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News: NPR’s Tom Bowman reports of a Pentagon-wide warning about Signal’s security vulnerability - one week ago 👇🏼

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Not the main thing here, but EVERY TIME one of these white shoe lawyers comes in for criticism for representing evil or rapacious clients, they fall back on the cliche that everyone is entitled to vigorous representation, and the entire profession races to their defense. Now look:

submitted 4 hours ago • 28 comments

Is Pete Hegseth considered a low functioning alcoholic?

submitted 21 hours ago • 206 comments

TS/SCI means the information must be transmitted over Text or Signal with Some Civilians Invited

submitted 14 hours ago • 48 comments

Lemme also just shout out ol buddy from Atlantic for not selling the Signal Group Chat for a book deal and waiting two years to reveal what was in it

submitted 16 hours ago • 59 comments

A lot of people are asking questions about whether Pete Hegseth was drinking on the job when he shared military plans with the editor of The Atlantic. More and more questions are being raised about Pete Hegseth's drinking on the job. It is not currently clear whether Pete Hegseth was drunk.

submitted 18 hours ago • 41 comments

Seems appropriate to repost this admonition.

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In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 1 day ago • 816 comments

This is what they were hoping to get from Mangi and I bet he’s on the 3rd line with McMike or Leonard by the playoffs

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Panthers coach Paul Maurice on if there's any similarities in the way the Capitals play systematically to how the Panthers play:

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Ask yourself why the US president is specifically and explicitly promising to crush law firms bringing suits against the government related to “election integrity”. The other co-equal branches of our government still have time to protect our constitutional order. They have less time every day.

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You know it’s a lawyer when the crying is in tenths of an hour

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Does anybody want to place a bet on whether educational outcomes are better or worse at the end of the Trump administration? I’ll take “worse” for any amount of money.

submitted 4 days ago • 117 comments

Find joy in the simple things

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 761 comments

The DOJ has concerns about the rule of law, huh

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

There's something grimly ironic about Trump, whose criminal guilt was quite clear based on public information, managing to land in the White House rather than a prison cell thanks to dragging out Due Process, now handwaving process away and assuming the right to brand criminals by fiat.

submitted 8 days ago • 57 comments

Mission accomplished!

submitted 7 days ago • 72 comments

The bad news is that Chuck Schumer is not up for re-election until 2028. The good news is that he can resign right now—in fact, he should do that twice.

submitted 8 days ago • 72 comments

Please Like Me

submitted 8 days ago • 1106 comments

Ideally you receive this advice before you’re in front of a federal judge

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Highmore 👋 ✋ Bye more

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

they fired the guy who said it would be a bad idea

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

I did not but we all should

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.

submitted 14 days ago • 621 comments

New from me: radleybalko.substack.com/p/three-thin...

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

So Texas is collecting $40M from a Medicaid investigation but also cut 2/3 of the attorneys that investigate Medicaid fraud… wonder how this plays out over time www.beckerspayer.com/payer/molina...

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This presumes anyone with the ability to change things cares about looking like an idiot, which they demonstrably do not

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Can’t believe Twitter keeps crashing despite Elon hiring the best 19-year-old interns that racism has to offer

submitted 15 days ago • 270 comments

I know what you’re thinking: We should mirror the United States government based on how this website is run.

submitted 15 days ago • 411 comments

Alert for D.C. bar members. - please take note of Diane Seltzer’s candidacy. She is running against Pam Bondi’s brother Brad Bondi for President of the D.C. bar. Voting begins in April. Pls make your voice heard.

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

Will Smith is ~.5 points per game and was the allegedly more talented BC draft pick in 2023; Eller is barely hanging on. Both seem like optimistic bets but additional eggs were very expensive so fuck it we ball.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Try this one simple trick to stop your federal antitrust investigation

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

utterly fucking astounding that any Dem would look at what’s happening and think that giving this administration sweeping new authority to prosecute speech on the internet is a good idea

submitted 18 days ago • 111 comments

man he's a perfect synthesis of patrick bateman and gob bluth, isn't he? so perfect that i don't have to say his name for you to know exactly who i'm talking about

submitted 19 days ago • 164 comments

Damn. Not wrong. But damn.

submitted 19 days ago • 87 comments

Every time a career lawyer is pushed out, you can assume they were told to do something illegal.

submitted 19 days ago • 62 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 20 days ago • 1736 comments

1. Short everything 2. Announce tariffs 3. Close out short positions 4. Buy the dip 5. Call off the tariffs 6. Sell the spike 7. Repeat Is there any reason to believe Trump's entire inner circle isn't doing this?