Hieronymous Alloy

I mean you absolutely can take the risk of an acquittal. Every time a case goes to trial there's a risk. Every defense counsel risks conviction every time they go to trial! The question is just one of cowardice or courage for that risk.

At some point either you file obstruction of justice charges or you tear up your bar card and decide you just aren't cut out to be a prosecutor.

This is that point.

Almost every complaint about what academics in the humanities study could be solved by quantities of money that are - in the scheme of these sorts of things - very small.

In that context, what is telling is that the right, aware that the humanities were for sale, opted to destroy them instead.

There are two kinds of people in the world:

People who suffered, and think because of that, everyone else should suffer the way they did because otherwise it's not fair.

People who suffered, and think because of that, no one else should have to suffer either.

Be the second.

The 2028 Dem platform needs to include "prosecute everyone who lied to Congress."

Whatever fake "norms" there were against that are long gone, and Trump has routinely used and threatened it, including against the Federal Reserve. Real, meritorious prosecutions need to happen at scale.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

This Is What It Looks Like When Nothing Matters Welcome to the internet’s nihilism crisis.

I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a long time. A kind of post-ironic collapse in our politics and culture where nihilism has become the lingua franca of the internet and beyond. It links Kirk, Clavicular, Epstein, memestock/coin stuff, mass shooters. I hope you'll read it.

Politics is a Story What is necessary more than ever before is a genuinely positive story that liberals can tell the public.

“Stories are not universally bought and cannot be imposed on others at the point of a gun or by other forms of force. John Locke was not wrong when he argued that force can only grant you submission, not belief.” www.liberalcurrents.com/politics-is-...

One of the weirdest things about being a public defender was all the facebook friend requests from prosecutors

They don't *want* to be good.

There have been enough former insiders at the NYT who've talked about this. Sulzberger likes Trump.

It's consciousness of guilt. They know what they have done, and consciously or unconsciously expect punishment.

The secret strat: tear up a whole rotisserie chicken and toss it in

Newsradio said it best

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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I expect more content like this after universal basic income and now consider it the sticky toffee pudding argument for UBI.

I can't think of an attorney general ever showing this much open contempt for Congress before.

Not only would most of them think this kind of conduct was beneath them, they'd have known that the Judiciary Committee chair, whatever the party, would never stand for clownish antics like this.

The death of the CIA Factbook and Trump's war on usefulness Wherever government does something helpful, the regime wants to kill it.

New in PN: The death of the CIA Factbook and Trump's war on usefulness

"There’s nothing partisan about the CIA World Factbook, so it’s hard to imagine how allowing people to use it could impede the MAGA agenda. Unless, that is, you realize the Factbook had to go *precisely because it was useful.*"

A simple proposal for federal judges frustrated that Trump Regime isn’t freeing people in response to habeas corpus orders:

Order that DHS bring each individual to court for their habeas hearing. If the judge grants habeas, the petitioner walks out free.

Bonus: huge pre-hearing burden on feds.

Having even one single scruple of any kind at all inevitably results in opposing this administration, eventually

what do you mean the leader of your country will sometimes "resign" just because there's "a scandal"

There is such a hunger in this nation for nobility

Whole genres of fiction where the premise is "what if leaders were . . .good? Even just some of them?"

💯👇

both the president and literally everyone else understand any statement of a moral principle -- any moral principal -- as a denunciation

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Remember when "America has many groups of people in it and that's good and makes us strong" was an uncontroversial - even cliched - viewpoint that was universally endorsed across the political spectrum?

We can go back! We just have to get rid of the tiny handful of bitter, angry men in the way.

“God Bless America and a bunch of other countries” gonna bust some blood vessels

Still adding slop accounts daily. It's at around 6,750 accounts now. I make sure to click into each one and scroll a little to make sure they deserve to be listed in here.

I have seen some... messed up stuff.

A Mandaic curse bowl in the Royal Ontario Museum. It has a spiraling Mandaic text that leads to an encircled x at the center.

This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

the fact that they saw Polanski as not being punished despite fleeing to France -- the fact that his social circle did not hold him accountable -- finally makes me understand why the elite media is insane about left activism at elite colleges: nothing anyone else can do to them matters.