The dream of the 1860s is alive in Portland.

I think I read this article in WIRED in 1994.

At .666, Lindsay Halligan is currently holding the lowest success rate of any federal prosecutor, possibly ever.

New poll

Dear kids soccer coaches, not every (or even any) child needs to learn to “dribble.” In fact, rather a lot of terrific goals have been scored by superstar players with no “dribbling” at all.

MAGA’s leading philosopher seems to have asked ChatGPT to summarize H.R. McMaster’s thesis on VietNam but make it about the South losing the Civil War.

FDA: “…Psych!”

Will Trump claim later that he was being “very sarcastic” like he did with the bleach?

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

“layers”

NEW: Judge Beryl Howell granted my motion for expedited review in my FOIA case for the Epstein files, and invited me to file a motion for summary judgment. Which we did, and which you can read here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ive-fi...

So did Holman get to just… keep that FBI-sting bribe money or what?

Counterfeit president

Military commanders unsure of their authority to use force are “legally required to ask for clarification.” This would make a great Season 3 for The Rehearsal…

I can’t believe I’m saying this but, …thank you, National Rifle Association!

When we get to pleading in my first-year Civil Procedure class, my students often ask me just how over the top a complaint would have to be for a judge to strike it without even being *asked* to do so. Thanks to President Trump, we have an answer: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Electric Boogaloo to you!

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Red states accused the Biden administration of "jawboning" -- coercing social media platforms to "censor" content (mostly COVID misinformation), merely by liaising and flagging false content for those companies. Now the FCC *explicitly threatens* a network over content but that's all good?

If you take what a 9-0 Court said in Vullo seriously, it seems clear to me that Kimmel has not just a plausible jawboning claim but a strong one on the basis of Carr's threats. (Always read Genevieve Lakier 👇)

So the solution to Democrats being overly influenced by “the groups” is… another group?

Getting harder to believe republicans believe anything they say. Here’s Rep. Higgins 2 years ago:

NYT catalogs the way Trump's invasion of DC has shut down normal life. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

replicating patriarchal retaliatory violence on behalf of my trans GF like a cat killing a bird and bringing it to its owner

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Payments incumbents will use the stablecoin legislation to wriggle out of consumer protection requirements that used to apply? Inconceivable! PayPal adds new one-to-one payment links that will soon support crypto | TechCrunch share.google/7Fv5QacrkeBy...

"Witkoff’s son Zach announced [that] one of Sheikh Tahnoon’s investment firms would deposit $2 billion into... a cryptocurrency start-up founded by the Witkoffs and Trumps. Two weeks later, the White House agreed to allow the U.A.E. access to ... the world’s most advanced and scarce computer chips."

If you end regular reporting requirement for public companies, you lose an important independent measure of how the economy is doing. And maybe that's the point.

Tevye singing: 🎶 “Straight white mennnnnnn! -Straight white men! …Tradition!” 🎶

After Kash Patel is fired as FBI Director, count on MAGA to use his shortcomings as a racist smear against Mamdani. The house always wins!

Kash Patel and Zohran Mamdani both being the children of expelled Gujarati Ugandans is a real "duality of man"

Lol. A year ago these same people insisted that any effort to label foreign propaganda was an attack on free speech, and forced the dismantling of multiple orgs studying foreign disinformation

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

Make a band singular: Florence + The Machine - Florence

"The Department of Transportation claims the most “deregulatory” actions with 285, but.. it and virtually all other agencies fall short of President Trump’s apparent '10 rules out for every 1 in' goal." www.americanactionforum.org/insight/the-...

It turns out the real ANTIFA was the friends Trump met and dined with along the way.

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

I'm horrified to hear that Charlie Kirk was shot at an event in Utah. Democratic societies will always have political disagreements, but we must never allow America to become a country that confronts those disagreements with violence. Mark and I are praying for Charlie's recovery.

Universal background checks now.

Right wing and Russia aligned collaborators across the U.S. and Europe are openly exploiting Iryna Zarutska and other Ukrainian refugees’ tragic stories not to promote wartime aid for Ukraine but to stoke fear & push racist, xenophobic policies at home. kyivindependent.com/how-the-righ...

The murder of Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte happened 18 days ago but Congress was out and the Epstein coverup wasn’t the news so now MAGA freaks need to fudge the date to justify exploiting it as a distraction. Bobert claimed it happened “this week” today in a hearing about DC’s crim detention law.

A GOP lawyer watched this video and had one note: “Make sure to put somewhere that the Defense Department (or whatever) did not endorse this.”

Today Congress is marking up bills that would replace our locally elected Attorney General with a presidential pick, allow 14 year-olds to be prosecuted as adults, give Congress a line-item veto of our budget, and more measures that would do direct and serious harm to DC.

As a DC resident and former Oversight Committee staffer it’s really hard to watch today’s hearing on gutting DC home rule and not feel deeply underserved by our current legislative representation. oversight.house.gov/markup/full-...

Since a TRO would not have been subject to appeal, Judge Cobb upgrading it to a PI is a chin-out move throwing the gauntlet down to challenge the Supreme Court to either tacitly affirm or swoop in and rip up their own fresh jurisprudence that seemed to protect the Fed from interference in Wilcox.

And U.S. forces at Al Udeid are there to provide air defenses. Likely to call into question the value of hosting U.S. bases.

Is this the Bargaining stage on the Kubler-Ross grief process?