FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyer asks judge to reject 100-year recommended sentence https://t.co/Wxkkt68Ka6 — The Associated Press (@AP) February 28, 2024 One can’t say this defence is totally worthless, since it has provided some salutatory content for us plebes. Molly White, at her Citation Needed newsletter, on “I am Sam’s low-level culpability”: Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentencing …
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Late Night Open Thread: His Parents Say Sam Bankman-Fried Is Too
Dank Grey Pre-Dawn Open Thread: Histronic Historical Research
Blog favorite chewtoy Megan McArgleBargle made a strong move for the Worst Historical Commentary of the past week… Lol, "our jobs"? What is your job exactly? You think sitting in an unearned opinion sinecure & cranking out glib opinions that reinforce the priors of the powerful is threatening to the kids? You think that's what …
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Sunday Morning Open Thread: It’s Biden vs. Trump — Our Very Serious Media Will Have to Deal
Instead of taking action, Republicans on the Hill went on a two-week vacation. pic.twitter.com/HZcgjU8d4X — President Biden (@POTUS) February 19, 2024 And it may just break a few of them, over the next eight months… Kayleigh: If I'm Biden and looking at this, I'm not pleased with the enthusiasm of the Trump base, they are …
Friday Evening Open Thread: Seal the Damned Bubble!
It is interesting how social media and media discourse are again diverging from actual realities. Social and traditional media are becoming more rw, meanwhile the actual rw is losing juice https://t.co/wVkvwFL6as — vocational politics appreciation account (@Convolutedname) February 22, 2024 2024 is not 2020 or 2016. Interest in political news is down across the board, …
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Fool Them Thrice…
It’s a good thing for House Republicans that they lack the capacity for shame. Otherwise, the revelation that Russian operatives have been leading them around by their dicks would cause them to die of it: CNN — The former FBI informant charged with lying about the Bidens’ dealings in Ukraine told investigators after his arrest that Russian intelligence officials …
Late Night Open Thread: Tucker Carlson in Moscow
(Michael Ramirez via the Washington Post) Looks like Tucker Carlson’s ploy to boost his and/or Putin’s ratings for an American audience may have backfired on *both* participants… and it could not happen to a more deserving duo. Do you know who loves Russia? Russians who were willing to be murdered or imprisoned to speak …
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Late Night Open Thread: Tucker Carlson in Moscow
(Nick Anderson via GoComics.com) I hesitated to post about Carlson’s ‘big get’, because there was a chance it would end up dismissed as just another Wingnut Wurlitzer nothingburger. But even in the rush of recent news, seems like there were points to discuss: My hands-down favorite write-up of the Tucker Carlson-Putin interview was by …
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