Some judges say the Chief Justice should be doing more to defend the judiciary, with safety a top concern. "Somebody is going to die," one judge said. The Supreme Court has left lower court judges "thrown under the bus," another judge said.
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Some judges say the Chief Justice should be doing more to defend the judiciary, with safety a top concern. "Somebody is going to die," one judge said. The Supreme Court has left lower court judges "thrown under the bus," another judge said.
Fox News execs called Jeanine Pirro 'reckless maniac' and more when she was a network star My NPR story www.npr.org/2025/09/04/n...
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Federal judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court has got to do a better job of explaining emergency rulings, with frequent decisions in favor of Trump at least appearing to validate harsh criticism of the judiciary at a time of rising threats: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Great work by @lawrencehurley.bsky.social here: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Headlining ‘Gun Rights’ Event With Well-Known Jan. 6 Rioter talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-a...
lol a long and stumbling conspiracy-theory filled presentation by Mike Benz at NatCon conference had to be stopped by organizers. "I'm on page 3 of 30" he said while being led off stage.
Border czar Tom Homan gets a standing O at the National Conservatism Conference. "We're prioritizing public safety threats and national security threats...but if you're in the country illegally, you're not off the table." "Just wait and see what happens this coming year” "Chicago, it's coming.”
“They were the leaders of an incomplete revolution that remade American society.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Wouldbe Trump assassin is having himself a moment in his docket.
“The Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act remade America into something it had never been, bringing the nation closer to what it fancied itself to be.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
This Adam Serwer piece has always stuck with me and really makes you reflect on the stage we’re at in this USA project. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
It is striking the extent to which a certain segment of politicians are now pretending that American history ended in the mid-1800s.
“Are we doing something with basketballs? Did the president threaten to outlaw basketballs? Do we have to establish a basketball task force now?” theonion.com/trump-aides-...
Nory Sontay Ramos was a thriving high school student in L.A. until she and her mom were deported by the Trump administration in July. For @msnbc.com, we visited her in Guatemala as she tries to graduate remotely while hiding from the same gang they fled years ago. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/n...
D.C. grand jury declines to indict another defendant amid Trump's crime crackdown www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
Judge rules Trump illegally deployed National Guard to L.A. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
On the other corner of 14th and U.
Art depicting “Sandwich Guy” now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.
Trump take LEGO www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...
Chantilly is a main processing facility for those arrested by ICE during Trump's DC crackdown. ACLU attorney Sophia Gregg told @msnbc.com: Conditions are "rapidly degenerating" & "ICE is holding up to 80 people in a single room for more than a week at a time" w/no access to lawyers
“They just give us one burrito with water,” an undocumented immigrant who was detained at Chantilly for an entire day told me. He & his dad were arrested during 2nd week of Trump's DC takeover. His father spent ~6 days at Chantilly, which a holding facility, not equipped for long-term detention
NEWS: ICE's Chantilly office is a "black box" where conditions are increasingly dire, attorneys & a relative of person detained tell @msnbc.com - 1 meal a day = a single burrito - some 40-90 ppl crammed into room, sleeping on concrete - Some held as long as 7 days www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/v...
Democrats probe Trump administration's retreat from public corruption cases www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser today praised Trump for flooding the city with federal law enforcement. “We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD has been able to do in this city." 😐 www.huffpost.com/entry/muriel... via @delaneyrules.bsky.social @phillewis.bsky.social
"My friend Victor like saved me though, because he laid on top of me. But he got hit." 10-year-old describes witnessing Minneapolis shooting.
In years to come, we will (hopefully) look back at this era — in which we allowed, even encouraged, morally bankrupt huckster propagandists to get rich by lying to credulously followers — with the requisite disgust
NEW: Reuters examined more than 500 local-court cases filed since the start of Trump's takeover of policing in D.C. Nearly half of the cases involving federal agents have been for comparatively minor charges, including public drinking and marijuana. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
If you love the lede credit me if you hate it blame @garygrumbach.bsky.social.
WASHINGTON — You could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, the saying goes, but, in Washington, a federal grand jury just declined to indict a man for throwing a salami sub. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Salami!
Strong reporting here, and cites NBC News scoop from a bit back:
A notorious Pennsylvania election denier is now a top official for "election integrity" at the Department of Homeland Security www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...
Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024)
"How did tariffs impact the ring?"
SCENE: NBC NEWS OFFICE MINUTES AFTER SWIFT NEWS @smmimms.bsky.social: "What's the Hill angle?" Me two seconds later: "Two beneficiaries of Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill..."
"A lot of that has to do with social media coverage and media coverage, the prevalence of videos... people feel as though crime is a lot worse because they're hearing a lot more about local crimes..." Putting that media studies degree to work.
A man has been charged with spitting "a mixture of saliva and mucus" on two South Carolina National Guardsmen stationed at Union Station on Friday. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NEWS: A Trump-appointed judge has swiftly dismissed a Trump lawsuit filed against Maryland-based federal judges over their handling of immigration cases: www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Golden Age of Josh, indeed! www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/ryan-...
'The most illegal search': Judges push back against D.C. criminal charges www.npr.org/2025/08/26/g...
Judge Warns Of 'Lawlessness' In Trump's DC Policing Takeover www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-...
I have literally never heard of three no bills. Even two on a case is incredibly unusual. Any former AUSAs ever hear of such a thing?
SCOOP: Trump's BLS pick E.J. Antoni -- who many economists have flagged as unqualified -- will face a hearing before the Senate HELP committee. Over 30+ years, only 1 of the last 6 BLS chiefs had a committee hearing talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-e...
The federal system doesn't use cash bail. I fail to see how this proposal — the federal govt insisting that states use a system that the federal govt *itself* does not use — could survive even rational basis review.
If you assault an officer with an American flag, pardon. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
1) ABC/NBC should lose license or pay hefty fees because their reporting is mean to him. 2) MD should maybe lose bridge repair funds because Wes Moore was mean to him. 3) The feds should investigate Chris Christie for Bridgegate because he was mean to him.
Donald Trump berated NBC and ABC as “two of the worst and most biased networks in history,” adding he’d support the FCC in revoking licenses to their television stations.
Reframing Jan. 6: After the Pardons, the Purge www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/n...
Okay that’s pretty good too
Faced down George Wallace AND has an avant-garde official portrait. Legendary. www.justice.gov/ag/bio/katze...
Kudos to @ryanjreilly.com for his TV interview background: the official, controversially modernist, DOJ portrait of U.S. Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach.
ICE director says agents won't be at D.C. schools on the first day — but may be going forward www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
"The President was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects."
Ghislaine Maxwell on Trump: "And I just want to say that I find -- I -- I admire his extraordinary achievement in becoming the President now...." www.justice.gov/storage/audi...
Moped delivery drivers disappearing from DC streets under Trump’s police takeover — which is looking more like an immigration crackdown than anything else www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Video of a scary scene in Adams Morgan last night is making the rounds on DC listservs. The feds (presumably ICE) seemed to be making immigration/traffic stops. When protesters started shouting, one pointed his Taser at them until other protesters tried to deescalate things...
JD Vance: "WE'RE in the very early stages of an ongoing investigation into John Bolton... WE are investigating Amb. Bolton..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
Under threat from the White House of government retribution if they did not comply, two major law firms -- Paul, Weiss and Kirkland & Ellis -- are now doing free legal work for the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...
To the year! 🤣
It’s that time again
In a 1983 opinion by Ted Olson(!), DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel concluded that assigning JAG lawyers to serve as Special Assistant U.S. Attorneys violated a statute that bans military officers from exercising the duties of a civil office. Then, Congress authorized it. This is dumb—but legal.
SCOOP: As the National Guard takes over the streets of DC, military officers are now going to be detailed to prosecute civilian criminal cases for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Justice Department is investigating whether D.C. police manipulated crime data. @ryanjreilly.com has the latest.
The DOJ is investigating whether D.C.'s police force manipulated data on the city's crime. @ryanjreilly.com and Garrett Haake have more details. Former FBI Senior Counterterrorism Official Christopher O'Leary joins @alivitali.bsky.social to share his analysis. www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-...
TONIGHT: More states send their national guard troops to D.C. – major retailers warn they may raise prices due to Trump’s tariffs. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social @ryanjreilly.com @carolleonnig.bsky.social @lacaldwelldc.bsky.social @ivodaalder.bsky.social @chafkin.bsky.social @eltragon.bsky.social
you rarely encounter a perfect intro..........but when you do
Let’s go Phils!
My all-purpose AI reform is banning computers from pretending they are human. Having names, saying "I," pretending to have feelings, representing what they emit as "advice," etc. That's where much of the mischief starts.
Our original reporting: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
SCOOP The White House said EJ Antoni—Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics—went to the Capitol on Jan 6th after seeing it on the news But a now-deleted Twitter account bearing his name shows someone deeply enmeshed in far-right election conspiracies www.wired.com/story/twitte...
Great reporting from @wired.com and @davidgilbert.bsky.social here, building on our reporting from last week: www.wired.com/story/twitte...
“A federal judge granted an injunction on Friday blocking the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation of Media Matters…” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...
Attorney General Pam Bondi rescinds order on government control of D.C. police www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
As if this week were not bizarre enough: Mount Pleasant residents tell me a group of federal agents gathered for a photo-op near a pro-immigrant banner, pictured below, then tore it down. In its place, they left a dildo. A neighbor's Ring camera captured the whole thing...
“Free DC” chants outside federal courthouse ahead of emergency hearing to block Trump’s takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Well well, looks like we found a ham sandwich a grand jury won't indict (Saving this for if the DC sub guy walks.)
BREAKING: Federal prosecutors said today they went to a grand jury twice to indict a D.C. woman for assaulting an FBI agent during an arrest by ICE — and were twice rejected. Notably, she faces the same charge as the District's alleged sandwich thrower. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
WASHINGTON —
NEW: Inside the culture of fear that has taken hold within Smithsonian museums in D.C., as White House officials wage an authoritarian-style censorship campaign to “ensure alignment” with Trump’s preferred version of American history. "Everyone is so scared." www.huffpost.com/entry/smiths...
My report for MSNBC: www.msnbc.com/chris-jansin...
How was Trump BLS nominee EJ Antoni identified in the crowd at Jan. 6? He was spotted in one of the many Parler videos archived by @propublica.org You can see him cross through the bottom-center portion of the screen starting at around 1:41 in this clip: projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...
See the man circled here? That's E.J. Antoni, Trump's Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee, walking through a crowd of Capitol rioters. #ICYMI, we've got an archive of 500+ Parler videos taken during Jan. 6. You can spot Antoni starting at around 1:41 here: projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...
MAGA has a new hero: a whistleblower who claims she saw Bill Barr frame Trump for election fraud in 2020. But she's also an accused fraudster on an epic scale, on the run from the FBI, and stole pictures of a baby to make it look like her own. @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/flimsy-mag...
Meta permits its AI chatbots to “engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” generate false medical information and help users argue that Black people are “dumber than white people," according to a policy document seen by @reuters.com. www.reuters.com/investigates...
New byline dropped
Failed New Mexico candidate gets 80 years in prison for shootings at officials' homes www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
(NBC News) - President Donald Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a "bystander" who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news. @ryanjreilly.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
NEW: Trump Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee was bystander outside Capitol on Jan. 6, White House says www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
The Air Force and Navy are poised to cancel two nearly complete projects worth about $800 million because they want Salesforce and billionaire Peter Thiel's Palantir, to have a chance to win similar projects. The result could be a costly do-over. www.reuters.com/world/us/how...
The number of children injured or killed by cars while walking or riding a bike has fallen steadily since the 1970s, but CDC researcher note that this decline is not because streets are safer, but because fewer kids are out and about in the first place.
Gonna go on the teevee. With Chris Jansing this afternoon and later with Kaitlan Collins
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