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some other asshole: we need to control the sky
I don't know, if I were holding a press conference to disprove rumors of my poor health, I think I would try to show up on time
In the former Gaza
What if the 2pm announcement is a Firefly revival
Didn't work for Mike Liddell
Preventing a developer from building housing because you are afraid it would be too affordable
BREAKING: Appeals court rejects Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs under IEEPA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
House of Leaves
Tony Tata is the former superintendent of Wake County, North Carolina schools, where he also did a terrible job
Lowell highlights that the breadth of the government's definition of "cause" renders the word essentially meaningless.
The American political system: if you are harmed by the government you can send the President a letter and maybe he will decide to give you a break
So her removal was not pretextual but the court has to just trust that is true because it can't look behind the stated cause
Lowell: The president can have bad motive and that motive can be articulated and yet there could be a situation in which there is cause. But here they don't stand independently of each other. Bad motive can't overcome cause. But a bad motive can illuminate that there was no cause.
Cobb: Any authority from DC Circuit or SCOTUS in which I won't get "smacked down"? In which I can develop a framework that would be appropriate?
The couch
At least they managed to commit some human rights abuses in the 2 months
Everything happens so fast!
Inshallah I believe he can do it
It didn't work to stop those bullets
WRAL reported Wednesday that he was in Wilmington earlier this month with two granddaughters, when police accused him of slipping pills containing cocaine and MDMA into the girls' ice cream.
So rather than fix the problem, the legislature just made a partial patch and then went home. At the state and federal level, it feels like nobody wants to be bothered making laws that work anymore. 3/3 #ncpol
They passed a law making it legal to continue driving with an expired license for 2 years. I learned today from a meeting with the Secretary of State's office that the law applies only to driving, not to other uses of driver's license. Specifically, an expired license cannot be used for notary 2/3
The enshittification of public services: in NC we have a chronic problem with DMV staffing such that many people are unable to make an appointment to get their license renewed before it expires. Rather than, e.g., hiring more DMV employees, our General Assembly has decided to undermine safety. 1/3
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Cargo cult authoritarian
Cleaning up trash and spreading mulch?
Why is it that all of the guys too scared to get on the subway are also convinced that they would win in a race war?
We are already in a USA that I don't recognize
A court with legitimacy might appoint an amicus to represent this position
The first rule of jury nullification...
There is a very simple and parsimonious explanation just sitting out there Hint: it starts with "Gen" and ends with "der"
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
If you disagree with either of these sentiments, it is because you are a socialist and hate America
Hey viewers! Hope you like this slop I'm giving you! Please be clear, it IS the exact same slop as yesterday, just the way you like it.
It certainly isn't doing anything to protect us from tyranny
I’m shocked and heartbroken for those poor children in my hometown of Minneapolis, but also beyond angry at all the powerful people who have sacrificed so many kids to their sacred gun cult over so so many decades. Yes, only actual material action matters at this point - here, in Gaza, everywhere.
Schools Theaters Concerts Malls Churches Synagogues Mosques Parks Nightclubs Offices Festivals Stores Military Bases Bars Post Offices Yoga Studios Super Bowl parades Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.
Trump and their governors
That doesn't make it acceptable
In a civilized country, parents shouldn't have to worry every day about whether their children will be murdered at school. This is not acceptable.
I will really love the irony if he ends up winning asylum because the government illegally deported him, thus restarting the clock
I don't know that nothing happens. You stab it but cannot kill it. Seems like 5 points of damage maybe.
Well he hasn't been in the country for a year at this point
ham sandwiches gotta be so mad today fr. they get indicted for merely existing, yet salami sandwiches can hit a cop and get off scot free
The important point here: the NC courts for the first time hold that when a taking fails, title to the land reverts to the underlying owner. 4/4
Held: title reverts to landowner. The taking is invalid and unconstitutional, and therefore cannot be allowed to stand. The sewer line is a trespass for which property owner is entitled to a remedy. Remanded for consideration of injunctive vs. damages relief. 3/4
By the way, the Supreme Court seems to think the underlying decision on private vs. public was wrong, but it was not timely appealed and therefore no longer at issue. What happens to the title when a taking is claimed but rejected? 2/4
North Carolina Supreme Court has a very interesting eminent domain case filed last week in Town of Apex v. Rubin. Town filed a taking case and proceeded to build a sewer line on private property. Court later determined the taking was for private purposes and therefore invalid. Now what? 1/4
Xinis: Again, as matter of first principles, I don’t have jurisdiction there unless there’s a constitutional right being violated…unless there is no due process, etc. But whatever process is, petitioners are asking it to be reduced to writing and government resists my intervention in that respect.
Yeah but the whole point of America was supposed to be that we don't have to deal with this nonsense anymore
I don't think Germany is autocratic. Everything that Mr. Hitler has done has been accomplished under emergency powers related to the Reichstag Fire and is not systemic in any way.
US renewable investment is down 36 percent this year, while in Europe it's up 63 percent (from the @heatmap.news morning newsletter)
As if the court writes opinions any more
A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the estate of the late Jeffrey Epstein as lawmakers try to determine who was connected to the child sexual predator. It’s the latest effort by both Republicans and Democrats to respond to public clamor for more disclosure in the investigation into Epstein.
Imagine Whiskey Pete studying anything
No! It's a trap! That's how they got Boasberg.
Xinis to Ensign: At least until we have a schedule set, I will order that he not be moved from where he is now, principally to have access to both criminal and habeas counsel. You let you know in the morning where your clients stand on that and I'll take it from there.
Drew Ensign go to jail today challenge
The Party of Small Government
What does that tell you about Pizzagate?
Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."
Dreaming about Ceaușescu
Random ask: I have recently bought a new house with a clearly defined game trail in the back. I want to buy a motion-activated trail camera that is reasonably priced but can handle some neglect (i. e. is likely to be left up for months at a time). Does anyone have recommendations? Moth for attn
Ooh, I can answer this one! They would fucking love it, because "small-government" was always bullshit. Economic conservatism was always bullshit. "Judicial restraint" was always bullshit. It was all, always, a pretext for power & permission to impose cruelty on out groups.
Trump take tractor
Judge Xinis specifically ordered the government (including ICE) not to take Abrego Garcia into custody. This is a violation of that order. (She also required 72 hours' notice of any third-country removal, excluding weekends and holidays, but it may be that the intend to detain him until Wednesday.)
The sheer amount of time, money, and resources this government has spent to torture one random guy is astounding.
Earlier this morning Kilmar Abrego Garcia was detained yet again, as part of the Trump admin’s plan to deport him to Uganda as punishment for not pleading guilty to the criminal charges they brought to avoid having to follow a court order to bring him back to the United States.
Let’s be clear about what is happening: This man is being punished — and disappeared — because he embarrassed our pretender king. They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
🚨 🚨 🚨 Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been taken into custody by ICE in Baltimore. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
WOW! After months of the Trump administration saying that he would never be allowed back into the country — they brought him back. Then after months saying he would never be let free — he's back home. He still faces very serious criminal charges, and ICE may still move to arrest and deport him.
Guess that will resolve all concerns
It was a ridiculous farce that it took this long
Fox 17 Nashville reports that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from criminal detention in Tennessee and is on his way home to Maryland. “Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement. fox17.com/news/local/k...
It should be illegal to make a profit off health insurance
Couldn't find any Trolls in the tree
Who would agree to work for Trump, knowing this is how it turns out? Only the stupidest of cronies and hangers-on.
Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?
CA: There has been a standing army in LA for two months. Defendants have used that army to pervade the activities of civilian law enforcement and strike fear into the hearts of Californians. In doing so, they have disregarded America's deep rooted policy against military execution of the laws...
The military in CA are so intertwined with ICE and other civilian law enforcement agencies that they are practically indistinguishable. Indeed, the military and law enforcement even look the same, often wearing uniforms so similar that it is nearly impossible for civilians to tell them apart.
Sherman gives a long answer. He says as he understood it was the president through his memo said there was a type of rebellion that prevented fed law enforcement from doing their jobs. That triggered the constitutional exception that allowed for guarding of facilities and protecting law enforcement
Sure, nobody is committing any "crimes" in the "legal" sense but the vibes are criminal
The motive behind mass deportations is not crime (which immigrants, documented or not, commit less of); it is an explicit ideology of racial purity that cannot tolerate the idea of an America in which whites are not perpetually dominant.
The thing we absolutely must drive home to the public is that the Trump administration's immigration policy is being run by committed white supremacists. This is not rhetoric or hyperbole; it is absolutely literally true, and they're increasingly not bothering to hide it.
Lopez shows Santacruz some photos that have been previously admitted as exhibits. Santacruz admits that he can't tell who is military and who is federal law enforcement in the photos.
I believe the point is that they called for military support in advance, without any reason to think they would be threatened
Exactly
Right, so to me the assumption built in is that the feds will only say that in good faith on some actual basis. Once that assumption is gone, there is no mechanism to prevent them from lying.
Man, I don't know. Some incredible timing to have this trial on the same day that Trump is federalizing the DC police.
Breyer: But wouldn't that then always be the case? If the civilian law enforcement tells you we want military force just in case something happens? Sherman: Absolutely, your honor...and we had plenty of capacity to do that. Breyer: Ok, I think that answers my question
So once again, the assumption that people would act truthfully turns out to be load-bearing. All federal law enforcement has to do is lie and the military will go anywhere they want.
Then what is left that posse comitatus forbids?
Literally none
Gosh, that sure sounds a lot like assisting domestic law enforcement to me
Sitrep: vibes
Their contempt for the law is just astounding. Maybe they are right, but they are very confident that laws don't apply to them.
The Solicitor General of the U.S. is openly lying to federal courts about what tariffs do, falsely claiming that tariff "deals" are agreements to pay "trillions of dollars." A disgrace to the legal profession and a disgrace to the office. He should resign.
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