Couple of nits on the opening graf:
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the framing from the nyt here is absolutely maniacal
Again, pretty disturbing that the US military followed pretty obviously illegal orders. This is beyond lawful but awful.
If we (are going to) manage to somehow retake the White House/Congress, we need a prosecutorial mindset that makes General Sherman look like a motherfucking pacifist toward this entire goddamn administration. Anyone who carried even a thimbleful of water for this bullshit needs set adrift at sea.
1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
We are genuinely going to need Nuremberg tribunals when this ends
So... murder
Ouch SCOTUS
Judge Burroughs grants Harvard's motion for summary judgment, in large part, in Harvard v. HHS
booooooooooo
A key lesson of Watergate was that the lawyers have to go to prison.
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
People need to calm down with the conspiracy theories, here’s Trump today at his Virginia golf club with MAGA radio host John Fredericks
Right after the police pulled me over for satisfying too many women too many times my car malfunction and rolled 8 times and an open bottle of Jameson in the back seat poured itself in my mouth during the tumult.
Why would anyone, let alone a judge, believe Drew Ensign of the DoJ is telling the truth
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A reminder that the trial record in this case is so incredible that you would not believe me if you didn’t simply read it yourself.
Y'know, I'm just gonna say it I feel like shit about having to write this piece It feels awful to air the Jewish community's dirty laundry in public I hate the fact that we didn't stop Jewish complicity before it became a national and international human-rights crisis And yet, here we are 😢
THE GREAT KHAN RAISES HIGH THE SWORD OF GLONZO
This definitely seems like something I’ll be citing in future.
The selective enforcement section is… quite something
whoa
It's extremely unfair and mean of the SEC to keep investigating the guy who commits securities fraud 3 or 4 times a week.
Obscene
"OK, who do we have on? Is anyone waiting for anyone else?" "Why don't we go ahead and do some introductions first. Steve, do you want to start?" nypost.com/2025/08/27/u...
This is definitely "crappy" but it happened in the 21st century. www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
Rangappa served in the FBI from 2001 to 2005, during which time (1) the CIA tortured people and (2) some FBI agents participated. www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/u...
“My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece & lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him & his legacy proud. The nation’s health security is at risk & is in the hands of people focusing on ideological self-interest.” Dr. Daskalakis, CDC immunization director
We are so ill-served by our elected officials
The IQ test thing is a tell that Ted spends too much time marinating in race-realist libertarian fever swamps where they're all still very mad about Griggs v Duke Power.
Turns out you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich but not a guy who throws one at the Gestapo
DC grand juries are killing it
Not at all a new phenomenon. ICE has served this function for years.
“Massachusetts Democrats have a choice. They can resist Trump, or they can help the ADL. They cannot do both.” www.masslive.com/opinion/2025...
I can only assume this is Eric Adams’ car?
I’m not really interested in bipartisan policymaking with Nazis actually
It would have to be, like, threatening-the-lives-of-loved-ones level to get me to do this on national television
This is just deeply degrading. There is no amount of money or power that you could offer me to humiliate myself in public like this
It’s been a rough few years for the efficient market hypothesis
I’d put a big asterisk on “lawyers” but sure.
Trump freaking out the markets and crashing the economy might be the least-violent way that we get out of our current predicament, so sure... let's do it.
This is like the episode of 30 Rock where Jack tells Tracy he's a celebrity and allowed to do whatever he wants... except dogfighting
This is it. Trump is trying to end the independence of the Federal Reserve.
Gotcha
One is spreading dangerous misinformation that could harm people. The other is engaging in a powerful act of political speech with a message that is deeply patriotic and perfectly clear to 99.999% of people, notwithstanding your bizarre reaction. And it doesn’t pose any risk of harm to anyone.
Is this not maybe the one case that could survive? Other than being named Johnson and taking place in Texas, how could the facts not be more on all fours?
Many people are asking
Genuinely, what is wrong with you
This guy for Senate
Yikes
"Soldiers, in time of peace, to be quartered in private houses, without the consent of the owner, raising Third Amendment concern."
Update: * He’s been charged with a felony * Initial spreadsheet of recent arrests lists officer’s badge as 12345 * @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social will be requesting body cam footage
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
History will remember Biden for the genocide in Gaza and ushering in Trump’s fascism by waiting too long to drop out. That’s his legacy.
cc @chancethelawyer.bsky.social
Guess I should sign up for a demo. And hope that no one lets the AI get its hands on obscure transcript rulings.
Thanks!
OMG KBJ CONSECRATES SCOTUS CALVINBALL INTO THE US REPORTS
Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
Interesting. Can you expand on what’s new/most useful?
I would say that an AI wrote this but most AIs produce better writing than this drek
You should be ashamed of yourself. This is monstrous.
Every Democratic member of Congress should be in the streets of DC saying this dangerous authoritarian escalation must stop. Do they not grasp what’s going on here?
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused. Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right? Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
We love to see it
I don't know about you, but I've had to cancel days off or vacation many times for things less important than "the authoritarian takeover of the city I was elected to manage" www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom’s press conference. This is what rising fascism looks like.
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If you look in the replies for that thread, the NY Post headline is wrong in that the guy who got fired is not a DOJ trial attorney. But the fired guy was the (alleged) sandwich thrower.
Yup, looks like Bondi got the right guy and the Post screwed up the headline
Looks like this was a New York Post error in the headline, not Bondi firing the wrong guy.
Got it. That makes sense. Looks like the NY post headline was wrong, then. Sean C Dunn works at DOJ but not as a trial attorney.
Ordinarily, I would say “there’s no way that the Attorney General of United States is that fucking stupid.” But.
There is a LinkedIn page for a Sean Dunn who is a DOJ trial attorney that says he graduated from JMU in 1993. The Sean Dunn who threw the sandwich is 37 years old (and would have been 6 or 7 years old in 1993). Did Bondi fire the wrong guy?
Briefly thought this was the other Judge Ho and was extremely confused
The problem is that the FedSoc judges don’t take logic or the law seriously. It’s all just handwaving to back into their desired political results.
This is what jury nullification was made for
When you call it a “deal,” it doesn’t sound so socialist-y
Demonstrably untrue. Haberman is the worst.
[Every day of Trump's presidencies] NPR REPORTER: Today, President Trump introduced a "bone tax," where every registered Democrat has to donate at least three bones to the newly founded National Bone Bank. Can he do this? LEGAL SCHOLAR: *chuckling mildly* Well it's certainly an unusual idea,
Denting Squash
How did we get here? Making a “scarecrow of the law” for the rich, the hetero, the white, those perceived as pretty, amusing, noble or part of or from the in crowd- but no mercy or even fairness for others who face disproportionate or undeserved punishment & policing. www.folger.edu/explore/shak...
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
Reminiscent of the classic Donald Sterling deposition transcript.
I grow old, I grow old
There’s a “wrestling with a pig” problem. Maher also doesn’t need any depo testimony to win.
Maybe this will finally be the kick in the ass needed to get a system for hosting these critical records that’s advanced beyond the Geocities era
lmao
Good morning, Ward 4! Happy Special Election Day! Vote Molly Coleman for City Council!
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Sean is a longtime FedSoc guy. He thinks a lot of this is *good,* even if he knows it’s gauche to admit.
To each their own, but imo this understates the implications of howlingly obvious rot at the top of a system for everything beneath it. Not sure how persuasive students should find “things are mostly fine” when the profession’s most powerful actors keep stuffing its putative principles in the trash.
Corporate law has basically been destroyed in the last six months because Elon Musk got mad that the rules applied to him. Is that Rule of Law?