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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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The best Bam Adebayo stat on a night he scored 83 points, more than just 1 player in NBA history:

He more than doubled up his own previous career high in points (41).

If you took Bam's two highest-scoring games in his career (41 in 2021, 38 in 2022), he still had more tonight.

11.03.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Do you have to hold the contract until it’s resolved or can you sell sooner?

11.03.2026 02:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Next you’ll say Wilt’s moon landing was faked

11.03.2026 02:47 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Lee have you profited off of said confused people?

11.03.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

How do I bet against that 27%

11.03.2026 02:38 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
The three judges on the panel that ruled on Tuesday were appointed by Republican residents, two by Trump and one by George H.W. Bush. All three had dissented in 2024 when the full 4th Circuit in an 8-6 ruling declared West Virginia's law invalid They laid out similar reasoning on Tuesday while citing the Supreme Court ruling 70 times over 35 pages.

The three judges on the panel that ruled on Tuesday were appointed by Republican residents, two by Trump and one by George H.W. Bush. All three had dissented in 2024 when the full 4th Circuit in an 8-6 ruling declared West Virginia's law invalid They laid out similar reasoning on Tuesday while citing the Supreme Court ruling 70 times over 35 pages.

Looks like another en banc is coming

11.03.2026 01:47 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

SchrΓΆdinger's nukes

11.03.2026 01:24 πŸ‘ 705 πŸ” 116 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 0

Need to know where he stands on this questionπŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡

11.03.2026 01:02 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And it got its name in Greek mythology! It’s pretty famous!

11.03.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Danny Ortega is still president of Nicaragua so Trump has the chance to do the funniest thing

11.03.2026 00:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Bosphorus

11.03.2026 00:01 πŸ‘ 98 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

Side note: Media outlets that refused to cave to Pentagon press rules have been coming up with scoop after scoop from military sources. So much for Hegseth’s attempt to strangle journalism

10.03.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 825 πŸ” 301 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

It also makes a big difference in jam/jelly

10.03.2026 21:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

HFCS tastes worse than cane sugar but that’s a different thing

10.03.2026 21:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m having fun imagining she was forced to step down as CEO due to this

10.03.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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‘ 55 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 6
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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‘ 113 πŸ” 69 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4

Or that he won the 2020 election?

10.03.2026 18:35 πŸ‘ 15 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‘ 1028 πŸ” 229 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 43

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‘ 2846 πŸ” 587 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 39

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

10.03.2026 14:15 πŸ‘ 361 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 16

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‘ 70 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 1

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‘ 4945 πŸ” 967 πŸ’¬ 212 πŸ“Œ 47
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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.

09.03.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 7368 πŸ” 2138 πŸ’¬ 336 πŸ“Œ 132