zohran mamdani announced a plan to seize properties from bad landlords and private equity if tenents suffer from neglect and i genuinely do not think i’ve seen rightwing circles this mad in reaction to anything i’ve ever seen before lol

well well well

This is great. I quite like the refrain, "Do you all see it?" This is the key question of the Trump era: do you see what he's doing to our country? Do you see what he wants to do if we don't stop him?

/27 Anyway, once again, decent humans who are AUSAs now: get out. Get out now.

/26 But I digress. This gets worse and worse. And even when we get a different administration, DoJ will be permanently crippled by this. You can’t get that trust back. There need to be severe consequences. Personally I think a lot of this is less truth-and-reconciliation and more pock-marked wall.

/24 The line AUSAs committed misconduct. At least one was too stupid to grasp it. His excuse reminded me of the deputy DA who said to the judge in a case “I am going to look into this Fifth Amendment more carefully” after telling grand jury witnesses they could not take the Fifth.

/22 Heads should roll. Careers should end. If DoJ won’t do it, the legal community should do it for them. This is appalling and unacceptable behavior throughout, at all levels of this office. The lower attorneys committed misconduct. Boutros was complicit in hiding it from the court.

/19 The defense points out that the AUSAs stood mute when the court speculated it was only a few lines redacted and probably just IT issues, even though they knew pages had been left out and the stuff redacted and left out was catastrophic.

/12 The US Attorney himself cannot read a room for SHIT

/11. AUSA suggests that when grand jurors voted no bill the first time, they asked grand jurors who had “made up their mind” not to participate in the next ones.

really not sold on the cooler-heads-will-prevail school of analysis here.

We’ve got exactly one public intellectual in the mode of midcentury liberalism left and it’s the pope

New superhero: Intraman!! Who skulks away from crowds and wants nothing more than to be left alone.

Jim Acosta just trashed Fox News personality Greg Gutfeld for gloating over a photo of the staff of Colbert Show - dozens of people. "You are celebrating the fact that all of these people are losing their jobs. All because your dear leader can’t take a joke. Seriously, wtf is wrong with you,"...

I would simply not lose global superpower status by electing a dotard

Reform: the party of the worst guy you've ever met.

"So it may come as a surprise, especially to younger Americans, to learn that DHS was originally conceived in the interest of unity & harmony – & that the phrase 'homeland security' was originally meant to be reassuring." NO. Activists & privacy experts sounded the alarm at DHS' inception.

I think Democrats should come out and say Blanche's "settlement" and the Slush Fund generally is one act in a continuing January 6 conspiracy, extending statutes of limitation for another 3 years.

"It is the most important book on U.S. civil-military relations to appear in a generation and, at this moment, it deserves the broadest possible readership.” I’m so grateful for this @foreignpolicy.com review from someone (@ghoshworld.bsky.social) whose thinking I so admire.

Out of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.

The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.

It's full on rewriting of history. Soon, they will push for changes to textbooks like right-wingers did circa 2010, seeking to replace the civil rights movement with Phyllis Schlafly and Newt Gingrich.

I like how every single mention of Libya now completely writes out the massive armed uprising that was taking place in direct response to Gadhafi’s army massacring a bunch of protesters, as though it were Obama personally that dragged him from that drain pipe

Again, along with the NSF/NIH/DOE budget cuts, these visa/immigration/foreign student policies are all-out existential assaults on American higher education. And the sum total of university chancellor/president public & collective opposition to them has been ~🦗🦗 (Olson 1965, Akerlof 1970) 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

i have told people i know point blank that musk has hundreds of thousands of deaths on his hands and provided links to reputable sources. i did the same with the CSAM stuff. it deeply frustrates me that they just act like its not real

All the centrist/conservative Democrats who wanted to allow Abrego Garcia and everyone else Trump sent to CECOT to rot in a slave camp should be embarrassed with themselves and think deeply before saying anything about anything.

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

im disappointed kat didnt win her race but a few months ago she moved the entire primary to the left and is now poised to put a spotlight on the dojs misconduct and malfeasance under trump and make these attorneys think twice before doing what their boss demands

Pope: “As sadly evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity and the damage caused when chatbots and other technologies exploit our need for human relationships, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human.”

They showed this version in schools for maybe 15 years and literally no one in my class had any reaction to a black woman being in it, someone yesterday said Eartha Kitt was Helen of Troy in 1950 and I looked it up and it was Orson Welles who cast her because she was a cabaret dancer and was hot!

Eat shit and, for the monsters who did this to six innocent people, expect hard times.

The feds harangued Kat and my family over bullshit charges for a year. They tried to beat her down, bankrupt Kat and her codefendants through legal fees, and a defeat her spirit. They fucking lost. They will continue to lose. Fuck ICE forever. To this criminal gang of a government: stay losing.

Judge April Perry to U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros: "You are significantly undercutting your mea culpa here by standing behind the charges and continuing to vilify these particular defendants."

I’ve covered Chicago’s federal courthouse for 11 years and have never seen a hearing like this one.

I can’t help but think that Trump will cement the USA as a permanent low trust society. Anyone who paid taxes this year is going to remember this for a long time

Someday someone is going indict Pete Hegseth for the murders of dozens of people in boats and they are going to cite this as precedent.

One of the first things Tuberville will do is get legislation passed against Muslims in Alabama. Watch.

In "response" to the reports that an International Criminal Court arrest warrant is imminent for him, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says that he will ethnically cleanse the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

seems like the kind of thing that could work in a very particular norm environment ("everyone understands that if the president does this and bullies the AG into going along, that's impeachment, because that sort of thing is just not done") but that norm environment is now dead and gone. 11/

If the vesting clause wipes out that possibility, that pushes in the direction of saying there can't be a legal controversy between the president and the government that will be represented by DOJ. This isn't only about the vesting clause and unitary executive theory. Remember the pre-rump v US 5/

The big story is about the unappropriated, misappropriated funds being dumped into an account for the enrichment of (in some to-be-determined combination) Trump personally, his personal lawyers and political lieutenants, and his insurrectionist rioting henchmen. 1/

more and more my job seems to be just explaining to 100% disbelieving ppl that the job of research is actually literally doing all the reading, even when it takes forever, even when it is boring, even when it requires a new skillset and the response I get is like telling people we breathe underwater

what lake what is he talking about why wouldn’t it be water proof

Every day, in every way, they're getting closer and closer to calling YOU a life unworthy of life.

First question out of the gate to Blanche is from Sen. Susan Collins: Has the DOJ ever used the Judgment Fund to pay claims that have yet to be brought against the US, based on the settlement of a completely unrelated case?

Miller Lite quote of the day comes from the absolute ghouls at Standard Chartered (British bank) who are cutting 7,000 jobs (hey AI)

This had completely escaped me:

Deutsche Bank is revealed as a persistent and aggressive violator of Russian sanctions usually for the benefit of its Russian oligarch clientele. www.ft.com/content/b806...

When a democratic president is underwater on approval the media interviews republican voters and when a republican president is underwater the media interviews republican voters