Ah yes, because the problem worthy of public debate is what we *call* it when #SCOTUS decides major issues without full briefing, argument, or written opinions—not, you know, what the Court is actually *doing* in these cases. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Wild when New York Times reporters are or are not allowed to opine. If you think antivax lunatic RFK Jr. "makes good points" about COVID and vaccination, you can say so. If you think the Trump administration's egregious rights violations are bad, you keep that out of the paper, don't be biased.
So Hegseth’s missiles were fired at a boat: ✅ they had no idea where it was going ✅ they had no idea who was on it ✅ they had no established authority to act ✅ but definitely wanted to murder whoever was on it Everyone involved should rot in prison forever
National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
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⤵️
All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.
"the typical black American has much deeper American roots than the typical white American. Trump himself, whose grandparents were all foreign-born, is an excellent example of relatively shallow white American roots." www.niskanencenter.org/logic-populi...
If you have "a great governor who wants us to come in," why isn't that governor just ... calling out his own National Guard?
Also, Jeffries is propping up a series of dangerous fictions -- Trump sincerely wants to help Americans, legislation is still how we get things done, Trump will work to us to do that -- that only provide cover for Trump. Trump's clearly pushed Congress aside! So say it! And fucking act like it!
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. "Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
15 seconds of pure, golden TRUTH from Dame Emma Thompson! 😄
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...
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
JUST IN: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to extend rapid-fire deportation procedures to immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than two years — warning that it is a flagrant deprivation of due process that could ensnare anyone. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
Gotta say Joni deciding to pull her objections to Hegseth to spare herself a primary challenge only to not even run for re-election is incredibly on brand for a Very Serious National Security Republican
The Minneapolis shooter was apparently a fan of several mass murderers who were motivated by the same "Great Replacement Theory" that has pretty much taken over the Republican Party.
The party that claims to care about law and order sends the military to pick up trash in DC but has nothing to say about the regular massacre of children in schools under than ‘thoughts and prayers.’
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
It's fitting that "kitchen table issues" is a reference to sitting down at your kitchen table to pay your snail-mail bills and balance your checkbook on physical paper, something which has been obsolete for decades.
Chris Rufo has made it explicit a couple times, but I still think it can be difficult to fully grasp how dishonesty and insincerity are the standard modes of communication for the right wing. They communicate by media manipulation, engage in that manipulation, and accept that they are manipulated
I don’t watch cable news but my dad caught a perfect typo in the chyron.
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
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This gerrymandering crisis in Texas has its roots in an ideological Supreme Court decision from 2019 and a stolen Supreme Court seat.
Them: But it's not fair to say they supported "white supremacy," that's just your woke spin on the past The Past:
Have to disagree with @npr.org. Putin did *not* invade Ukraine to prevent NATO troops from getting any closer to Russia. NATO has bordered the USSR and then Russia since its founding in 1949. Currently the Baltic states and now Finland border Russia. Putin invaded Ukraine to conquer it. Period.
BREAKING: A federal court has blocked Texas public school districts from displaying the Ten Commandments in every classroom thanks to an ACLU lawsuit!
I can’t understand the mindset of a person who sees masked snatch squads disappearing people off the street and thinks “This will never affect me.” How do you convince yourself that once it finishes with all the Bad People the state’s paramilitary kidnapping function is going to disband itself.
From US Dep't of Agriculture v. Moreno (1973) - "[A] purpose to discriminate against hippies cannot, in and of itself ... justify" the challenged law
A murderous dictator has kompromat on the US President and is making him do his bidding. The Cold War never ended for Vladimir Putin. What is happening to America right now is his greatest triumph.
If you find yourself arguing that human beings shouldn't be provided with toothbrushes and toothpaste, you are the 1000% the baddies. The lawyers making this argument for the government should be shunned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
There will be 2026 elections and saying there might not be has us solving for the wrong problem. North Korea, for example, holds "elections." The issue is whether what takes place merits anything close to the moniker "free and fair."
The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.
New ICE data show that the court order banning profiling reduced ICE arrests in LA by 66%! In other words, ICE is effectively admitting that TWO THIRDS of LA arrests were unconstitutional profiling. Did they admit this to the court? NO! They lied to the courts...
This is either a massive new tax or, like the U.S. Steel arrangement, socialism. Why are elite capitalists more worried about a NY mayoral candidate’s corner grocery proposal than this?!?!? U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Trump is panicking because the economic numbers are giving a recession vibe. From the Chief Economist at Moody's.
Just got done talking with two classes of students, which confirmed my suspicion that this is really the first "unreality" election. No two people saw the same thing & many people gave up even trying to know what was happening. "Unreality" propaganda strategy: 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.” I beg to differ. This is curated failure open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
> @huffpost.com www.huffpost.com/entry/july-j...
Epstein hired a teenaged Giuffre out from under Trump in 2000. Trump didn't kick him out of Mar-a-Lago until 2007—a year after the FBI started investigating him for sex trafficking.
Impeachment is meaningless when you can't convict in the Senate
If you se this, post Jack Kirby art
Yes. Somebody, for some reason, forged a perfect Trump drawing and signature 20 years ago to politically damage a guy who was not in politics. Makes perfect sense.
Cutting taxes that disproportionately hit the rich while raising taxes that disproportionately hit the poor and middle classes is surprisingly popular among the oligarchy
I mean. This certainly seems like it should raise First Amendment concerns. You know, if we believed in those sorts of things. www.cnn.com/2025/07/24/m...
One of the many contradictions of Trumpism is that the whole appeal of Trump is that he is waging TOTAL WAR on every other part of society. But then it's totally unfair if anyone else wants to fight back.
How do you end a fillibuster with only 50 votes?
I'm sorry, am I supposed to accept that Trump v. Wilcox, a virtually unreasoned shadow docket stay, has precedential value, but Humphrey's Executor, a near-century-old unanimous merits decision saying presidents can't fire agency heads willy nilly, does not? www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.
The current era of rule by 80+ year old millionaires can't end soon enough
do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists
There's a bombshell story about New York City elites running a sex trafficking ring patronized by the president from New York City and other New York City elites but the New York City elites that run the New York Times say there's no story there so hey, it's all settled, ha ha, hey what's over there
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
truly insane that while the NY times was trying to beat chris rufo the the scoop on mamdani's SAT scores, the murdoch owned wall street journal was uncovering evidence of trump's close ties to the leader of an elite pedo ring
Bondi reportedly put 1,000 people in 24-hour shifts for two weeks in March to review the Epstein files. She made them flag mentions of Trump. And then ... She decided she couldn't release anything. 😯
Nice try AG Pam Bondi. What about videos, photographs and other recordings? What about FBI 302’s (witness interviews)? What about texts and emails? That’s where the evidence about Trump and others will be. Grand jury testimony will only relate to Epstein and Maxwell.
The purpose of the United States Constitution is to prevent the rise of tyranny. It failed to achieve that purpose. We can obviously blame political elites across the spectrum for its failure; but it’s also worth contending with the fact that our political system is no longer fit for purpose.
The Supreme Court derives its power from its legitimacy. It earns its legitimacy by explaining its decisions. The endless stream of wholly unexplained orders in favor of the Trump administration is not just indefensible—it's a threat to the court's own long-term power. This reeks of illegitimacy.
The Supreme Court's disdain for Congress, the statutory design of agencies, and the public services they provide to millions truly astounds. Destroying a 50-year-old Cabinet-level department may be the biggest violation of the Take Care Clause in U.S. history—and six justices simply ... don't care.
The six GOP Justices don't even *try* to explain why they keep leaping in to prevent courts from upholding the Constitution and the laws passed by Congress. By doing so, they send a clearer message than any opinion could: they don't care about the law and don't think laws should bind Republicans.
The Supreme Court should preserve the status quo until legal questions are resolved and explain the disposition of cases for the public. They are abdicating basic principles of equity and failing to fulfill their institutional role. They aren’t pretending to try. There isn’t even the veneer of law.
Will this election use RCV like the primary did?
With the stroke of a pen, Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed off on legislation repealing the paid sick leave provision of a ballot measure that roughly 58 percent of Missourian voters approved in November. https://trib.al/vl7VFnZ
This is not about alligators. The Everglades concentration camp, as described in this article, is effectively: a due process-free zone, a black hole for holding & hiding immigrants, a black site within our borders. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
Illinois grad here. Andreesen's fortune is built on research funded by the NSF at the UIUC super computing lab (NCSA). So on top of the vile racism, he's a hypocrite. "NSF awarded a large grant to NCSA specifically for Mosaic development, enhancement and support." www.nsf.gov/news/mosaic-....
I'm a professor at the flagship university for the fourth whitest state in the US. Over 80% of our students are white. The biggest barrier to access here is that due to lack of state funding, we have top 10 highest tuition per capita of public unis in the country. We also have a food pantry.
Where does the line between enforcing U.S. law & utter inhumanity lie? We don’t need to carefully parse its precise placement in order to understand that what this administration is doing has crossed it, is utterly reprehensible, and will be condemned by history open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
So the Kerr County, Texas commissioners refused Federal ARPA funds for emergency warning systems because of “communism” and the result was they killed over 200 people… This is what hate and GOP rhetoric does to your brain. It’s deadly.
Surprise, surprise. All roads lead to Putin.
NEWS An appeals court may reconsider Trump’s power to deploy the National Guard onto civilian streets. A Ninth Circuit judge called for a vote of the full bench on whether to rehear an appeal en banc in Newsom v. Trump.
SoCal update: US District Court Judge Hernán D. Vera issues temporary restraining order: LAPD cannot interfere with reporters, assault them or use so-called less-lethal munitions against them unless they pose threat order below:
"Cruz inserted language into the reconciliation bill that eliminates a $150m fund to 'accelerate advances & improvements in research, observation systems, modeling, forecasting, and dissemination of info to the public' around weather forecasting."
The "unitary executive theory" is a fancy name for a strategy used by authoritarians worldwide, rebranded for the US. It’s a legal blueprint for a power grab, and my new article explains how it turns the law itself into a tool for undermining democracy:
Trump casually saying Democratic Senators hate our country. Nobody bats an eye, because mainstreaming this rhetoric is what Republicans do now.
I keep thinking about how Gov Abbott had plenty of funds to fly and bus migrants all across the country but couldn't come up with a million for a flood warning system.
Police who keep their identities secret are, quite literally, secret police. I don’t know why this is even controversial. You don’t get to yank people off the streets while hiding your face and identity and still retain the respectability of an accountable, democratic police force.
No exaggeration, this is Declaration of Independence-level tyranny. It's indistinguishable from other "injuries and usurpations" listed by Jefferson in the document. Many don't come close to this level of arrogant hostility.
Democrats aren’t worried about antisemitism, they’re worried about BEING ACCUSED OF BEING WEAK ON ANTISEMITISM, which means they’re hypersensitive to Muslims but absolutely unconcerned about right-wing antisemites, because they know no right-winger will ever try to pin it on them
Now would be a good time for every elected Democrat to declare X an unsuitable platform for public office holders and shut down their account.
The core problem appears to be that the NYT decided to double down on "we must be perceived as objective" rather than "we must report the truth." It's a losing game! The only way to be perceived as credible by the right is to amplify their lies and moral panics.
“.. traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter ..” @niemanreports.org #Hellsite niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...
The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House. When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases. For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
Some of my fellow Jews think a college kid wearing a kaffiyeh is a greater threat to their personal safety than an authoritarian government rounding up people to send to torture camps and the world's richest man who made a Nazi AI, and I'm really not sure what to say to them anymore.
By repeatedly, I mean almost automatically. Of the ~80 cases where federal judges (including many conservative ones) issued injunctions, SCOTUS has now intervened to lift them for 60 cases.
SCOTUS never intervened when federal judges issued nationwide injunctions while Biden was president. Not once. They’ve repeatedly stepped in for Trump. Today, they cleared the way for him to fire tens of thousands of federal workers, overruling lower courts that said he couldn’t without Congress.
This is one of the first dramatic "rubber meets the road" demonstrations of what anyone who knows the *mechanics of modern governance* has been warning about. —A fed agency that *exists* to measure, forecast, and warn about unsafe water levels. —Roster of that agency shows mass purges via DOGE
Crimes per 1M mass transit trips... * NYC: 1.3 * Miami: 2.6 * Dallas: 38.0
Official Start to US Great Depression: October 1929 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act: June 1930 Beginning of Major Financial Panic: November 1930 Official End to US Great Depression: 1940
BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.
Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane. This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.
B-R-I-B-E-R-Y
From The New York Times:
