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Where the ordure hits the spinny metal thing. Research Editor at the NYT (i.e., a fact checker). Former criminal defense attorney. Lover of facts, sailor of oceans, player of instruments. In a long-term relationship with the truth. Rhode Islander for life.
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Don’t come for a Mainer. Especially not with this “I’m the law” b.s.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

i think it is cool that de facto first consul of the united states is a drug-addled maniac and deadbeat dad with a breeding fetish

submitted 3 days ago • 545 comments

What Ilan Wurman and Randy Barnett are doing isn’t best understood as legal scholarship. It’s more like wartime public relations, or like SEO. It’s creating bullshit that will give dishonest judges a pretext to pretend that there is a serious constitutional dispute. They’re fascism’s fixers.

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

LFG #USAHockey

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

“He who saves his country does not violate the law.”

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZuM...

submitted 8 days ago • 56 comments

This is one of the reasons why I’m so steaming mad lately. There is a strong, historic, traditional body of scholarship that all lawyers study and learn, and these willful idiots think they’ve just figured out a new way to do it. I have a fucking doctorate!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

“Livers” being, of course, his name for those who are not his fellow undead.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Face ID after I shave my beard:

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe I’m too cynical, but there has to be one Robert Bork out there who hasn’t quite gotten their fill of shoe leather yet.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Sure the nation is crumbling but I’m currently on a flight where my wife and I each scored seats in empty rows, so some things are still good.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Just to underscore the tension at DOJ at the moment, here's what one federal law enforcement official told me about the acting deputy attorney general: "I, along with other career FBI and DOJ personnel that I’ve spoken with, really have one message for him and that is, “go fuck yourself, traitor.'"

submitted 10 days ago • 267 comments

I am going to celebrate anyone who still respects the rule of law, and Atty. Sassoon seems to be one.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Pete Hegseth: our military sucks lol Linda McMahon: knowing things makes Jesus cry RFK Jr: polio vaccine? that’s RACIST Marco Rubio: other countries can go fuck themselves Tulsi Gabbard: none of our business what Russia is up to Pam Bondi: state courts AND federal courts? Crazy!

submitted 10 days ago • 99 comments

Sign of the times? Shopping in the islands, the cashier spent a good twenty minutes carefully instructing us how to escape the U.S. when the time comes, and urged us to get prepared asap.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Some of you may find this meme useful. I do not endorse violence. (But I know what history tells us, over and over again.)

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

“The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, is stealing money from you to put in his pocket” has to be the easiest political argument ever www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 121 comments

i do not understand what elon and trump would be doing differently if there weren’t themselves actual agents of beijing and moscow

submitted 10 days ago • 216 comments

In the wake of the firing of the Kennedy Center board, Ben Folds has resigned as artistic director of the NSO. The Kennedy Center and its related arts institutions are some of the most important public arts organizations we have. I look forward to the national tour of “Forgiato Blow with Strings.”

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Jesus, Gen X, what the hell is wrong with us?

submitted 11 days ago • 340 comments

Fish I have seen while snorkeling this week: bluehead wrasse, smooth trunkfish, peacock flounder, trumpetfish, grey angelfish, barracuda, blue tang, every color of parrotfish, French grunt, spotted goatfish, yellowtail snapper, ballyhoo, octopus, stingray. #nosuchthingasafish

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

F.A.B.O.T.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 12 days ago • 424 comments

Fun Animal Facts®: gulls will sometimes sit on a pelican’s head and steal fish from their mouths.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The only way I can interpret the GOP's actions is that they are 100% certain they will never face another democratic election again. They hit the shore and burned their ships.

submitted 12 days ago • 129 comments

This finely tuned cavalcade of bullshit is ahistorical and not based in any sane reading of the Constitution. This, and arguments like it, are an attempt to undo 250 years of jurisprudence via social media. Source: I’m a lawyer. Don’t fall for it.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments