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he’s gonna be so mad about this lmao

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troops in the street, from the roof of my friend’s building on maryland ave

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judges love when you file 300+ page motions & give them a 3 hour deadline. brett shumate pls follow me for more great appellate procedure tips

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corporate counsel trying to salvage the depo after the 30b6 witness goes off script:

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russ vought’s cfpb tried to vacate a closed settlement with a mortgage lender over ECOA violations. the judge is not having it storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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the school crossing gave my dog a different brand of treat this morning & he spit it out in the middle of the crosswalk & stared at her like he was gravely insulted

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lol sdny gives zero fucks about letting these doge kids remain anonymous

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Masha Gessen worries that Americans are entering a phase of the "shock exhaustion" witnessed in Putin's Russia: A coping response to awful things happening in rapid succession is to normalize extremism. Establishment media (incl. the Times) too often enable this by both-sidesing authoritarianism.

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

incidentally, the last time the insurrection act was invoked was 1992, when the california governor requested federal troops to respond to the rodney king protests. california officials are trying to make it as clear as possible that isn’t what’s happening here.

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my kid took a bunch of fresh jalapeños slices off something he was eating & left them sitting in a little plastic cup in the car for some reason, for several days with the widows up in the heat - which, it turns out, is a recipe for a small homemade chemical weapon.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

They're literally doing the meme

submitted 13 days ago • 142 comments

i was at a fundraising event tonight where the average age was ~65. i was almost flattered when i got carded, but i didn’t have id, so the bartender asked who was president when i turned 21. but then when i said bush he asked which one??

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Takes a lot of chutzpah to make a $290 million political donation, assume a powerful position in government, use that power to fire tens of thousands of people and do immeasurable harm to American state capacity, and expect not to have to answer for it afterwards.

submitted 15 days ago • 98 comments

the guy who just knocked on my door for @shannontaylorva.com was the best canvasser i’ve talked to in years

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Exactly as predicted, now that DOGE has scraped all your personal data from government agencies, it's all being given to Peter Thiel's Palantir. It was always going to be Peter, who has dreamed of dictatorship for decades, patiently built his "political project". 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

submitted 17 days ago • 40 comments

IRS’s Direct File wasn't open source while it was being developed. But somebody just made it public!

submitted 18 days ago • 54 comments

everyone who litigates in d.d.c. immediately knows which judge wrote this based solely on the punctuation

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FWIW, I suspect people don’t care as much as they should because they don’t realize how Trump’s profiteering impacts them.

submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

ROBERTS CJ (probably): Wilcox and Harris misunderstand our precedents. The agencies we don’t like, as a matter of partisan ideology are unconstitutional. The one we think is necessary to avoid global financial collapse is okay tho.

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Russ Vought gets a $100m slush fund for unspecified deregulatory activities

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

It's remarkable how much of this administration's agenda has been laser focused on simply making life worse for ordinary Americans.

submitted 29 days ago • 355 comments

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

submitted 30 days ago • 162 comments

maybe i don’t understand what the department of homeland security is

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Tom Holland gave us Rihanna, but also runoff. His iconic rain-soaked routine is a reminder: stormwater doesn't care about choreography — or city limits. Smart drainage keeps rivers clean and your street from becoming a splash zone. 👏 @neorsd.org: neorsd.medium.com/what-tom-hol...

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

sorry i was late i got distracted by a youtube channel of a lady who removes bee hives from people’s walls

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Good morning to everyone except the person who scheduled my child's Saturday morning soccer game at 8:30am

submitted 275 days ago • 11 comments

unitary executive theorists: the constitution vests all executive power is the president alone & all executive officer and agencies are subject to his complete control trump: idk man i just work here

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

today is my last day as a civil servant & i just sent a farewell email to several hundred colleagues then immediately spilled soy sauce all over the work laptop that i need to turn in in a few hours. feels fitting, idk.

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i have some questions for whoever at the alexandria welfare league decided to bring a bunch of adoptable bunnies to the dog festival today in del ray

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

what kind of bird is this

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

tbf any judge that’s not having an existential crisis right now isn’t doing their job well

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Removing a black 4-star general at Secretary of Defense and replacing him with a white talk-show is the perfect example why DEI is essential. It's not about hiring unqualified minorities, it’s about foiling the majority's habit of hooking up under qualified mediocrities of their own caste.

submitted 53 days ago • 7 comments

still thinking about the guy at the coffee shop this morning who ordered his coffee “black, like god intended,” then heard me order a latte, apologized, & explained that he’s actually an atheist

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

the unitary executive at work

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ppl keep mistaking Jurassic Park for a survival film against dinosaurs when it's actually a survival film against startup culture

submitted 55 days ago • 87 comments

every action this administration takes to enrich wealthy oligarchs, persecute foreigners, and oppress marginalized groups is a policy hostile to christian values. the call is coming from inside the house.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

guys it’s not funny, scotus justices only post like this when they’re in extreme distress

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

submitted 58 days ago • 924 comments