Eric Brignac (He/Him)

In Trump's Republican Party, the number of senators or representatives willing to vote down his horrible ideas and appointments will always be at least one less than necessary.

Boards of Trustees ***LIKE*** the Trump demands. They ***AGREE*** with them.

They like the idea of putting the screws on activist, lefty, and Muslim students. They like the idea of a whiter student body and conservative curriculum. They want these things and think $200 million is a fair price.

Hello. I am a public defender in a film. Instead of researching law, I go into the field & find evidence to prove my client’s innocence. I wait until closing arguments to pull this evidence out of my pocket & show the jury. Police immediately arrest the real killer who is in the trial audience.

Hello, I'm an air steward in a film. If I'm a man, in an emergency I can safely land the plane. If I'm a woman, I can find the one man on the plane who can land it safely.

Filing a reply brief in a few minutes.
This morning, I checked for typos.
Put it down. Drank some tea. Checked typos again.
About to upload it to the Court.

And I hear the typo gremlins in the corner of my office chuckling and ready to jump into the file and create typos as soon as I hit upload.

One of my mentors always used her first draft to get all of her anger and Snark out of her system. And then spent the rest of the time smoothing off the snarky corners :-)

Hulk Hogan ratted out other wrestlers attempting to unionize to save his own position and paycheck above anyone else's & gladly accepted funding from Peter Thiel for his Gawker court case that paved frequently abused legal precedents for the rich to shut down any media outlets that embarrass them.

Hogan’s last ever WWE TV appearance was being loudly booed while using the opportunity to hawk his beer. His last ever public appearance of any type was cheering in front of Florida’s immigrant detention center.

A sad sad end for someone who was once universally beloved.

It is certainly not one of the top-10 worst things about AI, but I am already very tired of seeing tons on uncanny valley pictures of recently deceased celebrities playing darts with Abraham Lincoln in Heaven or whatever every time someone famous dies.

If you are qualified to get into Columbia, then you are getting into many good schools. So if you are not MAGA, why would you choose Columbia after this capitulation?

It is such a stupid move that my only conclusion is that Columbia's leaders agree with it and are using the lawsuit as cover.

One really nice thing about being a federal public defender is that all of my briefs are against US Atty offices. And it is always better to reply to a well written response brief than a poorly written one.

That would actually be kind of a fun two-truths-and-a-lie game.

The doctor names three diseases and you have to pick which one is made up. And then you name three crimes that sound horrible and he has to guess which one is not a “violent felony.“

Funniest comedian going right now

Its actually OK for someone to loudly say they hate a candidate likely to run in the 2028 primary, three years away, that's good and useful information to have and is very different from telling people not to vote this or that way in a hypothetical general election

Fn. our opinion, of course, does nothing to call into question the job security of the chairman of the federal reserve.

For the zillionth time, the S Ct makes the best case for expanding the court and enacting term limits. It is hopeless as currently constituted

Reconstruction Era Amendments levels of reform. (and, yes, I get that they will not have the numbers to pass actual amendments. I’m just trying to indicate that they need something way more than their usual “commission to study whether we need to form a committee to address the problem“ approach)

The Democrats are institutionallists, so I get that attacking institutions goes against their core beliefs. But they need to start communicating just how abnormal this current Supreme Court Court is and running on a plan of enacting major judicial reform if they ever retake power.

@mikeduncan.bsky.social

The Revolution eats its children?

Harvard has the resources and the power and the prestige to fight indefinitely . Do not let them claim that they “caved“ to the Trump administration. They are doing what they want to do and using GOP pressure as cover.

Dem politicians: we uhhh need to secure our border, bipartisanly,
Dem voters: my name is Janet Walker and I live at 2721 Willow Boulevard. I am a semi-retired financial planner and in my spare time I interfere with immigration enforcement

Make millions over a few years by putting a sign on your door that says "CEO" and doing nothing while Elon runs the place.

Then, when the site starts literally calling itself Mechahitler, put up a Mission Accomplished banner and ride off into the sunset.

Not bad work if you can get it.

Elon making us watch him learn basic history and civics in real-time on social media is exhausting.

We all sat through "There should be a third party that represents the majority in the middle!" listening to our blowhard friend in 10th grade.

Don't make us do it again.

Cascadia

I cannot imagine that anyone wakes up with more of a sense of relief and a weight off of their shoulders than a non-MAGA GOP politician the day after they announced that they are not running for reelection.

this post gave two actionable items: appealing to their humanity and making a deal. if Schumer tried to appeal to their humanity, then the same people would be screaming that you can’t appeal to their humanity b/c they are GOP monsters. And if he made a deal, they would yell that the Dems caved.

The law on this was very clear. The firms that caved did so because they agreed with Trump not because they were afraid of losing.

Honestly, if you’d just take a substantial step, I’d be fine with that

"It's not my fault that I didn't vote and thus helped Trump kill USAID, which is killing children globally - the Democrats should have done a better job of convincing me to vote for them."

This is the argument of a child. You sound like a monstrous child.