This was specific to the Paramount/CBS event, but now should textto the entire WHCA shindig.

Happy to agree to disagree! 😎

Also, more than happy to sign on for a $300k/year part-time job with a lifetime tenure and significant support staff! Let me know if you hear of any openings!

Per Clio (fwiw), “equity partners at top firms [are] enjoying impressive earnings that range anywhere from $3–$10 million” and practice area partners ranged from $650k to $1.5m in 2022.

If you want that level of compensation, go into the private sector.

Also, expand the court.

Not all great legal minds are at top law firms - and not every one at a top law firm is a great legal mind.

It might not be a bad thing to dissuade people whose primary motivators are money and power from public service.

$300k + post-retirement book and speaking opportunities is a pretty good gig.

If you’re in it for the money, you’re in it for the wrong reasons.

Also, congress could easily build and provide free housing for members.

Life sentences for corruption would be a pretty big disincentive.

At $300k, participating in corrupt activities is a) entirely voluntary and b) tantamount to treason.

Any journalist who attends this ought to be ridiculed so relentlessly that they sulk away with their tails between their legs and leave careers in journalism and media forever.

Hm. And here I was hoping it would feel sarcastic.

Eligible voters have agency and can make their own choices, but they have agency - they’re responsible for those choices.

That some choose to stay home or vote third-party doesn’t make any less responsible for Trump’s atrocities than those who voted for him.

Ziad & Mirna no doubt take great comfort in your brave posting and the knowledge that you believe there’s little difference to their lives whether a thousand or ten thousand bombs rain down around them.

Maybe tune into the news, Blues.

Must be sweet to be so morally superior that you can wave off the additional killing and destruction during the Trump administration as insignificant for the people of Gaza.

What a brave truth teller you are!

And it’s lucky for Palestinians that we didn’t elect her! Imagine what Israel would have felt they could do in Gaza!

Far better to risk further descent into fascism than to live to fight another day!

So very, very brave are our earnest cub reporters.

How many jobs can Lisa possibly juggle?!

I would have guessed Taylor Lautner. Isn’t everyone named Taylor Lautner now?

If they really cared, and there are as many on the left of left as they seem to believe, all they’d have to do to move the D party left is engage.

Show up and be counted. Caucus, door knock, phone bank, vote - all of which are almost as easy as performative social media outrage.

Now that would be something to see!

I would like to believe that the ass showing up in a chef’s smock is advocating for more affordable housing projects that incorporate 2- and 3-bedroom units, but…

Maybe most of Minnesota’s federal and state elected Dems have been abducted by ICE…

The censoriousness of the opsec cosplay brigade seems to run the risk of crossing over into the illiberalism of the right.

The story really ought to include a list with the names of every member of the Illini Republicans. Definitely the names of their officers.

That would be a stark (and excellent) way to drive home the reality our current hellscape.

Will is out there doing the work. You’re doing what?

The revolution is being televised, it doesn’t need to be “opsec” cosplayed.

License plate readers, security cameras, facial recognition, stingrays, Palantir, Thompson Reuters - while we should take sensible precautions, the feds already have a lot of information about us at their fingertips.

Braunschweiger on cold toast.

Obsequiousness and graft for the win!

The U’s regents haven’t been covering themselves in glory with their hires for president this century…

My typo was Demouth. Oops.