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Well he’s been identified. I don’t think this is a satisfactory answer. bsky.app/profile/cult...
Why is this Nazi-loving fascist still on TV at all? Better to run a test signal.
A very happy ending to the story!
It sounds like the player has identified the boy and given him a hat. Sometimes the Internet works!
Congrats on this excellent win!
We just prevailed in our case against Trump's massive IEEPA tariffs, in the Federal Circuit! All challenged IEEPA tariffs ruled illegal, but scope of injunction TBD. Will have more to say later. Here is a link to the ruling (7-4 decision by en banc court): www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-ord...
Someone needs to identify this person publicly so that he can be persuaded to return the hat to this child.
As Benjamin Franklin was wont to say, God helps those who help themselves.
Very true! Also once a grand jury realizes it can do this, it may be hard for it to stop. Most regular grand juries are monthly, but the specials and additional are 18-36 months long, so they’ll be around. Also you can’t “game” the selection of grand jurors. In SDNY there were no “strikes.”
Once prosecutors hear that a given grand jury rejects indictments, they might bring future indictments to a different grand jury. This also assumes that the AUSA did not signal to the grand jury that the case should not be charged. Although that would be unusual, lots of things are unusual here.
They are trying to literally recreate the conditions that led to the American Revolution?
Also not a “distraction.”
Waiting for Justice Gorsuch to rule that the Senate must have a vote on judicial nominations made by the president.
If Democratic politicians do not fight this because it's a "distraction," it will simply happen. They need to get in front of every mic and say that we will not allow Trump to destroy American history. He wants a culture war? GIVE HIM ONE. There are no distractions. Have every fight.
Why should the major media outlets cover these sessions at all?
No executive order can ban write-in voting.
Declaring a fake emergency as an excuse to deploy the military to police civilians is one of the most canonical examples of authoritarian takeovers. Overseas, people see clearly what Trump is doing. Here in America most people — especially those with power or influence — are in denial.
So both Putin and Trump went to an AF Base in Alaska. Each had a set of demands. Trump accepted all of Putin's demands and then said he would convince Ukraine and Europe to accept them. And both then went home. Do I have this right?
Here’s an idea: the West Virginia National Guard can work on the out of control drug problem that exists in West Virginia?
It was an honor to co-program a Robert Altman collection with @criterion.bsky.social to pair with our Hall of Fame episode of The Big Picture coming in September. Altman means a lot to me, hope you enjoy.
I fear that the end result of this foolish policy will be some terrible act of terror against Americans.
This is a huge difference. Large portion of NYC apartments are rent stabilized and those apartments have annual rent increases and bigger increases when they are renovated between tenancies.
There is no debate. Cuomo’s view about this is warped.
No renewal of the Army unless the troops are used exclusively on foreign ground.
Sounds like Travis Bickle.
Then the answer is for the government to voluntarily agree to a stay of the tariffs, to prevent this outcome.
What condiments did Himmler like?
If they can’t pay it back (which I doubt) then they should have agreed to a preliminary injunction to prevent it from being collected in the first place.
In urban policy, it is considered bad for someone to be rent-burdened (spending at least 30% of their income on rent). But Cuomo's newly proposed law would *require* that people be rent-burdened. Absolutely insane.
I thought that the Guarantee Clause was not enforceable in litigation as a political question, going back to the 1840s when Luther v. Borden was decided.
You’re confusing policy decisions with rhetorical and political style. He’s always on offense and stealing the show while the Democrats complain that dogs aren’t allowed to play basketball.
The party of limited government!
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The money does not belong to the president, and only Congress can set conditions on federal expenditures.
Is this democracy?
Making the White House look like his hometown of Queens, NY.
Is this allowed? The White House is an historic building. It doesn’t belong to one person.
“Some to scrutinize” is basically Andrew Cuomo!
#BREAKING: Over a dissenting opinion by Justice Kagan (joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson), #SCOTUS clears the way for President Trump to remove members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, granting yet another emergency application: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
In landlessness alone resides the highest truth!
Take heart, take heart, O Bulkington!
CBS will be ending Stephen Colbert's run as host of The Late Show, days after he criticized parent company Paramount's $16 million payment to Trump. Here's why the Left has a censorship problem.
Also deporting the people who pick tomatoes in the U.S. driving prices higher as a result of the inevitable scarcity.
How corrupt on all sides. Too bad for the Olympians in 2028 who will have to give their medals to the Trump family.
Literally guilt by association.
S.Ct in Riverside v. McLaughlin says that “[w]here an arrested individual does not receive a probable cause determination within 48 hours, … the burden shifts to the government to demonstrate the existence of a bona fide emergency or other extraordinary circumstance.” Weekends aren’t an excuse.
if Trump were actively trying to impoverish and deskill the united states for the sake of our competitors, what would he be doing differently?
Years ago while appearing on CNN, I had the great pleasure of meeting David Gergen. He was the smart, genial and open-minded person that he seemed like on TV, where I had watched him since my youth. Whether one agreed or disagreed with his views, our national discourse is worse without him. RIP.
Didn’t this guy endorse Bernie Sanders? Am I misremembering that?
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
Based on my “training and experience” is prosecutor-agent talk for “just making this up as I go.”
It’s a sweeping policy—it would prevent them from boycotting Russian companies due to the Ukraine invasion, and would have prevented them from divesting from apartheid South Africa.
If Michael Jordan was responsible for taking away health care from people and giving money to the wealthy, maybe.
Sometimes you just gotta spike a story because there’s nothing there! That’s what editors are for!
So the scoop is he did something factually accurate and defensible? On an application to a college he didn’t go to? 15 years ago? And you relied on hacked and stolen information from a racist eugenicist for this “scoop”?
He did not say he was Black in the application. Please correct your post.
Why did you give anonymous treatment to the source? Tell me the legitimate journalism reason to this without disclosing his eugenics background?
Just as the Times announced “no endorsements” until they changed their mind to make an endorsement against Mamdani.
This story should not have been published. They hint at an accusation (Mamdani said he is black to get into a fancy college) they can't back up. That this was published tells me that Mamdani's most important opponent may not be Cuomo or Adams but a paper whose NEWS section will run stuff like this.
What possible journalistic reason did the Times have for not identifying the source? “The data was shared with The Times by an intermediary who goes by the name Crémieux on Substack and X and who is an academic and an opponent of affirmative action. The Times agreed to withhold his real name.”
Who cares?
Yes, the Dodgers, the team that desegregated baseball, is being sued for racial discrimination. This lawsuit should be thrown out quickly.
Trump and GOP Congress broke the debt clock!!!
I hope that’s right and that it isn’t just forum shopping by Trump.
I thought Trump refiled in state court?
The abundance agenda!
Terminal Lawyer Brain is declaring that SCOTUS didn't rule against the Constitution's clear birthright citizenship provision, they merely ruled that the president and states can ignore that Constitutional provision, and most targets of their abuses cannot do anything to stop it in a timely manner.
Also who cares what a DC newspaper thinks of NY?
Hard to say these days.
An insane lawsuit, like a pro se complaint.
I thought bedbug?
Side by side on the NYT home page, we have a Bret Stephens column lauding Trump's "courageous" decision to strike Iran as though it were the product of some serious strategic calculus, and a news article explaining he did it because Israel's bombing campaign was "playing well" on his teevee.
No one could have foreseen this, right?
Exactly. She campaigned with Republicans and called for a strict immigration bill to be passed. And then what happened next?
Yes this is just why President Harris won the 2024 election.
Wow. Cuomo was bad on the subway, homelessness, education and the pandemic, according to the NYT. So why did the NYT endorse him for mayor?
They could, as a moral statement, but federal agents cannot be required to comply with such a state law. If a federal agent were arrested for not complying with the law, the case would be swiftly removed to federal court by the agent and then dismissed.
Completely unconstitutional.
Trump exemplifies why the Founders feared standing armies: they are inevitably used against the people rather than for defending the people from the nation’s enemies. It took 250 years but here we are.
Also the stays are going on for several days or weeks. An administration stay should be only 24 hours or less. The issue was just briefed in the district court, they should file simultaneous appeal briefs today so that the Court can decide this tomorrow.
Eventually this diversion of agents away from investigating real crimes and terrorism will lead to human suffering and financial harm.
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
Yes, in Bananas.
If all of these rules were scrupulously followed, do you think that the response from LAPD/CANG would stop? I’m dubious.
Please criticize the administration and do not blame the protesters for the violent response by the administration.
not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
Everyone should say it: The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. It's not brains. It's bile.
The speed in which we have decayed into an open oligarchic kleptocracy is astounding
But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God
AP: Trump extends olive branch, invites Musk to White House cellar to taste some brand new amontillado
For $200, what is a mistaken understanding of a very good book?
He was about to be impeached and removed, if he hadn’t resigned.
(Reuters) - FEMA staff left baffled after the disaster agency’s head said during a briefing that he hadn’t been aware the US has a hurricane season. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/
The agent who handcuffed a congressional aide is William Krejci of Keasbey, New Jersey, DHS Area Commander. His social media is locked down pretty tight but a Yelp account tied to the same email address he used for LinkedIn shows a face and forearm tattoo that matches the video.
Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people
This should not have been changed. He was a disgrace and there’s no reason to “glaze” here.
They have us just where they want us.
Still there I think.