Evan Berkow

Well, the biggest is certainly that he "left" a conservative legal job because it was revealed that he was keeping a secret second family. I guess when your surname is that close to "bigamy," it's destiny...

Haha! Hey! How are you?

That’s a good thing. Last thing we need is pathetic, stupid lickspittles like Joe having enough power to be known.

As someone who was in his law school class: that’s an understatement.

He’s real! I went to law school with him! A profound moron who tried to be a secret bigamist!

That guy was in my law school class and, man, I have some STORIES about him.

Agreed. I think that's the big difference for me. Gunn is decidedly not flippant when it comes to the beating heart of his stories, where Whedon was very much so.

Trump is absolutely cratering in new Quinnipiac poll:

Overall approval: 38-54
Approval on economy: 39-56
Approval on trade: 39-54
On National Guard into cities: 42-55
On immigration, his "best" issue: 41-55

Trump is weak, unpopular, and failing. Treat him that way:

Hey @burnsfilmcenter.bsky.social , you should bring this to Pleasantville!!!

imo a fair conclusion to draw about dem leadership's obstinance in the face of revolt from their voters is that they'd rather win an intra-party fight with their left wing & their own voters than maximize potential electoral gains in the midterms

"And we, the venerable New York Times, dutifully signed the pledge!"

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

This a federally-monitored website. The regime is on highest alert. Anyone posting advocacy for violence right now is a fedposter or a fool. This has nothing to do with what is right or wrong or what you have a right to say. It's simply a fact.

It does matter for *your personal safety.* Your posts aren’t going to change the narrative, but they are going to materially affect your chances of personally becoming some lunatic’s main character.

The theatre around RFK is great and all, but his holding a position as HSS Secretary is failed state behavior, and everyone who facilitated it should be drummed out of public life.

Cuomo: "Yeah, Mamdani's all talk and no action. Meanwhile, here I am, no talk and no action."

A+ launch, Andrew.

I will never take anyone seriously who says we need to raise the birth rates or face human extinction but it’s especially sickening now that the oligarchs have chosen to hoard even more resources by cutting off aid and killing millions of kids in the process

LOVED Gideon...really need to start the second book.

Right now you are either on the side of the shouted question or the snapping handcuff, and it is very clear which side is correct.

There’s a point where I think all of us, senators to nobodies, have a decision to make.

If we use whatever voice we have, whatever power we have, to oppose what’s happening now, it might damage our future. Might land us in a prison. We accept that risk, or we don’t.

I submit that point is here.

You are explicitly and dishonestly affixing the legal elements of "bribery" to the larger realm of offenses considered "corruption" in a transparent attempt to, as always, let Trump get away with blatant corruption.

And we all know how you would cover this if a Democrat did it.

This Tweet is dangerously wrong on legal, linguistic, and factual grounds, but it explains a lot about how the NYT is utterly failing its journalistic duties in this present moment.

UPDATE: white smoke has *also* been spotted in the city center of Avignon,,, bad news folks!!!

The refusal to provide people due process before shipping them off to foreign prisons is criminal and intolerable. It must not be normalized. Everyone who believes in justice and America needs to speak up now.

I’m not a lawyer or anything but I feel like you can draw a pretty direct line from John Yoo being allowed to slip back into the comforts of tenure and the occasional NYT oped to what’s happening with the CECOT and doj

CEOs upset about Trump’s tariffs sound like mob bosses shouting “I thought we had a deal!” at the Joker.

The consensus on Wall Street among savvy people paid millions to predict things was exactly what very low-information voters thought: "Trump can't mean what he says because that's ridiculous, what he'll really do is what I personally hope he does."