Thomas R. Houlihan

Me as a BigLaw summer associate: Being a lawyer is great! You eat lunch at amazing restaurants every day!

Me 30+ years later: The structural integrity of these Hot Pockets has suffered since they stopped including the microwave heat-focus sleeve. [Slurps approx. 8000 MG of sodium from CupONoodles]

This was an unbelievable record that I bought just because of the title. Very complex, well crafted stuff. Blew my mind when I found out how young they were

It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct.

Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.

Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.

Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.

But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.

I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity

The problem isn't that they caved for a promised vote; the problem is that the vote will be a meaningless gesture impressing no one but Senate Democrats.

It will fail. ACA beneficiaries will suffer considerably as a result and there will be no consequences of any kind for Republicans.

And further, the Senate Dems now own the shutdown. They essentially take responsibility for it and away from the GOP. They gave everything and got nothing and we all get kicked in the teeth.

Democrats could have had "Trump cancelled Thanksgiving" and instead decided to lose.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

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I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

what kind of country is this, where dangerous radicals can throw sandwiches at our brave secret masked torture police with impunity

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell speaking at a lectern

NFL Commissioner Reveals Ambitious Plan That Ensures Every Roster Made Up Of Guys Named Jalen

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Auction I'm looking through has pie-cutters carved from bone, for when you're all, "Mmm, I'd like some tasty pie, but also an ancient curse."

Nooo

“Dems moved too far left” is more pundit-consultant industrial complex than empirically-supported analysis. It lives in euphemism and vibes.

It wrongly assumes abandoning core values will yield a net increase in votes.

And to the extent it’s really political strategy, it’s fighting the last war.

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

All of this is happening to give the uber wealthy a tax cut they don't need and the country cannot afford.

every couple of days the official white house website says "we want to kill you. we want to destroy everything you love. we are the living incarnation of death and we shall sweep life from this earth like an unstoppable whirlwind" and its like oh. ok. do i still have to pay taxes

It’s crazymaking to watch people nod sagely about findings that are just demonstrably untrue.

What is true, I think, is Dems keep trying to run cautious meat and potatoes races only to be tagged in the public mind with all the social issues their opponents obsess over and they leave unanswered.

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight “Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

2) Republicans use polls to shape strategy, not to shape their positions.

Public opinion is malleable. Most people don't have firm opinions. Republicans shape the river. Democrats chase the currents--and it hasn't worked.

@anatosaurus.bsky.social has written on this also

oh look, giving in to a bully didn't work, again

Carson Wentz is like if a squirrel became an NFL QB

Command & Control 3 - Reverse Engineering Labs Advanced malware often uses a droppers, which are small payloads designed to download the next stage of the malware from the C2. You'll have to reverse engineer the first stage to get the next.

Just released a new malware analysis lab: Command & Control 3.

This lab tests provides an introduction to multi-stage malware loaders. Your job is to reverse engineer the command & control protocol, then write a script to retrieve the second stage payload. Inside you'll find the flag.

As you may have noticed, white supremacists want to stop the influx of hardworking young people (aka immigration) while somehow forcing white women to have lots more babies to compensate, but they refuse to make having kids more affordable and less arduous an experience.

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."