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the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and it cannot bind anyone until it protects everyone | tech lawyer, CIPP/US
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what the moment calls for is fighters instead of gormless boobs who should have retired 30 years ago. policy differences can be hashed out later, everyone can agree that Musk and Trump must be stopped and democracy restored

"our political opponents are also coincidentally routinely violating easy-to-prove laws" is bizarrely seen by many democrats as an ethical dilemma or sticky problem instead of a two-birds-one-stone layup

When someone says “why isn’t anyone DOING anything,” it sometimes seems to me that they’re looking for a superheroic action that saves the day rather than the kind of steady, human-scale work that actually is happening and could use your help if you have some time

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

there has been zero noise about new leadership in the house or senate which should tell you plenty about how much Dems actually care about their complete and total loss.

25% #dudesrock memes, 25% self-help and emotional openness space, 25% sports a la defector, and 25% full communism

Seeing some takes that are like "Rufo isn't an evil genius" and like one of the biggest things people are going to have to understand about the coming years is that wielding power and harming others rarely requires cleverness or intelligence to do.

When an absolutely horrible human gets knifed in prison, remember this: popehat.substack.com/p/deserves-g... cc @kenwhite.bsky.social

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The "fuck around" era ending isn't so bad if you have subordinates who can bear the brunt of the "find out" economy

absolutely trash take. despite the protestations this *is* doomerism and should be rejected out of hand

I'm going to miss him terribly and I'm sad he won't be here to see my try—even though I will fail—to meet his legacy. He of all people would tell me there's value in trying and failing https://www.courant.com/2023/07/03/james-a-wade-noted-hartford-trial-lawyer-and-gubernatorial-confidant-dies-at-86/

finally, a new avenue for posting my way out of a job