I'm not sure I've ever seen or heard of a US senator with so little self-esteem. He really comes across as a self-loathing loser.

He even looks a little like Roy Cohn. I can't be the first person who noticed that.

I know. It's mind-boggling.

Looks like Stanley Park if I'm not mistaken, although I haven't been there in about 55 years! Good job, Westfield.

And did so against the advice of every credible nuclear prolferation and foreigh policy expert. It was the last best hope of avoiding the current situation and he torpedoed it on impulse apparently motivated by his desire to demean Obama.

Has Trump reacted to the drone attack on social media yet? That should be something.

I can't decide if he's a man, a boy or even human. There is something very weird about him.

They are doing the exact same thing they did before the election - sanewashing, normalizing, filtering, temporizing, etc. rather than reporting the batshit craziness, cruelty and lying that is right there in front of them.

I know a lot of the emphasis in this thread is one the women who are leaving, but Bill Isaacson is a superstar litigator in complex commercial cases which is where the big revenue for a firm like Paul Weiss is generated. Bad message to clients.

Three of four. The man, William Isaacson, often is referred to as one of the top trial lawyers in the country. In baseball terms, he is the ace of their staff.

Armstrong Williams: Diplomatic debacle in Oval Office was a disgrace | STAFF COMMENTARY Donald Trump’s Oval Office ambush of the South African president was unacceptable, writes Armstrong Williams.

Another "disgrace" is that the part-owner of and opinion columnist for @baltimoresun.bsky.social blamed Trump's advisors. As if Trump isn't responsible for surrounding himself with unqualified lunatics. This is just unforgivable opinion "journalism."
www.baltimoresun.com/2025/05/22/a...

Truth.

It's their way or the highway. But you're not completely correct - they will form coalitions with ppl who think exactly like they do LOL. I'm afraid they're going to drag us down again in 2026.

I wish it were just the media. We've got far too many ppl on our side re-running the 2024 election and nursing other old grievances rather than focusing how to save democracy and the rule of law.

It makes as much sense as the argument that it really is not a gift to Trump, it is a gift to the DOD. Fkrs will say anything.

Killing the 2019 legislation was of course what produced the situation we now are in. Idiots.

That's the attitude - "all" white men voted to harm them. It'd been funny if it wasn't so sad and destructive.

I did so, and did so enthusiastically. Plus I donated quite a bit of money to her campaign. But that's in the past. Relitigating either the 2016 or 2024 election is the path to failure. Your assumption that I voted for Trump is offensive, but I know you don't care.

Handwringing and finger-pointing isn't going to cut it.

Try looking forward for solutions instead of looking back and nursing grievances - this kind of generalized nonsense hurts rather than helps.

And if they are arrested, let's demand that the firms that capitulated to Trump defend them pro bono.

Maybe we could do less arguing about who is "most" threatened by an autocratic government?

Can Elite Lawyers Be Persuaded to ‘Wake Up and Stand Up’?

This is deeply admirable action by Ms. Hartwell. It needs to be built upon by concerted action that shames and shuns the law firms that capitulated to Trump. There's no hope for democracy if the frontline defenders of the rule of law, judges and lawyers, back down.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/n...

A white judge was, so yeah, I think so.

I know this isn't the right thing to say, but she even looks stupid. Maybe it is the dull look in her eyes, as if there's nothing going on elsewhere in her head.

Microsoft swaps law firms in shareholder case, hiring Trump adversary Microsoft is switching the law firm representing it in a shareholder case, replacing one that settled with the Trump administration to avoid a punishing executive order with one that is fighting the White House.

The law firms that settled with Trump must be ostracized by other lawyers and shunned by clients. With fascism threatening the rule of law, institutions and individuals tempted to collude with the facists must know that, if they do, there will be consequences.

www.reuters.com/business/mic...

Remember, it was a @nytimes.com editorial in Jan 2018 that infamously attempted to shut down discussions about Trump's mental health.

Joking is an attempt to be funny. Do you really believe that is what it was? It was a window inside his head, into how severe his megalomania has become. He's telling us how much he craves power and fealty and we need to listen, not to dismiss it as a bad joke.

Your dismissal of the seriousness of the video reflects a lack of understanding of how disordered, and how dangerous, this man is. Normal, non-megalomaniacal presidents don't "joke" in this manner.