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Senior Editor @lawfaremedia.org. Previously: Obama appointee at DOJ/DHS. Litigator for Speaker Pelosi and Jan. 6 Committee. Yankee Stadium 🌭 vendor. NYC born and bred. Wannabe historian. Dad joker.

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I have enormous respect for FIRE but I think this First Amendment argument for Anthropic is a mistake and a very dangerous positionβ€”we don't want everything an AI does to be covered by the First Amendment. www.fire.org/research-lea...

10.03.2026 19:04 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3
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Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

Whistleblower complaint says the DOGE engineer "told another colleague, who refused to help him upload the data because of legal concerns, that he expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

10.03.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

Or that he won the 2020 election?

10.03.2026 18:35 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

SCOOP: Federal judiciary approves new Supreme Court defender office to help represent indigent defendants at #SCOTUS.

Its full-time director will serve as a counterweight to the U.S. solicitor general in federal criminal cases. The first will be former Kagan clerk and SG atty Ashley Robertson.

10.03.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 726 πŸ” 175 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 36

this junkballing Czech electrician is a folk hero in Japan for striking out Ohtani in the last WBC (stopped for photos/autographs etc) but he's retiring after this bc Czech league ball doesn't pay the bills.
I love the way he took in in this one last surreal moment before going back to normalcy

10.03.2026 13:57 πŸ‘ 2603 πŸ” 544 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 37

There is no evidence that Epstein blackmailed American policymakers. This is getting insane.

10.03.2026 14:15 πŸ‘ 180 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 14

Journalistic malpractice not to include that in the story

10.03.2026 02:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Habba: β€œSomebody said to me β€˜Alina, would you rather be smart or pretty?’ and I said β€˜Oh easy, pretty… I can fake being smart.”
www.yahoo.com/news/trump-l...

10.03.2026 01:44 πŸ‘ 68 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 0

Remember β€œextraordinary rendition”?

10.03.2026 01:23 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Who’s a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz. A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge. That can make them pretty good writers.

We were doing this exercise:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

10.03.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

1/5 for me. Hilary Mantel.

10.03.2026 01:10 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Certainly possible

10.03.2026 00:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dunno, I think Musk/Carlson have to preserve a bit of plausible deniability in ways that anti-Muslim bigots do not.

10.03.2026 00:40 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s nearly impossible to lose Grenell, but Ogles pulled it off.

09.03.2026 23:45 πŸ‘ 4522 πŸ” 888 πŸ’¬ 198 πŸ“Œ 43
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"Jews don't belong in American society."

Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America.

But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.

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You’re saying the castration movie needed more . . . cuts?

09.03.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Have Vance and Trump said thank you?

09.03.2026 13:16 πŸ‘ 1057 πŸ” 282 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 6

Click through to see the picture! It seems we have reached the Max von Sydow stage of the war.

09.03.2026 03:22 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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My good man that is not a legit account

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That’s a fake account.

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That’s a fake account

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That looks like a fake account and Politico is not reporting anything of the sort

09.03.2026 03:15 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What was he responding to? It’s blocked for some reason.

09.03.2026 02:08 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

If you are in line to form a band called Crude Futures stay in line

09.03.2026 00:44 πŸ‘ 156 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Paul you sure Noem when you see β€˜em

09.03.2026 00:02 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@amysiskind.com That’s not what Leavitt said. She said *ground troops* are not off the table. She was not asked about, nor did she mention, a draft.πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡

08.03.2026 23:59 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

When the WSJ photo editor just re-watched β€œThe Seventh Seal”

08.03.2026 23:24 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Here's the Karoline Leavitt interview people are talking about.

Maria Bartiromo asks if Trump might send ground troops into Iran, because "mothers are worried" about a draft. Leavitt replies that ground troops aren't in the current plan, but Trump won't rule them out. No mention of the draft.

08.03.2026 23:09 πŸ‘ 756 πŸ” 223 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 67

The easiest explanation for why it could not is that Fox News is a cable network and the FCC doesn’t regulate content on cable networks

08.03.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Country Joe McDonald holding a guitar in 1981. A card reads: "1942-2026: Country Joe McDonald, Artist Whose Antiwar Song Became an Anthem, Dies at 84. Photo by United Archives, via Getty Images."

Country Joe McDonald holding a guitar in 1981. A card reads: "1942-2026: Country Joe McDonald, Artist Whose Antiwar Song Became an Anthem, Dies at 84. Photo by United Archives, via Getty Images."

Country Joe McDonald, one of the starring acts at Woodstock whose satirical anti-Vietnam War song β€œI-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” became an anthem, died on Saturday. He was 84. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/a...

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