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It's near-automatic. Granting it keeps DoJ from requesting reconsideration by the full court where the Six might well have used it as the vehicle for more shadow docket fuckery to sideline the 1st Circuit before it can issue what they signaled is going to be a significant defeat for Trump.

It seems like so many people on the right should be aligned with so many people on the left over the doomsday existential threat of AI and robotics in the hands of a handful of greedy oligarchs. But they have succeeded in pitting us against each other with culture war drivel.

Unless they were native people, of course. For them, we had the state-orchestrated slaughter of the American bison to the very brink of extinction simply to starve the Plains tribes into submission. That was quite popular. We were very impressed with it. Made it part of our legendarium.

The dude fainting in the White House while Trump ignores it and RFK II runs like Josh Hawley.

Dr. Oz linking obesity to dementia while Trump's slumped over at his desk is absolutely a choice...

We're so overwhelmed by the depth, breadth, multi-dimensionality, and sheer Castle-Bravo runaway magnitude of the shitshow we had to break it into two to meme it.

By the time he finally dies and the squabbling successor finally admit it, they'll be putting up a rope-line at his grave and selling tickets to pee on it.

I have now been staring at this post for 17 minutes trying to unravel all of the many, many things I know I am thinking and feeling, but goddamn if I can. They're all just glommed up together into a big sticky bolus of poison clogging cerebral drains.

Or people who draft constitutions must accept that if the people are sovereign, it is axiomatically impossible to stop them from from voting to end democracy and rule of law if they want Instead, all they can do is put up speedbumps on the road to the abyss so we only drive over the edge by choice.

It occurred to me for, oh, no reason at all today how very strongly "has normal patient-PCP relationship with normal competent doctor who is not famous" correlates with "is wielding intrinsically corrupting magic ring of power about as well as humanly possible" among the rich and famous.

There is, in fact, no constitutional prohibition against electing convicted criminals to the presidency unless the conviction is by the Senate in an impeachment trial. Indeed, even the 14th Amendment prohibition of insurrectionists was nullified by SCOTUS for him.

Don't worry, the MSM may be the cowed and servile minions of the individual billionaire or media conglomerate that pays them, but the editor who can resist publishing pictures like that absent extortion does not exist.

And Acting US Attorney Boxwine will absolutely blame them regardless.

Getting fired for not telling a self-evident lie to SCOTUS at oral argument probably washes away the stain of having worked for Trump in the first place enough to get picked up by a DC Biglaw appellate practice group or boutique firms, I guess.

In 30 years of practice, I lost count count of the number of cases I saw deliberately mishandled on the vehement orders of clients (or senior partners) over a detailed written explanation of why it's stupid. The CYA letter only actually C's your A when it's the client insisting on stupidity, though.

Would Brazil be willing to to shove America's current president into a cell with him it when the time comes for us? I mean, he seems to think that sort of thing is a great idea right now.

I know lawyers who might be dumb or corrupt enough to think explicitly arguing for conviction regardless of whether the elements are met to punish the defendant for engaging in a synonym for "speech" is 👨‍🍳💋👍. But I half-suspect the old "sabotage by following stupid orders literally" trick here.

Not that Fed. R. of Evid. 606 gives a shit whether they nullified or somehow decided the elements weren't met, of course.

Boy, I sure seem to be finding occasion for the use of the word "degenerate" a lot today.

My Congressional representative, Virginia Foxx, would view this with a electric surge of sadistic gratification and forward it to everyone in her esbat with an almost inconceivably evil "joke" or remark.

Thanks. Because there are few arguments Americans can be relied upon to consider more objectively and unemotionally than a European patiently explaining what a shithole we are compared to European social democracies. That always brings out all our very best and finest traits as a people.

If she had received the cabinet post she believed she'd earned and not been demoted down the proximity power pecking order to a point below FFS Laura Loomer, the blinding scales of the Fox alternate universe would still be glued to her eyeballs.

Pullitzer prize for Andrew Harnik of Getty for releasing them.

Seriously, has a single, solitary person like, oh, Jake Tapper, Derek Thompson, Ezra Klein, or the whole-ass NYT political desk so much as implicitly acknowledged the complete absence of their sacred "balance" in covering Biden's cognitive decline? No? No. Because they knew what they were doing.

Justice Dept. Is Said to Be Investigating D.C. Mayor Over Foreign Trip

It is very cool and totally not evidence of cooption as oligarchist managed media that the NYT wrote this whole story with a bit of huffing about revenge-seeking but not one, solitary word about the literally giga-dollar bribery and corruption of Trump and his spawn.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Don't worry. It really only seems like you're terrible about doing that sort of thing now. By the time you're in your fifties, you'll realize how very wrong you were.

"But Biden, Amirite?"

On page 12 of the third quarter results press release, Breaker broke out our magnifying glass to read footnote 3. Earlier this year, the Times started marketing a "Family Subscription" plan at a higher price. The new deal is similar to Netflix's family plan, where one billed account includes separate identities for each family member. The new offering apparently started taking off over the summer, mostly for the Games app. But there's a catch. The Times started counting each "Family Subscription" as two subscribers instead of one, effectively doubling their numbers. “Each family subscription is priced higher than a comparable individual subscription and is counted as one billed subscriber and one additional subscriber to reflect the additional entitlements in these subscriptions,” the footnote in tiny print reveals. “The additional subscribers represented approximately 2% of total digital-only subscribers as of the end of the third quarter of 2025.” Voila! The Times's new double-counting method magically added 235,000 new subscribers, more than half of the 460,000 it claimed at the top of Tuesday's earnings release. As of the end of June, the Times had 11.9 million, which meant the paper would need to average 310,000 net new subs every quarter going forward to make their audacious target. Looking at the company's past performance (remember that 248,000 average quarterly gain), there was no way it was going to hit that target without some creative accounting.

Lachlan Cartwright puts his magnifying glass on NYT's big subscription bump in the latest quarterly earnings report.

www.breakermedia.com/p/behind-the...

TBF, for many of them, the objective is keeping the Epstein files hidden and the starvation and economic exclusion of sick and poor people from the health insurance market is just gravy and/or a thing they don't care about anyway.

Yes, it's so enraging when most people foolishly refuse to agree with you about everything when you are so clearly right.

Turnover in authoritarian regimes is always super-low between purges.

Every conservative commentator publishes a story 2-3 times a year that goes “I was an asshole to random people for no and now they don’t like me. The left has gone too far.”