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happy to announce the launch of my newsletter, String in a Maze. i'll be writing about the law, politics and media at least a few times a month, with a mix of free and premium content. thank you and bless up.
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happy to announce the launch of my newsletter, String in a Maze. i'll be writing about the law, politics and media at least a few times a month, with a mix of free and premium content. thank you and bless up.
buddy you could enter this analogy into a worst analogies competition
Because giving advice is way easier than following through on it. You can see a benefit but not take the steps to get it because it's hard. Our brains are now accustomed to distracting ourselves because it's so easy and available. It's like asking why people don't just work out and eat healthier.
yeah great that’s fine but there are plenty of situations when there’s simply nothing to do and it’s nice to have the internet
oh I have to disagree on this one. I think it’s extremely important for people (especially children) to be bored and to have fo come up with ways to relieve boredom that are not Scrolling
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the right doesn't reject empathy entirely, they selectively deploy it. when a white person is murdered by an immigrant, for example, they will call upon your empathy. but empathy directed at their enemies is cast aside as toxic.
are those separate things though? that rejection of empathy/ embrace of cruelty is part of their intellectual worldview. goes along with the "how dare my kids reject me" thing because it's about domination.
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This week’s episode is about the Trump administration’s targeting of Ilhan Omar - what they’re alleging, what might happen, and which leading Democrats are hanging her out to dry.
“i pay tax before, but still pay tax now?” We spoke with dozens of half-literate morons about the machinations of local governance. Here’s what they’re saying.
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
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Exclusive: Listen to CBS News correspondent Holly Williams confront Bari Weiss’ handpicked foreign editor, Shayndi Raice, over what Williams described as “dictated” edits to her report marking the anniversary of the Oct. 7 terror attack. Watch the full episode of Power Lines: youtu.be/RcDzn1QP_G4
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Chuck Schumer — one of the most powerful Democrats in the country — has not issued statements to the press or through his social media channels about the administration’s attack on Ilhan Omar, which critics have described as a five alarm fire for the state of democracy in the U.S.
pet peeve of mine that you see in all sorts of contexts: posing questions that "need to be answered" that have been answered many times. this just mires the debate in an endless loop where one side has to argue and the other just asks the same questions over and over.
Calls for expanding #SCOTUS are entirely (and increasingly) understandable. But as today's "One First" explains, there are at least four difficult questions that those who support expansion should have to answer—especially as compared to other possible reforms: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-257-...
yeah it’s improper for someone not actually admitted to the bar to call themselves a lawyer but Trump’s attorneys are spitting directly in the faces of federal judges every day without consequence so I can see why she’d think she can get away with it
President Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, describes herself as a lawyer, and the president called her “an attorney.” The New York Times was unable to find a law license for her. In an interview, she said the confusion is the result of a misunderstanding. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/u...
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In my latest premium newsletter I talk about what people see in guys like Jon Ossoff and Gavin Newsom, and outline a proprietary scientific framework for choosing a Democratic presidential nominee.
In my latest premium newsletter I talk about what people see in guys like Jon Ossoff and Gavin Newsom, and outline a proprietary scientific framework for choosing a Democratic presidential nominee.
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This is an actual reason why Bari Weiss’ CBS foreign editor told staff that they could not include reporting on Netanyahu receiving advance warning of a Hamas attack before Oct 7. The astonishing tirade in @status.news www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...
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This week’s episode covers a couple of upcoming immigration cases, as some of Trump’s most depraved policies reach the Supreme Court. Bonus discussion about Rhiannon accidentally ingesting a near-lethal dose of THC.