Underachiever
@whiskeyblackout.bsky.social
Heartthrob lawyer (the good kind), Detroit -> Chicago -> LA.
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My biggest takeaway being Thiel vs Karp is an unbelievably rough quarterfinal match up
(and it's impossible for kid killer Elmo not to run away with it)
(and it's impossible for kid killer Elmo not to run away with it)
December 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My biggest takeaway being Thiel vs Karp is an unbelievably rough quarterfinal match up
(and it's impossible for kid killer Elmo not to run away with it)
(and it's impossible for kid killer Elmo not to run away with it)
Man she is just terrible. I wonder how different things would be right now if she wasn't in charge during Trump's first term. Completely unable to meet the moment.
Speaker Emerita @pelosi.house.gov implied to @usatoday.com that she doesn’t see a reason to impeach President Trump for his actions to date in 2025.
Despite him far surpassing Watergate in his brazen emolumental corruption, maladministration at USAID & DOE, or directing DoJ to prosecute opponents.
Despite him far surpassing Watergate in his brazen emolumental corruption, maladministration at USAID & DOE, or directing DoJ to prosecute opponents.
December 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Man she is just terrible. I wonder how different things would be right now if she wasn't in charge during Trump's first term. Completely unable to meet the moment.
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Making the most depressing point I can make yet again: the US media is going to treat Donald Trump with far less vitriol in response to him starting a random war in Venezuela vs the sheer level of vitriol that they hurled at Joe Biden for ENDING the War in Afghanistan.
Every major news organization should be writing about how insane this is and how, if he takes this country to war (tomorrow?), it is the act of a madman.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Making the most depressing point I can make yet again: the US media is going to treat Donald Trump with far less vitriol in response to him starting a random war in Venezuela vs the sheer level of vitriol that they hurled at Joe Biden for ENDING the War in Afghanistan.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I would like you to, once again, observe how U.S. journalists are pathologically compelled to pretend we have a working regulatory accountability system that hasn't been completely hijacked by rampant corruption and corporate power
Reuters:
Reuters:
December 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I would like you to, once again, observe how U.S. journalists are pathologically compelled to pretend we have a working regulatory accountability system that hasn't been completely hijacked by rampant corruption and corporate power
Reuters:
Reuters:
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Nothing about our current media environment sounds real. What do you mean there are vigilante shows where they catch pedophiles and then play online casino games together
December 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Nothing about our current media environment sounds real. What do you mean there are vigilante shows where they catch pedophiles and then play online casino games together
But they are all fabulously wealthy and have never suffered an adverse consequence in their lives. You can understand why they would all do it - it has worked out perfectly for all of them. What reason would they have *not* to do it?
I think it’s bad that leaders of companies are visibly up to their gills in stimulants now. Did nobody tell them that, contrary to how they make you feel, those things make you stupid? This is why everyone needs some fuck up friends growing up, to teach them that there’s no good way to abuse drugs.
The CEO of Palantir.
December 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
But they are all fabulously wealthy and have never suffered an adverse consequence in their lives. You can understand why they would all do it - it has worked out perfectly for all of them. What reason would they have *not* to do it?
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You’ll never guess how the IDF decided to talk about killing these two kids, 8 and 11 years old, in its official statement
Two brothers killed in Israeli drone strike on Gaza
Fadi Abu Assi, 11, and Goma Abu Assi, eight, were gathering firewood at the time, their uncle said.
news.sky.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
You’ll never guess how the IDF decided to talk about killing these two kids, 8 and 11 years old, in its official statement
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They demonstrated pretty conclusively that they understand how to cover pardons as if they are huge scandals when they ran multiple days of banner headlines and scolding op-eds and follow ups when Biden pardoned Hunter exactly one year ago.
They just choose not to for trump because they like him
They just choose not to for trump because they like him
It’s wild how the press is ok with the president abusing the pardon power. That used to be one of the most scrutinized things about a presidency.
December 1, 2025 at 5:20 AM
They demonstrated pretty conclusively that they understand how to cover pardons as if they are huge scandals when they ran multiple days of banner headlines and scolding op-eds and follow ups when Biden pardoned Hunter exactly one year ago.
They just choose not to for trump because they like him
They just choose not to for trump because they like him
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Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
If California were affordable about 15 states in the middle of the country would have less than 5 million people because the vast majority of young people would leave when they went out on their own
While it’s probably true that housing costs are keeping people out of CA and NY, there’s this notion that middle America or the sunbelt will empty out and depart to Brooklyn if Brooklyn built more units, and I’m pretty sure the people who believe this all live in Brooklyn already
Will is totally I missing the rejoinder. Way more people would live in the Northeast and coastal CA if we allowed for abundant home building.
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
If California were affordable about 15 states in the middle of the country would have less than 5 million people because the vast majority of young people would leave when they went out on their own
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Still wondering why all the cool kids still talk derisively about “hashtag resistance” during the first term when it was infinitely better than the doom and capitulation now—and led to huge electoral victories.
hate to be a “our adversaries must LOVE this” guy b/c the reflex was so annoying including in the first term hashtag resistance stuff but I’m sorry, I’m full wine mom now and it’s impossible to get around how other nations must enjoy seeing us eat ourselves alive for no reason beyond stupid menace
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Still wondering why all the cool kids still talk derisively about “hashtag resistance” during the first term when it was infinitely better than the doom and capitulation now—and led to huge electoral victories.
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no youre not at nyt but youre in mainstream media and they constantly circle the wagons vs liberal criticism. not for a moment could msm ever consider "hey, we fucked up." no. its always "you, the public, are wrong. bow to your superiors."
Also guys I am not in love with NYT, I don’t work there anymore, I am so happy to be at Bloomberg, I think it is absolutely the best and you should all subscribe! And maybe I should have kept quiet about this, but I just think we could all be examining things with some more nuance here!
November 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
no youre not at nyt but youre in mainstream media and they constantly circle the wagons vs liberal criticism. not for a moment could msm ever consider "hey, we fucked up." no. its always "you, the public, are wrong. bow to your superiors."
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The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
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I just want to mention that this was a New York Times reporter Epstein was talking to, and the NYT has never disclosed these emails or any photos conveyed.
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I just want to mention that this was a New York Times reporter Epstein was talking to, and the NYT has never disclosed these emails or any photos conveyed.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.
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if the Democrats are willing to accept this deal, in particular, i don't think a single Senator should make it through their primary. this just makes health inequity worse and lets Trump send out checks with his name on them!
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
if the Democrats are willing to accept this deal, in particular, i don't think a single Senator should make it through their primary. this just makes health inequity worse and lets Trump send out checks with his name on them!
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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If Musk meets all the benchmarks of his new $1 trillion pay package from Tesla he will be paid $274 MILLION EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS
This is his part-time job
This is his part-time job
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
If Musk meets all the benchmarks of his new $1 trillion pay package from Tesla he will be paid $274 MILLION EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS
This is his part-time job
This is his part-time job
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Simpson Thacher Becomes Latest Surrender Firm To Join Up With Trump’s International House Of Tariffs
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/11/simpson-thacher-becomes-latest-surrender-firm-to-join-up-with-trumps-international-house-of-tariffs/
Simpson Thacher Becomes Latest Surrender Firm To Join Up With Trump’s International House Of Tariffs
What are they doing for the Commerce Department? Pro bono? Paid? Both? Neither? The silence is deafening and exactly the problem.
abovethelaw.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Simpson Thacher Becomes Latest Surrender Firm To Join Up With Trump’s International House Of Tariffs
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/11/simpson-thacher-becomes-latest-surrender-firm-to-join-up-with-trumps-international-house-of-tariffs/
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The administrator for Medicare and Medicaid (“Dr. Oz”) and Health Secretary both in this room, and neither of them is remotely qualified to help the old man passing out right next to them
November 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The administrator for Medicare and Medicaid (“Dr. Oz”) and Health Secretary both in this room, and neither of them is remotely qualified to help the old man passing out right next to them
There's nothing worse than mentions of Neal Katyal on this website, because so many people talk about his greatness without understanding that he's a terrible person who has done far more to harm consumers and employees than almost any other lawyer.
How badly are oral arguments over Trump's tariffs going for the government?
Neal Katyal just began a sentence with: "Justice Gorsuch hit the nail on the head..."
Neal Katyal just began a sentence with: "Justice Gorsuch hit the nail on the head..."
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
There's nothing worse than mentions of Neal Katyal on this website, because so many people talk about his greatness without understanding that he's a terrible person who has done far more to harm consumers and employees than almost any other lawyer.
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At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.