I have more confidence in Kyle Schwarber‘s future than Bryce Harper‘s. in part because of all the quack medicine stuff / raw milk stuff Harper is into
December 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I have more confidence in Kyle Schwarber‘s future than Bryce Harper‘s. in part because of all the quack medicine stuff / raw milk stuff Harper is into
some of the stuff that companies do to appease Trump is distasteful but whatever. Fake awards. Some of it is bribery (such as the massive "settlements" over fake lawsuits) and it should be criminally prosecuted as such when the time comes
Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.
Fox News will applaud this but can you imagine their coverage if President Biden hatched a secret plan to take over Fox News and revamp its programming to be nicer to him
December 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
some of the stuff that companies do to appease Trump is distasteful but whatever. Fake awards. Some of it is bribery (such as the massive "settlements" over fake lawsuits) and it should be criminally prosecuted as such when the time comes
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Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.
Fox News will applaud this but can you imagine their coverage if President Biden hatched a secret plan to take over Fox News and revamp its programming to be nicer to him
New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
December 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.
let me guess, the Reds owners support a salary cap too
What a terrible way to actually run your baseball team.
December 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
let me guess, the Reds owners support a salary cap too
the concept of health "insurance" is not compatible with a greater ability to predict health outcomes
December 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
the concept of health "insurance" is not compatible with a greater ability to predict health outcomes
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ok it’s legitimately funny that they can’t even throw red meat to Catholics without falling into heresy
December 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
ok it’s legitimately funny that they can’t even throw red meat to Catholics without falling into heresy
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🚨Kyle Schwarber is back with the Phillies on a 5 year deal worth $150M per Jeff Passan.
December 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🚨Kyle Schwarber is back with the Phillies on a 5 year deal worth $150M per Jeff Passan.
this is very cool (not sure that using braille unicode characters for modern-day ASCII art should be called a "Braille...world map" though) github.com/rastapasta/m...
GitHub - rastapasta/mapscii: 🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows
🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows - rastapasta/mapscii
github.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
this is very cool (not sure that using braille unicode characters for modern-day ASCII art should be called a "Braille...world map" though) github.com/rastapasta/m...
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Trump's attempts to deploy the National Guard into California and Oregon are a bridge too far for THE GWB JUDGE WHO AUTHORED THE TORTURE MEMOS...
...to which baby Trump 2.0 judge, just weeks into the job, says nuh-uh!
cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
...to which baby Trump 2.0 judge, just weeks into the job, says nuh-uh!
cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
December 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Trump's attempts to deploy the National Guard into California and Oregon are a bridge too far for THE GWB JUDGE WHO AUTHORED THE TORTURE MEMOS...
...to which baby Trump 2.0 judge, just weeks into the job, says nuh-uh!
cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
...to which baby Trump 2.0 judge, just weeks into the job, says nuh-uh!
cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
Football teams should sometimes decline a penalty, not for strategic reasons, but just to be magnanimous
December 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Football teams should sometimes decline a penalty, not for strategic reasons, but just to be magnanimous
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Good recap. And yes, switching lawyers on Slaughter’s part was a really bad move. He continually whiffed good responses to the conservative criticisms because he just wasn’t that familiar with the huge body of work out there already. Including in the damn amicus briefs
A short Slaughter oral argument recap for your enjoyment!
Slaughter Oral Argument Recap: Humphrey’s is dead! Long live Wiener?
The only question is how far they'll go
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Good recap. And yes, switching lawyers on Slaughter’s part was a really bad move. He continually whiffed good responses to the conservative criticisms because he just wasn’t that familiar with the huge body of work out there already. Including in the damn amicus briefs
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Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.
Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.
LOS GATOS, CA—In an attempt to fend off growing competition from Paramount and Netflix, Plex CEO Keith Valory announced Monday that the streaming platform had submitted a $35 bid for Warner Bros. Disc...
theonion.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.
there are lots of things wrong with this post but I would like to start by pointing out that ***STATES ARE ALLOWED TO REGULATE INTERSTATE COMMERCE.*** National Pork Producers Council v. Ross was not too long ago! California won!
x.com/davidsacks/s...
x.com/davidsacks/s...
David Sacks on X: "ONE RULEBOOK FOR AI I wanted to share a few thoughts on AI preemption and address some of the concerns. First, this is not an “AI amnesty” or “AI moratorium.” It is an attempt to settle a question of jurisdiction. When an AI model is developed in state A, trained in state B, https://t.co/tO3yyc0A8M" / X
ONE RULEBOOK FOR AI I wanted to share a few thoughts on AI preemption and address some of the concerns. First, this is not an “AI amnesty” or “AI moratorium.” It is an attempt to settle a question of jurisdiction. When an AI model is developed in state A, trained in state B, https://t.co/tO3yyc0A8M
x.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
there are lots of things wrong with this post but I would like to start by pointing out that ***STATES ARE ALLOWED TO REGULATE INTERSTATE COMMERCE.*** National Pork Producers Council v. Ross was not too long ago! California won!
x.com/davidsacks/s...
x.com/davidsacks/s...
Just a warning to everyone out there. Do NOT hire these guys as housepainters
December 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Just a warning to everyone out there. Do NOT hire these guys as housepainters
I truly hate "Snowfall" type web design
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I truly hate "Snowfall" type web design
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It is really, really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should've been done.
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It is really, really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should've been done.
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More than that, his crew threatened to open fire on the murderers. He rescued civilians, returned to base to refuel, flew back, and rescued more civilians. Then he denounced the crimes to his HQ.
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
December 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
More than that, his crew threatened to open fire on the murderers. He rescued civilians, returned to base to refuel, flew back, and rescued more civilians. Then he denounced the crimes to his HQ.
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
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Fact check: Lindsey Halligan is not and never has been US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
December 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Fact check: Lindsey Halligan is not and never has been US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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Sotomayor (calmly, slowly, but basically): My conservative colleagues think they are more qualified to interpret the Constitution than Congress or all the esteemed previous justices (Brandeis, Holmes, etc.) who preceded us. That they were all wrong, and it is for us to finally fix their error.
December 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Sotomayor (calmly, slowly, but basically): My conservative colleagues think they are more qualified to interpret the Constitution than Congress or all the esteemed previous justices (Brandeis, Holmes, etc.) who preceded us. That they were all wrong, and it is for us to finally fix their error.
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Chuck Brown would like a word
December 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Chuck Brown would like a word
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Holy shit this back and forth between Kagan/Alito/Jackson/&the SG.
Kagan: Doesn't your logic mean a whole raft of other agencies must be invalidated?
SG: Yes, but that's not being litigated right now
Kagan: So what?
Alito: What if we just want to say "but maybe don't apply our logic elsewhere?"
Kagan: Doesn't your logic mean a whole raft of other agencies must be invalidated?
SG: Yes, but that's not being litigated right now
Kagan: So what?
Alito: What if we just want to say "but maybe don't apply our logic elsewhere?"
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Holy shit this back and forth between Kagan/Alito/Jackson/&the SG.
Kagan: Doesn't your logic mean a whole raft of other agencies must be invalidated?
SG: Yes, but that's not being litigated right now
Kagan: So what?
Alito: What if we just want to say "but maybe don't apply our logic elsewhere?"
Kagan: Doesn't your logic mean a whole raft of other agencies must be invalidated?
SG: Yes, but that's not being litigated right now
Kagan: So what?
Alito: What if we just want to say "but maybe don't apply our logic elsewhere?"
the most influential musicians from DC are probably: John Philip Sousa, Duke Ellington, Marvin Gaye, Fugazi
December 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
the most influential musicians from DC are probably: John Philip Sousa, Duke Ellington, Marvin Gaye, Fugazi
Blog post I wrote about today's Slaughter case, which also links to the brief I filed @ SCOTUS publicknowledge.org/no-one-wins-...
No One Wins Under the Unitary Executive Theory
The Trump administration's use of the "unitary executive theory" could reshape the executive branch as we know it.
publicknowledge.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Blog post I wrote about today's Slaughter case, which also links to the brief I filed @ SCOTUS publicknowledge.org/no-one-wins-...