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mcmegan.bsky.social
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People keep making the mistake of treating electronic communication as an informal oral medium rather than a formal written medium. Everything you write down is discoverable, and likely to be discovered, and your delightful in-group jokes will not read so funny to outsiders.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

as kotkin put it after studying the soviet archives exhaustively: "the key thing to understand is that these guys were communists"

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

This rule was quite likely to result in more people becoming unbanked. Checking accounts are low-margin business, and default rates on overdrafts are significant. When overdrafts are capped banks raise other fees, structured to discourage the marginal customers whose default risk is highest.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Be like WilmerHale. And good for Paul Clement.

submitted 30 days ago • 12 comments

Regulatory background on Trump FCC chief Brendan Carr's plans to use the public interest standard, news distortion rule and other doctrines to bring to heel broadcasters who displease his boss. At some point, only the courts' willingness to defend the First Amendment may matter [Clay Calvert, AEI]

submitted 80 days ago • 8 comments

Budget season in Halifax again.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

"Interest Costs Would Explode with $5.5 Trillion Reconciliation Package" https://buff.ly/4hNkfwg

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Time for a spicy hot take that is actually ice cold.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

The "might" is touching.

submitted 109 days ago • 21 comments

So I get (and largely share) the principled objections to this but it is also a fact that in a democracy, if you can't get political consensus that something was an unpardonable breach of civic norms, then it definitionally was not an unpardonable breach of civic norms.

submitted 109 days ago • 9 comments

What are the best examples of mainstream fact-checkers erroneously siding with Republicans, or giving Republicans more benefit of the doubt than Democrats?

submitted 109 days ago • 8 comments

So much of my social media feed is posts from across the political spectrum sharing dumb stuff some tv host said. Interestingly, everyone who shares these things appears to believe that all the truly, stunningly, revealingly moronic stuff is happening on the other side.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

RESIGN, @mattgertz.bsky.social

submitted 125 days ago • 344 comments