Matt Ford
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Staff writer, The New Republic. Law, democracy, and the courts. 49ers/Dodgers stuff too.
Always thought Fuhrman’s career arc from “extremely racist cop who became famous for saying the N-word a lot” to “Fox News criminal-justice expert” was a little too on-the-nose.
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O.J. Simpson Detective Mark Fuhrman Dead at 74
Former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman, who discovered the bloody glove in the O.J. Simpson murder case and later torpedoed the prosecution with his use of the n-word, is dead ... TMZ has learned.
https://www.tmz.com/2026/05/18/mark-fuhrman-dead/
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A great read about a genealogical mystery in New Orleans:
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A Family Secret No More
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/degrange-family-history-race.html
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this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves.
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Inside-the-park home run from Ohtani, but it looks like it should’ve been a ground rule double? Angels lost a challenge trying to overturn it. I’m baffled by that one, but I’ll take it.
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I’ve read thirty or forty Warhammer 40K novels on my Kindle and maybe two of them were good
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hello 911? yea me again…uh huh thats right a casting decision…no not a commercial, a movie this time…that’s right, the end of civilization, please send help before its too late
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Love when Orel Hershiser casually drops lines like “you know, Sandy Koufax taught me that the curveball isn’t a rest pitch” in the middle of a two-minute discourse on pitching tactics.
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Sorry, can’t watch the games tonight, I’m refreshing my emails every five minutes to see if I got into the EverQuest Legends closed beta yet
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Pathetic.
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Tina Peters, Colorado Election Denier, Will Be Freed by Governor
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/tina-peters-colorado-trump-polis.html
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ryan cooper
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this Elon Musk plot to steal your 401(k) money is really going underdiscussed
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Teoscar, my man, what are we doing
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www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Sadly unsurprising. It’s almost a rite of passage for non-NYT journalists to experience this.
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Alito's administrative stay on the 5th Circuit mifepristone ruling - that would restore in-person dispensing requirements, stopping the drug from being mailed - lifts at 5 pm ET
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ryan cooper
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none of these people actually want to be doing the job. they want to be celebrities
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🚨BREAKING: After three decades behind bars and 9 execution dates, Richard Glossip has been granted bond by an Oklahoma County judge, setting him up for release in the days to come. Bond set at $500k. Story with
@jordansmith.bsky.social
to come
@theintercept.com
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Radley Balko
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A far-right idiot amplified by Alex Jones, Jason Whitlock, Gavin McInnis and others has been streaming himself saying racist shit to black people in order to provoke them into violence so he can shoot them. He just shot just a black man here in Tennessee.
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The Right’s Worst New Star Just Shot Someone
Meet “Chud the Builder.”
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-rights-worst-new-star-just-shot-someone-chud-builder-racist-streamer?utm_source=substack&publication_id=87281&post_id=197696327&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false&r=cgi7&triedRedirect=true
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4 days ago
a hint of which way the wind is blowing
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5 days ago
when Shohei Ohtani sees the Dodgers score a run for him
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I’ve said it before but we need a congressional injury report. Hill reporters should designate a Woj or Shams to call every office at least once a week.
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jamelle
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gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders
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5 days ago
interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case
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Unfortunately, this is the correct decision. The clerk of the court really did engage in "shocking jury interference," openly pressuring jurors to find Murdaugh guilty. That's a massive due process violation.
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One of the most essential skills for a writer, particularly in politics, is the ability to inhabit other people’s perspectives and understand them from within. This is the exact opposite of that.
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I’m not a theologian, but this framework doesn’t seem like much of a disincentive against sin?
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This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...
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Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/business/trump-suit-irs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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It's the exact same playbook that segregationists ran against the NAACP in the 1950s. They sued to get membership lists in Arkansas during Little Rock, hoping to single them out for retribution. Meanwhile, Alabama -- this same state below -- just outlawed the organization entirely.
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This is what
@dceiver.bsky.social
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What's happening here is that the Missouri secretary of state is stalling certifying these signatures even though they were submitted in DECEMBER, basically ignoring the constitutional process to make sure his party wins an extra seat.
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Great news. I hope it also mentions that Burke invented the high five.
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I’d missed that they identified four more sailors from the Franklin expedition the other week:
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DNA matches identify four more sailors from Franklin expedition | Waterloo News
Researchers have identified four more members of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition, one of whom was the subject of great debate lasting for more than a century. Anthropologists from the Faculty of A...
https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/dna-matches-identify-four-more-sailors-franklin-expedition
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Steve Vladeck
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See, e.g.:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-no...
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177. The (Not-So-)Interim Docket
Justice Kavanaugh's attempt to re-brand how the Supreme Court handles emergency applications is belied by how the Supreme Court is actually handling emergency applications.
https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-not-so-interim-docket
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I’ll keep calling it the shadow docket because “interim” is misleading when applied to stays that effectively decide the outcome, as in many Trump-related cases over the last 17 months.
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Latest inflation report just dropped, and it came in hot, and slightly hotter than most folks expected.
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“The America that represented wealth, freedom and institutional confidence feels like it belonged to a different era.”
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China Increasingly Views Trump’s America as an Empire in Decline
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/business/china-trump-xi-decline.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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7 days ago
Genuinely funny that Alito just wrote a whole opinion making clear that the only thing Republicans have to do to gerrymander Black people out of electoral existence is say "this is about politics, not race," and then this genius is like CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE ARE IN THAT DISTRICT??
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I find this sort of means-testing to be strikingly anti-family. People lose their minds about the estate tax with a multimillion dollar exemption, but then apply high implicit taxes on the modest intra-family transfers of poor people
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Requiring the parent of a SNAP recipient to provide a written statement clarifying that a birthday money transfer was not recurring support is so dystopian.
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Zhou Enlai, inspired by watching the Big Red Machine sweep the Phillies in the 1976 NLCS, promptly flies to Moscow to reverse the Sino-Soviet split
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In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.
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This is the second time in a week the Supreme Court has sidestepped process in a way that helps GOP adopt new maps to maximize partisan advantage even as election season is underway.
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Three years ago SCOTUS upheld a court order requiring Alabama to draw a second majority-minority district. This afternoon it brushed aside that ruling so Alabama could redraw its map and erase that district:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Platform of the People's (aka Populist) Party, 1892
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/po...
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It’s worth noting that, absent further intervention by SCOTUS, VRA §2 claims can still succeed post-Callais if the plaintiffs can show discriminatory intent by lawmakers.
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the tech world has genuinely not grappled with how many people despise them and what they make
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If you search “Wemby” on Twitter right now, a ton of the tweets are people begging sportsbooks to void their parlays because he was ejected.
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Fun implicit admission that supporting his stance is not doing the right thing.
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Wrobleski should throw a no-hitter today IMO
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Quinn Yeargain
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folks, the idea is out there. Virginia Democrats are talking about it. this could happen. gift link to the NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/u...
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J.D., what are you talking about, man
www.alternet.org/jd-vance-civ...
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