Fun fact: Maria Colina Machado SUPPORTS Donald Trump sinking fishing boats off their coast.

This is particularly rich after oral arguments in Barrett v. United States

Oh yeah that’ll teach him a lesson he’ll not soon forget

Brett Kavanaugh assures me this is the sort of minor inconvenience that shouldn't disturb anyone.

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

We have a whole new website dedicated to the "burning" question.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Hey, remember the impassioned defense of free speech, especially on college campuses, that Utah Gov. Spencer Cox made after Charlie Kirk was assassinated? Well... www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

I've been banging this drum for the past four months or so: DOGE and Russ Vought broke the appropriations process. What's the point of going through the arduous process of crafting 12 spending bills, clearing them through committee and getting them through two chambers if Trump does rescissions?

I'm not even trying to make light, this is horrific. It's just... If you're shooting at Presbyterian USA ministers only 9 months into your modern presidency, something has gone sideways

Idc who you offer up prayers or good vibes or positive thoughts into an unknowing universe or whathaveyou. Dolly Parton has brought good into the world in many ways. So for her, we pray.

Among other things the reason is apparently "time spent looking at the CCTV footage", indicating that BTP have *still* not understood the binary chop algorithm despite having it explained to them by numerous angry computer science professors.

Notice her non-answer. This is explosive. Should be explosive. The US AG who said she had the Epstein files on her desk cannot say whether or not the FBI has pix of Trump with half-naked women, which one witness who knew Epstein has said he has seen.

It's amazing how everyone supporting her seems to forget she wasn't cancelled at all. She quit. And almost immediately was able to launch this new publication. How the hell was she cancelled? Some people criticized shitty takes. That's not being cancelled.

This is rampant lawlessness The law says what it says, and Russ Vought doesn't get to unilaterally change that www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

It's okay to say "we don't know, and we affirmatively don't know, and we want to be clear that lots of stuff we can't see could have happened, and those patterns could matter, and a straight line is going to shape how ppl recall this graph forever, and that could be bad, so: big blank white space."

"Other Times staffers at the orientation then “started snapping their fingers in acclamation,” he wrote." Of all the things that never happened, this is among the never happenedest.

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

It is appalling that we have—for DECADES now—allowed ourselves to become inured to having our streets patrolled by paramilitary police. We need laws that make it impossible for law enforcement to roll out like this outside the RAREST of times.

I think it should be socially and legally acceptable to smack these clean off somebody's face if they're filming you against your will

The Iron Law of Institutions

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

There is no way Tapper conducted an interview with the wannabe fascist dictator over text. How gullible does he think we are? How gullible is HE?

Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg raised her fist as she and about 160 other Global Sumud Flotilla participants arrived in Greece to roaring cheers. Crowds welcomed them after their release from illegal Israeli detention. Greta later addressed supporters — her remarks are below.

This. Immigrants are awesome, and I wish we weren’t so afraid to say it.

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We urge the immediate release of David Adler, a close CEPR collaborator, and other members of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Thank you to @rokhanna.bsky.social for your support — we hope other US lawmakers will follow this lead.

what red line? you can't even say this is only true for white americans. just ask rachel corrie.

This certainly doesn’t bode well

Americans should not be able to opt into a legal system that’s alien to American values, arbitrary, riddled with dogma, deferential to power, and premised on unearned authority, and that’s why we’re banning … Sharia Law? Shit I thought you guys were going after arbitration clauses

‼️ literally. I know I've written about this before (most recently, when the Court gave our Social Security data to Big Balls) but it bears repeating imo that the theoretical purpose of emergency shadow docket relief is to prevent serious, imminent real world harm ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/big-b...

I’ll always have a little soft spot for EK for recognizing the importance of, and promoting, The Graph. I think at the time it was to him more significant than just one step into this darker world he is swimming in

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza. Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military. They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

The question is not "why do they get ER visits paid for?" but "why doesn't everybody?"

I find this attempt to rewrite history to absolve the media of its failures problematic. We can't get better coverage if we won't acknowledge how the media failed. And this @politico.com piece that I referenced did not reflect that "everyone was very skeptical" www.politico.com/news/2024/10...

Why would the media cover it as lying when they were actively involved in spreading the lie?

Are we doing simulations wrong? This paper convinced me we are. doi.org/10.1098/rstb... Usually we run 2 sets of "worlds" w and w-out intervention. Gives large uncertainties that include negative (harm) effects of interventions that are actually always positive (beneficial)!

Experts are divided about whether President Trump is doing fascism right

Also in the running, also from POLITICO. www.politico.com/news/2024/10...

it is completely accurate to say that the entirety of the supreme court’s 2025 jurisprudence is “it may or may not be legal for trump to do what he is doing, but it is illegal to stop him”

it makes me incandescently furious that roberts invented the idea of banning coercive conditions on funding to kill medicaid expansion and refuses to do a single thing about the fact that the trump administration's entire deal is "coercive conditions on funding"

He also invented “major question” doctrine which bans Biden from doing things clearly authorized by law but apparently allows Trump to eliminate a congressionally-mandated agency.

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025. Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan. Legacy media failed the country.