"simulate it until you simulacreate it." with apologies to Baudrillard
"simulate it until you simulacreate it." with apologies to Baudrillard
But the anti-woke moderate Dem consultant class absolutely loves the idea that black and brown voters are moving to the GOP, because they think it validates their idea that racism is no big deal. It's all about their personal resentment of activists, as always.
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social did it and survived. But then, he's not evil.
Truly hilarious to watch Mamdani breaking their brains in real time.
A national corporation changing its branding is actually a secret message to me mocking my values stop laughing I am not “crazy”
When and why did we start referring to Third Way as Democratic when its very name states that it isn't and has never meant to be?
The new Cracker Barrel logo is totally banal. It barely even counts as a rebrand. It's pretty traditional, too; there are even serifs! The discourse is so, so dumb.
“Jackson’s diagnosis cuts deeper than just this case. She’s identifying a systemic problem: a Court that has abandoned legal reasoning in favor of reaching predetermined outcomes, then wrapping those outcomes in enough procedural complexity that nobody can pin down what the rules actually are.”
I appreciate this framing much more than other outlets. Others are framing it as if Justice Jackson is breaking some sort of important norm rather than rightly calling out her colleagues for their hypocrisy and making a mockery of the law and the norms/precedents the Court, itself, has established.
ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified
This tattoo, by InkedMongoose on IG, is perfect. No notes.
We have plenty already, thank you very much. It's called Navy Yard.
This day in history, an abuser resigned in disgrace. He will never hold such power again. We won’t let him.
Nowadays because of woke it is More Than Jake
i wonder what other secret files we can get the White House to unseal in increasingly desperate attempts to deflect from the Epstein saga now's our chance, fellas
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
Dee Farmer was the first transgender plaintiff known to have a case heard by SCOTUS - and it was a case she filed from federal prison. It eventually paved the way for PREA. Fascinating read by @journo-beth.bsky.social: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/07/17/f...
Plus, the Department led by a Secretary best known for cosplaying that she’s in a war zone should perhaps not lecture anyone on publicity stunts.
Thank you for bringing us this important detail. (100% non-snark; that pose is so weird. Like if the terrorism prevention kid’s eyebrow were a leg.)
Amazing news: Princeton & its prosecutors pressed charges against 13 students for a pro-Palestine protest, then offered to dismiss charges against 12 if one, @aditilrao.bsky.social, pled guilty. Instead, everyone held firm, and today the case was DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE & arrest record expunged!!!
Censure motion. Not b/c it will pass but to show solidarity with @repilhan.bsky.social. Let’s go @housedemocrats.bsky.social.
I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside. "With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani. "And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."
The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.
A big reason Dems don't control the House right now—and this murderous spending bill is possible—is Andrew Cuomo, who fucked New York's congressional redistricting as governor and helped lose us seats in Congress. www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06...
Shorter Andrew Sullivan: “Once I got what I wanted, they kept going, trying to help other people. How dare they?”
More of this whole interaction on the internet :)
and on the other hand, his continued detention was quickly countenanced the judiciary. Between qualified immunity for the executive and absolute judicial immunity, there's probably not much hope in American law absent some really extraordinary facts about deliberations within State.
The more I think about the hypo the less I think it, or even a Bivens action (even under 1983 rules), could possibly work. The problem is that, on the one hand, the statute Rubio invoked did provide at least minimally colorable grounds for his removal, ...
I'm 100% spitballing here (and recognize this would practically be a loser) but is there any reason that he couldn't plead an Alien Tort Claims Act cause of action alongside (the remains of) Bivens? He's a foreign national and there is at least arguably a jus cogens norm against arbitrary detention.
The New York Times covers trans issues the way Fox News covers ICE protests. Both lead the country to believe there is a conflagration by highlighting a few fires over and over, while ignoring the fact that most people just want to live their lives without the government in their faces.
I try not to give in to hopelessness and despair, but FSU’s faculty union is on the verge of decertification. If, in the next week or so, we don’t reach the arbitrary 60-percent membership threshold set by state lawmakers (“public safety” unions are exempt, of course), our union will cease to exist.
I’m old enough to remember when Randy Barnett claimed to be a libertarian. Cc: @evanbernick.bsky.social
At some point we should discuss Meta's policy of quickly erasing the Facebook profiles of right-wing killers. The public deserves to exactly know how these people were radicalized by Facebook's algorithms.
Shut the fuck up. Best protest advice I can possibly give.
I LOVE THIS. These are my top two. Both are great. The fact that they're doing this says a hell of a lot about their character and their savvy.
Dear @washingtonpost.com : Why will any academic talk to you now? That parenthetical is an insult to his academic integrity: “Is he saying this bc of his years of hard work and research, or just bc he is a partisan hack? 🤷🏻♂️” If he’s wrong, show he’s wrong. Don’t attack via snide insinuation.
Billionaires are consolidating around Cuomo because they know he will preserve the broken status quo. New Yorkers are rallying behind our campaign because they're ready for change. In two weeks, we will shock the political establishment and win a city we can all afford.
I can't help but think his mention of "one ***national*** government" is intentional and load-bearing.
The primary policy objective of the centrist political pundit is to keep making six to seven figures
Transphobes like NYT "investigations editor" @virginiahughes.bsky.social love to do the thing where they defend transphobia and then sit around reassuring themselves that the angry reaction from trans people proves their point. Absolute ghouls.
This passed 215-214. We're going to lose our healthcare because 3 senior Dems have died this year. We lost Roe because Ginsburg didn't retire. We lost the election because Joe ran for reelection. Our country is being destroyed because geriatric Dems can't retire and let go of power.
The mask is now off on the effort to recall Supervisor Joel Engardio: Aaron Peskin — who has quietly pushed the recall for months — has now formally taken it over & installed his own lieutenants. We need to be clear on what this recall is about & why Peskin is now leading it: 🧵
It might be hell, but luckily you've got a hand basket.
Something something homosexual something something satanic panic etc. Congratulations!
Good-toxic, though. Maybe they'll catch a terminal case of decency.
Angel of the Lord: He is not here, He is risen, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead. Alito: Okay, first of all, this violates ALL sorts of rules Thomas: This was a LAWFUL execution, who is God to interfere
one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now
At least, not the shared-reality-based version of what happened.
it is genuinely extraordinary to see someone debase themselves like judge ho does in his effort to get a supreme court nominee.
I'm loving the fact that Trump backed down on tariffs on Confederate Surrender Day specifically.
It's hilarious but delightful that Excel is low-key turning into a decent functional programming language.
calling trump “orange”? kinda cringe but whatever calling it “orange monday” thereby forcing future generations of economists to explain why its called that? absolutely hilarious
even if you think tariffs are good from a leftist point of view, this is a really stupid thing to make your talking point right now when the increasingly unpopular far-right president has crashed the stock market and pinned his personal brand to tariffs.
They wanted to lie about it.
Here’s some interesting career advice for law students interviewing with firms that acceded to Trump’s demands ⤵️ (Gift link) www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
I am fascinated by this fourth wall–breaking footnote from Justice Jackson criticizing the majority for handing the Trump administration "a notch in its belt at the start of a legal battle in which the long-term prospects for its eventual success seem doubtful." It's more about optics than law ...
So the VA was doing a mini-version of the Home Owners Loan Corporation, buying loans in distress and working with the veteran borrowers to create more affordable options. Even the *Mortgage Bankers Association* testified that it prevents unnecessary foreclosures. Trump's getting rid of it
None of the top 10 Big Law firms have committed to signing an amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie. As Ben Wittes writes in his column for Lawfare today: “[A] very happy Liberation Day to all the law firms that have liberated themselves from their dignity.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/b...
🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
Hmmm, I wonder if that might be a Major Question?
Two kids braver than two of the biggest and richest law firms in the U.S.
Worth sharing with alt text. Brian Eno's response to the Quaker arrests.
It goes without saying that Paul & Weiss and Skadden Arps have disgraced themselves. If you choose to work there, you know what you're getting into.
More gratuitous cruelty towards trans people from the Fifth Circuit courtesy of Judges Jones, Oldham, and Hendrix www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/unp...
Bunch of high profile D lawyers are at Paul Weiss. They have a choice to make, I'd say.
its cries...is?
The president of El Salvador doesn’t want our judiciary cutting off his newfound supply of slaves.
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
FOLLOW UP: This letter from four former EEOC commissioners (including two former chairs) and three former EEOC lawyers about current EEOC Acting Chair Andrea Lucas’s law firm-intimidation letters is essential reading for all — including, apparently, Lucas. www.chaifeldblum.com/wp-content/u...
In the district and circuit than invented Glomar, no less. DDC is probably the most sophisticated court in the nation for handling national security information. (I discount FISC because it's functionally non-adversarial.)
Never change, Kel. Never change.
BOASBERG GRANTS A 14-DAY TRO AGAINST THE TRUMP ADMIN barring the use of the AEA against any person who falls within the following class definition. "All noncitizens in US custody who are subject to the [AEA] Proclamation and its implementation" Says fact flights are now departing requires urgency.
Chuck Schumer is a vain needy old guy who wanted his final act to be touring the country talking about those horrible college students. Ruin that book tour
NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...
Out of all the bullies and monsters in the administration, Marco Rubio seems like the purest specimen of how Nazism happened—not a sincere bigot or ideologue, just an empty shell who has literally no limits on what he will agree to do or pretend to believe, embracing brutality to fill his weakness
You can't just SAY you have a video! You have to proffer it at minimum. Best evidence rule and such.
Any Senate Democrat who votes for cloture should have to spend time at schools across D.C. answering questions about why they care so little about the lives of D.C. residents.
New Yorkers and DC residents trying to talk with @schumer.senate.gov are having to push notes through a locked door with police posted outside.
Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer. "Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.
Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight
by contrast to Schumer and his rump Trump faction, by far the majority of Senate Dems say they’re NO votes — so they should extend that NO to Schumer, and elect a new leader who actually represents them and the party’s voters
Hey @schumer.senate.gov, you simply asserting again and again that Trump wants a shutdown doesn't make it true. You can dress this up all you like but what happened is you lost your nerve. Vote no or retire. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
Some interesting things in a new Quinnipiac poll: 53% of Americans would blame Trump and the GOP for a shutdown, with just 32% blaming Democrats. That kicks the legs out from under Schumer with his excuse for why he’s voting for the bill.
No Dem Senator has to follow Schumer here. This is a weak stategic move driven by fear and learned helplessness. Don't follow him. He's leading the party into irrelevance and helping Trump and Musk in the process. Call your Dem Senators and ask them not to join Schumer's surrender tomorrow.
AOC: “A tremendous mistake… turns the federal government into a slush fund for Trump & Musk and cedes congressional authority… almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free…”
@chuckschumer.com needs to either lead an effective opposition or resign as so-called leader of the opposition. No amount of inside-baseball sophistry can justify capitulation on the CR. VOTE NO.
The absolute devastation that @chuckschumer.com is about to inflict on D.C. by supporting the GOP’s continuing resolution is hard to overstate. Massive cuts to schools and law enforcement. Teachers laid off en masse. Basic city services may grind to a halt because we *cannot spend our own money.*
AOC on senate Dems caving and backing the CR: “A wide sense of betrayal.”
anti-establishment crusader uhhh Susan Rice
New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451
I’m voting no because Trump and Musk don’t want just a shutdown. They want us to stand down in our fight to protect Medicaid, Medicare, and the social safety net.
Senate Democrats— A vote AGAINST the Republican CR isn’t a vote to shut down the government—they’re in charge and need your votes. But a vote FOR the Republican CR is a vote to allow Elon Musk to continue shutting down the government and nullifying the role of Congress.
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
Of all the judges to try that with...
Joshua Fisher denied it under oath in federal court. Trump admitted it in front of Congress and a global audience. We deserve the truth about DOGE.