If Trump bombs power plants in Iran, the humanitarian crisis will be horrific. Experts tell me to expect water shortages, closed hospitals, many deaths. “We’ve never had a US president so proudly promise to commit war crimes," Sen Chris Murphy says. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2087...

We’re so cooked.

DHS should be embarrassed that their ICE agent hires are so soft they can’t handle being videotaped, even while masked, so they resort to pepper spraying women at close range. And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.

Elon Musk, Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen on a Carribean island at Christmastime? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

I really want to see someone doing the “I’m just a simple country lawyer” shtick, but in complex federal commercial litigation between two or more multinational corporations. I feel like that would be a good bit.

That is an ICE agent pepper spraying a restrained victim in the face at close quarters; it's an unquestionable and indefensibly abusive use of excessive force that should (but won't) be criminally prosecuted as assault

Ahh, okay, so one of the federal agencies will not be challenging the merger. Good to know. @nmdoj.bsky.social, care to use your Clayton Act authority and step up to protect competition in the film industry?

A 21-year old anti-ICE protester has been left permanently blinded in California after a Department of Homeland Security agent shot him in the face with a nonlethal round at point-blank range on Friday. trib.al/V6hRQpr

This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”

This is right, but I'd add that #1 is only unclear because of a pretty perverse line of authority that doesn't need to be that way.

She voted to confirm a Trump judge just yesterday.

Abolishing ICE is the moderate, compromise solution.

I really appreciate Christopher Nolan just honing in on his target demo.

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Give it a couple weeks and Andrew Ferguson and the other FTC folks will be fabricating a coordinated advertiser boycott

Just an unbelievably stupid comment. Even if you buy into the framing of demand, it has an essentially vertical demand curve. People will become homeless before they stop “consuming” healthcare because that is a rational choice! Because the alternative is *dying*!

Absolutely brutal.

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered? GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now THOMPSON: What does that mean?

You have to have an extremely low level of empathy and compassion to become a billionaire in the first place (can’t get there without exploiting many people). But to then have the resources to legitimately treat people like commodities you control… it must genuinely deteriorate your humanity.

Killing American tourism to own the libs

JUST IN: Democrats are in comfortable leads in Albuquerque, as the early + mail vote has come in. Democratic mayor Tim Keller leads his Republican opponent 58/42. And in a city council race, Stephanie Telles leads 60% to 24%: her victory would flip the city council to the liberal faction.

You will be visited by three spirits

Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.

A massive flaw with the Tunney Act is that it only applies to settlements after a merger challenge has been filed.

it cannot be said enough, and should be shouted from the rooftops: this is a fake legal issue that's been backstopped by on-demand scholarship from academics who are part of the same project as the conservative justices. the "authority" they will cite is no better than citing AI slop.

I mean, this is an execution

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

people, you have the chance to put my book ahead of Olivia Nuzzi’s on the bestseller list. put aside all other considerations and think how objectively funny this would be. #1, that Mountain Goats guy. #2, Antivax Man Has My Heart. funniest list of the century. We can do this if we try

Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny. (via @kuow.org)

Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."

Yeah. Before the fall, CK's act—and his fandom—rested on the premise that his worst self wasn't his true self. Now it's the opposite, and that's just not interesting as comedy.

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood. She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

You (dumb): Consumer protection laws should protect people from inherently dangerous products and companies that are deceptive in their businesses. Me (brain-genius): Ah, yes, but have you considered that people may engage in contracts??

i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills

A movie that takes place where you’re from

Nothing but respect for my boys in blue 🫡🫡🫡

I can’t wait for the Adam McKay movie about the AI bubble.

May I never turn into a boss who demonstrates disregard and disrespect for my colleagues by writing the sloppiest emails imaginable.

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

POTUS gave a convicted child sex abuser favorable treatment, and dangled the prospect of a pardon, so she would tell lies about if he was implicated in her crimes. That's not speculative or circumstantial, it's a cold hard proven fact, in and of itself more than enough to demand removal from office.