Doubtful Owl
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Who? Lawyer. Mostly reskeets.
Do you know What Time It Is?
Do you know What Time It Is?
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Wow.
Large law firms are siding with Trump over their clients and employees. Let me give you one statistic to exemplify this:
DOJ is suing 22 states for access to sensitive voter data.
My firm of 60 lawyers is fighting in all 22.
Not a single big law firm is fighting along side us in any case.
DOJ is suing 22 states for access to sensitive voter data.
My firm of 60 lawyers is fighting in all 22.
Not a single big law firm is fighting along side us in any case.
December 31, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Wow.
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“We stand a very real chance to be stuck in polarization hell, perpetually cycling between fascists who can’t quite go the distance on the one hand and a do-nothing Democratic gerontocracy on the other. What our moment needs is Reconstruction Democrats.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...
We Are Going to Win
Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“We stand a very real chance to be stuck in polarization hell, perpetually cycling between fascists who can’t quite go the distance on the one hand and a do-nothing Democratic gerontocracy on the other. What our moment needs is Reconstruction Democrats.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...
Decades of the white nationalist movement evolving to adapt to current political trends has brought them to this moment.
December 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Decades of the white nationalist movement evolving to adapt to current political trends has brought them to this moment.
December 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Decades of the white nationalist movement evolving to adapt to current political trends has brought them to this moment.
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This whole fucking thread, man...
In 2019, the rate of fatal police shootings in the US was 3.1 per million residents. By contrast, the rate in France was 0.14 per million, and in Germany, it was lower.
In Germany, police officers discharged a total of 85 bullets at people in the entire year of 2011.
In Germany, police officers discharged a total of 85 bullets at people in the entire year of 2011.
I’ve said it and I believe it is true
There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed
There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed
December 28, 2025 at 5:50 AM
This whole fucking thread, man...
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Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
December 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the head of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division
December 29, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, the head of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division
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Bernie calls for a moratorium on A.I. data centers
December 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Bernie calls for a moratorium on A.I. data centers
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Robert Reich: When the history of this cruel era is written, the shame should be no less than the shame we now feel about the roundups and detention of Japanese Americans in World War II.
The Brazen Cruelty of the Trump Regime
Its plan to warehouse immigrants has shades of Nazi concentration camps and America's shameful imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
open.substack.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Robert Reich: When the history of this cruel era is written, the shame should be no less than the shame we now feel about the roundups and detention of Japanese Americans in World War II.
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One post for every new Epstein file mention.
December 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
One post for every new Epstein file mention.
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"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
December 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
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PELLEY TO WEISS: “It’s not a part-time job.” 🔥
ALFONSI TO WEISS: “Disagreement requires discussion.” 🔥
Bari getting dragged by her own team. #CBSNewsMAX
ALFONSI TO WEISS: “Disagreement requires discussion.” 🔥
Bari getting dragged by her own team. #CBSNewsMAX
December 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
PELLEY TO WEISS: “It’s not a part-time job.” 🔥
ALFONSI TO WEISS: “Disagreement requires discussion.” 🔥
Bari getting dragged by her own team. #CBSNewsMAX
ALFONSI TO WEISS: “Disagreement requires discussion.” 🔥
Bari getting dragged by her own team. #CBSNewsMAX
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Bari Weiss does not seem to have a good understanding of what's been going on with the Alien Enemies Act, including that courts -- including SCOTUS -- have repeatedly faulted the administration for failing to give detainees a meaningful opportunity to challenge being sent to El Salvador.
December 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Bari Weiss does not seem to have a good understanding of what's been going on with the Alien Enemies Act, including that courts -- including SCOTUS -- have repeatedly faulted the administration for failing to give detainees a meaningful opportunity to challenge being sent to El Salvador.
Where’s the lie?
The Maralago aesthetic is pretty recognizable. It’s like Trump sheds gold leaf dust and glitter wherever he goes.
The Maralago aesthetic is pretty recognizable. It’s like Trump sheds gold leaf dust and glitter wherever he goes.
Trump: "The US Navy will lead the design of these ships along with me, because I'm a very aesthetic person"
December 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Where’s the lie?
The Maralago aesthetic is pretty recognizable. It’s like Trump sheds gold leaf dust and glitter wherever he goes.
The Maralago aesthetic is pretty recognizable. It’s like Trump sheds gold leaf dust and glitter wherever he goes.
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“Trump-class” Golden Fleet AI-controlled battleships will be the largest "in the history of the world ever built" with hypersonic weapons, the most-sophisticated lasers and Cruise nuclear missiles and "ultimately there'll be 20 to 25 of these," announces the president.
December 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
“Trump-class” Golden Fleet AI-controlled battleships will be the largest "in the history of the world ever built" with hypersonic weapons, the most-sophisticated lasers and Cruise nuclear missiles and "ultimately there'll be 20 to 25 of these," announces the president.
You love to see it.
This is a pretty shocking mass exodus. Heritage's legal department is basically a ghost ship at this point. And I have to imagine they'll really have to dredge the absolute bottom of the barrel to restaff it at this point. reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Breaking: Cully Stimson and Hans von Spakovsky Resign From Heritage
The Meese Center is basically empty now.
reason.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
You love to see it.
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In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity.
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
December 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity.
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
This is dystopian. We live in a dystopia.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This is dystopian. We live in a dystopia.
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I just fundamentally don't understand how you write a paper without checking sources or a brief without checking citations.
I cannot fathom it
I cannot fathom it
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I just fundamentally don't understand how you write a paper without checking sources or a brief without checking citations.
I cannot fathom it
I cannot fathom it
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They’re trying to do reparations for white people.
December 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
They’re trying to do reparations for white people.
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“Aw. Somebody get Paw Paw into his seat.”
lots of awkward standing around and whispering going on in the Oval Office right now
December 16, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“Aw. Somebody get Paw Paw into his seat.”
What a great way to describe it. This is why I like it here too.
the proximate reason i post here — beyond the fact that i like a lot of you and enjoy reading your thoughts and jokes and observations — is that this is a non-algorithmic platform where people share lots of stuff and people read what is shared. that's still valuable even if it doesn't "influence!"
December 16, 2025 at 3:24 AM
What a great way to describe it. This is why I like it here too.
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Pluribus Season 2: The Most Miserable Man on Earth must save the world from happiness
homer simpson from the simpsons is holding a card and saying get off my lawn
ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons is holding a card and saying get off my lawn
media.tenor.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Pluribus Season 2: The Most Miserable Man on Earth must save the world from happiness
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thanks brett kavanaugh!
Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
December 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
thanks brett kavanaugh!
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The immigration “judge” allegedly sua sponte — meaning without any request by a party, which is obviously a lie given the circumstances — “corrected” the 2019 order to fix a “scrivener’s error” and order Mr Abrego Garcia deported.
Not surprisingly, Judge Xinis blocked that. What a corrupt act.
Not surprisingly, Judge Xinis blocked that. What a corrupt act.
December 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The immigration “judge” allegedly sua sponte — meaning without any request by a party, which is obviously a lie given the circumstances — “corrected” the 2019 order to fix a “scrivener’s error” and order Mr Abrego Garcia deported.
Not surprisingly, Judge Xinis blocked that. What a corrupt act.
Not surprisingly, Judge Xinis blocked that. What a corrupt act.