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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 11 days ago • 899 comments

"Orange" is famously the English word there are no perfect rhymes for, but are there any for "signal"? My family and I were discussing this at dinner. Best we could come up with was "Lou Ferrignal." As in, relating to Lou Ferrigno.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

reading the alt text of this photo is the hardest i’ve laughed all day

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Oh. Good. That won’t be a problem.

submitted 9 days ago • 35 comments

I have just finished reading Danielle Sassoon’s memorandum in its entirety. It is a tour de force. Its correctness is obvious. She’s an American hero. Emil Bove ought to be investigated by his state’s bar association for discipline and possible disbarment, at least.

submitted 10 days ago • 217 comments

Roberts clerk.

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

I keep an emergency kit in my car for breakdowns and flat tires and getting stranded. I've never used it. Why do I not keep a bunch of gift bags of all sizes in neutral colors in there? I would use it all the time.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Awful messaging from Trump/Hegseth today. It's especially odious that Trump wants to normalize relations w russia and sweep the war crimes and territorial integrity norm violation under the rug. But remember: 1) neither Ukraine, nor Europe will just roll over; both have red lines; 2)...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

This split between the Republican governor of Oklahoma and education chief Ryan Walters is indicative of what's to come. Trump's education agenda is unpopular and nobody embodies that unpopularity quite like Ryan Walters. www.oklahoman.com/story/news/e...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Ngl, it's hard to go to law school in your late 40s. Perimenopause & law school aren't supposed to go together. And I was a better theology prof than I am a law student. THAT SAID.... I feel lucky to be getting an education in the judicial branch, right at the time that it's holding the line.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Thank God for judges with integrity.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I miss when there were parts of the internet where you could say"I'm really struggling, in fact I'm barely hanging on" and your internet friends would help you out.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

The unelected, not-Senate-confirmed, not-security-cleared, not even actually employed by the US government techbros of Musk's weird militia are conducting a coup one agency at a time.

submitted 21 days ago • 33 comments

I'm not saying this is a coup. But if you were going to do a coup, how would things look different from recent events -- seizing the federal payments system, federal purging law enforcement, threatening to sic armed US Marshals on civil servants guarding classified data

submitted 21 days ago • 219 comments

This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information. This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 22 days ago • 405 comments

For all federal employees: Before you are locked out of your systems, ensure you have copies of unclassified performance appraisals, awards & other relevant personnel docs. If you have access to your office, grab your more important personal items sooner rather than later.

submitted 23 days ago • 329 comments

Holy moly, after months of attempts and a couple of hours just this evening, I finally managed to successfully change the dingdang MS Word Normal template so that ugly Aptos is GONE and there's no more absurd 1.16 line spacing with extra line breaks where I didn't want them. Hallelujah!

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

There’s been a kind of…fashion of late to view anti-Trump libs as lame and cringe and just annoying, aesthetically. I remember this exact same aesthetic judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war. The earnest libs were right then and they’re right now.

submitted 23 days ago • 854 comments

Trump is openly violating the law on a vast and unprecedented scale and everyone is acting like it's normal. NPR had a long story about finding a rare shrew. NYT said he was disregarding "legal niceties." This is an attack on the Constitution as profound as the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

submitted 23 days ago • 280 comments

Your daughter has died serving her country, and now you have to hide her identity because the President and his supporters will predictably scapegoat her for the accident.

submitted 23 days ago • 146 comments

Meta is renewing its threats against employees, telling them today that they will hunt for leakers and tolerate zero leaks. Want to know how that is going? Three Meta employees who I’ve never spoken to before just cold messaged/emailed me offering me to be sources.

submitted 24 days ago • 1119 comments

It really is amazing watching him grapple with a situation where the only appropriate response is sorrow and empathy. Like watching a cat try to turn a doorknob.

submitted 25 days ago • 74 comments

Gift link to the @radiofreetom.bsky.social article referenced in the "opposite of qualified" link of @timothysnyder.bsky.social's post: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

A small personal delight in an otherwise depressing time: Through a fluke of scheduling affecting my 2L class, I'm getting to take Con Law II as a small seminar (it's usually a big lecture) with one of my favorite professors, while I'm writing my law review paper on a fourteenth amendment topic.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of extremely dumb replies from people insisting that Trump's 2020 EO that didn't actually do anything is why TikTok is banned (it's not).

submitted 36 days ago • 42 comments

Oh my goodness! I just saw that Tony Slattery died. What a very funny, wounded, and courageous man.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine texting God and you start to see Him type a response but then He just doesn’t send anything and just leaves you on read

submitted 37 days ago • 8 comments

This is delicious.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

If you know anything about operations of federal government, Dunning-Kruger tech bros quoted in this story sound just like: How hard could it be to land a 747? How hard could it be to do surgery on the eyeball? How hard could it be to lead a SEAL team raid? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/u...

submitted 42 days ago • 94 comments

Why did we ever stop saying "honey-fugled"?

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

My writing partner is less invested in this process than I am, I fear.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

I have a probably stupid question for you law folks. Where do people find out about the important cases coming to circuit courts?

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

If only the Democrats had bothered to listen to and address real Americans’ need to have the Gulf of Mexico renamed

submitted 47 days ago • 153 comments

Happy SeedCatalogTide to all who celebrate.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

I need a Venn diagram showing the relationship between pitch, bitumen, asphalt, and tar.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Also jarring to me that we've never had any real collective mourning in the USA. More than a million Americans have died of Covid and, barring some very isolated moments, there's been no sense of coming together to mark the incalculable loss. No events. No monuments. Etc.

submitted 50 days ago • 69 comments

At least for the moment national publications are radically understating the contents of Matthew Livelsberger's political minifestos which call for a violent, militia-backed "culling" of Dems from and national rebirth of masculinity under the rule of Trump ... talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-a...

submitted 51 days ago • 345 comments

For reasons unknown to me, my parents, who are approaching eighty, not only own these Nixon and Agnew puppets but have them displayed in their guest room.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post” — Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos

submitted 51 days ago • 334 comments

Apropos of nothing, I deeply enjoy being indifferent to New York City's collective self-importance.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

You don't have to be better in 2025. You can be worse.

submitted 54 days ago • 22 comments