Joe Paulson

Bengals' old dude for now beating the Steelers old dude #NFL

Mariners. Sigh. #MLB

The 1995 Yankees can relate.

"I love how people are like, yeah, we won't defend John Bolton, he deserves it."

I'm not defending him. I'm saying they are going after a bunch of political enemies. That's bad.

A bad process, like a tainted search, taints the prosecution.

ugh. Mariners down 3-1.

I won't hate the Blue Jays going to the "World" Series -- be nice to have an international flavor -- but Seattle blowing this would be quite Seattle-like. #MLB

Still no fact checking from Politico moderators on repeat Cuomo lies about his pervasive sexual harassment. Every person monitoring this debate is guilty of not doing their job on that front.

I have a bunch of public access/government/education channels. Figure one of them would have the NYC mayoral debate. Nope. It isn't on one of the major networks either, including two Spanish ones.

Curtis Sliwa may be fucking insane, but at least he has a genuine ethos, and that is leading him to want to destroy Cuomo.

But Sliwa is having a good debate, apparently. Mostly attacking Cuomo.

Since Sliwa clinches it for Mamdani, that's fine.

so, they have a bunch of partisan prosecutions (with more possible) and the squirrel found a single good nut?

The whole taints the single good (I'll acknowledge the point here) in a vacuum prosecution by this Administration.

Has she done any interviews with a liberal person?

Melinda Katz (D). In vitro.

It's a low bar but it should do it especially since it's hard for Republicans to vote for Andrew (expletive) Cuomo.

I live in a Republican area (city council-wise) in NYC and my city councilperson firmly endorsed Sliwa. I believe the small Republican city council caucus all did. I can't see Sliwa faliing to recieve some sliver (around 10%) & if he does, Cuomo has no real shot.

I acknowledge I'm not listening to the NYC mayoral debate.

Sliwa is a Republican who has no experience or much cred.

Cuomo lost the Democratic primary, quit being governor to avoid impeachment, and is an asshole and, sex predator, etc.

Mamdani has a pretty low bar to meet and he meets it easily.

Did he bring any of his cats to the debate?

a man and a woman are talking and the man says it just doesn 't matter Alt: a man and a woman are talking and the man says it just doesn 't matter

Remember when people said they preferred the #Mets play the Dodgers over the other playoff competitors. Well, that was a moo point. A cow's opinions. Doesn't matter.

But still.

You quit being governor to avoid being impeached.

25th Amendment

Kavanaugh is wrong and sounds like an a-hole when being wrong. TBF, he sounds like a-hole generally speaking. #SCOTUS

Another revenge prosecution (John Bolton).

Republicans control Congress. They don't give a shit that Trump is abusing his powers daily. They call a strong public outcry un-American.

A few make concerned noises. All it would take is 4 senators to put country over party. They don't want ot do so.

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

"It was unclear why Adm. Holsey is leaving now, less than a year into his tenure....But one of the U.S. officials...said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Newsom is right. Trump is clearly in dangerous cognitive and physical decline.

Originalism is for me symbolized by sixty page articles about such and such constituitonal provision that is not comprehensive (books are written on some of these subjects) which originalists and others disagree upon regarding many details.

I'm not an originalist & I think references to late 18th Century respect of strong deference is of limited value. A lot changed since then, including how the people and their institutions understand judicial review. But originalists appeal to that era.

"The deferential originalism championed by Meese, Bork, and Berger, that “arose as a response to the perceived abuses of the Warren and Burger Courts,” had been made “largely irrelevant” by the Rehnquist Court."

When conservatives obtained power, deference went to the wayside. #SCOTUS

Inside John Roberts’ Decades-Long Crusade Against the Voting Rights Act Roberts remains at the center of an impassioned debate about voting rights in America.

As a baby lawyer in the Reagan White House, John Roberts was writing memos arguing that violations of the Voting Rights Act should not be "too easy to prove." This is not just any legal issue that happens to come before him. This is his life's work. He just wants to finish what he started.

Fetterman is a Manchin sort but King and Cortez-Masto doing this is annoying.

"Amy Coney Barrett Is Looking Beyond the Trump Era"

We have to figure out how to survive over three more years of this.

It is asinine to "look beyond" it. The fact some "reasonable originalist" (not author of this op-ed) praises her underlines why he is part of the problem. #SCOTUS

YouTube video by BJC The Supreme Court in a new era: S7, Ep. 01 of Respecting Religion

Theyrrrreee Back .... #SCOTUS and (less stressfully) Respect Religion. They support separation of church and states. Yeah, that's possible while being pro-religion.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJVL...