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A God-fearing, well-educated,,reasonable guy with thoughts on the issues of the day. A lover of precise words. Here's to clear thinking.
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The skeleton key to understanding reactionary conservatism is quite simple: they are scared, all the time, of everything.

submitted 23 days ago • 777 comments

Very proud of NFL Live being nominated for best studio show again! It’s a show about football for people who love football—and we have the best producers and host around. @laurarutledge.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 42 comments

It is indeed wild tho not entirely unpredictable that Trump term 2 is openly the anti- operation warp speed administration

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

I regret joking about Jeffrey Goldberg because I think he may be in genuine danger.

submitted 37 days ago • 440 comments

We rebelled against a king. We do not have kings in America. Sadly, way, way too many Americans have forgotten this basic American truth. Let’s remind them. Go to - oneflaginitiative.org and become part of the #NoKings movement. No authoritarianism in America. #NoKings.👇

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

First they came for your due process rights, and you said nothing for you had not committed a crime. Then they came for your right to privacy, and you said nothing for you had nothing to hide. Then they came for your free speech rights, and you said nothing.

submitted 38 days ago • 162 comments

oh my GOD

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

Lots of people on Bluesky are hostile to the petty retaliatory attacks on law firms. The hard truth is that most Americans are fine with it or don't care. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

submitted 37 days ago • 144 comments

Mark Cuban is kind of fascinating because he'll say some very reasonable and astute things and then he'll bounce off the wall with one of the most "charlie brown had hoes" posts you've ever seen.

submitted 37 days ago • 33 comments

I had legit completely forgotten this.

submitted 37 days ago • 1691 comments

If a law firm won't risk everything to defend itself, what makes you think it will risk anything to defend you? My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.

submitted 40 days ago • 689 comments

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

submitted 40 days ago • 1166 comments

I feel confident in predicting history will judge this decade or so as the absolutely stupidest time in American history. Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.

submitted 39 days ago • 2279 comments

if the democratic party had a functional propaganda arm it could make a lot of hay of the fact that a non-trivial number of MAGA personalities and politicians are child sex offenders

submitted 42 days ago • 635 comments

It's pretty remarkable that Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter but acquiring the US government only cost him around $250 million.

submitted 42 days ago • 40 comments

Bunch of high profile D lawyers are at Paul Weiss. They have a choice to make, I'd say.

submitted 42 days ago • 195 comments

It is a sad day for the legal industry. Paul Weiss, didn't just bend a knee, it set a new standard for shameful capitulation. This is a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession.

submitted 42 days ago • 2819 comments

Among others, Paul Weiss represents Amazon and Jeff Bezos and let's just say I'm not surprised at all...

submitted 42 days ago • 6 comments

NEW: Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot has been removed from his role following uproar over Jackie Robinson article www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 42 days ago • 40 comments

I like how he implies that previously people only liked Tesla because they were programmed to

submitted 42 days ago • 748 comments

These are the principles, set out by the great Judge Simon Rifkind, that once governed Paul Weiss. They should take his name out of the firm’s name out of respect for his memory.

submitted 42 days ago • 235 comments

This is absolutely insane.

submitted 42 days ago • 9 comments

Statement from the family of the late Medgar Evers.

submitted 42 days ago • 87 comments

We did it folks !

submitted 42 days ago • 1209 comments

Good work everyone

submitted 42 days ago • 125 comments

submitted 52 days ago • 154 comments

The White House is chock-full of people who should be institutionalized in some public facilities other than the White House.

submitted 57 days ago • 1387 comments

Trump Outlines Bold Vision For Golden Age Of China

submitted 57 days ago • 68 comments

Just one thousandth of what they said! No big deal.

submitted 72 days ago • 314 comments

It feels like we're literally going to hit the point where we have to turn the United States off and then on again.

submitted 72 days ago • 10 comments

Musk also claims he was persecuted by the Biden Administration. If this chart shows persecution, please persecute me.

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 74 days ago • 478 comments

Farmers: “He was supposed to hurt other people, not us.”

submitted 78 days ago • 3960 comments

The new iconic photo that i predicted ultimately destroys the relationship:

submitted 78 days ago • 4010 comments

“I never thought that a self-styled Tariff Man’ would impose tariffs,’ sobs analyst who said that Tariff Man would be good for markets. on.ft.com/4aFOR0l

submitted 88 days ago • 14 comments

I expect all the leaders I voted for who made it into the positions they did to do their damn jobs tomorrow.

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments

There’s no evidence that any of Trump’s actions contributed to this tragedy. But it does serve as a timely reminder that the government performs many important functions that rely on competence and expertise that are easy to take for granted.

submitted 92 days ago • 21 comments

Anyway as they pull bodies out of the Potomac bear in mind that the guiding ethos of Trumpism is that the TSA, NTSB, and FAA should be radically downsized and run by dudes whose main qualifications are loyalty are a willingness to say “cunt” a lot

submitted 92 days ago • 567 comments

If US allies aren't alarmed yet, the casual disregard for congressionally appropriated funds ought to offer some clues as to how much respect they'll accord to security treaty commitments.

submitted 93 days ago • 5 comments

Btw, so you know: members of Congress definitely do care what kind of feedback they’re getting from constituents, whether by phone, mail, email, or at in-person events. Be polite, but let them know.

submitted 93 days ago • 3 comments

this is an illegal order. the president does not have the legal authority to discriminate against entire categories of americans on the basis of sex. this order is no different than if he had issued one reinstituting segregation.

submitted 94 days ago • 379 comments

She has a point.

submitted 94 days ago • 13 comments

"The Patriots hired Josh McDaniels as Mike Vrabel’s offensive coordinator in a feat of organizational contortionism: a football franchise plunging ever deeper into its own rectum until it vanishes in a non-Euclidean blip." Everyone should be reading Mike Tanier.

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

This Biden farewell address is wild

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

I am a decade-long NYMag subscriber, and I will always be a subscriber, no matter how many times the goddamn website says I'm not and makes me log in again.

submitted 106 days ago • 5 comments

FEMA administrator Deanne Crissell was so uncontroversial that Republicans didn’t even demand a recorded vote on her nomination. www.congress.gov/nomination/1...

submitted 108 days ago • 30 comments

They use the term to mean “b*itch” and “<ethic/racial slur>”. That is quite literally its meaning.

submitted 108 days ago • 235 comments