It smacks of a woefully inexperienced exec who hasn’t remotely considered why “principles” (sic) don’t go on camera, even when invited to, on such docs. Or the effect of granting an effective transmission veto. Or the effect of viewer trust and newsroom morale of last minute cancellations.

This is amazing. So cool. (Also, protip, if you ever need a deep-dive into a community's history the local Catholic parish will have detailed birth, marriage, death records, and usually a ton of other details—if you can get access.)

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Since this is an effort to rewrite history in real time, it’s rather important to note that JD Vance was never asked to apologize for being white and neither was anyone in that room

The entire article is weird framing, but I want to focus on this part for two reasons. First the sloppy writing “doesn’t believe… doesn’t necessarily translates” has multiple errors. Second, centrists might sound less scared if they didn’t bring up Mamdani apropos of nothing.

I promise you with absolute 100% certainty that we are not going to lose the House because Dan Goldman gets primaried from the left

In case people need a refresher: The Trump administration is fighting contempt proceedings y in federal court over what happened “inside CECOT” to human beings unlawfully renditioned there. Bari Weiss’s CBS News is now part of the coverup.

Perhaps we should film a debate between a concentration camp guard and an abandoned toilet over whether CECOT is good. Brought to you by Bank of America.

Republicans control literally every lever of federal power right now.

Lawgeeks, this one is worth a read. Judge goes beyond the usual monetary sanctions into serious correction territory.

Moonlight Sonata. Okay, I dig it.

Apart from the fact that they are taking his name out of documents after already releasing the documents, and how absolutely crazy that is, they had so many months to redact this stuff! There were stories about hundreds of FBI agents being put to work redacting. How are they still redacting???

Being a lawyer in 2025 feels…. Bad.

When your skeet with a typo gets hundreds of reskeets and likes.

Trump's Epstien cover-up is the most incompetent cover-up ever.

Here's a better view of the now-deleted photo showing Trump with Epstein and Trump with a group of young girls. The photo was originally posted as item EFTA00000468 but was later deleted. Now the 'official' list simply jumps from EFTA00000467 to EFTA00000469.

CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...

*taps sign* Any individual member of the House can force a vote on impeachments and anything impeachment-related.

JUST IN: Feds move to dismiss criminal case against Mexican citizen charged with using truck to ram immigration agents during August op in San Diego. 'Additional investigation has caused the U.S. to re-evaluate prosecution in this matter.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Trump administration is protecting "politically exposed individuals" and government officials in the Epstein Files.

I have a helluva cold, and I can't tell if the DH is hopeful this means we won't be making the six-hour trek to his folks' place for Christmas. I suggested we wait to make a decision until we get a little closer.

Over no public dissents, #SCOTUS *denies* Trump administration's application for a stay in the immigration judges case (about whether the dispute should be in a district court or before the Merit Systems Protection Board). It's the Trump administration's first real loss at #SCOTUS since April.

9th Cir., 2-1, holds that it violated the First Amendment for UW to reprimand, withhold a pay bump, and threaten to discipline a professor who mocked indigenous land acknowledgements in a class syllabus. A win for FIRE. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

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In its complaint against D.C., DOJ voting lawyer Brittany Bennett — who was previously involved in a lawsuit seeking to ban Dominion voting machines in Georgia — appears to have accidentally left annotation comments on the filing.

Someone was fucking with the doddering old racist criminal, and he didn't even realize it, and now it's a thing because we live in the absolute dumbest timeline.

To this excellent list, I would add the state high courts that struck abortion bans this year, most notably Montana's, which, in striking a 20-week abortion ban, held that "privacy right challenges under the Montana Constitution trigger strict scrutiny." juddocumentservice.mt.gov/getDocByCTra...

If you hate the shingles vaccine, I can’t begin to tell you how much more you’re gonna hate shingles.

Trump is attempting to bribe his way to a military loyal to him, and not to the United States.

JUST IN: Judge Cobb blocks ICE's policy that limited Congress' ability to visit immigration detention facilities, saying it imposed illegal restrictions by requiring 7-day advanced notice and excluding ICE field offices. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

9th Cir. noting that Judge Ikuta had written and finalized a decision, which had not been filed when she passed. (Decision is about whether DHS "deciding Service officers" are subject to the appointments clause or are mere employees. Held: employees.) cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

Oh, the interal workings of this household . . .

Everyone is 12

I can't wait to not watch it on YouTube either!

1st Cir.: absence of fingerprints on gun found under passenger seat suggested possession by passenger who was seen wearing a latex glove on only one hand. www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...

DC Cir. will allow the continued deployment of National Guard troops in D.C. while the litigation continues. Decision rests on idea that D.C. has no sovereignty (or federalism interest) of its own bc it is not a state. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Did The Reload Podcast this week to talk about the latest, unexpected bonus decision from the 5th Cir. in U.S. v. Peterson, the case about whether silencers are protected by the Second Amendment. This was the panel's third, and hopefully final, shot at the issue.

Uhhh, were they serving roasted Whos for breakfast?

NEW: Pardoned January 6 rioters have been advising Justice Department officials how to pursue – and perhaps prosecute – the very prosecutors who helped put them behind bars. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Smoke Alarm Company: When the battery’s low, it chirps. Satan: Ok SAC: But there’s no other indicator, it chirps just enough to piss you off, and you won’t be able to find it. Satan: mmhm SAC: And the chirp sequence starts during sleeping hours. Satan: Love it. How much capital do you need?

Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules that there are no 4th Amendment rights in your Google search terms. When you search on Google, you tell them your search terms; the government can get those queries without a warrant. The third-party doctrine applies. www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...

6th Cir.: it did not violate street preacher's free speech, free exercise,* or due process rights for Kentucky county to close off some streets and sidewalks during the Kentucky Derby in 2022 and to arrest him for trespassing after he refused to leave area. www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...

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10th Cir. assumes without deciding that unlawfully present noncitizens are part of "the people" protected by the Second Amendment, and holds that it does not violate the right to ban them from firearm possession at Bruen step 2. www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/f...

Not to yuck anyone's yum, but I would be pretty skeptical if someone suggested they managed to sue in federal court over something that happened at the earliest in October, that it already went to trial, and that the judge performed a spontaneous miracle in court absent some more detaily details.

The VF profile notes Wiles was incorrect about violent Jan. 6 defendants receiving greater-than-recommended sentences, but it doesn’t capture how wildly off base she was. I don’t think there was a single above-guidelines sentence given in a J6 felony case. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Calling it the "Marie Antoinette ballroom" is clever - there's an immediate understanding of the meaning there.

I…did not see the closing sentence of this photo caption coming: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...