Does Alvin Bragg still go to work? Is he even alive?

Very audacious of the @aclu.org to invoke free speech and posture against the Trump administration while at the same time it’s asking Trump’s NLRB to change labor law by restricting free speech rights at work. All this to avoid admitting it illegally fired an employee!

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The G train has 50,000 more daily riders than it did in 2010—when the MTA cut service between Long Island City and Forest Hills. @emilyassembly.bsky.social has led on this for years. I’m with her: bring it back. Read @johnsurico.bsky.social's s op-ed at @nyc.streetsblog.org.

Thirty-one known defendants have been charged in Chicago with non-immigration crimes tied to “Operation Midway Blitz.” With today’s acquittal, 15 of them have been cleared. No one has been convicted.

You read things like this and you can only hope that when the time comes, if it comes, when it is your community's turn to be tested, that you acquit yourselves half as well.

Every politician across the U.S. is taking credit for their unique efforts that drove down the local crime rate, when in fact violent crime is plunging across the country. "The surge in violence in the early 2020s was a departure during a time of massive social upheaval, not a new normal."

Very interesting forthcoming article on state constitutional equivalents to the 4th Amendment, and how state courts do and don't interpret them, from Quinn Yeargain. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #N

Despite stonewalling opposition from Starbucks, its workers around the country have continued to unionize at a fast rate. Each of the past four years, @sbworkersunited.org has won over 100 union elections and added thousands of workers to its ranks.

this is, obviously, a very strange way to get a message out to foreign officials when you have a State Department and a modern communication system that isn't restricted to the city of Washington DC it suggests Rubio wouldn't do it and some chuds in the executive branch found a way to bypass him

If you’re cold, they’re cold, but you don’t have to let them in. - The third amendment

Flags with extinct animals on them: - California (California grizzly bear) - Chernyshevsky District, Russia (Kulindadromeus) - Doronogovi, Mongolia (sauropod) - Srednekolymsk, Russia woolly (mammoth)

1/3 Are you a lawyer litigating against the Trump Administration? Have you witnessed administration attorneys misbehave? We want to know! We are a nonprofit organization documenting government attorneys misconduct in a public, freely accessible database.

This is why I do not really take his latest threat seriously. He has already tried this multiple times just this year alone, and every time they try to actually do it, they lose.

A year ago Trump ordered that federal funds be cut off to states that don't assist in immigration enforcement, and last spring DOT tried to cut off transportation funds to sanctuary states. Twenty states sued and won a permanent injunction, and the Trump administration just dropped its appeal.

Despite tweeting that "ICE should be unmasked both physically and digitally," Torres is not co-sponsoring the actual bill in Congress that would ban ICE agents from wearing face masks (with carefully limited exceptions) and require them to wear badges with their name & affiliation.

Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

Despite the onslaught of attempts by government and private actors to restrict speech, the actual law as decided by U.S. courts remains extremely protective of free speech—arguably more now than at any other time or place in history. This is a good thing for the future of American democracy.

At one point it looked like Gorsuch might be one of the swingier right-wing justices, but instead he's ended up part of a 3-member hard-right bloc. Roberts and Kavanaugh are clearly the two most gettable right-wing votes these days, followed by Barrett.

My representative @repdangoldman.bsky.social, facing a serious primary challenge, is trying to look busy by introducing a confusing bill that seems like it might rein in ICE but would in fact do little or nothing. Though he's a lawyer, it's unclear if he even understands this.

i don't consider myself a great critic of poetry or anything but have genuinely loved reading Renee Good's poems since her death. She had a beautiful gift.

There's no rhyme or reason to which Dems do this on any given nominee, and they never explain, because it really is as stupid as they do it to game metrics so they can't be tagged "most liberal." It's not because Republicans care, they don't need them. It's not a tactical maneuver. It's just dumb.

Apparently including the name of the ICE officer who killed Good seems to hide posts from the search function. So re-upping this, my latest in @slate.com, on the politics of Minneapolis’s DA charging him w homicide. She has gone hard after cops before, and it’s clear Minneapolis is angry.

Kristi Noem, herself, supplied the method used to ID the agent. She said he "been dragged by a vehicle” in an earlier incident. @startribune.com reporters, who know their way around court records, quickly unearthed his name and confirmed his identity.

I'm super excited to send Claire to Congress. She's smart, dedicated, and a fighter. Perhaps most importantly, she's a movement candidate, coming out of @uaw.org & NYC-DSA. I just donated and am looking forward to volunteering for her.

State prosecutions are good and need to happen, but worth flagging there are lots of other things states can do. One of them would be cutting off all state assistance of any kind to federal law enforcement. Not just the limited sanctuary laws. Full cold stop, nothing. Also no data sharing, e.g. DMV.

This is the same dysfunctional Port Authority that charges a whopping $8.50 to arrive at or leave JFK by AirTrain while allowing cars in for free. Disbanding the Port Authority is probably a good idea, but at the least its airports should be taken away.

every seat in a movie theater should have an "I have to pee" button and if enough people press it they should be able to pause the movie

With all that is going on in the world, it might be easy to overlook that the D.C. Circuit appears to have changed its Special Panel (aka Motions Panel) so that it's no longer in place for a month. I think this change is both really important and really good. (A quick courts 🧵 . . . )

You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.

Year-end tally of Trump admin combat actions in 2025: —Yemen—1,000+ strikes* —Somalia—140+ strikes, 1 ground raid** —Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids*** —Iran—3 B-2 strikes —Iraq—1 strike —Nigeria—1 set of TLAM strikes —Caribbean—11 strikes —Eastern Pacific—20 strikes —Venezuela—1 known CIA strike

Please join me in welcoming to the public domain such works as the 1930 Best Picture All Quiet on the Western Front, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, several Nancy Drew books, some songs you've heard of (Dream a Little Dream of Me; Georgia on My Mind), and more: blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/w...

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

this new years eve I'm reminded of an old Soviet toast: Here's to another average year - worse than the one before it, but better than the one ahead

Sucks that a former public defender (who are heavily underrepresented on the bench compared to prosecutors) would abuse her employees, but this kind of mistreatment is all too common in clerkships

Judicial clerkships are a relic of the apprenticeship model, with judges accountable to no one having near-absolute power over their young clerks fresh out of law school. It’s a bad sign that even a previous semi-public shaming doesn’t seem to have dissuaded Sarah Merriam from abusing her clerks.

The murder rate dropped by 20% in 2025, the largest U.S. decline ever recorded

fun fact: conviction registries weren’t supposed to be public. initially, they were only for law enforcement. but then lawmakers realized they could just keep bashing people with sex offense convictions to score easy political points. boltsmag.org/illinois-hou...

When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

Not sure I’ve ever seen a mainstream news story before that wasn’t about homelessness but quoted two separate homeless people on how a current event was affecting them.

the fact that there is free parking at all in manhattan is wild to me

Really think there should be an effort to theorize the broader significance of this common reactionary centrist tactic to pass a law banning something already illegal

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

Kavanaugh's separate opinions often reflect a desire to be perceived as reasonable & nonpartisan, even while his votes & the opinions he joins look very different. I think he wrote this unnecessary footnote because he sincerely wants ICE to act legally. He's just unwilling to do anything about that.

This is a smart piece by @mtkonczal.bsky.social on why the Trump administration has stumbled over itself and failed so badly at consolidating power, despite its advantages: everything-bagel authoritarianism, or the inability to tell any part of its coalition "no."

Former NYC councilmember @rorylancman.bsky.social moved to the suburbs & is now running for state senate. In between, he's spent his time waging war on my union for calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. If elected in this swing district, he'd have Dem leadership's ear & drag the caucus to the right.

As an appellate public defender, I hate that I have to worry that, if I succeed in winning my clients a new trial, they may be transferred from state prison to the dangerous NYC jails, in which 15 people have died this year. The city should be able to keep people in its custody safe & alive.

somewhat comforting to know that New York was always like this www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...