Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

It's midwinter's eve tonight. If you're quick about it, you can start your timed THE DARK IS RISING read-along before midnight. (tonight's portion is Chapter 1, 'Midwinter's Eve'. Tomorrow is 'Midwinter Day' and 'The Sign-Seeker'.)

Screw Anduril and Palantir... I want to start a company called Bombadil that just makes fun shit, staffed by people who enjoy their jobs and have plenty of time to smoke weed and laugh. I don't even know what they'd do but it'd be something _whimsical as fuck_ let me tell you

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

This applies to far far more than buses.

What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.

The genius of Louise Fletcher's portrayal of Kai Winn is how skillfully she did Erika Kirk face.

If the leadership at the CDC truly believed in this, they'd be doing it with their own kids/grandkids. But they don't, so they're exploiting the poor in Africa instead.

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

I WILL ONCE AGAIN POINT OUT THAT THE US ARMY SENT ME TO AFGHANISTAN FOR A YEAR ARMED ONLY WITH AN M9 PISTOL . WHEN I LEFT THE COMPOUND I HAD TO BORROW THE CROATIAN AK VARIANT ONE OF OUR CONTRACTORS USED SO I HAD SOMETHING MORE THAN A PISTOL. BUT ICE WALKS AROUND LIKE IT'S THE SIEGE OF FALLUJAH.

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

This entire weekend

An amazing reminder of the hope we felt in the 90s.

There is too much. Let me sum up.

This is getting lost: For weeks Trump officials had the option to remove Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica, but refused to do so. Instead they kept trying to send him somewhere more dangerous. Costa Rica wasn't cruel and dehumanizing enough. This is deeply sick conduct. newrepublic.com/article/2043...

Reposting this thread as we enter back into the Christmas season.

LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...

Osmotic prep works fast.

My writeup of yesterday's Özturk decision for @cambridgeday.com www.cambridgeday.com/2025/12/09/t... Özturk's SEVIS database record is ordered restored in a preliminary injunction, so she can teach classes and do research for her graduate degree again, 8 months after her initial arrest by ICE.

Fact check: Lindsey Halligan is not and never has been US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

The clearest distillation.

That includes political analysts here being slow to understand the impact on the GOP in other regions, or whose image of evangelicals who believe in demons and 4004 BC is only poor farmers in a hollow somewhere, not masses of SUV-driving khaki-wearing suburban accountants and engineers

Let's Go Bucks!

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

At the CDC and the FDA, regulatory chaos reigns. And this is exactly what we don’t need:

While we were sleeping, a huge ruling: Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.” She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NYT: Is the President tired? Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?

Just pondering that on Earth 2.0, President Elizabeth Warren's second term is well underway.

Clean electricity is officially growing fast enough in China that the level of fossil generation is falling, even as overall demand rises. They've gotten over the hump.

I named my fists Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern because they're coming up heads every single time (RIP Tom Stoppard)

Worth remembering now Protest by the United States Against Attacks by Japanese Naval Forces on Survivors of Torpedoed American Merchant Vessels June 1944 "The United States Government protests most emphatically against this inhuman form of warfare ..."

Stat of the Game:

With that 18-play, 12 minute drive, Ryan Day is allowed to wear The Vest.

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Friends, we gather to honor the dearly departed icons of the early web. 🖥️⚰️ Though they have vanished from our screens, their spirit endures both in our memory & in the Wayback Machine, preserved across 1 trillion pages of web history. Pay your respects ⤵️ archive.org/details/in-m... #Wayback1T

Must read, especially for journalists: A recent federal court opinion about how DHS is "simply not credible". Extended excerpts here: presswatchers.org/2025/11/dhss...

We're goin' up, up, up It's our moment You know together we're glowing Gonna be, gonna be golden Oh, up, up, up With our voices Unbreakable forever Gonna be, gonna be golden

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they call Gitchee-Gumee

Wastin' away again in Margaritaville Searchin' for my lost shaker of salt Some people claim that there's a Woman to blame But I know it's my own damn fault

open.spotify.com/artist/3FW4H... It's Hate _ichigan Week.

Trump is utterly charmed; Mamdani convinced him that all they both want is for NY to be great; Trump is defending Mamdani from loaded questions by his pet reporters and wants to be his best friend.

When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 68%. phys.org/news/2025-11...

The Ballad of Lola the Pug

Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.