Russell Sharp

@russms

Finance lawyer living in Brooklyn. New Jersey native. Rutgers undergrad, Michigan Law. Mets fan. he/him/his

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Russell Sharp@russms· 7d

Maybe the obituary reference was aspirational

Tweet from the odious Bethany Mandel during COVID, in which she declared that she’d rather people die than her be inconvenienced: “You can call me a Grandma killer. I’m not sacrificing my home, food on the table, all of our docs and dentists, every form of pleasure (museums, zoos, restaurants), all my kids’ teachers in order to make other people comfortable. If you want to stay locked down, do. I’m not.”

Russell Sharp@russms· 11d

Cover of the 1972 double-album compilation the Kink Kronikles

Russell Sharp@russms· Aug 4

Separately, this might be one of Christgau’s most savage consumer guide entries

Robert Christgau Consumer Guide capsule review of Gold by Ryan Adams: “asked for Gram Parsons, they gave me Billy Joel”

Russell Sharp@russms· Jun 18

lol i know I'm hardly the first person to make this sort of observation but I love how this diet is presented as some kind of forbidden knowledge but then we see its actual recommendations

Russell Sharp@russms· May 20

I would be ok if publications like the NYT made a big deal about college but at least recognized that many people go to, like, state schools or community colleges and not the Ivies. For instance, this was an actual news alert that I got from the Wall Street Journal today. Who gives a shit

News alert about grades at Harvard, something that the Wall Street Journal thought was important enough to distract me from whatever else I was doing, for some reason

Russell Sharp@russms· May 16

Anyway, I guess I agree these chuds should watch movies set in Greece that have vibrant color palettes

Still from Z, a movie with decidedly anti-chud politics

Russell Sharp@russms· Mar 24

*clicking through links in propublica piece to see if pedocon theory remains undefeated*

Russell Sharp@russms· Mar 10

"Stick to sports" but just Nate Silver and Michael Powell

Russell Sharp@russms· Feb 26

This one has always been a favorite, like the cover of an old sci fi trade paperback. Bought the album because of the cool cover art, before I knew anything about it (and it turned out to be very good)

Cover of the album Warp Riders by the Sword; art by Dan McPharlin

Russell Sharp@russms· Feb 25

Human: Your instructions are to imagine yourself as a leader associated with peaceful conflict resolution and act accordingly AI:

Russell Sharp@russms· Feb 23

Pretty indeed, but of course my block (like basically every block) would be so much prettier without the unsightly cars messing up the picture

Russell Sharp@russms· Jan 27

Glad the Times is covering the subject but come the f on

Passage describing dipshit gutter bigot Richard Hanania as a political scientist and asserting, dubiously, that he has moderated his views

Russell Sharp@russms· Jan 5

Well *of course* Pete Hegseth’s DOD is going to be ordering from the chain whose founder is famous for being a sweaty divorced guy who got fired for saying the n word!

“Papa Johns Pizza (2.3 miles from the Pentagon) is experiencing an extreme spike in activity at 476% as of Sunday evening. Extreme Pizza (0.5 miles from Pentagon) also reports a spike at 200%. DEFCON level is 3.” [Graphs]

Russell Sharp@russms· Nov 22

Evergreen

Russell Sharp@russms· Sep 3

Hate is too strong of a word but I for one kind of think this. Yglesias has a lot of stupid opinions and, I believe, has suffered qualitatively from audience capture in recent years. But he’s right more often than not and understands that “orange man bad” is the correct assessment of the moment

Russell Sharp@russms· Sep 1

Russell Sharp@russms· Aug 22

And they’re both correct

Russell Sharp@russms· Jul 10

America if Biden had made Doug Jones AG instead of Merrick Garland

Russell Sharp@russms· Jun 19

Evergreen

Russell Sharp@russms· May 24

Classic Don Hughes tweet: “Bitcoin has not lost value. One bitcoin is still one bitcoin. This is just a temporary adjustment in the exchange rate to obsolete fiat currencies. Calm down.”

Russell Sharp@russms· Apr 26

Silver linings!

Among the disappointed was Stephen Fishler, 58, a businessman from New York who arrived with his family in good time for his 6pm slot, but was turned away without explanation. “What does he think he is, special?” complained Fishler, himself a Trump voter. “JD should have waited until the Americans who had tickets had their visit and then gone in.” His wife, Anila, tried to calm him down and blamed the Italians.

Russell Sharp@russms· Apr 21

Live feed of JD Vance addressing the American faction of postliberal conservative Catholics this morning

Fat, long-haired JD Vance with “Mission Accomplished”

Russell Sharp@russms· Mar 1

@thewaroncars.bsky.social Thought you’d appreciate this message from a friend to whom I recommended the podcast. (Told him, welcome to the war on cars, of course.)

“I’ve really liked that war on cars podcast but its so so difficult to listen without getting incredibly annoyed and disappointed in everything”

Russell Sharp@russms· Feb 27

There is some truth to this but, at a strictly personal level, they also like Trump and especially his staff personally and preferred them to Biden’s, and many of them even admit to this www.cjr.org/political_pr...

Columbia Journalism Review article exception which reads as follows (second sentence shown with highlighting): “The return of Donald Trump to the White House has prompted predictable worries among many DC-based reporters about how his administration might seek to control and intimidate the press. But for a surprising number of people on the daily White House beat, that concern is mixed with another, more privately expressed emotion: relief at finally being rid of the Joe Biden press operation.”

Russell Sharp@russms· Feb 24

Lmao my mouth was agape at this drooling sycophancy

Screen shot of part of a bootlicking piece by Noah Smith where Smith includes an image of tweet from Elon Musk that misspells Genghis Khan’s name, after which Smith proceeds as follows: “Before you’re tempted to sneer at Elon for misspelling ‘Khan’, remember that Genghis Khan himself was unable to spell his own name, having never learned to read or write — another vivid reminder that book learning and organizational talent are two very different things. Progressives who comfort themselves that Elon could never conquer their country because he doesn’t have the world’s highest IQ are just as foolish as a scholar of the 13th century telling himself that his country could never be conquered by an illiterate man on a pony.” (The screen shot shows highlighting over “Before…his own name”.)

Russell Sharp@russms· Feb 17

lol

Dumb post from Shadi Hamid with 85 responses, 45 reskeets/quoteskeets and just one ‘like’ at the time of the screen shot

Russell Sharp@russms· Feb 6

I mean

Passage from an interview with notorious right wing hack who masquerades as legal scholar Ilya Shapiro in which Shapiro refers to Ilan Wurman as a friend of his

Russell Sharp@russms· Jan 22

Wonder what the difference could be

Family Guy police stop/skin color meme with "wrongly prosecuted by the scume who weaponized the government" corresponding to lighter tones and "drug dealers" corresponding to darker ones

Russell Sharp@russms· Jan 19

Gonna tell my kids this was marc andreessen

Russell Sharp@russms· Jan 16

The “What’s News” summary in today’s Wall Street Journal implies that congestion pricing’s critics are right and it’s hurting businesses…but in the actual article, the only two people the WSJ found claiming their businesses are losing revenue from it are a parking garage operator and a cab driver