Too Big to Fail
@toobigtofail.bsky.social
New Yorker, union activist, employment lawyer, dad, generational trauma ender. He/him.
My birthday is the day after Christmas. My parents' custody decree said that whichever parent I spent Christmas with, I had to spend my birthday with the other one. I spent every Christmas night traveling. From ages 8-14, that was flying across the country alone. So yeah, I've always hated holidays.
The Only Children of White Collar Professional Parents In The 1990s website is uniquely badly-positioned to have good memories or holiday food
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
My birthday is the day after Christmas. My parents' custody decree said that whichever parent I spent Christmas with, I had to spend my birthday with the other one. I spent every Christmas night traveling. From ages 8-14, that was flying across the country alone. So yeah, I've always hated holidays.
I was raised by my grandparents. My grandfather grew up Dickensian- street- urchin- poor on the streets in Manhattan; fought in WWII; and then got a good union civil service job that allowed him to retire after 30 years with a pension at age 61. The loss of that historic connection is a problem now.
I feel like a lot of us were privileged to be among the last generation to be able to learn under the 60's civil rights generation. What im seeing today from this newer generation of children is a serious lack of grounding, which i think is due to them not having direct access to the type of
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I was raised by my grandparents. My grandfather grew up Dickensian- street- urchin- poor on the streets in Manhattan; fought in WWII; and then got a good union civil service job that allowed him to retire after 30 years with a pension at age 61. The loss of that historic connection is a problem now.
Depending on the route I take, it's between 90 and 100 miles from my house to my in-laws' house, and I'm expecting the drive down on Wednesday evening to take me about 5 hours.
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Depending on the route I take, it's between 90 and 100 miles from my house to my in-laws' house, and I'm expecting the drive down on Wednesday evening to take me about 5 hours.
I love how the President doesn't care about anything except living in a golden palace and siphoning money out of the government so a dozen different squabbling factions of courtiers are doing their own foreign policy freelancing on behalf of a country with 11 active nuclear powered aircraft carriers
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I love how the President doesn't care about anything except living in a golden palace and siphoning money out of the government so a dozen different squabbling factions of courtiers are doing their own foreign policy freelancing on behalf of a country with 11 active nuclear powered aircraft carriers
Genuinely unclear to me why we had to flush the postwar order into the toilet to appease racists.
November 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Genuinely unclear to me why we had to flush the postwar order into the toilet to appease racists.
The amount of money Musk spent on being able to shape the Federal government to his will is the equivalent of somebody with a million- dollar net worth donating $500.
Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The amount of money Musk spent on being able to shape the Federal government to his will is the equivalent of somebody with a million- dollar net worth donating $500.
These people's imaginations are so damned limited. You have what you claim to be a machine capable of creating "synthetic experiences... indistinguishable from authentic ones," and you use it to create a picture of yourself eating McDonald's with a bunch of rich grifters.
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
These people's imaginations are so damned limited. You have what you claim to be a machine capable of creating "synthetic experiences... indistinguishable from authentic ones," and you use it to create a picture of yourself eating McDonald's with a bunch of rich grifters.
My mom filed for divorce when I was 4, and my father fought it until my mom had to completely cave on every demand he had when I was 9, because my mom was pregnant and even though she hadn't seen him in 5 years there was an *irrebuttable presumption* in NY that the baby was his. I wanted to fix law.
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
My mom filed for divorce when I was 4, and my father fought it until my mom had to completely cave on every demand he had when I was 9, because my mom was pregnant and even though she hadn't seen him in 5 years there was an *irrebuttable presumption* in NY that the baby was his. I wanted to fix law.
This is less 2008 and more Enron.
NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated.
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This is less 2008 and more Enron.
I think I'm going to stop paying attention to this story, because Nuzzi seems legitimately mentally ill, and Lizza and RFK both seem like sociopaths, and this is all just more than I want to know about any of these people. It's appalling that any of these people have actual power.
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I think I'm going to stop paying attention to this story, because Nuzzi seems legitimately mentally ill, and Lizza and RFK both seem like sociopaths, and this is all just more than I want to know about any of these people. It's appalling that any of these people have actual power.
So is Congress too Nazi or not Nazi enough for her?
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
So is Congress too Nazi or not Nazi enough for her?
Love it or hate it, this is clearly what the founders intended.
"Donald Trump is about to order the government to pay him 'damages' for the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago mansion and for special prosecutor Jack Smith’s two investigations of him...He’s going to pay himself $230 million."
New from me: Trump and his allies have decided that they are the real victims of the criminal justice system.
And while restrictive immunity laws make it difficult for actual victims to get compensation, Trump plans to just skip the courts and start issuing taxpayer-funded "reparation" checks.
And while restrictive immunity laws make it difficult for actual victims to get compensation, Trump plans to just skip the courts and start issuing taxpayer-funded "reparation" checks.
November 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Love it or hate it, this is clearly what the founders intended.
I'm a progressive and I think it's absurd that when my wife got pregnant with our daughter her shoe size went up by a half-size and then never went back down again.
I’m a progressive who did bear pregnancy, and I still think the whole thing is absurd
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I'm a progressive and I think it's absurd that when my wife got pregnant with our daughter her shoe size went up by a half-size and then never went back down again.
I too have definitive knowledge about the political beliefs of residents of geographic areas I can't recall the name of.
VARNEY: This deal in my opinion would be a win for Putin. You happy with that?
MARKWAYNE MULLIN: It's a win for both. Kyiv was never gonna be able to put back into Ukraine -- not Kyiv, but uh, uh, uh, my mind has slipped me
V: Crimea
M: Crimea. They kind of see themselves as more Russian anyways
MARKWAYNE MULLIN: It's a win for both. Kyiv was never gonna be able to put back into Ukraine -- not Kyiv, but uh, uh, uh, my mind has slipped me
V: Crimea
M: Crimea. They kind of see themselves as more Russian anyways
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I too have definitive knowledge about the political beliefs of residents of geographic areas I can't recall the name of.
The act of purchasing one of these should disqualify you from ever owning a firearm.
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The act of purchasing one of these should disqualify you from ever owning a firearm.
So, I have read articles written by people who claim that the entire concept of modern medicine is bad, because "artificially" saving people's lives has put a stop to human evolution by letting genetically inferior people breed. Great that those folks are in charge of the CDC now.
EXCLUSIVE: CDC to end all monkey studies. Decision handed down by recent college grad and former DOGE employee who is now deputy chief of staff at the agency. Animals were being used in studies of HIV prevention. Some may be euthanized. My latest for @science.org
Exclusive: CDC to end all monkey research
Studies related to HIV and other infectious diseases will be phased out, sources say; fate of the agency's animals remains unclear
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
So, I have read articles written by people who claim that the entire concept of modern medicine is bad, because "artificially" saving people's lives has put a stop to human evolution by letting genetically inferior people breed. Great that those folks are in charge of the CDC now.
This is like somebody wrote a new Turner Diaries about the future war against woke.
guys help if i keep reading this i'm going to run out of oxygen from laughing so hard
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This is like somebody wrote a new Turner Diaries about the future war against woke.
I read the post and assumed that this "plan" involved a small island with a dozen or so residents. From the article:
"Gonâve Island has a population of about 87,000."
"Gonâve Island has a population of about 87,000."
Gavin and Tanner, planned and trained for nearly a year, legal documents say, in an elaborate attempt to invade a Haitian island, kill its Black men, enslave its Black women and Black children and fulfill their "rape fantasies."
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
NTX men planned to murder men, enslave women on foreign island: Indictment
Two North Texas men have been indicted for an alleged scheme to sail to a foreign island, murder all the men, and enslave the women and children.
www.fox4news.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I read the post and assumed that this "plan" involved a small island with a dozen or so residents. From the article:
"Gonâve Island has a population of about 87,000."
"Gonâve Island has a population of about 87,000."
I will never *not* repost OpIvy when I see it.
unity - operation ivy open.spotify.com/track/2TncdA...
Unity - 2007 Remaster
open.spotify.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I will never *not* repost OpIvy when I see it.
Hey so what's the likelihood that ICE is just straight-up running torture dungeons?
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Hey so what's the likelihood that ICE is just straight-up running torture dungeons?
Corporate boards should be made up of equal parts labor and management and zero parts capital.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Corporate boards should be made up of equal parts labor and management and zero parts capital.
I'm a firm believer that judges citing to YouTube should not be taken seriously; judges citing to YouTube videos *of themselves* should count as a violation of good behavior.
Yep. I just noticed that he cited to a YouTube video of his own lecture about it
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I'm a firm believer that judges citing to YouTube should not be taken seriously; judges citing to YouTube videos *of themselves* should count as a violation of good behavior.
A) This is a terrible idea as a matter of law. Certifying questions to state high courts is something Circuits should be doing more of, not less; and
B) No matter how terminally online you are, you are nowhere near as terminally online as MAGA judges.
B) No matter how terminally online you are, you are nowhere near as terminally online as MAGA judges.
Judge Oldham's call for the end of certifying questions from CA5 to state Supreme Courts includes this somewhat inexplicable shot at this here website.
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A) This is a terrible idea as a matter of law. Certifying questions to state high courts is something Circuits should be doing more of, not less; and
B) No matter how terminally online you are, you are nowhere near as terminally online as MAGA judges.
B) No matter how terminally online you are, you are nowhere near as terminally online as MAGA judges.
Serious question for immigration lawyers: would stuff like this provide an argument for American political dissidents to seek asylum in the EU?
This has escalated
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Serious question for immigration lawyers: would stuff like this provide an argument for American political dissidents to seek asylum in the EU?
My 7 year old daughter simply cannot function in school without ADHD meds. I cannot fathom anybody who has ever met her actually saying that she shouldn't be on medication.
every time the pediatric adhd medication discourse starts up, i gotta remind folks that getting pediatric adhd behavioral therapy is nearly impossible to get for many families. one of the worst shortages out there. medication is often the only realistic option available to desperate parents
November 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
My 7 year old daughter simply cannot function in school without ADHD meds. I cannot fathom anybody who has ever met her actually saying that she shouldn't be on medication.