I've never seen a series finale as funny, emotionally impactful and downright spectacular as last night's Late Show! What a pleasure it was to meet the hundreds of staff members and thank them personally (and pose for selfies) for entertaining us for more than a decade. ♥️🙏-mh #GoneButNeverForgotten

Stephen Colbert has been a gift for 11 years- brilliant, stunningly knowledgeable, kind & hilarious . From his home, he with his family, helped us thru dark pandemic times. He won 11 Emmy Awards, 2 Grammys & 3 Peabody Awards. Thank you for all of it Stephen. We'll miss you ❤️

We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.

Fuck the character limit. I get to say this because it feels like it matters to do so.

An ancient Greek silver coin depicting a bee! 🐝 😍 Minted in Ephesus, 390-380 BC. Photo Getty Museum #Archaeology

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was released #OTD 1998. Director: Terry Gilliam. #Filmsky

Hi, it's your neighborhood grocery store. We rearranged everything again for no reason so you won't be able to find basic items for a few months. Anyway, take care.

My cat was having a nightmare so I whispered to her and petted her until she woke up, then petted her a little more I went back to my computer to keep programming and I turn around and she's moved to be right next to me This is what it means to be a mother

/28 Postscript: In evaluating the judge’s reaction, bear in mind she was an AUSA for 12 years, including in supervisory positions.

/27 Anyway, once again, decent humans who are AUSAs now: get out. Get out now.

/26 But I digress. This gets worse and worse. And even when we get a different administration, DoJ will be permanently crippled by this. You can’t get that trust back. There need to be severe consequences. Personally I think a lot of this is less truth-and-reconciliation and more pock-marked wall.

/25 [I found that to be regrettably ignorant for a DA who practices before the grand jury. But they made him a judge, so that fixes it, I guess?]

/24 The line AUSAs committed misconduct. At least one was too stupid to grasp it. His excuse reminded me of the deputy DA who said to the judge in a case “I am going to look into this Fifth Amendment more carefully” after telling grand jury witnesses they could not take the Fifth.

/23 Responsibility is not a zero-sum game. It can be held by several people without diminishing anyone’s share. The administration set the tone here and gave the marching orders. It also started sending inexperienced dipshits to do grown-up jobs in politically motivated cases.

/22 Heads should roll. Careers should end. If DoJ won’t do it, the legal community should do it for them. This is appalling and unacceptable behavior throughout, at all levels of this office. The lower attorneys committed misconduct. Boutros was complicit in hiding it from the court.

/21 Boutros announces the government is dismissing the charges with prejudice — meaning they cannot be re-filed. The judge is not particularly impressed.

/20 Boutrous attempts to argue that because they previously once offered to provide unredacted transcripts they must not have been trying to hide the ball. Which would be convincing if these people were competent or understood from the start they’d done wrong. They’re not and they didn’t.

/19 The defense points out that the AUSAs stood mute when the court speculated it was only a few lines redacted and probably just IT issues, even though they knew pages had been left out and the stuff redacted and left out was catastrophic.

/18 Boutrous, still not reading the room, about how terrible the defendants are.

/17 Boutrous admits he knew about the vouching and dealt with it by dismissing the felony - but not by disclosing to the judge.

/16 “We didn’t go to a fresh grand jury after we vouched and wrongly excluded people because that would be grand jury shopping” is a truly Trump DoJ excuse.

/15 Yes I missed /13. Because you touch yourself at night.

/14 Mr. Boutros, the US Attorney, admits he KNEW about the vouching and it led them to decide to dismiss the felony — but NOT to disclose it to the court. Also: he learned of the “excusing” of grand jurors, and told the supervising judge, but NOT this judge.

/12 The US Attorney himself cannot read a room for SHIT

/11. AUSA suggests that when grand jurors voted no bill the first time, they asked grand jurors who had “made up their mind” not to participate in the next ones.

/10 Trumpist prosecutor: well, firstly, this was only my second grand jury hearing ever, I am but a smol bean, and secondly, I just found out that vouching is bad? Holy fucking shit this is humiliating for DoJ.

/9 Defense lawyer: Can this plz go RIGHT TO THE TOP Judge: Oh fuck yeah

/8 Next, the judge tells them that (1) she wasn’t inclined to find vindictive prosecution before but now she’s revisiting, and (2) there are sanctions and findings of ethical violations coming.

/7 This encapsulates how Trumpism and Trumpist prosecutors have destroyed, probably for a generation at least, the reputation of DoJ and federal prosecutors.

/6 Next: the judge calls them out for hiding the ball and redacting this obviously illegal stuff and lying about it.

/5 Every single prosecutor knows that’s wrong. Second, you CAN’T COMMUNICATE WITH GRAND JURORS OFF THE RECORD. Every prosecutor knows that. Third, getting rid of grand jurors who don’t vote for you? What the fucking fuck?

/4 “Vouching” is when a prosecutor asks a grand jury or jury to just trust them rather than rely on evidence: “I am a federal prosecutor, I have had this job for twenty years, and you can rely on me when I say there is additional strong evidence that shows they are guilty,” that sort of thing.

/3 Here’s the judge’s initial summary for the benefit of the defense, which hadn’t seen the transcripts yet. It’s very bad.

/2 Second: federal judges don’t talk like this unless it’s REALLY bad, and it is.

Some notes now that I’ve seen the transcript of the hearing, thanks to @lizdye.bsky.social . First: the government dismissed the felony count in an effort to convince the judge not to make them produce full transcripts, knowing they showed serious misconduct.

What if we kissed on the gay train? 🤭

I read this yesterday and it struck a chord. "The US isn't the way it is because he's the President... he's the President because the US is the way it is." 🤔 I think I finally understand. It's not just him... it's almost half of you. Pity.

Cybertrucks absolutely have a 'wade mode' and every owner should try it

The selected artwork is titled "Echoes in Chlorine", a captivating contemporary painting created by the Canadian artist Rebecca Aldernet.

Apologies to the older folks we used to judge for eating dinner at 5 and being in bed by 9. You guys were really on to something.

I'm so sick of the "cats just see you as a food dispenser" takes. I worked in a vet clinic, and it's definitely not true. If you take good care of your cat, they really do love you in a simple cat way. How do I know? Cats are actually very social; they naturally live in colonies.

Why should any American pay their taxes? If the President can get a lifetime pass on tax fraud, why can’t we?

After Stephen Colbert’s final show tonight, I look forward to never watching a CBS propaganda program ever again in my life.

I predict that this will be another year when a bunch of Americans will learn how difficult it is to produce your own food

"White Cat & Small Pond" Art by Lyn Chao Yu #MenWithCats

Rarely has any film so boldly presented its methods in plain view. Jeff sits in his wheelchair, holding a camera with a telephoto lens, like a movie camera would. What he sees, we see. What conclusions he draws, we draw, all without words, because the pictures add up to a montage of suspicion.

Sunbathing #London #photography #art #photo #streetphoto #candidphoto #streetshot #candid #streetphotographer #streetphotography #Street

When your dog has a sense of humor. 😆

Katalin Karikó is one of the most extraordinary scientific stories of this era. A girl from a modest Hungarian household helped develop technology that saved millions of lives worldwide. In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that enabled effective mRNA vaccines.

I really wish streaming platforms let you mark a show or movie as “not interested” so it would permanently disappear from your recommendations.