Every time another university wins a case against the Trump administration, I am reminded yet again of the folly of Columbia's effort to strike a "deal."

Update: she's back home to her owner!

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

DC folks—anyone recognize this dog? Found her wandering yesterday in North Michigan Park (8th & Buchanan NE). Small, white, and has a brown left ear. Very friendly, but no collar. We're taking care of her for now and will get her checked for a chip tomorrow. Hoping to find her owner soon!

A district court's 100+-page opinion and a circuit's court's 100+-plus page opinion affirming get vacated by the judicial equivalent of a fart noise, an unsigned shadow docket order containing 0 syllables of reasoning.

With the news cycle focused on ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, a journalist with a valid US work permit and pending green card application is about to be deported for the crime of reporting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In Columbia Heights D.C., memorial signs are going up for residents abducted by the state. (📸 Igor Bobic)

The FTC isn't “creat[ing] law or mov[ing] the law in a way that it doesn’t presently exist,” said the agency trying to regulate gender-affirming care, nuke watchdog orgs out of existence, and implement affirmative action for right-wing speech. Give me a break. news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

The United States—right now, this very moment—is putting individuals in ICE detention, revoking and denying visas, and canceling billions in grant dollars specifically because of the viewpoints they express

As a lawyer, I'll tell you that there's nobody who knows this law better than Ryan and Brian. Sure looks like murder or war crime to me. But as a human, I'll tell you that the Rubio statement -- we could have stopped the boat but we blew it up to send a message -- is sickening and depraved.

Looking forward to seeing Commissioner Slaughter back at the FTC!

Mayor Bowser, "shared priorities" with this administration means having masked agents disappear our neighbors in the middle of the night. It means soldiers with assault rifles in our neighborhoods. It means arresting children. These are the priorities of a dictator. DC does not share them.

Anyway, here's the process for recalling the mayor in DC. code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/counci...

"Donald Trump is a monster and we desperately want to work with him" is a batshit position to take, it makes you sound like an insincere and feckless empty suit

It’s pretty hard to answer calls for public comment when ICR abstracts and supporting documentation are inaccessible, and with those frequently being 30-day comment periods, time is running short in some cases. 4/4

Accepting email comments on information collections is a joke if reginfo.gov isn’t working — there’s (typically) no other way to access the materials to comment on! Unless OMB tolls deadlines here, every new/modified ICR that gets approved from this period will violate the Paperwork Reduction Act.

It's important to know what we're dealing with. Though some in the media still try to horse-race, both sides this, we're faced with psychopaths at the helm of our nation's public health, scientific and healthcare efforts. They want to inflict pain and suffering. It's a goal, not a by-product. 6/

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

“Jimenez Rosa’s time in custody ended with her alone, wet and begging for help at The Cheesecake Factory in the Burlington Mall, after ICE agents released her into the rainy street outside the detention facility Wednesday night”

D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed. D.C. statehood now.

I agree with these lawmakers led by @repbarragan.bsky.social. The FCC is defying the law by refusing to enforce rules to reduce out-of-control prison call rates. All to protect kickbacks for correctional facilities at the expense of the families of extremely vulnerable populations.

NEW: @consumerfed.bsky.social along with 14 other advocacy groups is urging investigation into Elon Musk's xAI for their tool facilitating creation and distribution of Non Consensual Intimate Imagery. Coverage @theverge.com: www.theverge.com/x-ai/759554/... Letter consumerfed.org/wp-content/u...

The Trump administration, not content to hollow out federal protections for consumers, is seeking comment on what state laws should be detonated under the false pretense of serving "interstate commerce" (translation: bottomless corporate greed). public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-15604.pdf

with MPD and DHS setting up traffic checkpoints across the city, this "executive order" from DC's chief of police is the largest loophole you could carve out from DC's sanctuary city law without repealing it

The president wants to “take back” DC, but the federal government never really let it go. It touches nearly every aspect of life in the city, making it harder for local officials to manage even the things Trump cares most about. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

The Department of Energy HQ is purportedly cancelling all pending #FOIA requests submitted before October 1, 2024, unless the requester emails a specific address w/i 30 days asking the agency to continue processing. This is wildly illegal. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-15490.pdf

Bowser should resign in disgrace and flee the District if this is the best she can muster in response to a militarized authoritarian takeover of the city she nominally leads.

These two paragraphs were formulated in a lab to inflict maximal pain on Tolkien-loving privacy advocates. www.wired.com/story/palant...

Massive MPD checkpoint at New York Ave & Bladensburg NE. Tow trucks present. Given today’s announcement about federalizing MPD we are unsure of what kind of enforcement they are engaging in. 2/

🚨ALERT: Fed activity continues tonight (8/11) in DC. We have received reports of sightings at: - Benning Rd & 17th NE - Franklin & 7th NE - Dupont (17th & Church NW) - Malcolm X (Meridian Hill) Park & surrounding area - U St - The Wharf

Anyhow

Hey NYT, you're not actually required to—indeed, shouldn't!—regurgitate the President's transparently made-up reason for doing a thing, particularly when it's refuted by your own reporting. This is about seizing control; everyone (even you I suspect) gets that. Crime is just the paper thin excuse.

Shoutout to our fig tree, which produces like a boss every year without needing any help from us. Tomatoes, you could learn a thing or two.

Fort Totten 5/

🚨ALERT🚨 A group of about 10 Secret Service, ICE HSI, and DHS police have been spotted across various locations around Adams Morgan, the Columbia Heights metro, the triangle park at Harvard and 16th St NW in Mount Pleasant, and at the Ft. Totten metro between 8 and 9 PM today (8/8). 1/

“Consumers deserve robust privacy protections and rights over their own data, regardless of the type of business collecting and processing that information...” ➡️ Read EPIC's latest white paper by Law Fellow Caroline Kraczon and Scholar in Residence @jshermcyber.bsky.social: epic.org/documents/un...

This afternoon, EPIC Executive Director Alan Butler (@alanindc.bsky.social) will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the importance of strong federal data regulations to protect the privacy of American consumers. ➡️ Tune in at 2:30 pm ET: www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Back at it! 💪

You absolutely love to see it: "[Commissioner] Slaughter remains a rightful member of the Federal Trade Commission until the expiration of her Senate-confirmed term on September 25, 2029[.]" Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

So I give it six months after rollout for someone to have a study showing racial or gender disparities in the real time AI individualized pricing. If so, this would be an unfair trade practice under the FTC Act, at least. Which means it would also violate a lot of state consumer protection laws.

For those of us who believe the Supreme Court is, at least in part, a political institution, its saving grace is that it moves the law only in increments, is reactive rather than proactive, and must give its reasons and be judged on them. A Court that doesn't do those things isn't worth having.

"Incorrect, we will not be doing work today."

paradox, you say

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

This morning, the Federal Trade Commission is hosting a workshop titled: Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices in “Gender-Affirming Care” for Minors. If the scare quotes don't give it away, Trump's FTC chair Andrew Ferguson has promised from the start that harassing trans people would be on his agenda