Aw this warmed my heart

with @slices.network and @microcosm.blue Constellation offering easy indexing on the atmosphere, we’re getting close to a point where forks of the official bluesky client can augment it with non-trivial new features without running their own backend

all the weird right wing zealots who claimed they were being censored and silenced and cancelled now own every single major media and social media company which of course means it's time for another flood of hackish columns by brunchlord failsons about the bluesky echo chamber

words: what the fuck do they mean?

It's going to be tough sledding in a -35 district. But I interviewed Johnson earlier this year for my book. Whip-smart, articulate, empathetic. Just an impressive human being.

You can't raid and arrest everyone in an entire apartment building, or even legitimately get a warrant to do that, any more than you could for a whole neighborhood. That would be a general warrant. This is the most specific core the-British-did-it-to-us thing the Fourth Amendment is written to ban.

Can he do “Recess Appointments” in this time?

The @washingtonpost.com's Emma Uber & @teoarmus.bsky.social caught @mayorbowser.dc.gov in a bald-faced lie. On Tuesday, she said "ICE is not patrolling with MPD." Confronted that day with video of ICE patrolling with MPD and abducting people handed to them by MPD, she was forced to change her tune.

Feel like @durbin.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov @welch.senate.gov should maybe answer that fairly basic question?

The Government can make you sign an NDA?

immediately leaks, ofc www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

1100 Superior just auctioned for ... ~8 million $40+ million go boom "purchased in 2007 for $53,750,000 with loan of $45,750,000... Following an aggressive leasing strategy, which resulted in the lease-up of more than 300,000 square feet from 2012-2014 the property was refinanced at $52,500,000"

Electoral behavior 80 years after the fact has a lot of contributing factors. Nazis were left in positions of power by the western allies who soon prioritized the Cold War. It was being called out as a failure as early as 1948 www.jstor.org/stable/2144399

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump’s own officials and government attorneys are actively concerned that he’s making it harder for them to jail his political enemies, largely by being a massive idiot in public First story by @andrewperez.bsky.social and me for @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/trump-doj-...

A landmark new study in JAMA Pediatrics shows the HPV vaccine is doing exactly what it promised & more. 17yrs after rollout, adolescent vaccination has slashed HPV infxns not only among those vaccinated but also those unvaccinated, showing powerful herd protection. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Good morning!

Season2 Of Maddow’s “Ultra” podcast is highly recommended

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT: www.wbez.org/immigration/...

why does this tool even exist?? oh right techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/t...

This is also one of like, dozens of things where: - a horrifying thing happens / was identified, people outraged - biden admin made a rule to end that thing or kill the contract for said thing - congress did nothing to protect against it in an enduring way - trump admin re-enables horrifying thing

Look, I don't get astounded much, but this is honestly astounding. Shameless and inexcusable.

Didn’t see this anywhere else, Prez walks out after Lockjaw’s psycho speech to zero applause: ‘I’ve never walked into a room so silent before…’

What the fuck is wrong with Senator Blumenthal

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

I'm skimming, but this paragraph stood out:

Oh nothing, there is no scenario I'd vote for it. I would tell him to get fucked. The reason is that his team has already proven they will violate the statutory law. So as the opposition, all you'd be providing is the patina of legitimacy to lawlessness

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Yeah, they are trying to manufacture consent through spectacle and the media laundering legitimacy

you can't flop sweat in here, this is the war dept

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

counterpoint: when anyone self-describes as or believes they are a “master race” & are typically the first ones to bust out the calipers about anyone else, turning the joke back on them falls within the realm of fair game

i'm sorry, i missed the memo that the "master race" is potato

Much respect to @americalabs.org who has been all over this for a while. firstbranchforecast.substack.com/p/vought-of-...

just a quick shoutout to those folks who came on here earlier this year to defend wurman as a legitimate and good faith scholar

Just going to leave this here. I continue to believe that this whole thing is a catastrophe for legal scholarship, and I hope it doesn’t do any more damage. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...

"Dems will get blamed for a shutdown" as opposed to what, all the friendly coverage and positive credit they'd get for caving yet again? This whole premise is built on a delusion about what the alternative is. There's no cowering in the corner and being so inoffensive they won't still attack you.

It's not just bribery. He's now using personal litigation, backed by state extortion, to extract "settlements" which he then puts into an account he created to spend on government work, all entirely outside of Congress taxing or appropriating. It's full Charles I illegal taxation and spending.

NEW: A rather blustery day at Pam Bondi's DOJ. In a new ICE-focused memo implementing Trump's "domestic terrorism" directive, the attorney general says a lot of nothing. Tonight, at Law Dork:

Smart move by two young upstate NY reporters: they filed a FOIA for body cameras worn by the sheriff’s deputies at an ICE raid. These are almost always civil raids so there’s no ongoing criminal investigation that would require that footage to stay confidential. Replicable by any media outlet.

Dear lord this footnote about Kari Lake: her "brazen disinterest in the unambiguous statutory obligations implicates her competence to implement the President’s directives in a manner consistent with fundamental tenets of administrative law."

There's no supremacy clause problem with state bribery laws encompassing payment of bribes to federal officials, and California's statute does, it's not limited to state government bribes. They can and should open a criminal investigation. Not wait for some future DOJ, do a state one right now.

Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?

Every major Democrat has millions in their campaign account. The threat to democracy is big enough that we need to be funding mobilization and messaging right now - not just banking money for the next election. If we don't build right now, there might not be another election.

The price of housing is set by supply and demand. This is a plain fact.

Less than 36 hours away from a shutdown, Republicans chose to fly to North Carolina instead of to DC to do their jobs. This field hearing is just another example of them exploiting tragedy to score political points.