The answer to “Biden has violated a norm by pardoning Hunter” isn’t “no he hasn’t violated that norm” or “it’s justified to violate that norm” but “BULLSHIT that’s a norm.” In fact, political pardons have been offered by both Republicans and Democrats. /1

Anyway whatever the new filing is filing two cases in response to a diss track is like standing up in the middle of a rap battle and saying HEY YO MY GRANDMA SAYS THAT ONE IS WAY OVER THE LINE RE:

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Your Last Merry Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)

There are conflicting reports about whether Drake’s filing in Texas is an actual defamation lawsuit or another petition for pre-filing discovery ...

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There are conflicting reports about whether Drake’s filing in Texas is an actual defamation lawsuit or another petition for pre-filing discovery like in NY. That’s a pretty important distinction and ambiguity would be avoided if you would ATTACH THE FUCKING DOCUMENT or even SAY WHICH COURT IT’S IN

There’s a narrative that Gaetz was a deliberate head-fake — a distraction to boost the real candidate — but I am always suspicious of narratives that attribute four-dimensional chess to trump as opposed to knocking over the table and eating the checkers.

Having some issues with the Beehiiv site and integrating Google Analytics into it. My questions on the Reddit subforum got deleted (that happens to me on Reddit). Can anyone recommend a forum/community where people discuss Beehiiv tech issues?

I don’t use mass blocklists for the same reason I would never use an AI to sing a lullaby to my child. Some things just deserve the personal touch so someone knows you were thinking about them.

I was on three podcasts this week and I only made a dildo-related analogy on one of them. I feel this means the week was on balance a success and I deserve a second drink tonight.

“Further pressed by reporters, House Speaker Mike Johnson lashed out angrily. ‘Why are you so intent on publicizing lurid accounts of underaged girls being sexually traumatized?’ he shouted. ‘Are you some kind of pedophile who gets off on that stuff? No normal person should want to read this.’”

The real weirdos are always super-invested in being high-IQ. It’s a huge part of their self-image. I’ve known a lot of smart people, good and bad. I’ve never met a person whose entire identity was “high IQ” who wasn’t a completely insufferable douche. RE:

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Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social)

New resume audit study just dropped

Attorney General nominee Matt Gaetz does not have federal criminal experience except in the area of sex trafficking.