YES!!! COURT SCHOOLS HEGSETH IN PENTAGON PRESS PASS CASE! Last week I told you how the administration's attorneys in the Pentagon press access case actually had to file *corrections* to statements they had made in court ...

“Everybody hates us, what should we do?” “The only thing that will get people back on our side. An armed overthrow of the Pope.”

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

literally, from the top of my pre-oral argument notes

Cecilia Wang, National Legal Director of the ACLU, on DOJ saying they're not asking the Supreme Court to overrule Wong Kim Ark: "That is a fatal concession" fuck em up Cecilia

Listening in to the birthright citizenship oral arguments. I won't be fully live-posting through them, but will highlight some comments. I'll have a quick analysis up after the arguments, later this afternoon.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court, in an 8-1 vote, holds that Colorado's law banning conversion therapy regulates speech based on viewpoint, subjecting it to strict scrutiny and likely rendering it unconstitutional when lower courts apply today's decision. Gorsuch writes for the court; Jackson dissents.

Graham Platner Is The Real Deal Provided You Have No Follow Up Questions About Anything He Did Before 2024.

My god. My heart is with the survivors. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

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Today we observed six shackled detainees being loaded onto the ICE Air flight at MSP. They're heading to El Paso, where conditions are so horrific, staff gamble on who the next prisoner to commit suicide will be. The man walking from right to left at the beginning of the clip is dragging shackles.

Thinking about the families who lost parents, children, and siblings in this attack today because of a convicted sexual assaulter who appears countless times in the Epstein files and is trying to redirect our attention from that fact. This is a war crime and a crime against humanity.

Evergreen skeet, unfortunately.

THIS

So tired of armchair quarterbacks like this. You may not like their policies and that’s fair but Kamala Harris and Jasmine Crockett have dedicated their lives to public service. You can respect that. Also, assuming that Jasmine Crockett would lose? Maybe investigate where that notion is coming from.

The base of the Democratic Party are Black women. That base loves both Kamala Harris and Jasmine Crockett. Every time someone complains about this, ask them who they think the base is.

Six years ago, @mayatcontreras.bsky.social wrote this for us. And today, consolidation has gotten so much worse and so much more in the interest of this admin.

She’s making it happen, y’all. @jasmineforus.bsky.social is activating non-voters just like she said she would. “55% of the people that showed up on day one don’t normally vote in a primary. In fact, 20% of those voters were first-time voters.” 💥

DHS shut down over demands to end masking, profiling, excessive force and use of admin warrants to enter homes. I’ll discuss at 11 pm on @msnownews.bsky.social

I feel like this is pretty key. Newsom is signaling that he wants to throw trans people under every available bus. that is a reason to denounce him, not to preemptively demand that trans people endorse him. 1

Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court

Macbeth - Act 5, Scene 5:

In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating.

The Conscience of a Libertarian

AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."

folks, this is some really weird shit. the president is not well.

NEW: "We shouldn’t even have an election,” Trump said as he complained about the possibility of his party losing the midterms. The remark is just the latest to suggest the president views elections as an obstacle rather than a constitutional requirement.

The gaslighting is not just off the charts - it's in whole another galaxy. But, this is also a sign of desperation. He knows. They know - except for their MAGA core just watching their edited frames, everyone else knows the objective reality.

More of this. We need fighters. www.axios.com/2026/01/08/d...

If you are more interested in telling people what you think than you are in hearing what they think, you're not interested in news, you're interested in podcasting.

2/ These descriptions of Weiss are also spot on: "the oligarch functionary" "Weiss is not a reporter, let alone an investigative reporter" "an editor who is both determined to kill a piece and, frankly, out of her depth"

This is quite a read about the BW attack on 60 Minutes. I'm glad it also highlights the incredibly solid reporting in the piece, a fact that has been largely overlooked in this red hot debate about Weiss' actions. Yes, what Sharyn Alfonsi & her team did here is journalism. Damn good journalism.

In the end, it was all a morally perverse spectacle to amuse his Christian Nationalist base on Christmas—It was late in the evening on Dec25 when residents of the mainly Muslim village of Jabo in Sokoto state, NW Nigeria, said they noticed an object resembling a small aircraft flying overhead.

Marc Elias is one of the heroes of our time, leaving Big Law to fight this assault on democracy at every level. Heather Cox Richardson is my second inspiration, using her deep history knowledge to show how these disparate attacks fit larger patterns—and to chart a path forward against all adversity.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

This is good. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b...

Democrats are demanding the release of the full video of the Sept. 2 attack, as well as written records of the orders and any directives about the mission from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. None of the written orders or audio of verbal commands was shared with the lawmakers.

It’s clear MTG is an opportunist, not someone genuinely taking accountability for the harm she’s caused. The moment she was asked to own her toxic behavior, she deflected and became defensive. Don’t buy what she’s selling.

Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.

the elevation of “separation of powers” as the paramount value of the constitution is just rhetorical justification for presidential dictatorship, since that is what you have when the legislative branch cannot constrain the exercise of executive power through law.

just an utter joke of a court.

The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Frankly, Admiral Bradley is executing illegal orders in the first instance anyway, so I’ll be taking his view with a lick of salt.

President Trump has posted on Truth Social hundreds of times in the last two hours. I can’t even get the full count; it’s that many posts. Here are just two of the posts. In a separate post, I will share a screen recording of all the posts which goes on for nearly five minutes.

MAGA on TwitterX defending Pete Hegseth committing war crimes and murder, is weird. I mean they’re so far detached from reality. It’s wild.

Congressional Republicans let Trump put an alcoholic rapist in charge of the Pentagon, an anti-science kook in charge of our health, and a 22 year old intern in charge of counterterrorism. These people do not act as if they actually care about Americans or the constitution.

Hope everyone got to spend quality time with family this holiday weekend. Me and my little brother, Dr. Mondrian Contreras. ✌🏽😅

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.