Maybe, but Lander would get pushback for not living in the district, which no longer includes Brooklyn.
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Maybe, but Lander would get pushback for not living in the district, which no longer includes Brooklyn.
What? A 2023 poll showed that â37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.â www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Donât get him started on Rome
Hi guys looks like you were right nypost.com/2025/08/30/u...
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
August was another month of falling gun violence in the United States. Shooting victims were down 11.5% in August compared to August 2024 and down 34% compared to August 2021 per data from the Gun Violence Archive.
This is the woman long rumored to be his girlfriend, although the NYPost article there says sheâs his âbusiness partner,â presumably the one mentioned in the statement.
And a huge thank you to @annabower.bsky.social , @kyledcheney.bsky.social , @joshuajfriedman.com and other reporters who chronicled todayâs hearing live, so we could track the malfeasance in real time. Here is Bowerâs full report www.lawfaremedia.org/article/emer...
The opening lines of my sixth graderâs American Civics syllabus. Same for my older kid two years ago. Hits harder now.
It seems she had issued it just ten minutes earlier
Why are all those ships so close to the beach? Have they run aground?
In addition to being morally abhorrent, this plan relies on trendy magical technology. Itâs one step away from relocating Gazans to the blockchain. Gift link: wapo.st/4g2eATo
Wow did not expect Yaz on this list
Rod Serlingâs older brother!
For your next act: this one lacks an exclamation point but lasts 528 pages.
Nick Bednar, law professor and hero of the republic, forsook sleep to read âThe President Is Missing!â so you donât have to. He leaves this thread behind.đ
KEEP GOING NICK I AM NOW ALL CAUGHT UP DONâT FALL ASLEEP AGAIN
How is it possible that heâs been waiting since 2018 for USCIS to grant his U visa application?
You guys have class on Labor Day?
Isnât that a little unfair? They blocked Weldon because they feared the public health consequences, no?
Exclusive: The Justice Department gave some senior career attorneys a choice: They could either quit or go to a new Sanctuary Cities Enforcement working group. Six months later, all of those attorneys have left DOJ. âThe assignment was a sham,â one said.
Never forget the all-time greatest college football post by a politician â Stanford alum Carly Fiorinađđ
Youâre on page 134 of how many?
I had a similar thought re the CDC newsđđ
In her case it might be because âWinsomeâ is an excellent first name for a candidate!
You can, but assistant law professors canât!đ
But in their view only white native-born Americans can think that.
1918 you say? That suggests the next great Red Sock was born in 2004.
Whenever this subject arises I am contractually obligated to note that associate professors of law may submit nominations, but mere assistant professors may not.
I watched the clip, for my sins, and she meant âawardâ not ânomination.â
Is âaâ primary function different from âtheâ? ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
Trump is definitely alive bc who else would would blast Les Mis in the Rose Garden??
Italian photographer Ray Giubilo with a one-in-a-million shot of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open
How was that one resolved? Did Comer follow through on his subpoena threat?
I donât know why you expected to get it for free
Lagoa in a concurrence says Sullivan should be overturned
But what trades would one make based upon this ruling? Unburdened by having read any of the opinions or briefs, I think today suggests Trump wins at SCOTUS.đ
2 of the 3 judges nominated by GOP presidents, and 2 of the 8 nominated by Dems, would have upheld the tariffs. If the same percentages hold at SCOTUS, Trump would win 5-4.
I noticed that too!
Take the advice. Also play the videos
I saw reports of her opinion and I assume she is auditioning
Trump-appointed judge!
Unless I missed it, that article doesnât even name the âPolish CEOâ it alleges took the hat, so I think we need further research!
I donât think this necessarily means the kid got a *new* hat, but rather that the matter has been resolved satisfactorily, which could mean that the player confirmed that the original hat reached the kid.đ
Counter thread: the guy might be the kidâs dadđđ
This thread makes a good case that itâs likely the kidâs father, taking the hat for safekeepingđđ
This "WHO VOTED FOR THIS" thread started 3 months ago - it chronicles the headlines of the Trump/Project 2025 destruction that does not benefit a single American. It's worth scrolling and bookmarking because it zooms out - like a bird flying over and surveying a destroyed landscape.
Ernst is the second GOP senator â after Tillis â to make noise about opposing Hegseth, chicken out due to 2026 reelection fears, and then not even run. Cassidy â who did the same re RFK Jr and who need worry only about a primary â is still running.
Only 3 of the 14 Senate-confirmed HHS secretaries (the agency was created in 1980) have been medical professionals. The problem isnât that RFK Jr isnât a doctor â itâs that heâs an arrogant idiot and conspiracy theorist who wonât listen to doctors (or anyone else).
2022 was a simpler time
Fairfax and Arlington schools sued the Trump administration today over its anti-trans funding threat policies and actions. The @washingtonpost.com broke this news but was apparently unable to link to the lawsuit. Here is the Fairfax complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
RFK Jr is far from the first non medical health professional to lead HHS. As you note, the issue is more that he resembles that nut on the corner.
This piece spurred Vance to write a long whiny response tweet
Mark this very much *is* your demo and please donât think that rude commenters who want you to leave are representative of the site.
SCOOP: Donald Trump and DOJ âSpecial Attorney for Mortgage Fraudâ Ed Martin are speaking as often as four times per week as the GOP activist prepares to seek indictments against prominent Democrats www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Who voted for this? Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Amazing how you always find the angle!
If you read this article, be sure to read all the way to the end. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
I had no idea this trial had started already and now Iâm catching up. I knew Markel in law school.
In the video clip here, the head of the DOJ Civil Rights Division appears to blame the Minnesota school shooting on the stateâs policies regarding transgender athletes. x.com/aagdhillon/s...
If youâre a Midwestern conservative with a habit of saying weird shit who is looking to retire today, STAY ON LINE
My condolences to @joshtpm.bsky.social at this time. IYKYK rollcall.com/2025/08/29/r...
Josh named a set of awards after him!
Ernst is retiring because sheâs scared of my headline
Congress does, of course, have levers to apply against RFK Jrâs actions beyond finger-wagging, but in 2025 they have been extremely loath to use them.
Hmm â didnât Jimmy Carter pass her? 48 years from election to death vs 46.5 for Lady Bird.
By law former presidents have secret service protection for life.
Correction: the NYT story has been updated to state that Biden extended Harrisâ protection until July 2026, so 10.5 months of protection remained. (I still think this is about her book tour.)
Note that only 4.5 months of protection remained for Harris, so obviously thereâs no policy point here. Trump did this to mess with her upcoming nationwide book tour.
Banning public prayer, and in this case the target is clearly Muslims' prayers, does not "strengthen secularism." It violates rights. If anything, it weakens secularism because it wrongly suggests a free society cannot accommodate both believers and nonbelievers. Wrong on the morals and the merits.
Itâs telling that Trump, who usually wonât shut up, has said nothing about his firing of the CDC director he had just appointed. No posts about it â not even a press availability where he might face questions on it. He knows itâs a loser for him.
Excellent op-ed with a misleading headline (presumably not chosen by the author). The whole point of the piece is that Trump *is* avoiding facts by dismantling and corrupting systems that gather and disseminate them!
Ok youâll have to explain both of those, especially the first one.
I think Bessent is not incompetent but sometimes he must pretend to be so to keep his job.
Kyle Schwarber was the fourth player to have a shot at HR #5 in a game, that is â at least one PA post-HR #4: Bobby Lowe (1894) â first-ever 4-homer game! Lou Gehrig (1932) Mike Cameron (2002) Kyle Schwarber (2025) h/t @EliasSports
I doubt many senators were persuaded otherwise; they knew better but were cowards
Sir I suspect you once knew that but itâs an understandable slip at your age
Is âdissentalâ used disproportionately by conservative judges, or am I making that up?
I actually knew that about Trotsky! But I didnât know sheâd been in office since Bush.
September and Epstein start with the same five letters. There are no coincidences.
For some reason â must have been sheer coincidence â after reading your post I went to Albert Speerâs Wikipedia page. (I didnât know he lived until 1981!)
In the video clip here, the head of the DOJ Civil Rights Division appears to blame the Minnesota school shooting on the stateâs policies regarding transgender athletes. x.com/aagdhillon/s...
I know it's illegal on here to notice that our leaders are actually fighting back in the job we actually elected them to do, but here's the Wall Street Journal bitching about Schumer's "historic" delaying tactics that have left almost 90% of Trump appointee slots empty. archive.ph/2025.08.27-0...
The answer is that the Senate GOP prioritized cabinet appointments and every Republican senator who isnât a literal polio survivor voted for RFK Jrâs confirmation
Not Bunchâs first time with Trump alasđđ
Here's a write up of the legal issues By Mike Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social: www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/08/can-... And Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social: balkin.blogspot.com/2025/08/what...
And he need not even be Senate confirmed, under the very generous terms of the Vacancies Act. Had he been a high-ranking staffer in HHS for 90 he would qualify. See 5 USC 3345(a)(3). www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
Dems should strongly consider impeaching RFK Jr if they take back the House â and maybe should campaign on a pledge to do so
Susan Collins voted to confirm RFK Jr. She owns this!
You can believe plenty in prayer and still find it utterly lacking as a concrete public policy response from an elected leader. If Biden had asked people to pray for inflation to cool off, what would these exact same people have said?
Again: Faith leaders *themselves* have long also criticized "thoughts and prayers" rhetoric â including leader's Leavitt's own Catholic tradition. Here are some examples from the past 24 hours, including a statement from Sisters of Mercy of the Americas (Catholic nuns) on the shooting.
Studies have not shown an association between antidepressants and school shooters. However, exposure to school shootings may increase the likelihood that students will be taking antidepressants during the subsequent 2 years (Rossin-Slater, PNAS, 2020). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31513302/
Happy birthday!
Absolutely bonkers personalist regime stuff www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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DHS spox: âUnfortunately, the American people can no longer rely on journalists like Anna Merlin [sic], who has tweeted the F-word 67 times in her illustrious career at (checks notes)⌠Jezebel and Mother Jones.â These people are so weird!
Barack Obama reads @radleybalko.bsky.social and you should too!
