Walter Hickey

A man with the government has been at the last two hearings relating to the contempt claim. Both times, he sat in the section of the courtroom open only to parties and counsel. Although not at counsel’s table, Littman and Jean Lin, the other Justice Department lawyer present at both hearings, has repeatedly consulted with him during both hearings. After today’s hearing — and after not being able to figure out for myself who he was after the last hearing — I asked him who he was. I had my press pass visibly displayed and identified myself as a reporter. He said he didn’t want to do that. I suggested that he must be a government official or employee, sitting where he was, and, if so, I asked incredulously if he really was not going to tell a reporter at a hearing who he was. He said no. Then, the people leaving — myself included — got to the elevator. Littman, Lin, mystery man, and two other people sitting with mystery man on the government side of the courtroom during the hearing on Wednesday were getting into the elevator. Some of them were already in the elevator. When I stepped in, mystery man said he would wait for the next elevator. Everyone else then got out of the elevator. Left in the elevator alone, I looked at these five adults — all of whom I believe have to be government employees, hence, paid by the public and allegedly working for the public — and was some combination of bemused and appalled. “You are all ridiculous,” I simply said. The door closed.

And, the story of the mystery man.

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For $1 billion a day we could add enough solar panels to double the generating capacity of the US grid in less than five years.

THE WORLD'S FIRST PRECISION CANNABIS SIX PRECISE EXPERIENCES IN 20 MINUTES OR LESS

I rebuke Founder Mindset weed. That’s not weed that’s homework

This is pretty insane

$EWY $MU $SNDK $WDC $STX

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When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Nancy 3/4/26 💅

always game! you know i love the newsletter man, did not assume bad faith here, just in general think that indie companies tend to be doomed if their abilities to make the most convenient business decisions for customers is arbitrarily hamstrung.

As ICE expands its network of detention centers, as part of a rapid, unprecedented expansion of detention facilities, local governments are trying to push back with any legal option available. For Bisnow, I looked at the different strategies being used and considered www.bisnow.com/national/new...

1. heads up, that functionality doesn't work on gmail mobile so your final CTA is just to pressure writers
2. ko-fi is not an email sending service
3. "just switch from substack to patreon" is not a long-term solution. every six months patreon finds a new way to rugpull clients.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Friend Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Friend

A bluesky user told me I should've had this be "Friend of the Tinman" and I've been crying ever since. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/friend-2

🎶Memory, all alone in the swoon-light🎶

What we have here is a parabolic trend breaking in the face of unexpected negative news. $MU $SNDK $WDC $STX

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Highlight so far is this MPD officer stopping his patrol of the USIP building to grab a cooke and saying to himself, "When in Rome, man."

‘Mass Confusion’: Government Texts Reveal Chaotic Response to Shutdown of El Paso Airspace One El Paso airport executive summed up the situation with the image of a cartoon bunny rabbit holding a walkie-talkie and remarking, “WTF.”

EXCLUSIVE: We obtained dozens of texts, chats & emails detailing in dramatic fashion how local officials in El Paso and New Mexico struggled to obtain even the most basic info from feds about why they shut down their airspace last month.

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The Traitors Needs to Ban Housewives At least for one season.

this is one of those "all sports headlines sound kinda crazy out of context" but for pop culture www.vulture.com/article/trai...

imo the only good alternative is spending $10k on an AWS dev to build the whole thing on SES or hoping the vibecode works. I certainly hope to have an update in that direction soon.

but insisting that your local coffee shop stop accepting Mastercard is a great way to end up with only Starbucks

maybe the semiprivate one launched by the guy with the longstanding tech newsletter? Oh, *he* just took a hard right turn? well let's all just hope Meta relaunches newsletters again I guess.

alternatives? you mean the other VC-backed subscription email sevice that will have the same perverse incentives within two years? or perhaps the publicly traded one owned by Patreon that destroys your DTC moat? the open source one with bad support where you get to solve your own deliverability?

The Case For Making A Bet Against Substack I once turned down Substack because of their design limitations. As they emerge yet again in the news cycle, I thought I’d make my point about them via design.

listen I am a long admirer of @ernie.tedium.co and am on record as deeply envious of his tech stack but if you boycott small indie businesses over a beef with their credit card processor you can't be mad when there are fewer indie businesses tedium.co/2026/03/02/b...

Hi folks, these days, when someone is having a health issue, it's referred to as an "opportunity," so let's go with that – I'm having one of those. It's also called a type of cancer that's “treatable” not "curable." I apologize if that's a shock – it was to me too. The good news is, I'm not gonna go into any more detail. I'm posting this, because professionally, a few things will have to change - appearances and cons and work in general need to take back seat to treatment. My plan is to get as well as I possibly can over the summer so that I can tour with my new movie Ernie & Emma this fall. There are several cons this year summer that I have to cancel. Big regrets on my part. Treatment needs and professional obligations don't always go hand-in-hand. That's about it. I'm not trying enlist sympathy-or advice-Ijust want to get ahead of this information in case false information gets out (which it will). Fear not, I am a tough old son-of-a-bitch and I have great support, so I expect to be around a while. As always, you're the greatest fans in the world and I hope to see you soon! Much love, Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell announces he has a type of cancer that's "treatable" not "curable"

Deadline article: Hulu Developing Animated Action Comedy Series 'The Kids From S.I.P.P.Y. From Branson Reese & Nicole Silverberg By Matt Grobar March 2, 2026 2:30pm Two pictures: one of a mustachioed man who looks like the smoking breakroom aliens from Men In Black and the other of my beautiful wife Nicole. Both photos were taken by the extremely talented Mindy Tucker.

Let's fucking go

Introducing the Roca Sifter: Turn Card Piles into Profit We’re excited to announce the launch of the Roca Sifter, a new robotic solution designed to make identification, sifting, pricing, and listing inventory easy.

It's a Spinning Jenny or a cotton gin, but for cracking packs. Every day we stray further, etc... seller.tcgplayer.com/blog/introdu...

Michael B. Jordan holding two Actor Awards

I didn't realize everyone who won for the ensemble cast got one and briefly thought they gave him two for winning Best Actor as a bit

“Everything on the site is treated like COVID waves. They talk about AI like it’s COVID.” this is a brilliant observation

Prediction markets, like crypto, like AI, are simply just another large-scale expression of COVID trauma among the mangerial class and now they're using them to turn a fucking war into a pyramid scheme they can scam each other into investing in.
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one way to tell something is not very important to Jamie Dimon is that he's asking the government to do it

I'll save everyone the click, it's just this chart:

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Numlock Awards: Now we've really got a race The SAG Awards have flipped a few categories on their heads, and people underestimate their winners at their peril.

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the album art for Oops! All Heel Turn 2! with the classic Oops! All Berries! cereal box art with an added snake biting the Cap'n's nose superimposed on top of the wrestling crowd featured on the cover art for the Mountain Goats 2015 smash shit record Beat the Champ.

if you were to ask me which of my @themountaingoats.bsky.social comps best encapsulates what it is i love about seeing tMG live, it would be this one, my newest one: Oops! All Heel Turn 2

from the studio to the stage & the nearly 10 year evolution of the ultimate jam

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i was wondering why this year’s Blankies ep was over three hours long