I am so sorry for your loss.
Retired lawyer, Philhellene, wannabe philosopher but still just a philotheamon. SF Bay Area, Greece (Μεσσηνία), Michigan. Interested in the Rule of Justice, FoE, disestablishment, Mediterranean cultures & history, and defeating fascism and the Confederacy.
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I am so sorry for your loss.
A great question. #nyc #nyclife #newyorkcity
If only his two former bosses had not been totally invisible in fall 2024, when loudly & publicly telling people that reluctantly voting for the Democrat was the only democratic option left for lifelong, pro-democracy Republican voters might have made a difference.
I pray that Trump gets the best health care that RFK can provide.
CHICAGO…
His granddaughter looks about the right age for his taste.
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
I am inclined to believe that the all-black-and-white versions of the American flag are the fascist flag. Why would I be wrong?
I think instead of “words and phrases” you really meant “topics.” Be honest. Maybe Democrats should be debating the best fishing lures or shotguns instead?
A major obstacle for folks attempting to defend democracy is that a perfectly accurate description of what Trump is attempting sounds like hysterical conspiracy theorizing to a lot of people. We default to “c’mon, that can’t happen here”—which is exactly why it can.
Does “foreign authoritarianism” include Peter Thiel?
Then provide the clearer terms you think should replace them.
Stand your ground! No identification, no warrant? Legitimate to assume it is a criminal assault.
As a DC resident I'm firmly in favor of a jury strike during this occupation. If you're on grand jury duty, refuse to indict. If you're on trial jury, refuse to convict.
Why did the chicken cross the road? RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.
Of course: Texas DA once paid for abortion — then charged a woman who had one with murder, court filing claims www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely. Here's why.
What about The Beatitudes?
"Since the first messenger who told Tigranes that Lucullus was coming had his head cut off for his pains, no one else would tell him anything, and so he sat in ignorance while the fires of war were blazing around him, giving ear only to those who flattered him." -- Plutarch, ≈ 100 A.D.
She said she “may” have made a mistake, not that she “did” make a mistake. And a pettifogger like Dershowitz can take the position that a Happy Ending massage wasn’t sex.
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Not only in front of a stadium full of strangers but also apparently in a luxury box with colleagues. The expression of the woman next to them as it unfolded was telling. She knew what was going on and why the Jumbotron view was a big deal. Corporate omertà until the secret got out into the public.
In retrospect the Constitutional crisis started in the Supreme Court w Bush v Gore, in Congress with McConnell’s refusal to take up Garland’s nomination and the Senate’s failure to convict Trump, and in the Executive Branch with Trump’s first inauguration.
Citations or links please
If there's a hell, it will be filled with people who claimed faith in Jesus, while trying to strip the sick of care, the terrified of refuge, and the vulnerable of protection, and reveled in it as if it were a righteous victory. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/republican...
Cause NATO to beef up its defense spending because it sees the US as a potential enemy invader? Impeach, Convict, Remove.
Threat to deprive US natural born citizen Rosie O’Donnell of her citizenship? Impeach, Convict. Remove.
Tariff on Brazil to support its criminal ex-president! Impeach, Convict, Remove.
Yeah, kids DOLLS never DOLLS had make-believe DOLLS friends DOLLS before, amirite?
There are no moderates in the GOP. There are only scared MAGA and proud MAGA.
So buy art through a single-asset company and then sell the company?
Sure. I think in the EU copyright is inalienable. If it is importing CR concepts of compensation into title of physical works, why not import inalienability also?
:-(. More friction. That’s a retained one-way-ratchet ownership interest where artists get to share in the gains and even profit from losses but never share in losses. I’d rather see artworks inalienable and let artists grant only leases to the art. Let the lease value rise or fall.
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
KEI supports an artists resale right?
I believe that allowing churches to keep charitable status while expressly endorsing candidates is so that billionaires and other GOP supporters can turn churches into PACs and deduct their political contributions as charitable donations. I am pretty sure the GOP has wanted that for a long time.
I think he just wants a larger empire. And it would be very convenient for his buddy Putin to have those lands in friendly hands.
I grieve for all affected by the Texas floods. I’ve noted that almost all references to Camp Mystic call it a “Christian summer camp.” Why do reporters or editors describe it that way? Does the Christian aspect matter? Are we supposed to care more? Or feel irony that God “allowed” the disaster?
That assumes rational thought and strategy, which do not characterize DJT.
I think China can exploit the power vacuum when everyone else is distracted in a non-calm world. And I think DJT would throw Taiwan under the bus in a heartbeat.
Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito gave working in sync a shot. Putin and Trump can tie up Europe, MBS/Netanyahu can tie up the ME, and China can tie up E Asia and Africa. Not sure who ties up S Asia or what happens to L America.
Trump will do his best to prop up Putin. And yes I think MBS and Netanyahu may be allies — frenemies can come together when it suits, and both have played the US. Erdogan may join even though Turkey and Russia have long had friction. Note that I identify autocrats, not nations, as the allies.
Trump’s allies would be Putin, Netanyahu, MBS.
it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.
The GOP Budget Bill is a tragedy for the American people and a complete moral failure. Donald Trump and his MAGA enablers are ripping care from cancer patients, meals from children, and money from working families — just to give tax breaks to the ultra-rich.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Republicans did this. Not a single Democrat voted for this in either chamber. Republicans did this. Call them out.
*Republicans* did this. Republicans.
And ICE will be Trump’s Pretorian Guard.
One of Germany's "benefits" from canceling citizenship & deporting Jews was taking their homes, businesses and property. How many folks seized & deported by ICE/CBP have been forced to transfer their property for little or no compensation?
#Mississippi's infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's, and that island is sanctioned. Every pro-life organization in that state are committing a fraud on those citizens. Most definitely.
And Mississippi’s life expectancy is shorter than Bangladesh’s.
This is the kind of tripe the GOP sends out by text.
There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details
I saw him maybe 15 years ago at a conference and at the time I thought he reminded me of Dr. Strangelove. Very odd affect.
"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents. www.startribune.com/what-should-...
This should be bigger story. Connect the dots… 📌 Rep Khanna asked Defense Sec Hegseth if the Pentagon would obey a federal court order. Hegseth refused to answer. 📌 DOJ whistleblower says officials told staff to ignore judges and deport people anyway. There’s a coordinated plan to defy the courts
It’s not about circumcising boys???
I think it’s especially important to remember that a Muslim American immigrant who co-founded a Pro-Palestinian group as a schoolboy and a liberal Zionist Jew cross-endorsed one another and campaigned together
This.
Tonight I'm texting Nancy Pelosi and asking HER for $5
Quality of life for the 99 percent should be the Dem theme for all US politics 24/7/365.
Why push for impeachment? Because politics is an exercise in moving public opinion as much as counting votes in the senate. The Jan 6 Hearings were not a criminal proceeding against Trump that would end in jail, but they focused public attention. Performative public investigations matter
Elon practiced this maneuver at DOGE.
Exactly. Like Italy was dangerously close to becoming Fascist when Mussolini was in charge.
NO KINGS. This 1885 painting by G.F. Watts of Mammon, cruel in his opulence and cloaked in gold with asses’s ears and gold coins on his crown, money bags in his lap, skulls on his throne, and persons callously held down by him, seems a near-perfect likeness of Trump as he would wish to be seen.
Welcome to the Command Economy. Looks like the GOP finally embraced it.
I will be there for the downfall of STEM supremacy in higher education.
This thread reminds me of something the Cato Institute's executive vice president David Boaz once said to me, as he watched, with great sadness, so many in his libertarian movement get on board with Trump: "It turns out they hate the left more than they love liberty."
“reality tv is inherently fascist” is my most consistently vindicated hot take of all time
As a frequent participant in high-stakes and high-profile cases 1998-2023, I observed pervasive bad faith of copyright industry extremists whose personal vilification of those whom they opposed was a foreshadowing of our country’s toxic divide today. Many sold their souls to distort the law.
Trump established a task force to combat anti-Christian bias and wants reports of anti-Christian bias. AG Bondi chairs it. Notify her about every criticism of, and attack on, Pope Leo XIV by government officials or persons with influence over government officials that you notice. (h/t Rebecca Lyman)
Am angry and sad about this: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... Carla Hayden is a wonderful public servant and has been a great Librarian of Congress.
So he votes, the Trump administration indicts and arrests him, and then he plays the “absolute immunity” card. The more I think about his “absolute immunity,” the potential arises for him to do some pretty wild things.
The best part of this is: Instantly the most famous American in the world is the new pope
The NY Times and Wall Street journal should also pay local newspapers, right? Local delivery across the country of those NY newspapers did a lot of harm to local newspapers. I canceled my local papers years ago when NYT arrived. (I have resubscribed since then, but the effect was real.)
Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi says she is going against corrupt judges. In case you wonder why she hasn’t gone after the *most* corrupt, Clarence Thomas, there is a professional courtesy between lawyers who take bribes.
There is a reason why millions of workers want to join unions. There is a reason why greedy corporations oppose unions. Union membership means higher wages and better benefits. Let’s grow the trade union movement.
Powerful remarks from Justice KBJ last night. There was tremendous appreciation and gratitude in the room for her willingness to speak to this important issue so candidly and forcefully. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...
Dem Senators should vote against confirmation of every single Trump nominee for the indefinite future.
JB Pritzker’s speech in NH was a call to arms for Dems (and targeted Newsom for being a poll-driven incrementalist podcaster who throws constituents under the bus). Bernie and AOC are models of what Pritzker claims to want. I hope the three will lock arms and invite others to join forces with them.
Yes. Pete Hegseth tells you to listen when Pam Bondi tells you to break the law and use force against your own countrymen on behalf of lies and anti-Constitutional dictatorship... Probably won't go over great.
Trump’s first 100 days: * performative illegal EOs * melting down the US government, US standing in the world, science, and the economy * deporting US citizen children with cancer, among others * losing and losing and losing in court * triggering a huge domestic and global political backlash
"Abolish ICE" and "defund the police" are both reasonable and correct on the merits but were absolutely neutered by centrists smearing them as radical activist overreach.
Lying by the GOP is pervasive throughout every branch of government.
My 2-year-old was in an ICE detention facility when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why am I being deported to Honduras?" And when I told her "Because due process is too woke," she started crying.
Why isn’t Trump in prison then?
Make America Great Again for infectious diseases
Even better: one of my favorite clients, in a case that sadly I was not on, won in CADC and *joined in* the petitioners’ request for review, saying that it wanted a victory in the Supreme Court and not merely in the court of appeals. The Court granted cert and ruled for my client as it wanted. 
A waiver of response to a cert petition in the Supreme Court.
Cruelty by design is key to billionaire success.
Anti-Christian bias pervades the entire Trump administration. Report every appointee. Matthew 25:31-46.
Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after. But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
