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Lawyer but not YOUR lawyer. NYer in Philly via London. Long strange trip from USAF enlisted vet (Rivet Joint) to YLS grad.
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🇺🇦 “This was truly a unique operation. And now I can say: the ‘office’ for this op inside Russia was located right next to an FSB headquarters. 117 drones were used, striking 34% of Russia’s strategic cruise missile carriers at key airbases. Our teams were safely extracted in advance." — Zelensky

"The shooter later called 911 on himself. When the police arrived, he surrendered his firearm, and law enforcement took him into custody—but then, after questioning him, the police released the shooter without charges." Why?

Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead

Bryan Cranston on Making America Great Again. When was it ever great for African Americans? So if you’re making it great again, it’s not for them. Who is it going to be great for?!

British police: congratulations on getting a headline that looks like a United States police headline

Been waiting for these results. That’s 36 in a single city. Extrapolating out to the rest of the country is . . . overwhelming. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/cr...

Zoomies with a twist !

Democrats just flipped the Omaha mayor's office with ads like this. The right-wing obsession with genitals is starting to backfire.

It was true in 2018 and remains true today:

Accepting a private jumbo-jet from a foreign nation is a clear violation of our Constitution, which plainly prohibits U.S. officials from accepting gifts from foreign governments.

Once a foreign government can openly give the president a half-billion-dollar plane as a personal gift, there’s no red line left between a democracy and a full-blown kleptocracy. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/corruption...

Is there ANY catchy song from the 70s-to-mid-90s that isn’t subject to being co-opted for pharmaceutical ads?

I await public thanks from Pope Leo for my killing of his predecessor. by JD Vance

It's been well over 200 years since anyone referred to the 5th Amendment as new or "out of nowhere" 🧐

So instead of trade deals he’s just going to publicly negotiate with himself until he walks back the tariffs? We get a couple of months of supply chain shock and nothing to show for it besides damaged relationships across the world.

BREAKING: Renfield “actively looking at” spider.

I don’t care what Ozturk wrote. It doesn’t matter. This is America. We’re fucking free to have opinions of all sorts. It doesn’t matter. You don’t get to lock up people for bad thought. That’s against the fucking law and morals and fuck every last person arguing that this is a crime. Fuck all of em

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Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

My Navy told me the Red Sea keeps swallowing its planes so I asked how many planes it has and it said it just goes to Lockheed Martin and gets a new plane afterwards so I said it sounds like it's just feeding planes to the Red Sea and the defense secretary started crying

The American Dream is that this is a place where anyone, even a black dude named Hakeem, can wind up as House Minority Leader and be a bland seat-filling accommodationist.

P R I M A R Y E V E R Y O N E !!! We as a polity have become far too complacent about and comfortable with legislators who lack energy and purpose beyond preserving their seats.