Ten years! This case about a protest *not even organized by DeRay* has gone on for nearing 10 years! The Fifth Circuit is truly a place where liberty goes to die.

Nashville Noticias journalist Estefany Rodriguez has been released from ICE custody, per the Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition, which is providing legal representation. Rodriguez has been detained for two weeks.

Did anyone get more shout-outs in 90s rap than the Trix rabbit?

wrote a little about the Afroman verdict, which hit the sweet spot of being important on principle and hilarious reason.com/2026/03/19/j...

NEW: Legal filings and emails reviewed by me reveal an internal scramble at DHS over its alleged “domestic terrorist” database of ICE observers. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

They're scared of Ms. Rachel

hahaha he absolutely steamrolls the lawyer's line of questioning. It's beautiful. God damn, put it to a Hans Zimmer score and a beat so I can run to it.

or you could say that D&D players have a +3 to dementia saving throws

NEW: The Northwestern DA’s Office spent thousands on a failed legal fight to hide the names of cops who had been charged with crimes—even though prosecutors had published some of the names and case details in online press releases and other self-laudatory documents. #Massachusetts #SunshineWeek

There are two computer wolves inside me: one wants to build databases for work. The other wants to make an 8-bit sidescroller called "MRS. DALLOWAY: THE VIDEO GAME"

Gutted by this news. Brian wrote about Burning Man, underground comix, and all sorts of niches of free and weird culture. His last major piece for us was about how Trump is a libertarian nightmare reason.com/2026/01/12/t...

Been reading Jane Eyre, which I put off for a long time because it sounded Very English, but ... it's a banger? "For the world's judgement---I wash my hands thereof. For man's opinion---I defy it." Me to Charlotte Bronte:

“The memo also bars reporters from requesting public records through the Freedom of Information Act…”

The town this story focuses on, Woodburn, Oregon, is just south of where I grew up. Nice little town where people are just trying to make a living. I used to buy tortas from the food trucks on the side of the road when I was driving through. Reading this makes me want to [redacted]

"I'm willing to take a not guilty. I'm willing to take a no true bill." What she means is she's willing to bring legally deficient cases that harass innocent defendants, waste her line prosecutors' time, and makes her office look like jerkoffs in front of judges and juries.

NEW: When Maryland's congressional delegation visited ICE's overcrowded holding rooms in downtown Baltimore Monday, they found the place unexpectedly empty. What happened to all the people being held there? We figured it out. Story for @thebaltimorebanner.com: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

The federal government isn't supposed to detain immigrant children for longer than 20 days. But when a Russian asylum seeker with 5-year-old twins asked why they'd been held for longer, an ICE officer falsely claimed the 20-day rule had been voided. Says who? he asked. "Trump," ICE responded.

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

Fuck yes. As someone who once got a Wine port of Skyrim running on a deprecated Macbook (windowed, at lowest res), this is beautiful.

ICYMI: Last month I wrote about a guy who got arrested based on notoriously unreliable roadside drug tests that flagged his prescription IBS pills as fentanyl. This week he filed a civil rights lawsuit against the sheriff's office reason.com/2026/03/11/h...

In an ideal world every room and every office would be lit like early season X-Files episodes.

This is also how France convinced it itself for six decades that it needed to build a trans-Saharan railway, even though all its expeditions got massacred or died of thirst.

4th Cir., 2-1, affirms a jury finding that the operators of the Abu Ghraib Prison in 2008 are liable for conspiracy to commit torture and conspiracy to commit cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment under the Alien Tort Statute. Damages awarded: $42 million. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...

what if I told you dried pinto beans weren't the stupidest things cops have confused with illegal drugs reason.com/2026/03/11/h...

I gotta know more here. Did the cops witness a hand-to-hand bean deal and get confused? Did they test the beans or just eyeball them? How many officers did it take to incorrectly identify dried beans?

bonus Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown "FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"

Everyone who gets involved in the conservative movement eventually has to be honest with themselves about what it is, and they either make their peace with it, leave, or get thrown out.

Latest: The guy from my recent feature who was wrongly arrested after roadside drug tests flagged his prescription IBS medication as fentanyl has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the South Carolina sheriff's office involved reason.com/2026/03/11/h...

A video game where each run is Gordon Lightfoot going back in time trying to save the Edmund Fitzgerald from the evil gales of November

I read the phrase "private equity-backed autism centers" today, and every day I'm more convinced that we're living in David Foster Wallace's dystopia.

🇮🇹🤌🏼

the great unwritten Charles Portis novel

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

I covered this story at Law Dork over the weekend and am very glad to see that Gov. Ivey stopped this execution from taking place. www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-so...

Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:

I've written about medical neglect and torture in jails and prisons for a while now, and I don't think there's an issue that cuts as quick to the viciousness and hypocrisy festering in this country.

Last year, I learned the horrific story of Tony Mitchell, who froze to death in a bare concrete jail cell in Alabama. The sheriff overseeing the jail still has his job. But half of his jailers have been charged in Mitchell's death. This is that story: eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

“Of the 279 people accused by officials on X of attacking federal officers in the past year, 181 were U.S. citizens, the Journal found. Close to half of those Americans were never charged with assault. None have been convicted at trial.”

One apple per day can keep a lot of people away if you aim really well

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

If people need hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy because their children became aware of the existence of gay people, that's a failure of parenting.

Latest: Remember when the police chief of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota held a press conference about how ICE was racially profiling residents? I FOIA'd the police department for complaints and incident reports and interviewed two people who say they were harassed by ICE reason.com/2026/03/03/a...

NEW: A package of bills advancing through the Florida Legislature would empower the governor and Cabinet to designate groups as “domestic terrorist organizations” based on secret evidence. floridatrib.org/2026/03/03/c...

Picked this up from my library a bit ago, and it's one of those books where you finish a chapter and then have to put it down and go take a walk. Just gut punch after gut punch.