Matt Yglesias when Sean Casten is treating him like a speed bag: I need someone not old enough to rent a car to back me up here

native = got here 250 years ago

funniest version of this I've seen lately

my toddler likes to stack things up and then smash the pile, too.

shortly before confidently pointing at a helicopter and declaring (for the first time) "airplane"

But also like... there aren't actually any restraints. They're the least restrained people in America. There's a slap on the wrist ethics system or litigating for a recusal.

subsumed by*

By which I mean: I don't think it's per se unethical for her to "ignore" this ruling in other cases for reasons described by Howard & Andrew. But that's not to say that the whole series of events that purported to put her in the office doesn't raise overarching ethical issues.

Here's a blog post about it that I think is correct.

As far as ethics, I think the specific potential ethical concerns about her calling herself the USA after this ruling are downstream of and subsumed the broader concerns about the explicit runarounds made to purportedly put her there.

my most cherished hobby horse is that any and all "rich people skip lines" programs should be banned

yes

It nationalized us oil company assets in the 70s is all I can imagine

I've been thinking a lot about what it means that the greatest alternate history writer just constantly RTs the most egregiously false resistanceslop

Right below this post on my feed