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Primary attorney supporting Magic: The Gathering at Wizards of the Coast. This is a personal account and all opinions are personal and my own and hopefully at least kind of funny. I hope you like deadlifts, dogs, and D&D.
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I just saw a Cybertruck with a "Baby on Board" sticker and thought that was very self-aware of the owner.

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This is the good shit. More please

submitted 23 hours ago • 38 comments

This is bad. “Remaking the Jag corps is a priority for Hegseth, who commissioned his personal lawyer Tim Parlatore as a navy commander to oversee the effort…Parlatore defended Trump for mishandling classified documents and Eddie Gallagher on war crimes charges.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 8 hours ago • 57 comments

"These flagrant assaults on American liberties are coming thick and fast and deserve our attention and alarm. We live in a country governed by law—or at least, we are supposed to. If Khalil is to be deprived of liberty, it can only be through due process of law." www.thebulwark.com/p/mahmoud-kh...

submitted 8 hours ago • 25 comments

@alanrozenshtein.com This series is good. Book two is challenging -- not in a bad way; it's just a lot. I burned out before book 3 and needed a palette cleanser. It's reminding me I need to go back. I read the Suneater Series (first two books) to do so.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Glad to see Walz out. Democrats should be doing every bit of experimentation as though the primary started Nov. 7 (and maybe it did) to see what lands and take advantage of a field Republicans have fled, including good old fashioned town halls.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Phase One: Don’t Be Hysterical, There Will Be No Fascism Phase Two: Actually Calling This Fascism Is Exaggerated Phase Three: How This Fascism Is The Fault of Liberal Writers Who Don’t Admire Me Phase Four: Refugee Camp Chieftain Vingo Cuckslayer Will Not Be A Fascist

submitted 19 hours ago • 23 comments

“Insanity is not a strategy”

submitted 1 day ago • 130 comments

A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1298 comments

I love @pattonoswalt.bsky.social — he might be my favorite standup comedian — but an offshoot of this is that I rewatch a lot of his stuff and, man, looking back, it’s interesting to see that a gay man being president seemed farther off than a woman president. Not sure about that one these days.

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This could be too cute by half, but if Perkins was on retainer of key government contractors during a time where the government is likely to become more reliant on said contractors due to federal firings…well…

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There are a million horrible things happening all at once, but wanted to take a moment to focus on the exec order against Perkins Coie and how it's an attempt to make it difficult for anyone to use the legal process to challenge all this law breaking. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/t...

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Ok I know this is old-man irritability but I don’t care if Mahmoud Khalil has a pregnant wife, I don’t care if he and his wife are childfree, I don’t care if he’s in a fucking polycule with a hedgehog and a jar of mayonnaise, NOBODY should be detained for protected speech, including singletons.

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open.substack.com/pub/noodlein... (Personal opinion forthcoming) I’m selfishly sharing again because, I’m sorry, I think I’m right and that law firms not banding together is stupid. It’s really really really good to hear this but public reporting indicates other firms were reluctant. Stop!

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Gotta be honest, I have no idea what opinions Khalil holds, and I'm guessing I'd probably disagree with a bunch, but it's not even worth me finding out, *because that doesn't matter* and there's no reason to even bring it up, because he was renditioned because of his speech. Full stop. Just say it.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

the feminine urge to

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how did ICE know where to find Mahmoud Khalil, and who will they go after next? I wrote about the vast surveillance network that powers ICE arrests, and the Zionist groups making deportation wishlists for the agency: www.theverge.com/policy/62718...

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

10/10. No notes.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Oopsie doopsie!

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This “spring forward” thing is going to kill me.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Trying to put my money where my mouth is: open.substack.com/pub/noodlein...

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@emilypeck.bsky.social How do you feel about office lotto pools?

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I had been dying to ask @dahlialithwick.bsky.social about Amy Coney Barrett’s recent defections from the right and the growing gender divide on the court that they reflect. She had a lot of thoughts. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

Hell yes let’s do it

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I’m sorry; I just need a place to put all my ire for this temper tantrum of an administration: open.substack.com/pub/noodlein...

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open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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BREAKING: By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court LIFTS its hold on a lower court order compelling the Trump administration to resume nearly $2 billion in foreign aid funding. The funds MUST be disbursed. Roberts and Barrett join the liberals. Obviously, this is huge. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 8 days ago • 102 comments

Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog). This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

submitted 8 days ago • 124 comments

I know I'm just a person who lifts things up and puts them down, but some things really grind my gears. Punching down to protect women's sports is one of them. I'm all ears for scrutinizing the status quo, but this argument is deployed in bad faith: substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

President Trump just directly contradicted the Government's court filing in one of the most important cases before the courts. President Trump: "DOGE ... which is headed by Elon Musk who is in the gallery tonight." A boost for the plaintiffs in the Appointments Clause cases.

submitted 8 days ago • 49 comments

An important statement from the American Bar Association. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 9 days ago • 877 comments

@espiers.bsky.social @emilypeck.bsky.social @felixsalmon.com At that price, the shrimp better come with a tiny top hat and monocle.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Couldn’t remember the word for “anniversary” so I said “marriage annual renewal.” A+, me.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Shoutout to Spotify single-handedly turning my bones to dust.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Kudos to @jpalfrey.bsky.social and the MacArthur Foundation for stepping up at this critical moment. Increasing foundation giving to fill the gap left by the broken promises and breached contracts of federal funding shows true leadership and compassion. #belovedcommunity apnews.com/article/maca...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments