Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.

This is a blatantly unconstitutional threat. The executive branch has zero constitutional power to tell states how to run their elections - zero. Nor does DHS have the constitutional power to threaten state and local officials with jail time if they fail to abide by the executive branch’s demands.

Joe Rogan is exhibit A for my increasing conviction that a warped ideal of “critical thinking” has been the most destructive cultural phenomenon of the past three decades.

I guess it was only a matter of time before this October 2016 New Yorker cartoon by John McNamee came to life.

Re-reading Trump v Cook, & can't get over Roberts' blatantly manipulative moves to distinguish it from Slaughter, which he ALSO wrote (& released same day as Cook!) The key in Cook is the level of generality...it's all about original PRINCIPLES, but ONLY as applied very specifically to the Fed.!

Having lied so many times about the integrity of American elections, Trump and this Administration should not be given the benefit of the doubt by anyone examining their claims of election fraud or irregularities. Let them offer real proof and call them out when they don't.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

Yesterday I told a group of students that the most famous person who was ever involved in Chicago's music industry is a man who had a summer job at Mercury Records back when he was known as Bobby Prevost.

Is this translated from the original German? www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...

Epstein survivor Dani Bensky on meeting with Blanche:   "Todd Blanche treated the meeting as a mere 'check-the-box' exercise intended to secure votes for his confirmation. He danced around his wording, repeatedly interrupted us and could not commit to anything that would demonstrate good faith."

What Corey said. Also, it’s amazing that MAGA rhetorically defines itself as a movement of freedom and free speech, and directs itself almost 100% toward destroying these things.

People have become jaded to it, but a President who threatens to outlaw media in a free society should be immediately removed from office. Trump's words are completely antithetical to the core American commitments of free speech and free press.

This is exactly how I feel abt it. If Tillis votes yes bc Blanche technically met w the brave women who spoke out abt Epstein, despite the women saying that Blanche was condescending & plainly just box-checking, then Tillis absolutely exploited them as props for his "integrity" show.

given what we're hearing from rubio & others, everyone should be prepared for them to ramp up attacks on civil society, anything seen as left or coded as opposition, certainly in run-up to mid-terms. this is part of the context in which blanche, weaponizer of DoJ, must be rejected.

We’ve been stuck inside for the last two days because of the smoke. Before that, we had heat advisories for days. It’s summer. My kid should be able to be outside. The planet is on fucking fire and people in Washington are ignoring it. They’re pouring gas on it, trying to kill renewables.

37-year-old lifelong New Yorker here. You know, growing up, I don’t remember being trapped inside by toxic wildfire smoke. Certainly not with this regularity. I have a toddler. I am beyond outraged over the state of the planet he will inherit—a crisis fueled by greedy businessmen and their allies

The proper response is resilience not panic

This is Winnie. He got so excited that he briefly forgot how to be a dog. You can laugh, but he'd like to point out you look this ridiculous all the time. 13/10 (TT: brisbreaks)

As always: if there's any class of people who do not have due process rights, then *nobody* has due process rights, because the government can just claim someone is in that class and there's no process to establish otherwise.

I’m a climate adjacent scientist and I can confirm this is true

Re-reading @kimlanelaw.bsky.social 's essential work on Autocratic Legalism. (85 U. Chi. L. Rev. 545 (2018)) Does this (from her introduction) sound familiar?

A recent poll showed Oregon's Democratic Governor Tina Kotek running behind her Republican challenger Christine Drazan. One notable thing about Drazan (who codes as non-MAGA) is that she has consistently refused to answer the question "who won the 2020 election?" Kotek should use Ossoff's framing.

In the realm of questions posed during Senate hearings, this one from Ossoff -- "Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this?" -- ranks right up there with "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"

I can't breathe the air, I can't eat lettuce, I can't afford gas, and my kids have measles. But at least now our soldiers will have enough testosterone.

If the networks wanted to be responsible, they‘d tape-delay Trump’s speech tonight, thoroughly fact-check it, and then broadcast it, stopping every time Trump lied and explaining the lie, then resuming. They‘d headline this report honestly. If he lies (as he always does), they’d use the word “lie.”

Chicago area today. Pull out those KN or N 95 masks if you have to be outside!

What makes Ossoff’s confrontation so compelling here is his emphasis on how Trump’s makes anyone who wants to work for him publicly degrade themselves. We need more of that. Ask them why they’re willing to humiliate themselves for a fragile, 80-year-old bigot.

🗞️ Happy to finally share this special review, out in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social. Special thanks to @vstetka.bsky.social @sabinamihelj.bsky.social @newsprof1.bsky.social @martinscott2010.bsky.social @melbunce.bsky.social, and thanks for inviting me @jeffpoole.bsky.social @sonnevend.bsky.social! 👉👉

10 months ago.

OK.

This is why scientists vehemently rejected the OMB Federal Assistance rule, which codifies political interference in federal funding of science. Kennedy tried to divert $5B from canceled #NIH grants to pursue a debunked belief that vaccines cause autism. 🧪 www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

NYC Bar opposes the nomination of one of its own members, Todd Blanche, to be attorney general, saying he lacks the basic professional integrity that the position demands. A stinging and very detailed assessment. www.nycbar.org/reports/oppo...

Hegseth has got to be a performance artist. There's no way anyone is this stupid and this lacking in self awareness.

Really well worth watching the whole two minute clip. Ossoff is so good here.

This is a terrific illustration -- for elected officials but also for media figures -- of the incredible power of simply refusing to take a bullshit dodge for an answer. Keep asking the question, over and over again, and make the weasels squirm.

Was about to write this but @julieroginsky.bsky.social did it first: "Any television network with an ounce of integrity should refuse to carry Trump’s address live." They should delay, then fact-check the hell out of it, providing context, i.e. journalism saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-medias...

🚨BREAKING: President Trump’s administration installed overnight a new exhibit at the site of George Washington’s Philadelphia home instead of the memorial to the 9 people kept in bondage at the nation’s first White House. National Park Service dismantled the original slavery exhibit in January. 🎁 🔗

Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.

Great reply from King here. Republicans keep spewing lies about election integrity and then pointing to polls saying voters are worried about election integrity to justify further lies. It's an ouroboros of bullshit.

Focus on whether Blanche has the bare minimum “qualifications” is a head fake. The dealbreaker should be Blanche’s willingness to be Trump’s lawless hatchet man.

There‘s something awfully rich about cheerleaders for an authoritarian demagogue presuming to lecture anyone on “the habits of mind that make liberal democracy possible.” MAGA is surely inferior to the modal immigrant on that score.

These stops are not effective at “fighting crime.” They’re effective at terrorizing immigrants. That’s what he doesn’t want to give up.

The founding director of Cornell's First Amendment clinic is retiring, and we need to hire a new one. It's a great opportunity for an experienced litigator/clinical instructor to do important work to advance free speech & free press. If you or someone you know is interested, apply at the link below.

Whoa whoa whoa … Do you mean to tell me that striking a deal with Donald J. Trump does *not* buy you everlasting peace?? Surely no one could have foreseen this! Certainly not lawyers who get paid millions to make deals for a living!

Good video here by Yale Students on why Yale admin secretly looking to capitulate to Trump extortion is a grave mistake: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwX1...

But revenge is also objectively good in this kind of situation. The other word for "revenge" is "deterrence." We need to make sure anyone else who is tempted to try to overthrow multiracial democracy knows that they're on a clock

The director of ANATOMY OF A FALL has a new film coming out, and the premise appears to be "what if Ingmar Bergman directed FREAKY FRIDAY." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU0T...

Via @politico.com

Can't find a recording but here are the lyrics.