BREAKING: Following trial, Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, finds that Trump did not properly invoke federal law to call up the National Guard and "permanently enjoins Defendants’ orders to deploy federalized members of the National Guard to Oregon."

So either the legislative branch immediately passes the CR to reopen the government or we learn just how cruelly the judicial branch will allow the executive branch to act

Post you from a different era (1990-ish)

Any organization this size that claims it can not exist without its founder* is a colossal failure. The board should be fired for malfeasance *He’s not a founder. He gained that “title” as part of a legal settlement with the actual founder of Tesla.

Chris is one of my favorite journalists on the SCOTUS beat. I’ve followed his work since 2009. My subscription to his Substack is one of the best investment I’ve made. I highly recommend checking out his work and subscribing, too.

15 billion scams ads a day is 5.5 trillion scam ads a year. Meta’s internal efforts have removed 134 million ads. Now I know this is a mixed metric, because we don’t know how many impressions each ad had, but 134 million out of 5.5 trillion is 0.002% They aren’t really trying to root out fraud

If Meta suddenly allowed you to block ads based on a personal threshold for how likely an ad is to be a scam, what would you set as your threshold? I’d personally set it to 0%. Meta thinks 95% is the right threshold. What do you think?

I nearly admitted to occasionally preferring the banter of realtime texting over talking in person because I find the bare hint of anonymity texting provides titillating… like some goddamn modern cliche of a character better written in a Brontë novel…

OpenAI is really out there claiming their corporate debt should be backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America. This is how oligarchy works. Privatize the profit, socialize the risk and cost. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

Trump was first elected in ‘16, and the VA House of Delegates had a 66R-34D split. The ‘17 VA HoD election broke 51R-49D, a loss of 15 seats. Trump is re-elected in ‘24 with the HoD sitting at 51D-49R. Last night pushed that to 63D-37R, a loss of 12 seats. VA GOP must hate him. 27 seats vanished.

Here’s my take - this SCOTUS argument is running long not because there’s a question of the tariffs being permissible under IEEPA, rather there’s a significant plurality looking to make new law from the bench.

Justice Barrett worried that the tariff refund process would be a mess if the plaintiffs win this case. Maybe you should’ve stayed the administration’s actions upfront. It’s only a mess because SCOTUS allowed it.

David Byrne’s Who Is The Sky tour defies categorization. It is so much more than a concert. And it was beautiful and brilliant. The stagecraft from American Utopia is there, but the integrated video brought another artistic dimension to play with. November 4, 2025 Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis, MN

Cutting the ACA subsidies will drive up the uninsured rate. Which means come the end of January, the nation’s ERs will be slammed with uninsured patients as their care-of-last-resort. We’ve effectively built COVID and measles time bombs and are now just waiting for them to explode.

You know how a saint needs a miracle in order to be canonized a saint? Well, if hell exists and Trump wasn’t already fast-tracked to its VIP section, this is definitely the pure evil moment needed for Trump’s devil-canonization.

I wondered how many MLS clubs there’d be if their club-to-national-population ratio matched the big 5 European leagues. If the MLS had the same club-to-population ratio as the EPL, there’d be ~113 MLS clubs La Lige -> ~142 clubs Bundeslige -> ~73 clubs Ligue 1 -> ~89 clubs Serie A -> ~115 clubs

Trump says a Venezuelan terrorist “connection” can be up to 3 hops away from you to make you a legal target for death. This means Trump is blowing up boats based on a 1 in 810,000 chance you know someone Trump claims is a “terroist” A 0.00012% chance Now let’s look at how Trump defines Antifa…

Well, back in my day we had 39.1” of snow in twin storms hitting the Twin Cities January 20-22, 1982. We only missed 1.5 days of school. Yes, while this is technically different - 1 storm vs 2 storms - it was functionally experienced no differently.

With Putin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and Trump’s escalation toward war with Venezuela, tell me why China wouldn’t take this opportunity to finally go after Taiwan? And if the US abandons Taiwan, what current US ally will trust any security guarantee we’ve promised? Not sure even NATO survives.

Two rulings may bring some relief to Minnesota’s 440,000 SNAP recipients, though it’s not clear whether the Trump administration will comply with the order. www.minnpost.com/national/was...

NEW: Trump admin ordered to distribute SNAP benefits, using contingency fund. A pair of rulings both found the effort to suspend SNAP payments is likely illegal, with one judge issuing a TRO on Friday. Also: Appeals court rejects court's Bovino check-in order. Today, at Law Dork:

It’s great to see the courts issued a temporary restraining order to make Trump use the legally mandated and funded $6B SNAP contingency fund to continue paying benefits in November.

AI might be better than you at a host of things, but it doesn’t mean AI is actually good at these things. A human is bad at a wide array of things. It doesn’t take much for AI to feel like magic. If you can’t independently verify your ChatGPT answer, maybe you aren’t qualified to use that answer.

Take away every minute Pulisic has played in a league match since the ‘22 World Cup, and Pulisic has seen more playing time in Champions League and domestic cups alone than Reyna has played in all competitions.

If Gio really wants a reboot, he needs to be on a team and in a league where he can get regular starts and 60-75 minutes a match. I doubt he’ll get that in any big 5 league right now. His career shows he’s temperamentally unsuited long-term as a 15 minute super-sub apnews.com/article/gio-...

I just learned there’s a band name The Big Wu. Any reference to the greatest Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan movie ever created gets me acting like a dog who heard someone mention a W-A-L-K

I severely underestimated how much people would be willing to let me fuck up their houses based on their responses to Trump demolishing the East Wing of the White House.

When Trump appointed yet another one of his personal lawyers to head the National Capital Planning Commission, we should’ve known then that he intended to demolish the White House.

I’ve only been home 3 of the last 8 weeks. You people who travel like that constantly are built differently.

Sometimes you search for a metaphor. Sometimes a metaphor reaches for you. Here’s a live look at Trump tearing down the White House.

I was thinking more about Shohei Ohtani’s 3 HRs as a batter and 10 Ks as a pitcher in a single game. It kinda felt like watching that one kid in U12 baseball who has hit puberty dominate over everyone else who hasn’t yet.

I was just paid a *whopping* $35.71 by Facebook as compensation for a violation of their privacy policy. Willing to bet my $35.71 that they profited from that violation significantly more than they were forced to pay out.

I’m very disappointed that this Cava is not running the Tom-Homan-definitely-didn’t-commit-bribery-here-is-$50,000-in-a-bag-from-an-undercover-FBI-agent-just-for-funsies special.

I see Ram has gone full Idiocracy with their President Camacho, I mean Terry Crews, ad

If you have “ham sandwich” on your cable news take-a-shot-when-you-hear-it list, just relinquish your car keys now. You’re gonna need a cab.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Movie synopsis based on seeing a TV ad for it once, but it was on my secondary screen and the sound was off: Kiss of the Spider Woman is the story of a radioactive spider that bites Jennifer Lopez and turns her into Gwen Stefani.

Hey, John Thune, you have 53 Senators on your side. Pass your own bill.

My favorite cable news game is to spot how far away the Bible is from the talking head’s own book. Next door neighbors for @davidmdrucker.bsky.social on MSNBC

I see Bibi is a big Brendan Carr fan

I see now that the NFL has ended racism, it’ll cure cancer next.

Easiest F*, Marry, Kill ever

I can’t explain why this is true, but it is; if baseball were invented today, the pitcher and batter would be on the same team.

This whole press conference has big “didn’t do the reading but I gotta turn in the assignment” energy.

Did no one at ABC watch Andor?

With Robert Redford passing away today, it might be a great time for everyone to rewatch All The President’s Men

I agree with Sepinwall’s take on this. And it was a hell of a great last article to write before getting fired by Rolling Stone. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

As a reminder, Trump refused to speak Gov. Walz after Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated. The fact that he can’t even remember who she was tells you all you need to know. If you voted for someone other than Trump, he believes you are worthless. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Dana White’s ad for Ram is nearly indistinguishable from a clip fr the movie Idiocracy.

Saint George and the Dragon, by Bernat Martorell, 1434–35, 📸 by Michael Dawson