@GottaLaff From Brad Karl’s firm bio: “In 2023, Brad co-chaired a New York State Bar Association Task Force on Advancing Diversity, which released a 90-page report detailing how law schools, law firms, corporations and courts can maintain their diversity in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision barring race-conscious university admissions policies.” https://www.paulweiss.com/professionals/partners-and-counsel/brad-s-karp
Might want to, uh, tidy that up now that he’s openly abjured DEI in kissing Trump’s rosy pink ring.
Only three of the ten disloyal Dem senators are up in 2026. Peters & Hassan are retiring & AFAICT Durbin hasn’t announced whether he’s running again.
King & Gillibrand aren’t up again until 2030. You’d have thought that would give them extra leeway to cast votes of conscience, not compliant cowardice.
Remember, kids: - Hillary Clinton was the warmongering candidate vs. Trump the peacenik - Joe Biden & Kamala Harris were the pro-genocide candidates & Trump could only be better
@kims@BobDevney πλήκτης has the sense of brawler, but not quite the same as “bully.” The adjective θρασύς comes closer as it connotes insolence or arrogance. If you want fancy, θραςύδειλος isn’t bad, although a coinage from Aristophanes isn’t the kind of thing you’d use in normal prose.
Kash Patel is a deranged, amoral piece of shit. The FBI certainly has a checkered history—J. Edgar Hoover was a self-righteous monster of the first order—but Patel’s lawless zealotry would bring the Bureau to a dangerous new low. He is supremely unfit for any position of public trust, lest alone directing the nation’s largest criminal investigative agency (and sole domestic intelligence agency).
Musings on DC, ancient Greek, depressingly overweening (in every possible sense) US fascism. Erstwhile Jeopardy! champion; Twitter escapee; just the beer light to guide you.Lawful in the streets, chaotic in the … toots?? (Relative newcomer to Mastodon & still fumbling toward Masto competence.) William Hung and snow-white tan. Ἕν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα.