Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding. It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.

Example 1,000 of how this Administration wants crime to happen against certain people. It is actively trying to facilitate it.

It is a total failure of Democratic leadership that every Dem is not decrying the absolute Nazi language that is coming out about the Somali Community. If they can focus on NIL and sports, which the House is, probably they can focus on the attack on an entire community.

it's notable the OU essay thing is happening in the South because it can be seen as the next phase of where Republican anti trans stuff is going. Every red Southern state has passed basically the same policies, the next thing is to do what you can't totally legislate, which is make people go away.

Thank you @vermontgmg.bsky.social for reading and recommending The Highest Law in the Land! It's available on Bookshop.org! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

I work with such smart people. Read my colleague, Candace Mitchell, on the affront currently happening to DC residents in Congress.

House is now debating an unprecedented bill to demand mandatory detention in DC. We start off with a totally misleading description of "cashless" bail in DC. Currently, judges have discretion to hold most people charged with a violent offense after a hearing. Factless description here

The Republicans are quietly destroying the biggest way people's constitutional rights are protected- by failing to pay federal defenders. Kudos to the LA Times for covering this crisis that needs far more attention www.latimes.com/california/s...

this needs to known far and wide

The comparison between the reaction to this, vs. when someone is out pretrial and commits a new theft, shows just how insincere most of the coverage of our criminal justice system is.

A Republican sheriff in a swing county that Trump won by 0.1% signed a contract to help ICE, then lost last week by 11. New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...

It feels like when the TX Dems fled to DC (and then last session just fled) and then came back and said we've made our point and then won nothing.

it is right by the DC jail

The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office later confirmed that the man was one of its investigators and had lawfully served Altman "Altman was subpoenaed as a potential witness in a pending criminal case” after several prior attempts to reach him at OpenAI’s HQ and through its online portal

Many of us at Wren once worked in the death penalty space, and its horrifying to see its resurgence - especially given the lack of progress in some parts of this country in terms of representation. You can read our take on what's happening in this week's newsletter

Even if the case is dropped -- which in Harris County happens on the regular -- there is a huge cost that the accused and their family experience. Read this piece by Wrener Jay Jenkins.

There is a lot of harm that comes from mandatory pretrial detention. One that is less discussed but critically important: prosecutors upcharge cases to detain people even though they know they will never be able to prove the case at trial. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

The D.C. man accused of assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent with a Subway sandwich was found not guilty by a jury

Texas - pushing culture wars while letting hospitals close and schools crumble. Real government of the people.

RESULT: Soren Stevenson is elected to the Minneapolis City Council in the Eighth Ward. Stevenson lost an eye during a 2020 BLM protest after he was shot by police with a foam projectile.

How do these guys like Dugan get so deluded that they think they will switch parties in a city like Philadelphia, run as a fearmongering racist republican, and win? He got fewer results this time around.

Dear Lord. Armed ICE agents STOLE A BABY. Both the baby and the dad were US Citizens. www.latimes.com/0000019a-51e...

The first of at least two such losses for such people looking to be two-time losers in one race tonight, one hopes.

well, he is right that palantir has consistently worked very well in practice at human rights abuses an abject racism - its not just in theory! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The media has got to stop reporting like the Trump DOJ gives a shit about public safety. This is how they are spending federal resources. Its totally unserious.

We've moved from I "smelled the odor of marijuana" to "i smelled onions and mustard." Truly amazing this is in federal court or court at all

While Trump and his buds let their friends who endager public safety off the hook, the level of gvt overreach and overcharging happening against his opponents, w/ the help of VA AG Miyares, is incredible. Thanks to @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social for his advocacy. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Its not that he's gone mad. Its that he and the Rs in this state have so to protect 90% of their residents- hospitals are closing, schools are failing because of terrible state funding, they burned money on the idea of a border wall- that they will say anything to distract from their failures.

Thanks, as always @philinvestigates.com, for your essential work.

Just incredible to see the DOJ argue like my four year old- but if I have to do it she does too! She did it too! Prosecutors have a duty not to speak to reporters about a case because, among other reasons, it might prejudice a jury in their favor. Pretty clear law on this one.

The D's failure to deal with and combat how powerful the R media infrastructure is perhaps its greatest failure in a huge range of them. The R's infrastructure is bigger than most people realize- its not just a podcast and some influencers.

The thing to understand about fascism is that most people you know will be bought off. Bought with promises of peace and stability, bought with business opportunities or paid with actual cash. Most people aren't going to resist. Get used to it and get used to operating in that environment.

Texans fighting back in Dallas. This is so great.

In some places one might call this a crime!

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

Austin is an extremely safe city. This week, as people come to town for F1 weekend, the Governor will display for the world that he will turn the National Guard on his own citizens because we don't like him and want to peacefully protest. www.texastribune.org/2025/10/16/t...

Same team that wants to prosecute 14 year olds as adults

Adding to the evidence that this Admin does not want to prevent crime but rather use it as pretext- the gutted injury prevention and control division works on stopping gun violence injuries and opioid disorders. Its goal was to make everyone "safe and free from injuries and violence."

People are starting to just roll their eyes at these CNN/MSNBC attacks. But by discrediting them repeatedly, he's setting the stage for saying they just aren't portraying rampant crime, which justifies his use of the NG and further power grabs. Today's circus made that pretty clear.

there are of course a million problems with this order, which reads like the south coming into take over the north - we've had that war, but one other is that it remains hurricane season here in Texas and i don't know, we've had some bad ones in years past that require the National Guard

This is a declaration they will use federal resources to deploy violence against judges, prosecutors, and attorneys general. There's no other coherent interpretation of the phrasing, including "only remedy," "legitimate state power," and connecting those people with "terror networks."

The head of Homeland Security, complaining about a US CITIZEN doing the NFL halftime show. This could lead one to think their (alleged) anger about “illegal aliens” is really just naked racism. Anyway, props to the NFL for its America First policy of getting Americans to sing at halftime.

I would just remind folks that Elon Musk is neither a rocket scientist, nor an automotive engineer. Sam Altman is not a computer scientist. Elizabeth Holmes is not a doctor. David Shor is not a data scientist. And Ezra Klein is not a trained public policy analyst. So this absolutely tracks.

The false positive rate on this is going to be 450%. 7000% once people see the recorders and start pranking them. Which will eventually mean the false positive rate will be zero, bc the cops will start ignoring them altogether.

Where are all the D politicians? In the middle of the night, 300 officers raided an entire apartment building in Chicago. Not one apartment. an entire building. That is totally unprecedented. They put kids in zip ties. www.commondreams.org/news/ice-rai...

Another reminder that these removals/impeachments of prosecutors has never been about crime, but about control. Really important lesson as Trump sends troops in under the pretext of crime www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2...

Hegseth: The military is for killing people and breaking things. No more rules of engagement. Trump: I’ll be sending the military into U.S. cities.

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office. I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...