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Professor of Constitutional Law at Princeton Law School, specializing in the 18th Amendment. Former legal analyst for Crossfire.
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Zohran Mamdani: Some New Yorkers Say They Can Imagine Him With A Big Cape And Devil Horns

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They should also eliminate temporary clerkships. Each justice gets one full-time clerk who does clerk stuff instead of acting as a shadow justice in exchange for a six-figure law firm payout after 12 months. If justices can't cut it with their one clerk, we haven't added enough justices.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

Why do people who I'm 100% certain died years ago keep feeling a need to weigh in on current events. You're dead! Why are you talking!

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

his Wikipedia contains sections titled "disputed educational details" "disputed career claims" "campaign finance issues" and "other controversies," en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Og...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

I don't think New York City should rely on a ranking system to select their mayor. They should instead use an eight-team playoff with the winners of the power conferences receiving automatic bids.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Stephen Miller's Summer Playlist 2025: 1. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Richard Wagner 2. Ankunft bei den schwarzen Schwänen, Richard Wagner 3. Der fliegende Holländer, Richard Wagner 4. Das Rheingold, Richard Wagner 5. Das Liebesverbot, Richard Wagner 6. Die Walküre... (cont.)

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

JD Vance made his first big speech all about the need for European free speech, and now a Norwegian is banned from America because of this pic.

submitted 3 days ago • 54 comments

Amazing how many people think the US has a state-run oil industry, rather than the other way around.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Remember how inflation was the single biggest issue in the last election? Anyways, here's what the Trump Administration has been up to so far: -Tariffs (inflationary) -Deportations targeting working-age adults (inflationary) -Bombing Iran (inflationary)

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

submitted 6 days ago • 433 comments

Starting a podcast called "The Abundance Agenda" and its me and a guest trying to eat Costco family size packages of various foods in a single sitting. Episode 1: five-gallon Utz Pork Rinds

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

The Main Cinema applying the 28 [blanks] Later rule to everything playing there this week

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

The summery cumulonimbus clouds have arrived

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2732 West Chicago Avenue

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"This is a distraction!" I shout through the grates of the crowded transport truck. "We should be talking about the economy!" This is my first visit to the gulag.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Using field extremely literally here, how much local air pollution gas-powered leaf blowers, lawn mowers, and other 2-stroke engines put out. (Several thousand times as much as a modern automobile.)

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

The last remaining employee of the Leaded Gas Industry Association is sitting down for breakfast with the head of the EPA, making his pitch that lead poisoning is a liberal conspiracy. The EPA admin interrupts the unusually decrepit lobbyist's speech - "you're paying for breakfast right?"

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Introducing Vision Zero to Sixty: Andrew Cuomo's Bold New Proposal to Legalize Street Racing in Manhattan

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

lmao not the New York Times editorial board using the phrase “elite progressives” as a pejorative

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Lots of more important things happened yesterday, but the actual Pope giving a live-streamed address to a half-empty Comiskey, er, Rate Field, might be the funniest

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The Tea Party became a Narrative—how will Obama respond? Will he moderate his policies? Will the protests affect legislative deliberations? Will it affect the midterms? Media can choose to give the Narrative treatment to No Kings… or not

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

If his 79th birthday was this embarrass, imagine how bad his 80th will be. Come to think of it, he should probably just avoid having an 80th birthday altogether

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Not saying it’s impossible to do fascism if you can’t do a military parade, but the correlation between successful fascist regimes and regimes that know how to put on an imposing show of military might is high. So yea, I’m kind of reassured by how pathetic it was

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

this is what we mean by identity politics

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One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

submitted 12 days ago • 480 comments

The America 250 military parade would be cool if they were all wearing the Continental Army uniform and the band was playing Yankee Doodle

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Lord, I don’t ask much from you

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

When we say “abundance agenda,” this is what we mean

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Apparently this happened on the BNSF line, just before the Outbound Afternoon Rush mind you!

submitted 13 days ago • 23 comments