folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse
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folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse
Judge Katsas: “The President removed Lisa Cook her position as a Governor of the Federal Reserve System based on apparent misrepresentations Cook had made in applying for home mortgages…” Me: *taps sign* MORTGAGE APPLICATIONS AND MORTGAGE AGREEMENTS ARE NOT THE SAME THING
Kudos to Coates for situating @ezraklein.bsky.social in history as the type of man willing to pay "the unfortunate price of white unity." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
Kirk had absolutely ZERO commitment to the political liberalism of reasoned public debate that Klein thinks he believes in. He was a primary organizer of an attempt to violently overturn an election. If you wonder why liberalism is no longer a fighting faith, look no further.
These folks did not sign up to occupy American cities
when team no fight / centrist dems lose Ezra Klein ….
Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy
oh I’m sorry your city doesn’t have CULTURE
The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering
Rhode Island passed a law banning mandatory anti-union employee meetings. Union-busting law firm Littler Mendelson held a webinar for employers about the law. And they essentially told employers... to break the law! We got the transcript and the PowerPoint: prospect.org/justice/2025...
Nothing is certain except death, taxes, and highway engineers surprised by induced demand
EU auto sales for July. Battery-electric sales are up almost 50% YoY outside of Tesla, where they're down over 40% as TSLA market share collapses. PHEV and hybrid sales are also rising rapidly while internal combustion engine sales continue to fall.
i really mean this pretty literally: yglesias cannot process the idea of believing in something. he only processes the world transactionally. he thinks pursuing a cause that does not have a clear route to success is being a "dupe" because it does not fit neatly into some grand bargain.
Judge Katsas, useful idiot, this morning on left. AG Bondi this afternoon on right.
Hey look - Columbia *does* know how to pursue legal remedies rather than reaching an agreement 🙄🙄 www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/08...
I want AI to format my TOC and Appendices in compliance with all of circuit courts' weird local rules. NOT do the fun legal research and analysis parts for me.
NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming. We obtained the memo: newrepublic.com/article/1987...
Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
“writes chris cillizza”
cringe and disturbing the degree to which american politics is currently influenced by grown ass adults who are still resentful about their SAT scores or something
Huge: An internal Interior Department memo that I’ve reviewed shows the agency may soon subject *any* activities related to wind and solar to heightened levels of political review. It threatens to delay renewables projects across the country, including those not on federal lands. #greensky
a bona fide scandal, imo www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...
In Capital, Marx makes fun of John Stuart Mill for his “shallow syncretism” in trying to “harmonize the Political Economy of capital with the claims, no longer to be ignored, of the proletariat.” Basically he was calling Mill an Abundance guy
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group. By Anas Baba
We will also need assembly-line impeachments in Congress to ensure many of these people never return to public office
I genuinely believe the only way we smash fascism is if the next Democratic administration is willing to use prosecutions and investigations in aggressive and norm-bending ways that make a lot of bien pensant legal academics extremely uncomfortable.
If I did not want to be associated with an organization whose mission was contrary to my values, I would simply stop participating in their events
BREAKING: U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has issued a ruling striking down the 2024 Biden-era HIPAA rule protecting reproductive health information from disclosure to law enforcement investigators when it was legally obtained, such as in another state.
A reporter from The City had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, “Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?” www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/b...
Today I’m thinking of all the fathers in Gaza who I’ve seen in photos looking into the lifeless faces of their children, covered in blood and dust. Through their eyes I see my own children and pray for an end to the suffering of all children.
Last night the State Department put out a statement emphatically saying the US had nothing to do with the attacks. This morning, the president posts that he told Israel to do it.
One-third of the 3,600 western soldiers who died in Afghanistan were from non-US ISAF contingents. Some countries whose militaries bore especially heavy burdens relative to their size and fought in difficult provinces include the UK, Canada, Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Georgia, and Romania
Exclusive: I have confirmed that the federal government is still refusing to process permit applications for land-based wind projects almost six months into the Trump administration. Not just offshore. It threatens untold billions of capital investments in the United States. via @heatmap.news
Got my hands on an internal IRS report on how Direct File went this season. TLDR: pretty well. 94% of users said their experience was excellent or above average. That said, the IRS is reportedly killing the free tax filing service. www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
Amazon Teases Next James Bond Will Face Off Against Threat Of Collective Bargaining theonion.com/amazon-...
LPE friends - CONFERENCE UPDATE!! ⏰☎️ Planning is still underway for the first annual LPE conference, launching a new LPE Association, but we're pushing the dates to FEBRUARY 5-7, 2026. We'll be putting out a CFP by August with information about how and what to submit. Until then, save the new date!
In trying to save for-cause removal protections for the Federal Reserve in Trump v Wilcox, did SCOTUS create new problems under the private nondelegation doctrine? I explore on JREG www.yalejreg.com/nc/the-feds-...
Me: It doesn't feel right to go watch the World Cup in authoritarian countries. I wish it could be right here in the US of A!
Dear circuit judges deciding whether to go senior, dudes like these are who they’ll try to replace you with.
on January 6th, while attempting to overthrow an election, multiple rioters wore Nazi paraphernalia. they declared their intent to murder elected officials. the right stood steadfastly behind them and are now more powerful than ever. you can stand behind someone waving a Mexican flag.
Wild that a high ranking federal prosecutor in Tennessee resigned in protest over the case against Abrego Garcia and this story only mentions it 10 paragraphs deep abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...
Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits
Thinking of starting a tradition in my house where we burn a confederate flag on Juneteenth
Again, responsive emergent protest is not deeply organized or able to patrol its membership. Demanding Civil Rights Era demonstration discipline off a random crowd off the street is setting the stage for demonization of the "riot" and narratively empowering its suppressors
(If you ignore Senior Judges): There are 165 ways you can draw a panel from 11 judges. Only 1 way to get all 3 Trump judges. 1/165 = .61% chance. Given the last few motions panels have had majority R judges (25% each time), it is just hard to believe that selection is random.
Illinois today
Russ lies each time he talks about impoundment All of Nixon’s impoundment cases were decided on PRE-ICA law, & he lost every case that was decided on the merits The ICA then GRANTED impoundment authority that didn’t exist before You can’t legally impound w/out explicit allowance & you never could
for what it is worth this is actually a more common practice in congressional offices than just nancy mace
h/t @aidanglc.bsky.social
Hell yeah
Me, logging on to work after the long weekend
Jeffrey Dahmer is literally one of the most popular people in history. 89% of Americans say they like to eat red meat. But they put him in jail? I can’t believe this.
The Americans is an all-timer, really does have the mileage for endless rewatches
Repost w/ the five shows you would be happy to rewatch over and over again for the rest of your life, as your sole TV diet The Sopranos Star Trek: DS9 Batman: The Animated Series Battlestar Galactica (BSG75) The X-Files
2017 nostalgia take
The Fed *Banks* may be quasi-private but the *Board* which governs them is indisputably an agency—it promulgates rules under the APA—with the Chair as its head. Bad reasoning and bad history. Congress looked more to the central banks of Germany and France for inspiration than the 1st & 2nd Bank.
Judge James Ho’s campaign for the Supreme Court enters a new phase—bashing the Supreme Court itself for reversing him, and aligning himself with Alito’s dissent. reason.com/wp-content/u...
“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”
Using the Congressional Review Act to repeal California’s CAA waiver could set off this chain of events: CA could act like the disapproval is invalid; a regulated entity could then sue; CA argues there’s no jurisdiction per 5 USC 805; the Trump admin could attempt to coerce CA through other means
Maybe you should have asked her those questions before you voted to confirm her, Senator.
JUST IN: Attorneys for Burmese and Vietnamese migrants accuse the Trump administration deporting them to South Sudan in violation of a court order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
In April, Coinbase announced changes to its user agreement that added two clauses limiting class action lawsuits and requiring lawsuits to be filed in New York. The changes apply to disputes initiated after May 15. On May 14, Coinbase disclosed a data breach.
Tesla represents 75% of the workplace safety complaints against car manufacturers. Why do you think he wants OSHA shut down?
There is going to be a direct line from this legislation to the next financial crisis. Very short-sighted. But even short-term, Dems shouldn’t have co-signed the obvious opportunities here for corruption and illicit finance.
If Trump successfully installs his heinously corrupt henchman on the 3rd Circuit, it will be because SENATE DEMOCRATS refused to confirm Biden's nominee to this very seat—based on their own Islamophobia and credulous embrace of bigoted GOP smears. Just a total nightmare top to bottom.
🚨🚨🚨 The Supreme Court has just allowed Trump to strip as many as 350,000 people of legal status, effectively IMMEDIATELY. Every Venezuelan granted TPS through the July 31, 2023 designation has been rendered undocumented as of now, significantly increasing the undocumented population.
13. Second, historically, there has not been a problem joining multiple habeas cases in a single proceeding. Early federal habeas laws referred to “person or persons” or “prisoners or prisoners” obtaining “his or their” writs. As an example, here’s language from habeas statutes in 1679 and 1833.
Editor: You get those photos of the air traffic controller? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
GR: She's being held under 1225(B)(1). This is first time I've heard gov say she's being removed under (B)(2) but that's not possible...gov has said she's being held for consideration of her asylum claim, which is the language of (B)(1). Can't switch to B(2) when they feel like it...
Definitely conflating local zoning/planning processes with federal or state level processes for other kinds of regulations. In my field, electricity regulation, local, state, and federal regs often all apply and imprecise descriptions do not help people understand who is responsible for what.
Maybe this seems trivial, and some mishandling of facts by an inexpert reporter is fine, but it becomes a problem when that inexpert reporter is holding themselves out as an expert and personally advising the Democratic party on government reform
Maybe in part but he’s definitely also talking about the federal level, as indicated by reference to Stewart’s work on federal legislation.
For non-lawyers: notice-and-comment rulemaking, with rare exception, almost never happens in person.
One reason to ignore the “abundance” critique of regulation is that the authors have no idea what they are talking about. Fellow admin law nerds: what could Ezra Klein possibly be talking about in this interview with Jon Stewart? The error suggests other fundamental misunderstandings of his subject
Please don't put in the newspaper that 28 children laughed at me
Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...
Does she not know what the Library of Congress is?
Really unfortunate that the best citation format (Bluebook) is used by the least serious academic field (law)
Will they serve Malort at the vatican to honor the chicago pope
Will they serve Malort at the vatican to honor the chicago pope
New pope went to Villanova, Philadelphia remains center of the universe
If the pope is a villanova grad, does that mean he is gonna have a march madness bracket
“Congratulate Cardinal _____ on a new position at Catholic Church”
A Philly Sheriff’s Office civilian employee accidentally fired a gun in the office. The shooter, who colleagues said works in HR, sustained a graze wound to his leg when his gun went off. Police are investigating.
The facts here are pretty clear: this guy needs to be sent to prison. It’s an offense to every public servant who diligently complied with ethics requirements and made financial sacrifices to preserve public trust. I hear El Salvador is lovely this time of year. www.propublica.org/article/cfpb...
Sesame Street is a national treasure. This is horrible. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
Holy shit, just three years into its existence, the nonprofit Baltimore Banner has won its first Pulitzer.
Americans are losing interest in buying a car @newsweek.com www.newsweek.com/americans-lo...
Do I really have to start the day here
Much of the New Deal state was built by very young, optimistic lawyers orbiting around Felix Frankfurter that FDR called the "happy hot dogs." The DOGE boys are a strange historical pairing—a similarly young cadre but possessing a deeply pessimistic view of the state and humanity
Some good news: the Second Circuit looks poised to revive a class-action suit against insulin makers for price-fixing www.law360.com/articles/233...
WSJ: After tech to manage air traffic failed several times in recent days, 20% of the FAA controllers at Newark Airport walked out. Now, United has canceled 35 daily RT flights from Newark. FAA staffing at Newark is too low to handle the planes scheduled, United's CEO said. Gift link!
a very good feeling is getting a book from the library that you were considering purchasing and then finishing it and thinking "that sucked ass, i'm so glad i get to give this shit back"
look, if someone compared my halal restaurant to the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem I'd put that in all my publicity
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.
First, nothing came of this stop, so it’s not evidence of anything, let alone human trafficking. Second, why is the media treating this as anything other than a pathetic attempt at character assassination?