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obiwinekenobi.bsky.social

Princeton Law grad. Wine, FDI/sanctions, biglaw, crankiness. Not born and raised in South Detroit: THAT'S CANADA. Dad to Spawn and Beast. 1st-gen lawyer. Semi-anon bc clients don’t need this. Old posts memory-holed.

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I cannot fucking believe you all made me agree with this person.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

“My expectation is you don’t know shit, because none of us did, but you’re smart and you’ll figure it out like we did, and you’re doing great.” How Obi launches into guidance.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If the Democrats’ big strategy is for ActBlue to send me 3 texts a day from a rotating stable of numbers telling me that Robert Reich is appalled and I should send money, we are well and truly fucked.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."

submitted 5 days ago • 578 comments

Alright, I’m resolving the debate. All of these are simultaneously true: 1) Dems are the minority in Congress, greatly limiting their institutional power 2) Congressional Dems can and should be doing more 3) Some Dems are actually doing opposition, drawing public attention, etc 4) Not enough are

submitted 5 days ago • 90 comments

You’ve been murdered. Who do you want on the case?

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I work in the same metaphorical vineyard.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Checks out.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

submitted 7 days ago • 497 comments

The reason Trump could kill someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it is because the press would cover it like “Trump kills a man. Critics call it a crime.” which creates a permission structure for everyone to keep believing what they already believe

submitted 14 days ago • 40 comments

This is deeply correct. They don’t have the votes, even now.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Stares blankly in DC home rule

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Am I the only one who noticed that Trump issued an Executive Order welcoming persecuted immigrants… landowning Afrikaaners?

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Real tinpot dictator stuff here

submitted 16 days ago • 875 comments

Funny, but horrifying. The best kind of art. By @stephencollins.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

A suggestion for keeping both sane and effective over the next 4 years: just as the trick when watching a conjuror is to ignore what they say and watch their hands, ignore everything Trump says and watch what he actually does.