party leaders who wanted to please an identifiable segment of their base…
September 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
🤮
September 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I mean specifically the phrase “normative priors” is what I first heard from law people. Philosophers love to dress their hunches up in a coat and tie but have too much respect for the fact/value distinction to use it that way I think
September 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
It’s metastasized for sure but the jump from philosophy to law is when I suddenly started hearing it all the time (could be coincidence)
September 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM