I love this for you (and it makes perfect sense that you have the kind of energy that two-year-old little sisters feel super comfortable with.)

The Eric Cartman Theory of Authority

Did the haunted diner fortune teller predict the book will do well?

But obligations like confidentiality don't attach to interactions you have outside your role as an attorney, right?

I have no idea.

Yeah, this is a bonkers nonsensical argument. Also, you can't talk about confidentiality obligations of government attorneys without even bringing up 1.13 comment 9:

Cross-posted on Will Baude's blog, to boot!

This is an excruciatingly dumb argument. He's trying to hook very generic charges like 8.4(d), conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice. Absolute nonsense. Also, courts are government organizations, and he doesn't even mention, much less discuss, 1.13 comment 9:

Hilariously, he's not even primarily accusing the leaker of violating ethics laws, but the NYT columnist who published them, who also happens to be a NY-admitted attorney. @ethicking.com

*Holiday Inn Express

It felt like overall the judging this season was pickier with lower average scores, did you feel the same way?

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Well, as recently as July 2025 he was giving the Court an overall grade of A-, which is ridiculous.

Yep.

I mean non-credible specifically about the Court, not just in general. Maybe he has good gardening tips for how to grow sunflowers, I don't know, but that's not what we're talking about here.

My view is you can't easily separate the worthwhile analysis from the bad political judgment; it infects the entire enterprise and renders all his judgment on this topic non-credible.

Yay trains!

"The real scandal is the leaks" GTFO, Will.

The Old Guard, by Samuel Moyn Confronting America’s gerontocratic crisis

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The only logical step after the launch of Dropout America.

I mean, it's Harvard, do they even have grades?

This is not a sign of a healthy professional culture, for so many reasons.

Yay trains!

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This is facilitated, in part, by a recent MSPB decision that says removal protections for Immigration Judges are unconstitutional. The MSPB's decision is wrong under existing precedent, but it has certainly emboldened the administration.

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NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.

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Set to record and watch later on YouTube TV, due to kiddo bedtime!

Oh, I already have this set to be added to my YouTube TV library.

Same goes for literally anyone in absolutely any creative profession.

I grew up on a farm where we regularly had to fix our own tractors. I also briefly worked for John Deere and watched as they tried to justify why people shouldn't be allowed to do that. Get absolutely fucked Deere, right to repair forever and ever

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