My fav wackadoodle argument from this one is Clarence Thomas saying Trump should be able to levy taxes like this bc in ye olde england the king could levy taxes. Doesn’t stop at all to think about why that’s problematic. Amazing stuff, 10/10, no notes
This week’s episode is the tariffs case. The Court struck down Trump’s tariffs, resulting in all the things we love: bizarre dissents, conservative infighting, and embarrassing mainstream media coverage.
sure if you wanna be a stickler
my attempts as an English-only dipshit to triangulate communication between the Spanish-speaking workers and my elderly Japanese neighbor will go down in history
was scheduled to have my gutters replaced today. after about 45 minutes i hadn’t heard anyone on our roof. glanced outside - they had gone to the wrong house and were about halfway through ripping off my neighbor’s gutters.
that’s absolutely not what the book builds up to, and also we did mention it
It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”
this has nothing to do with being bougie. if you wake up every time you turn your head at night for a month straight, $200 on a pillow will feel like nothing.
i already dropped $200 on one from Parachute so my next one actually has to be more
please do not offer recommendations, this is my journey
a big part of being 40 is having terrible neck pain and then spending increasingly large amounts of money in search of the perfect pillow
"so what are we doing today? normal haircut?"
"no."
Episode 50: Bullshit Jobs
An anthropologist proffers a theory about fake jobs, and two professional podcasters weigh in.
joined the @worstpossible.world crew to talk about the biggest news of the moment: season 4 of The Traitors
TWOAPW #230: THE TRAITORS. @notalawyer.bsky.social joins us to walk through the biggest reality show franchise of the 2020s and the US version's blockbuster fourth season
I wrote about how Democratic leadership has abandoned the moral high ground on Iran, and how it has left them toothless when opposing Trump.
not a big deal for the rams to overpay a bit here, they're going all in on the next couple of years
rumor has it he's asking for ~$30M, which for a slot corner just feels like an overpay to me generally.
great trade for both teams. mcduffie is a great slot corner but he's about to be overpaid, which the chiefs can't afford to do and the rams can.
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Jeff Fecke quoting my newsletter piece saying “Heavily implied in this article is that Peter is a goat fucker.”
for posterity
you didn’t know about the ethnicity i mentioned in the piece you’re responding to and directly quoting from?
now generally speaking if i write about being Iranian and then someone cracks a joke about me being a “goat fucker” in response i’d say that person is just an old fashioned racist
I will add one last thought. Many of the responses from Democratic lawmakers and liberal commentators (even the good ones) contain some ambivalence - some hope that perhaps the fall of the Iranian regime, even at the hands of Donald Trump, will be for the best. I understand why. I am the son of an Iranian immigrant. Ultimately I want freedom, democracy, and dignity for the Iranian people. The problem is that I've seen the American government promise all of those things a hundred times, and I've never seen them deliver it once.
one more excerpt
no
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Schumer and Jeffries are crying for more procedure, but the lack of the procedure is the point. Fascists cast it aside for its weakness. Prominent Democrats have been castigating the Islamic Republic as a dangerous threat for decades; Trump is simply manifesting their rhetoric into reality. He is offering a purer form of their own politics.
I wrote about how Democratic leadership has abandoned the moral high ground on Iran, and how it has left them toothless when opposing Trump.
imagine how incoherent her unfiltered thoughts were
