"It didn't make sense to put Space Force headquarters in any state other than Colorado when the only priority should be quick and effective communication in a nuclear crisis and there was already an infrastructure."
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"It didn't make sense to put Space Force headquarters in any state other than Colorado when the only priority should be quick and effective communication in a nuclear crisis and there was already an infrastructure."
A Florida court detained a US Citizen for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed—& held him anyway. I criticized the ruling online & a Florida judge responded by trying to strip me of my law license. I fought back www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-...
A great explainer about what the law says regarding sending un-federalized troops to Illinois from Texas. open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
The United States is now Putin's deportation partner. Russian political refugees who sought safety in the U.S. are being returned on charter flights. Upon return, they face hours-long interrogations by security services. 🧵Here's what is known about the latest flight:
You seem like such a nice person. Not an arrogant asshole at all!
Ok. I’m sure living in both places makes you an expert on civil engineering.
No it makes it prohibitively expensive and super difficult to design, build, and maintain.
This is the size of the LA metro area compared to London. It is absolutely massive in comparison.
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
It’s so dystopian. It’s sad’: The Rio Grande River is so dry that Texas, Colorado and New Mexico are squabbling over groundwater fortune.com/2025/08/30/r...
NEW -- Exactly 10 days after taking the oath early this year, Donald Trump nearly drowned dozens, potentially hundreds, of his own citizens in California’s Central Valley. Why? Because he is one of the most ignorant people you will ever meet. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Hell yes
I’m with you. I love road trips. I cannot even imagine stopping every few hundred miles and waiting 25-30 minutes on a charge.
DMB fans don’t appreciate jamming. They are clearly playing to the audience
Gotta keep it short for the DMB fans
BREAKING: Appeals court rejects Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs under IEEPA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
www.huffpost.com/entry/kilmar...
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Thoughts and prayers are pointless without actions. That is the point of the “thoughts and prayers” diminution. The fact that guns in this country are more important than people is sick and twisted. But it’s of a piece with everything that is the GOP.
Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
Has Trump’s online base moved on from the ‘Epstein Files’ scandal? In my first piece for @openmeasures.bsky.social, I ran the numbers. Of the alt-platforms I looked at, the only one keeping Epstein discussion alive was this one: Bluesky. openmeasures.io/epstein-files/
As constitutional scholar Larry Tribe put it to me recently: “The presumption of regularity rests on what has become a counterfactual assumption of normalcy.” It is time to make the presumption of irregularity (i.e. bad faith) when it comes to the Trump crowd. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
I'm pleased to introduce a full set of Congressional *and* legislative report cards, courtesy of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project. An enormous amount of work, the culmination of several years of development. Check it out! samwang.substack.com/p/redistrict...
Some notes, from an airport, on this dumb performative decision, which is calculated to appeal to vapid totalitarian twats. /1 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Hypothetically, what the hell could you possibly compliment Trump on?
The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts. Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing. I’m an attorney but this is not my area. Even if the Plaintiff prevails here, I think it would be extremely difficult to prove damages.
I wish I could see the Exhibits.
ROLLING STONE: The White House will realize soon, if they haven’t yet, that they picked the wrong Midwestern guitar god to argue with. By Angie Martoccio www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Gavin Newsom is parodying Donald Trump online—and the reaction from Trump’s supporters is proof that Newson is on to something, @RadioFreeTom argues. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I love Psycho! #BillyStrings
Looks like a good spot! Enjoy! I’ll be streaming it
I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but this is so fucking stupid
This is an incredibly comprehensive and accurate view of the sweeping malign activities of Vladimir Putin by a brilliant, first hand observer, @markhertling.bsky.social The Trump administration would be wise to pay close attention to this litany of evil. www.thebulwark.com/p/putin-alwa...
“John Roberts knows exactly what he is doing, and he knows exactly the message he is sending to America.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
An absolute favorite. So damn good. Lucky to get one in St. Louis this summer
I always mix up the beginnings of Show Me the Door and Love & Regret. This despite hearing both live many times.
New in PN: Dan Bongino's babysitter "The problem appears to be that Bongino and his boss, FBI Director Kash Patel, are terrible at their jobs."
1. Found another missing player yesterday, this time it is John J. Dailey who played in the National Association in 1875. I did a thread on the hunt for him a couple weeks ago. I'll go through the process of identifying him and some of the new/fun facts I've learned about his tumultuous life.
PSA
It looks like Ukraine
As a Missourian I will say two things: (1) Bailey is a fuck nut shitty lawyer, and (2) if it gets him out of Missouri that is a win for us. I’m sure he will be replaced by another fuck nut in the line that includes, Josh Hawley, then Eric Schmidt, and now Bailey
I just laugh internally.
I know rural America because I live here. I know rural inside and out and I speak on it often because almost no one else does. I have the market on rural politics cornered because not many think it’s worth cornering. But it is. jesspiper.substack.com/p/they-cant-...
New: Lizelle Gonzalez is suing officials who wrongly charged her with murder for an abortion—and depositions with investigators show that, if given the chance, they would handle future cases the same way Police and sheriffs have so much power to ruin people’s lives by manipulating the legal process
I had to look up who you are calling The Franchise. Not sure Winn is it but he is pretty damn good
Reup: LaMonica McIver Prepares to Hoist Todd Blanche with His Own Petard According to Body Cam evidence turned over to LaMonica McIver, Todd Blanche instructed Ricky Patel to arrest Ras Baraka (without first getting a warrant). www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/16/l...
Wow: this decision in favor of Media Matters includes all sorts of key details concerning the Trump admin’s coordinated assault on the First Amendment. For example: Steven Miller “seemingly” ordered Attorneys General in Missouri and Texas to go after MM. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
“What if it's not about immigration? Not about borders. Or citizenship. Not crime. Or culture. … What if it's really about creating a faceless paramilitary force that follows no law, and is accountable to no one, except one man." –Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social
The Fourth of July flood bore a striking similarity to the Hill Country flood that killed 10 summer campers in 1987. In the following years, officials took little action to protect against the next storm.
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social: "It’s sad but true: Contemptible men occupy the highest offices in our land." Read Morning Shots only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-worst-...
Donald Trump wants to rewrite how our museums tell the stories of American history. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
FYI I know it’s Highway Hypnosis. Perfect. Will be playing it on my drive manana
I’m moving my oldest child to college tomorrow. It’s 8 hours from my home. Seeing Billy play White Line is so apropos.
Yeah I figured it out. Took re doing the whole thing. Had to close the browser and re login
I’m having issues with the live feed on Nugs. Audio = good. Video = nothing
I really enjoyed the show when they came through St. Louis. I like them more than Eggy
Karen Henderson is the longest-serving Republican appointee on the D.C. Circuit. She’s deeply conservative but not Trumpy. In ordering the Trump administration to restore a congressionally mandated database of federal spending, she strongly suggests the president is engaging in king-like behavior.
He is absolutely correct.
For years, Donald Trump has rightly railed against oppressive regimes. So why is his administration now targeting their victims?
It’s quite clear from the replies that most did not actually read this.
They were actually assuming he wouldn't be a megalomaniac, both times!
I know we have seen a lot of agencies being hobbled and dismantled over the last six months. But the coup happening at the FBI should worry you the most asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-fbi-as...
I was in Flagstaff in college. Flag was definitely a hippy town. In the park all the hippies got together with boomboxes and were playing cassettes of shows. I brought Cornell and listened to the absolutely amazing second set. No our love will not fade away!
NEW from @kashhill.bsky.social and me: Over three weeks in May, a man became convinced by ChatGPT that the fate of the world rested on his shoulders. Otherwise perfectly sane, Allan Brooks is part of a growing number of people getting into chatbot-induced delusional spirals. This is his story.
I used to live right below it on Grand Canyon Street. Could walk out my back door and onto the Lowell property.
Just out from me at Cato: in its case against Maryland federal judges, the Trump administration is advancing the dangerous and open-ended argument that legal checks on a president's actions "diminish the votes of the citizens who elected him." Whoa! /1
You'll know exactly what Trump is looking for in his official number-crunchers if you take the things he's saying about it and reverse them.
Earlier this year, I made two trips to Sudan, where a terrible civil war has displaced 14 million people. The state is absent, international institutions are weak.Outside powers, motivated by greed and nihilism, have stepped into the vacuum www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
I’ve been saying for 10 years that gerrymandering is the single biggest problem in this country. It pushes candidates to the fringes to win primaries. Very few candidates have to appeal to a cross section of society.
New data from the FBI: Murder fell 15% in 2024, the fastest drop ever recorded & violent/property crime rates fell to levels not seen since the 1960s. Murder returned to pre-COVID levels in 2024 & is may be the lowest level ever recorded in 2025. jasher.substack.com/p/murder-off...
Conservative legal luminary Jack Goldsmith points out that Justice Barrett's opinion in the universal injunction case rests on an error: For the purposes of historical analysis, she looked at the wrong statute and got the relevant date wrong by nearly *a century.* papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
One thing I wish was better communicated is that the plastics that are clogging literally every one of your organs, as well as our rivers and seas, are nearly all made from fossil fuels www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Look at this if you need a jolt of awe and wonder!
Trump has fired the Labor Statistics Commissioner after a weak jobs report. www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Do not tell His Magasty real things that make him look like the doofus he is.
🤣 you’re fucking cray!
Ummm well knowing you from afar…I’m not totally different but I’m also not to your extreme.
Bove is going to be the new Clarence Thomas, but worse (until he gets elevated): A petulant, vindictive asshole who is going to use the bench to make up for his moral emptiness and deep sense of inadequacy
You might be the most OCDC person I’ve ever encountered. Love you bro!
Are you fucking kidding me?
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Age verification? I was ripping 3ft bongs in college watching Michael Jordan finish off his FIRST 3-peat.
Phish covers Boogie On Reggae Woman and it absolutely rules
Me on the factually misleading and analytically ridiculous misconduct complaint DOJ has filed against Chief Judge Boasberg—and the dangerousness of DOJ so openly trying to undermine public confidence in the only institution that has been even partially effective at checking the Trump administration:
CBS: “.. A government source familiar with the investigation says the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice inspector general are all in possession of a copy of the video that does not cut ..” @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...
Some words on how this mess happens (it does for all Trum deals) - from the point of view of a lawyer /1
If you think I've forgotten about the hurricane satellites, think again. The Navy is permanently unplugging them this week, on the brink of the busiest stretch of the season. There's so much more to this story, and I have the latest scoop. ⬇️
Agree Scott. The energy was unbelievable. I think the whole tour was top notch. Last night’s show was like the encore to the whole tour.
“Chip and Joanna Gaines Put a Gay Couple on Their New Show. All Hell Broke Loose.” “‘It’s a sad sunday when ‘non believers’ have never been confronted with hate or vitriol until they are introduced to a modern American Christian,’” Chip wrote in response to the backlash. 7/16/25 1/
💯 As a solo it is indispensable
"The lesson for Democrats here is straightforward. Opposing Trump vigorously, even when — or especially when — doing so seems distasteful or risky, can in fact damage Republicans. Damaging Republicans makes resistance easier, which in turn can erode Trump’s standing, and so on."
I am angry at the MAGA movement for being so effective in marketing hate to the exact demographic my dad represented. I am also angry at my dad for falling for it. jesspiper.substack.com/p/he-made-me...
Kate Manne has the receipts. Please read and share this incredible piece of work.
New research: In response to Trump tariffs,🇪🇺 consumer preferences are shifting away from 🇺🇸 products. cepr.org/voxeu/column...
This story I wrote about DOGE is imo an example of how journalism (and court records) can be used to “prove” something that’s an open secret. When it published, people were like “but we already knew that.” Ok, that wasn’t the point! The point was proving it. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/on-d...
Must be a Schnuck’s.
I wrote a short piece about why hiding ICE attorneys’ names is problematic…and this is the exact kind of thing I’m worried about. theconversation.com/immigration-...