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Dear manager, This week I, 1. Played the field. 2. Kept it real. 3. Didn't rate. 4. Tried to overcompensate. 5. Went on Ricki Lake.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Follow these, and spread far and fucking wide. bsky.app/profile/altu... www.wethebuilders.org

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I tried Skyrim for the first time tonight, close to a decade and a half after everyone else. It was...fine? Not sure I'll keep playing, honestly. I can't tell if it's just not for me or if it hasn't aged well.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If I wanted this to be a larger lesson: someone with responsibility but not humility will eventually get themselves in trouble.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

suspect that a "democratic party answer to the tea party" is less The Squad and more like Alan Grayson and (current) Andrew Cuomo not so much ideologically radicalized but much more oppositional, angry, and actively looking for ways to seize control of the narrative through showy press conferences

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

It really feels like we're speedrunning a redo of the financial crisis, except with this weird mod that replaces houses with cars.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

One trillion times this. I helped to do this in Multnomah County as part of the Howard Dean movement in 2004. Within a couple of years, I was the number three county party official. Stupidly easy. (I then stepped away when I had a second kid.)

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I need a book recommendation! I'm looking for nonfiction. 1. My current read involves some very personal descriptions of life at the poverty line in America. The next book cannot be this depressing, it must be lighter. 2. That said, my interests involve the social safety net and I'm interested...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Credit cards used to advertise that you could pick the image on the front of your card. I wonder if it would be possible to get one to look like a Bridge card.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I want to point out that firing every attorney in the division whose job is prosecution corruption would itself be a massiclve, unbelievable scandal, even if you ignore the Eric Adams context.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

As to B, I'll share the memory of a fairly successful criminal defense attorney once insisting to me that a document contained something, up until the point where I asked him to show me and he couldn't. When he couldn't find the language he was citing he seemed genuinely bewildered.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

There's a small bias towards negativity on the left. I think it comes from the belief in and focus on 'progress.' If the goal is 'progress,' there's never an accomplishment to celebrate that's bigger than the work left to do. There always is, always will be more progress to be had.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I only had time to skim this, but I want to point out one power courts have: the ability to disbar attorneys. A federal court can't bring any penalty that DOJ won't enforce, but the courts can absolutely sanction and disbar DOJ lawyers whose client won't obey the law.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment