The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work. Really depraved shit.

If you read the complaint, each detained citizen mentions two apparent similar act: (1) ICE takes a picture of them; and (2) ICE refuses to accept a state id or a passport as indicia of citizenship. Why does ICE need a picture? Why is ICE refusing to accept an Id?

🧵 Trump is committing treason by levying war on the United States (specifically, Democrat-led cities).

1/ Ciji Graham was the mother of 2-year-old SJ, a sister to 9 younger siblings, a beloved friend. She's also the 7th case we’ve found of a pregnant woman in a state restricting abortion who died after being unable to access standard care. This is her story.

The Greenland thing is way more batshit than it’s getting credit for. Trump is risking a war with BRITAIN and FRANCE, our closest allies for 200 years, both of which have their own nuclear arsenals!

BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.

The Supreme Court only cleared the way for Kavanaugh Stops four months ago and ICE now openly engages in violent racial profiling, snatching anyone who looks non-white and treating them as presumptively guilty of a crime. Remarkable how quickly our liberties can be crushed when courts go along.

Six-byline alert: 🚨 “.. laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called ‘perfidy.’” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Contrast this with the treatment that SCOTUS has given to those convicted of capital offenses but with plausible claims of innocence. It’s allowed executions to go forward even when the prosecution supports the defendant’s claims (e.g., Marcellus Williams).

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

It’s become all too common to group “academics” and “elites” together, which is a bad mistake. Academics are qualified by education and expertise. Elites are qualified by the size of their bank accounts. They are not the same.

tapping the sign forever

WSJ breaks significant news reporting that Mar-a-Lago’s spa *for years* regularly sent young staffers to Epstein’s home purportedly to give him massages, contorts its scoop to find a more flattering angle for Trump, and still gets an icy blast of a comment from Leavitt. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

“The president, tiptoeing precipitously down the sidelines of legality, inadvertently ran the constitutional football out of bounds.” #McSweeneysTop25of2025

I don't think the Constitution can work so long as the immunity ruling holds up.

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely. youtu.be/R9XN1iOungs?...

Alito objects to the majority reading 10 USC § 12406(3) to mean NG deployment is allowed only if the President is “unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗮𝘄𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘀𝗼.”

SCOTUS has let stand the bar to Trump's use of the National Guard for law enforcement in Illinois. As I mentioned recently in Washington Monthly, the Court has an easier time policing Trump's overreading of statutes than his simply disobeying or ignoring them. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

From July:

3/ On left, Bari Weiss states that she spiked the 60 Minutes piece because: "The admin has argued in court that detainees are due 'judicial review.'" On right, Pam Bondi Memorandum states: "An alien determined to be an Alien Enemy and ordered removed ... is not entitled to ... judicial review."

Didn’t Weiss name precisely this information as purportedly lacking in her memo discussing why she pulled the segment?

Imagine not publishing a story about the Nazi concentration camps because you couldn't get a quote from high-ranking Nazi official, which would make the concentration camps look like a no big deal. That's what Bari Weiss did.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

I haven’t seen anyone say this yet, but I’m kinda surprised that Keyonte George isn’t being mentioned in the Most Improved conversation. Last season: 16.8-3.8-5.6 splits on 39% shooting. This year: 22.9-4-6.8 splits on 44.4% shooting. #TakeNote

1. When did social media become the essential means to combat the dangerousness of the right? 2. No point in trying to combat the right on a platform rigged against the left. 3. Efficacy aside, I’m not going to participate on a platform when my doing so financially benefits its Nazi owner.

I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Birthright citizenship under the common law, a thread: I have done this many times on social media, in print, and in media interviews, but not to be accused of taking others’ not seriously enough, by plainly stating the law and history of birthright citizenship, I’m taking the time here:

Oh. Cool. Just as the President is using every power he can to suppress dissent and stifle speech, @whitehouse.senate.gov and the @judiciarydems.senate.gov are trying to hand Trump a new tool to suppress speech online. What a joke.

1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

I had a hearing in front of Judge Gibson today. She’s one of the best and most thoughtful judges in the state. And I say that even though she denied my motion today.

This also illustrates just how stupid and shortsighted it was for the NYT to suck up to Trump. Incredible act of self-sabotage.

It's great that the media, Congress is going all Watergate on one of Trump's many crimes, the 'double-tap' murder of 2 Caribbean sailors But the reality is that Trump's death cult has killed hundreds of thousands, mostly through senseless USAID cuts My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years

Sunstein posted an admirably frank essay yesterday on the Unitary Executive Theory: How he participated in this elite bipartisan political consensus — and how he has been persuaded by overwhelming historical evidence that he & other high-ranking lawyers were wrong. open.substack.com/pub/casssuns...

Worthwhile thread compiling recent scholarship demonstrating the nonexistence of a good faith debate on birthright citizenship.

The Paul Dano/Quentin Tarantino thing is so funny because everyone is instantly on Paul Dano’s side. He doesn’t even have to respond.

It’s a serious problem that CJ Roberts is currently the Court’s “moderate” swing vote and the animating theme of his entire career has been extinguishing minority voting rights.

If you see John Roberts in person, be sure to tell him he’s a worse Chief Justice than Roger Taney (pronounced “tawny”). That’s a nerd burn that will hit him where it counts.

Shipwrecked and not using any communications equipment. This is a crime against humanity. Everyone involved should be prosecuted for murdering stranded civilians in cold blood. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...

The Supreme Court just handed Texas Republicans at least 2 more House seats & possibly up to 5 despite the state GOP explicitly justifying their remap based on an unconstitutional use of race in redistricting. Unsurprising from this court, and it's a bad sign for the upcoming Voting Rights Act case

just an utter joke of a court.

Texas & DOJ said that’s what was going on! So apparently the way to stop discriminating on the basis of race is to … allow some discrimination on the basis of race when it’s to secure Republicans electoral advantage. Just lawless partisan hackery. No fact finding deference. No legal basis.

I want to make sure I have this clear: A Trump admin that is clearly itching to deploy the military to US cities in ways that likely break the law is INSTANTLY throwing senior generals under the bus the moment they face the least bit of scrutiny?

Even if you think the Hegseth and trump spin is believable either they ordered the illegal murders, or they are currently covering for and hiding, aiding and abetting, and refusing to prosecute other murderers in their government Either way, it is really scandalous! Take your pick I guess

Professor Kreis is getting slammed here, but anyone familiar with his body of work should know that it is ridiculous to accuse him of reacting in bad faith here. But I think the problem with the grading is two-fold. 🧵

Those poor DOJ lawyers who have to defend this in the contempt proceedings. Jk screw those guys.

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.