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Workers’ rights attorney, focused on overtime and minimum wage claims. New Yorker by birth, Californian by marriage, occasionally midwestern. Co-chair of the Dad Rock Committee.
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We need to see contempt of court warrants for Trump administration officials, and quickly.

Just to say the quiet part out loud, the point of having unelected judges in a democracy is so that *whether* acts of state are “legitimate” can be decided by someone other than the people who are undertaking them. Vermeule knows this, of course. So does Vance.

Attn: @edsbs.bsky.social

USAID website now says that “all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally” as of Friday night. www.usaid.gov

This should be 25th amendment level conduct. The president ordered water to be released from a random dam in California nowhere near the wildfires and then claimed it would help. That’s literally Mad King behavior.

I texted @kevinwildes.bsky.social and @getnickwright.bsky.social a photo of a stacheless Sully from MSNBC last night. Not even sure they recognized him

Sully shaved his mustache and became fully anonymous, @pablo.show discussion of levels of fame hit the nail on the head citing him and Mike Trout as people widely known, minimally recognized.

Buttigieg’s response to Trump vis Twitter, on multiple levels:

🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs. Full text, per government source:

Beautiful Packers Vikings unity - we are all snickerdoodle haters

This is fully divorced from reality. It’s great that we got so much coverage of Biden’s decline, so we could wind up with … whatever this garbage is.

unbelievable loser shit tbh

I'm not saying that the Republican Party has entered a dark pact with Moloch, laying the lives and souls of untold millions on the altar of sacrifice and offering up their lifeblood in return for electoral victory, but I am saying that if they DID do that, their policy approach would be identical.

1/2 If any East Coasters apart from Trump share pig-ignorant view that Calif just needs to 'release' water from north and send it to LA: Unt-uh. Sort of like saying: "You've got lowland floods in New Orleans? No prob. Just 'release' some of that high ground in Appalachians and lift the city up"

This first point is true and the second is nonsense. Trump won because he and his party are “more chill and friendly to heterodoxy?” What? Any Republican who is disloyal is a pariah! Why isn’t Mike Pence VP?

Why has google decided the most prominent information on its search results should be aggressively wrong AI generated text?

@edsbs.bsky.social honestly every single word after Lazio was a swerve www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Let’s get one thing straight: the cost of the Green New Deal is far less than the cost of losing our planet to the climate crisis.

California voters embarrassingly rejected the ballot measure, Prop 6, to ban involuntary servitude in prisons just this year.

it is so important to remember that IN THE MOMENT there was no one who thought jan. 6 was some innocent protest gone awry. everyone recognized it for what it was.

That a dude with a couple cameras and a plate of appetizers can make something worth $82.5 million and a media company looks at that and goes "couldn't we make even more money if we had AI do it?" tells you exactly how stupid these people are

Both @mnewhouse.bsky.social and I think ppl are sleeping on the Packers’ run game. On the pod we discussed why it’s working so well, and how Matt LaFleur creates the illusion of complexity (to steal a Sean McVayism) on the ground. 🎧: tinyurl.com/457puezn 📺: youtu.be/66L5OoX-_eE?...

Highest highlights of the latest @minakimes.bsky.social Show Featuring Lenny: 4) opening dog joke honoring LaFleur, 3) praising Packers’ creative run game, 2) scoffing at the word Enigma, 1) recognizing the power of Toyotathon.

Over the last three weeks, Jordan Love is 1st in EPA/db and touchdown percentage. Could there be one very specific reason why? Not sure I convinced @domoniquefoxworth.bsky.social but I think I buy this theory…. 🎧: tinyurl.com/457puezn 📺: youtu.be/5B5ZAM5jhN8?...

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment