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I like that my feed right now is 100% lawyers going “legal expert here, judges only talk like this when they’re feeling a white-hot rage powerful enough to swallow a medium-size metropolitan area.”

If only McConnell could have done something to avoid this situation!

When I saw this post I assumed it was hyperbole or at least inference. But nah.

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It is so funny that after a week of flagrantly unpopular moves, from the bail fund to dancing on the grave of a beloved TV show, he has the world’s easiest PR layup of just “showing up and playing devoted dad at his son’s wedding” and is like, “Nah.”

Today is a good day to read George Packer’s excellent profile of David Sacks www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

GOAT www.npr.org/2026/05/22/g...

Good place for u kno what (losing a runoff)

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ah yes the great leap forward did go well

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I was with a few dozen retirees at a Tex-Mex spot near Dallas when word came down that Trump had endorsed Ken Paxton. The news hit like manna from the MAGA heavens. My story on what the endorsement means for Texas—and why Paxton keeps hanging on.

google talks back now too?

"What if, in the age of revolution, America just didn’t matter that much?" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

ah yes the great leap forward famously went well