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Recovering litigator. “Evil lib.” Jury’s out on whether this is the good place, but it’s better than the bad place
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Breaking News: A federal prosecutor interrogated the The New England Journal of Medicine — which is considered the world’s most prestigious medical journal — in what its editor described as a “vaguely threatening” letter.

submitted 5 days ago • 217 comments

“frankly, he has not won an election since before I was born” Lmaooooo

submitted 12 days ago • 336 comments

Even if the letter was meant for a client and was addressed to this lawyer by mistake, this should be a national news story.

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

Good advice for people who want to change, instead of complain about, a political party www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjdkSfP3/

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

submitted 28 days ago • 300 comments

ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: It has come to my attention that several agencies are now offering WiFi for you to use with your PERSONAL devices. If I were you, I would NOT use that WiFi. I suspect it's a way for DOGE to monitor your personal communications.

submitted 28 days ago • 838 comments

Things still terrible, but: Viktor Orban was unable to stop protests in Budapest; Musk's money couldn't win the Wisconsin Supreme Court for Repugs; Marine Lepen is fuming over her court loss in Paris; and Corey Booker made a bravura stand against Trump in the Senate. More days like this please.

submitted 29 days ago • 38 comments

and that’s why you do performative things

submitted 29 days ago • 13 comments

What happened in Louisiana deserves more attention. 4 MAGA-supported constitutional amendments. All failed. Great organizing work by folks like Gary Chambers. www.joyannreid.com/p/that-louis...

submitted 30 days ago • 70 comments

"We are currently clean on OPSEC" is officially the "Veep"-est thing DC has ever Veeped.

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

JUST BECAUSE THE CLOWN CAR GOES VERY FAST DOES NOT MEAN IT ISN’T FULL OF CLOWNS

submitted 37 days ago • 57 comments

Collins: Do you think someone should be fired over this? Buttigieg: Absolutely… if there’s not accountability for a screw up like this, especially from a president who used to fire people on television for sport, what are we even doing here..

submitted 37 days ago • 935 comments

they are coming for the students, the professors, the lawyers, the journalists. but sure, free speech absolutists.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

any lawyer who would do this is a disgrace to the profession

submitted 40 days ago • 7 comments

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

submitted 47 days ago • 1350 comments

Really glad Democrats saved the fucking filibuster so they could NOT USE IT. Fucking cowards

submitted 47 days ago • 130 comments

Fuck these septuagenarians chng.it/VJ9PDjfzcX

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

“Become a courts reporter,” they said. “You’ll get weekends off,” they said. “Because there won’t be any hearings on the weekend,” they said.

submitted 47 days ago • 17 comments

The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

submitted 48 days ago • 795 comments

The Democratic Party is led by the politician equivalent of the dad who went out for cigarettes and never came back

submitted 48 days ago • 118 comments

an app that shows you the location of the nearest cybertruck

submitted 54 days ago • 6 comments

Tadaa.

submitted 54 days ago • 1464 comments

Interracial marriage did not cross 50% approval in the US until 1996, when I was 30 years old. Good political messaging drives opinion, it doesn't follow it.

submitted 55 days ago • 234 comments

can confirm. when my mother died a few years ago I asked how to stop her social security checks and was told they’d take care of it. it was almost immediate.

submitted 54 days ago • 306 comments

Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!

submitted 55 days ago • 155 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 56 days ago • 1574 comments

Just an FYI: Medicaid fraud is rarely perpetrated by beneficiaries. The fraudsters are almost always the doctors and CEO's that administer Medicaid. For example: when a doctor charges the government $600 for an $8 breast pump and pockets the cash and the third party administrator takes a cut.

submitted 63 days ago • 1131 comments

All of them.

submitted 67 days ago • 531 comments

Here’s my prediction for DOGE: Whatever minimal amount of money it may possibly save in the short term will be far exceeded by the ultimate cost of fixing all of the problems it creates. It’s already an epic failure.

submitted 67 days ago • 133 comments

Oh, I completely agree with this, “tell me what you did last week” is just another way to say “I’m moving the performances goalposts beyond what you are currently doing”

submitted 67 days ago • 3 comments

AAAAHHHHHHHH

submitted 67 days ago • 3 comments

That guy is Executive Director, Naval Sea Systems Command. He's basically the guy in charge of making sure the boats are good boats. And he has to send a frantic email out telling everybody to treat DOGE like a phishing attack.

submitted 67 days ago • 35 comments

most of the return-to-office mandates come from a similar place: managers who need to justify their own existence. because let's be real — if you can't rely on adults to work well from home, you did a shitty job of hiring.

submitted 67 days ago • 47 comments

Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage

submitted 67 days ago • 909 comments

its amazing the way conservative arguments fall completely apart in court when there are actually penalties for lying

submitted 68 days ago • 40 comments

abolish the police abcnews.go.com/amp/US/hance...

submitted 69 days ago • 4 comments

say what you will about the ultra rich of 150 years ago, at least they built libraries and roads

submitted 69 days ago • 15 comments

Being a fucking idiot has consequences. Unfortunately, they’re for everybody.

submitted 69 days ago • 185 comments