Lee Rosenberg

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The only man known to have participated in both the newsman fight in Anchorman (2004) and the U.S. Capitol attack (2021) has formally pleaded guilty in connection with the latter. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Comedian from 'Anchorman' and 'Mr. Show' pleads guilty in Jan. 6 Capitol attackwww.nbcnews.com Actor Jay Johnston, who also had a voice role on “Bob’s Burgers,” had been No. 247 on the FBI’s Capitol Violence list.

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This...is something we'd hammer MAGA world for doing. Not good.

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“Now that we know felons can be white, we’re massive fans of crime.”

I don’t even know where to begin with this.

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My take on the debate is that it made me very excited to vote in November….to legalize psychedelics in Massachusetts.

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sorry but this is just wrong. yes, there’s a bad faith media feeding frenzy. but *fifty million* people watched Biden sputter his way through that debate. it is not a creation of the media, it is a real problem.

I don’t like to embrace doomerism but I’m pretty sure the moment we took on this narrative as a true “concern” Biden needed to disprove, especially party leadership, we were fucked.

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making a single exception to my open borders views, Elon Musk should be deported back to South Africa posthaste

I think this is the first time Musk has suggested fellow Americans should be executed.

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The only thing I would add to this very good 🧵is, when Biden et alia decided to antagonize the political press corps, they didn’t turn them into a foil—they reaped the downsides of pissing off the political press corps without gaining any of the benefits.

This thread from Matthew Chapman at the Bad Place is a good analysis of why the DC press corps are turning on Biden. x.com/fawfulfan/st...

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What you get offered in the men’s room at the LSU game

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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.

Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.

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Featuring our Bright Line Watch report survey data from February - 94% of experts said a SCOTUS ruling supporting claims of presidential immunity was a threat to democracy brightlinewatch.org/courts-campa...

The immunity decision was upside down, fretting about the indictment of Trump as a harbinger of future threats to the presidency instead of recognizing Trump's actions as a past and current one. Gift link: wapo.st/4bquy5M

Analysis | The Supreme Court gets the stakes of presidential immunity backwardwapo.st The reason that the question is being broached now isn’t that Donald Trump is a victim.

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I've seen enough -- this is the most radical, dangerous, arrogant, out-of-control Supreme Court in American history, and it needs to be treated as such. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

The Radical Roberts Courtopen.substack.com The current Supreme Court of the United States has just cemented its place in history as the most radical Supreme Court ever. For a century and a half, that dishonor has gone to the antebellum court l...

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The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Supreme Court Gives Its Blessing to Trump’s Criminalitywww.theatlantic.com And gives him permission for a despotic second term.

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From what I’m reading, the Supreme Court has made any order the president gives the military to throw the elections his way not-illegal for him. Under existing US CivMil norms that means they should obey.

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My first read: If a president commits crimes unrelated to him being the most powerful person in the world, he can be prosecuted. But if explicitly uses his powers to commit crimes, he is at least presumptively, and probably absolutely immune from prosecution. I mean, holy shit.

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The NYT editorial board presents itself as like a wise adjunct group of strategists advising Democrats how to run their shop, but (a) it’s run and largely staffed by de facto Republican operatives and (b) it has no similar paternalistic scrutiny for Republicans.

In Opinion The greatest public service President Biden can now perform is to announce that he will not run for re-election, the editorial board writes after Thursday's presidential debate.

Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Racewww.nytimes.com The president’s inadequate performance in the debate made it clear he is not the man he was four years ago.

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This is actually not true. We did not have a competitive primary this year because incumbents almost never face competitive primaries. We absolutely had one in 2020, and yes, there were other candidates besides Bernie. And neither Obama nor Bill Clinton were old when elected.

It's wild how the GOP has like a good half dozen guys under the age of 50 ready to step up and become the next king of racism at any moment, but the Democrats, the party that relies on the youth vote, won't even look at you until you've had your AARP card for a decade.

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Thinking a lot this morning about how much time I spent in 2016 getting screamed at for "blackmailing people with the Supreme Court to get them to vote"

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Holy shit, that is the *opposite* of reality. Agencies have people with expertise in their subject matter to interpret their enabling statutes and craft rules and regulations. Ffs

Roberts, overruling Chevron with incredible and unearned hubris: "Perhaps most fundamentally, Chevron’s presumption is misguided because agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do."

More embarrassing for the country - the debate or USMNT losing to Panama?

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You almost have to feel bad for the State Department staffers who spent three years orchestrating the big Kenya to Haiti police mission, only to watch Tuesday’s events unfold. Almost. theracket.news/p/kenyas-pro...

Kenya's problem is now Haiti's, tootheracket.news You'll never guess which superpower is responsible for a big piece of both

I didn’t know it was possible to mail things from Burning Man

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Somewhere is getting a brand-new crater in 2030!

NASA announced today that SpaceX was selected to develop the vehicle that will de-orbit the ISS in 2030. 🛰️

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Before he resigned over Gaza, Army Maj. Harrison Mann was a senior Mideast analyst in the Defense Intelligence Agency. With an all-out Israel-Hezbollah war looming, he walked me through what the next phase of escalation could look like. And it’s *real* scary. www.forever-wars.com/harrison-man...

Harrison Mann on Escalation in the Middle Eastwww.forever-wars.com The U.S. Army major and intelligence analyst recently resigned over Gaza. With Lebanon in the balance, he walks FOREVER WARS through some nightmare scenarios

Tune in tomorrow night to see which person who could lead the most powerful nation on earth for the next four years has had the more significant mental decline over the previous four years

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One of my crank views is that "democracy," standing alone, is too ambiguous to be useful in popular discourse. Depending on a person's ridiculous priors, "threats to democracy" can include vaccine mandates, migrant workers, electric stoves, Black Lives Matter, Disney is gay, etc.

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DOJ expects Assange will return to Australia, his country of citizenship, after the proceedings.

Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go freewww.nbcnews.com The WikiLeaks founder has been held in a prison outside London for the last five years and fought extradition to the United States. He is expected to return to Australia.

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a wild thing about the “biden’s gonna get magic drugs that transforms him from doddering senility case to rhetorical superman” is that everyone buying in on this idea has older loved ones suffering from old age mental degradation and knows heartbreakingly well this miracle drug does not exist