🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Saturday blocked President Donald Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying Trump’s actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I doubt T***p and Hegseth could have done more to strengthen the resolve of U.S. senior military leadership to obey their oaths to the Constitution in the face of whatever pressure they receive from the Regime than they unwittingly accomplished with this juvenile and offensive spectacle today.

The reporting on the horror unfolding in Michigan gets progressively worse. To my Mormon friends and community members: I stand with you in grief, outrage and resolve.

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek:

I am so goddamned sick of having to think about these people.

This is quite literally insane.

He inadvertently published a command to the Attorney General to prosecute his enemies regardless of the evidence and decompensated for an hour before the U.N. General Assembly. Networks and newspapers should be running stories 24/7 on his manifest lack of moral and mental fitness for office.

I watched about 30 seconds of Confused Oompa Loompa yelling at the assembled diplomats of the United Nations while clearly under the delusion that he was sitting on a stool at the corner bar ranting about "those damned hippies" and that is quite enough thank you.

Keeping my feet planted firmly on the ground today.

“Ever teachers” flayed me when I read it this week.

One thing I take away from the last few days: This Regime is empty. There is no foundation, no core, no center that can hold, no stability, no creed or code. I understood all this before but the latest round of desperate, ugly, crass performance has given that dreadful truth new sharpness. 1/2

And now Romania. www.reuters.com/world/drone-...

Young White man named Tyler turned in by his family and currently in the custody of state authorities. We will see what there is to learn about his politics and the motivation for this targeted assassination. I doubt it will conform to the story the Right has been screaming at the top of their lungs

A trans activist referred to the Department of Defense as the "deadname" for the Department of War following its "transition" and I may not recover.

Flag Burning, the First Amendment and a Weak and Foolish Executive Order. tobiasbarringtonwolff275915.substack.com/p/flag-burni...

From my friend and law school classmate Professor Ryan Goodman. The number of people in the boat they targeted always made the drug smuggling claim suspect.

I just had occasion to go to a Department of Defense website and discovered that their URLs have already been redirected to "War.gov" links. These man-babies think screaming WAR!!! makes them tough. Just pathetic.

Rodrigo Duterte is being prosecuted at the ICC in The Hague right now for engaging in extrajudicial assassinations of alleged drug traffickers when he was the autocratic President of the Philippines. Just for some context.

I am not convinced that Speaker Mike Johnson is an embodied human. He gives pure AI.

In case you wondered what the period of decadent decline in the Holy Roman Empire would have looked like if translated into 21st century vernacular.

The Regime lost on their Alien Enemies Act BS in the Fifth Circuit. The Fifth Circuit. Opinion by the very conservative Judge Leslie Southwick appointed by George W. Bush. A remarkable rebuke. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Donald Trump is a pathetic compromised surrender monkey. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

Friends at Emory, stay safe and strong.

Today's Republican Party. (Dupree is a long-time Capitol Hill reporter.)

The disrespect and utter disregard the right-wing Justices on the Supreme Court are showing for their colleagues on the federal district and circuit courts is simply astounding.

I don’t care what explanation you thought made sense up til now to stay on the platform previously called Twitter. It is now time to leave.

The comical evilness of Musk making his AI go full Nazi must not obscure the gravity of this episode. One of the largest platforms in the world is spewing murderous anti-semitism to an audience that views the platform as part of their cultural identity and will take cues from what they are seeing.

Speaking for myself as an individual member of the faculty, I deplore the resolution that the University of Pennsylvania just announced of the absurd Title IX claim brought by the Regime.

Re the AI video making the rounds where mock-ups of celestial bodies get cut in half like cakes while people gush how wonderful it is that AI can show what these objects "really look like" on the inside . . . if you think the Moon is hollow and shiny inside like a geode I'm not sure where to start.

If you are not already supporting Planned Parenthood I suggest you start now with a recurring monthly donation. Give $5 / month if you can afford that, more if you're able. The Court jeopardized health care services for women who depend on Medicaid. We must fill the breach. plannedparenthood.org

I did an hour on NPR today with the legendary Nina Totenberg today discussing the Supreme Court term. whyy.org/episodes/sco...

God damn it. This was exactly what one had to expect. May the U.S. servicemembers and personnel and any other people on our bases remain safe from the harm that their supposed leaders have recklessly and needlessly inflicted on them. www.axios.com/2025/06/23/i...

Trump bombing Iran was illegal and unjustified. I ran for Congress to make sure our leaders consider the true costs of war. And I will be in the Senate, standing on my titanium legs, demanding answers from Trump. My statement:

TACO Two Weeks is at it again.

During these terrible and divided times it is reassuring to know that some basic truths still unite us. Everyone hates Ted Cruz. Everyone. Let us take this shared commitment as the starting point for a new civic congregation.

Beloved trans folk: You are seen, you are treasured, you will not be erased. We will keep fighting for you during your young years and every year thereafter. Be strong and we will be strong alongside you. 💪🏳️‍⚧️💪

One of the many good reasons to show up tomorrow is to be reminded of how incredibly not alone you are in all this. #NoKingsDay

Senator Padilla is the ranking member on the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Control in the Senate Judiciary Committee—the subcommittee in the Senate to which Noem is directly accountable. Her "I don't even know the man" response is an absurd insult.

Show up on Saturday. Stand against this.

This is an immensely difficult time. I have tough days just like everyone else. But I have never been more certain of the importance of the profession to which I have dedicated my adult life and the rule of law principles I have spent my career helping to understand, explain and defend.

<Thread> I figure I need to explain how extreme and irresponsible is the June 7 Memorandum federalizing the National Guard and authorizing regular armed forces. Those saying anything in support of this action may not realize what they’ve gotten into. (It will also escalate from here.) Preview⤵️

From Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass's account on Twitter (which I will not link to). I take the Mayor to be making the point here that activation of the Guard and deployment of the Guard are two different things and that no deployment has yet happened despite rhetoric coming from the FELOTUS.

I just went to the store and I come back to discover that T***p is threatening to cancel government contracts for M**k's companies and M**k is claiming to have kompromat on T***p from the Epstein files? I just went to the store . . .

Pushback works. Keep pushing back. #tacopresident www.cnbc.com/2025/06/02/t...

Nancy Mace is sitting in her living room right now fuming that she did not think up Joni Ernst's formula for getting this much attention.

NEW—Rubio issues State Dept. cable instructing enhanced social media vetting for ALL people (students, faculty, etc) seeking travel visas to Harvard under guise of “antisemitism.” All social media profiles must be public, otherwise seen “as an effort to evade or hide certain activity.” Full cable:

I’ve been using FELOTUS as my preferred acronym for the current (nominal) occupant of the presidency but I think TACOTUS may now have to replace it.

Rahm Emanuel is not someone I am interested in hearing from.

50% tariff on all goods from Europe. Sure, whatever.

A foundation of the separation of Church and State survives for now, barely.