EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

On my library’s lucky day shelf: Leah Litman’s “Lawless” next to “Never Flinch” by Stephen King. Note the drawing of Lady Justice. @strictscrutiny.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social

When I feel on the edge of burnout, I remind myself to listen to what the soul needs—the soul, that ancient thing that we silence, ignore, and deny. I hope this poem helps you find a moment with your own soul amidst the madness of our world.

Issue-specific targeted checkpoints like DUI checkpoints can be constitutional, but a generalized roust-everyone-for-anything checkpoints are definitely not. There may be an exception for a special purpose to help a career sex pest and rapist evade attention to his connection to a serial pedophile.

The Michigan @aclu.org is looking to hire a senior staff attorney. These jobs don't come around that often, and they've got a great team -- wanted to make sure folk saw it! www.aclumich.org/en/jobs/staf...

A new mural has been unveiled in the French city of Roubaix to mark #July4th. (🎨 Judith de Leeuw)

Today, the Getty Villa Museum reopened after nearly 6 months of closure due to the Palisades Fire. We've missed you, Los Angeles! So happy to see you again.

Holy shit, New York! Here’s the full view. #NoKings #50501Movement

Oklahoma receives about $3 billion more in federal spending than it pays in federal taxes. That's nearly $8,000 per Oklahoman--only 9 states have a higher per capita balance of payments. Subsidies from MA, NJ, WA, CA, and a few others are how OK remains a "low tax state."

Re-reading Justice Robert H. Jackson's famous speech on the dangerous discretion of federal prosecutors in light of the dubious indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This section stood out. www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

Wanna see something incredibly ... bad? Here's Alito quoting a source to suggest that you can't do habeas class actions: 1/

Federal funding, university scientists, decades of research before discovery - all things this admin is committed to eradicating. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

He died shortly after completing this and is buried with her, at the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. I didn’t realize until today that he was the son of Joseph Story, legal scholar and US Supreme Court justice.

After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/5)

If you're confused about the process of the papal conclave, I've written a simple guide that answers (most of) your burning questions. Enjoy! charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/my-simple-...

Any human mood can be described accurately by a Mark Rothko painting.

Trump's dismantlement of the Civil Rights Division, and its transformation of the rump that remains into a right-wing grievance engine, was a big motivator for my newsletter last week arging for the importance of the private plaintiffs' bar. buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

Very eye-opening piece here. In a nutshell, Bukele cut a deal with MS-13 to operate freely but with less violence, Trump sends indicted MS-13 bigwigs back to El Salvador for kid glove treatment and dismisses charges that would have exposed all this. Security theater for all involved.

Reminder: this is the same plan Russian operatives offered to Paul Manafort in exchange for their help getting Trump elected in 2016. (See Manafort’s testimony in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report.)

Crazy crowd of 35,000 at the AOC & Bernie Sanders rally in LA. 😳👏 #FightOligarchy

Sign of the day…Chicago

“The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it.”

If you are not watching @booker.senate.gov right now, drop everything and turn him on. History in the making.

So a politician is convicted of a serious crime, and then can't run for the presidency. Weird idea, but worth a try. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/w...

As usual @vermontgmg.bsky.social gives us the most cogent and understandable analysis. Worth your time to read this.

In re: absolutely nothing going on in the world: The SLA team at Earthjustice is looking for an early-career attorney to join us as an Associate Counsel. DC preferred. 1-5 years of experience including any clerkships. Salary is based on experience; range is $106,400-$125,300 in DC.

In effectively a single blink of the historical eye, we’ve seen our entire constitutional system simply … stop. We can clearly see what’s happening is wrong—illegal and unconstitutional—and the actors who can do something about that just … aren’t. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...

this is supposed to be about FDR but i don't think the Heritage guys realized what else this headline could mean

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

LA County filed a lawsuit today against Southern California Edison alleging that SCE caused the #EatonFire in Altadena. counsel.lacounty.gov/wp-content/u...

Here’s a gift link to my piece in today’s @nytimes.com about Musk & the Constitution www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

my dog when I ask what’s in his mouth

“Oh, would some Power the gift give us To see ourselves as others see us! It would from many a blunder free us….” Third in a series:

To quote @steventdennis.bsky.social - “if they had the votes they’d be voting” So they’re breaking the law instead

This plaque in Prague has been rubbed to a shiny gold because for centuries, passersby have touched the dog for good luck, and also to reassure him that he's a very good boy. 14/10

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

Forgot the link on this one: #GuarinoGuarini #earlymodern #architecture www.sacredarchitecture.org/articles/gua...

The story behind ProPublica’s new Private School Demographics database began with our need to understand how many “segregation academies” still operate — and where. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social

If you are posting your own photo or video of the Eaton fire in Altadena / Pasadena, please also say *where* it was taken. This is a good source for the addresses of some of the homes affected. maps.app.goo.gl/QB6JpB345Gwx...

What a loss! Ann Telnaes is one of the best editorial cartoonists in the US.

Trying to approach 2025 the way St. Margaret is approaching Beelzebub

I put together a collection of around 4,000 public domain nature poems. naturepoems.github.io (On mobile click the button in the top right)

After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers. Science works, y'all. www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...

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