My new one @slate.com: "Gavin Newsom Just Proved It: Voters Want Democrats to Fight Fire With Fire" slate.com/news-and-pol...

ftw

This story is NUTS. A southern sheriff celebrated as a folk hero (and memorialized in the Walking Tall movies) almost certainly murdered his wife, faked his own shooting, then blamed it all on an ambush by the "Dixie Mafia" he was investigating. His fans today refuse to believe it—or don't care!

Stunning story by @jesspish.bsky.social: He became the most famous sheriff in the U.S. after his hunt for his wife's "real killers" inspired a $60 million 1973 blockbuster ($430 million in today dollars). It was all a lie and his hometown can't deal. slate.com/news-and-pol...

This is an autoclick.

Defense team at the table with a yellow note pad prior to cross-examination whispering to each other: [hushed]"Let's do it and be legends."

Can't argue with anything @alexkirshner.com writes here, except to note the Dodgers good fortune these last weeks was hella' fun to watch. slate.com/culture/2025...

Much of America is afraid. Afraid of the government. Afraid of their fellow citizens. Afraid America’s legal and judicial institutions will no longer protect them. If Americans don't wake up, organize, and fight harder to defend the rule of law, we'll find ourselves living in an authoritarian system

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works (15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Really smart and useful work from Aymann Ismail here: slate.com/news-and-pol...

I wrote about the caricature of Bluesky that right-wing Twitter accounts were pumping out to hundreds of millions of people yesterday @slate.com. Hey, Bluesky did finally become an echo chamber. Just not the one these people were pretending it is: slate.com/technology/2...

DOJ's argument in this case appears to be "we're not in charge, the police chief still is," and also "we have absolute authority over everything done by the in D.C."

Seconded!

Since I looked it up: The Bismarck was laid down by the Nazi government in 1936, christened by Hitler himself on Valentine’s Day 1939, and damaged so badly in battle by the Royal Navy in 1941 that the Nazis scuttled her. The ship never saw any other government of Germany.

Nothing the least bit incriminating here, I tell you that. You say otherwise, and the president will sue you.

LOL. Slate @samadams.bsky.social mapped Andrew Cuomo's venturous two-block journey in his "hitting the streets" campaign launch. slate.com/culture/2025...

Oh man. This piece by @benmathislilley.bsky.social is *so good*. I want to make it assigned reading for every pundit in the country, and every Democrat, and every consultant.

How Strategist Brain Took Over the Democratic Party slate.com/news-and-pol...

well, you do if there's a fucking wolf

"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

With @mjsdc.bsky.social on the "Pride Puppy" fury of Samuel Alito slate.com/news-and-pol...

Criminals.

Criminals.

Alito's opinion in Mahmoud v. Taylor is poisonous homophobia that gives parents a de facto right to ban books in public school classrooms. It's violently stigmatizing toward LGBTQ families and filled with lies and bigotry. Every justice who joined it should be ashamed. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Important, devastating interview about the post-Roe revival of "maternity homes," where many women are forced to give their children up for adoption—denied choice over every aspect of their lives and bodies. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Free Speech Protecters assemble to write an outraged letter, inaugurate several magazines, and write dozens of columns a week about this one single topic! (Oh wait, you don't actually care.) bsky.app/profile/sara...

In writing, Trump's judicial nominees have all signaled their support for his election denier conspiracy theories, and their willingness to end birthright citizenship. But Senate Democrats didn't challenge the nominees on these answers when they had the chance. Most of them didn't even show up.

Love to see this story about the arrest of New York City's comptroller, a mayoral candidate, in the *ninth* photo slot on the home page of the [checks notes] New York Times (below such critical stories as "Who Really Invented Basketball? The ‘Human Calculator’ Thinks He Knows.").

Homan is definitely testing the waters to arrest more elected Dems very soon. his job will be all the easier considering how national party leaders still aren't treating our democratic crisis like a democratic crisis

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

Read this fantastic excerpt then join @squawkinsports.bsky.social next Thursday 6/19 w/ @alansiegella.bsky.social @davidjroth.bsky.social @noahgittell.bsky.social take the monorail. Tix: greenlightbookstore.com/event/2025-0...

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

"escorted out by security" is the new "less-lethal bullets"

Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)

Come for the on-the-ground assessment, stay for Jamelle's deep cut from The Wire

RIP to Brian Wilson, who gave us many perfect albums but also the perfect interview

A lot of this sounds as ordinary and nodding towards respect for rule of law, state sovereignty, and appropriate legal mechanisms as what is happening now. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

Cannot wait to read @alansiegella.bsky.social's new book. Love this excerpt on the one legendary rule that made early Simpsons episodes so epic. (Love this URL, as well.) slate.com/culture/2025...

Aziz Huq

My New One at @slate.com: “Two Supreme Court Justices Invited an All-Out Assault on the Voting Rights Act. Now It’s Here.” slate.com/news-and-pol...

Always a must read.

Notice how this works. A year ago, the subhead here would have said “which is expressly forbidden by the constitution.” But Trump floats a crazy assertion and then WaPo retreats to saying “which most legal scholars say..” Stop he said/she saiding truth. It is expressly forbidden. Period.

Gut-wrenching reporting from @alexsammon.bsky.social inside the ICE facility where Mahmoud Khalil is locked up, on the day Khalil was first allowed a glimpse of a photo of his newborn child: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Sounds like a very relatable guy once you get to know him!

Now that our fearless president has resolved the trade war crisis, he can get back to the nation's most urgent business at hand.

Everything going great, nothing to see here

The NASDAQ just closed with its second biggest single-day gain in history. Human beings are ludicrous.

yes, verily, deal art, etc.