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Are you a lawyer who is barred in DC? Do you know a lawyer who is barred in DC? Send them this. NOW. The election for the DC Bar president is underway, and MAGA AG Pam Bondi's brother is running and nazi praising interim DC US Atty Ed Martin's deputy is running, too. We need to defeat them both.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I think we get used to stuff, like the proverbial frog in the pot, and lose track of how absolutely humiliating it is to have a belligerent, altered buffoon representing our nation and spewing gibberish on the world stage. But sitting him next to a normal person brings it home.

submitted 3 days ago • 277 comments

Not what I think of when I hear dreadnought @gregdoucette.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

we are all going to die

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

Both Rubio's tweet, and the response, are remarkable artifacts. You have a Secretary of State tweeting right wing talking points to defend Neo Nazis, and the country where Nazis originated telling him to sod off.

submitted 6 days ago • 96 comments

begging others in tech to see beyond their IDE and acknowledge how AI is pouring kerosene on already bad social problems (spread of disinfo, concentration of wealth, paying artists and writers for their labor, adolescent mental health, weaponization of our legal system + more)

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

No, Saquon, you can't have it both ways open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

check this out im about to blow your mind: i dont want to grow my own food

submitted 8 days ago • 72 comments

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

submitted 8 days ago • 182 comments

Just incredible

submitted 9 days ago • 1471 comments

Good advice from Miss manners! "Here is a lesson about the real world: If you cannot afford to do something, you cannot do it."

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 10 days ago • 1346 comments

Malcolm Jenkins's Substack post about Jalen Hurts tonight is really worth your time. malcolmjenkins27.substack.com/p/leadership...

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

submitted 16 days ago • 86 comments

Way to go Marriott

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The hot AI 😂

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Cole is already my 2nd favorite behind Kruk

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

GOOD FRIDAY: The day when people who make fun of vegans all year avoid meat because a ghost told them to.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Well this might be the dog of the year, let alone the week @weratedogs.com

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

"We need a new way to scrape personal data and chat conversations. What if we built our own network and had users enter all the stuff directly?"

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

submitted 32 days ago • 174 comments

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

submitted 29 days ago • 481 comments

Pilot puts plane into a nosedive, pulls out at the last minute, saunters back into the cabin looking for high fives from the vomit covered passengers.

submitted 29 days ago • 94 comments

this week in america

submitted 30 days ago • 44 comments

Second wind!

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Not gonna pretend like I know anything about Carney’s politics because I don’t, but I watched his speech yesterday and he essentially told Trump to fuck off and now Trump’s speaking about him with a modicum of respect. I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.

submitted 42 days ago • 370 comments

I've been unable to think of little else since watching the video of masked secret police from ICE whisking away Rumeysa Ozturk - a shocking scene of police state repression I never hoped to see in America What's even worse is why she was disappeared. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/rume...

submitted 43 days ago • 65 comments

This is art. 🤗

submitted 44 days ago • 96 comments

I've never clicked something faster

submitted 46 days ago • 8 comments

VERY IMPORTANT to label this as what it is, The Police State Executive Order. it's not an exaggeration. This is the inner wiring of a police state.

submitted 48 days ago • 119 comments

Here is the full text of Rachel Cohen’s firm-wide email:

submitted 49 days ago • 93 comments

If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry. If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.

submitted 50 days ago • 185 comments

in the old days, you had to send a SASE to a po box and wait a month to get your copy of conspiracy monger monthly talking about cattle mutilations and secret CIA bases, now, your favorite tiktoker just pours bleach directly onto the surface of your brain for you

submitted 50 days ago • 30 comments

America is already a pariah nation to the world

submitted 50 days ago • 113 comments

Cool we're North Korea now

submitted 50 days ago • 267 comments

Brad Schimel, MAGA Supreme Court candidate in Wisconsin: * supports 1849 abortion ban * as AG, left 6,000 rape kits untested * said he was “honored” to be named in Planned Parenthood v Brad Schimel * said female Justices were “too driven by emotion” in abortion case … bad for Wisconsin women.

submitted 50 days ago • 17 comments

My dear friend’s niece, who in October developed sepsis when a Georgia hospital refused her a D&C after a miscarriage, will be taken off life support tomorrow. I don’t know the names of the countless others who have suffered and will suffered because of anti-abortion laws. But her name was Haley.

submitted 51 days ago • 299 comments

Boycott Airbnb! They’re DOGE!

submitted 52 days ago • 718 comments

Trump got in power & went straight after a) people & institutions that produce information & knowledge, and b) people & institutions that monitor & prevent fraud. I know the world is full of glassy-eyed poorly-informed dipshits, but honestly, how can you construct a benign explanation of this?

submitted 55 days ago • 13 comments