congrats to jared polis once again

Amazing that Zohran Mamdani did not want to join a parade with Bezalel Smotrich, soon to be wanted by the ICC for crimes against humanity. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...

Oh well if the candy crush guy says it,

🎶🎶🎶 And there are no cats in America, and the streets are paved with cheese 🎶🎶🎶

Old enough to remember when a settlement with Harvard was imminent

The people who led the negotiating of Trump's slush fund were all Trump's personal lawyers, who had worked with one another. There was no-one there representing the public interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...

This rules. Absolutely the funniest possible outcome. The president of the United States filling in as the headliner of a concert because Milli Vanilli canceled.

This guy www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

I find this persuasive except for the description of the choice between Collins and Platner. Given Collins' support for an administration full of white nationalists, a vote for either major party candidate is bound up with antisemitism.

DO YOU SING?

Mullin's lie that there is no hunger strike in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary *from the strikers themselves* is a nice illustration of the point that fascists' most basic demand is all of society bending to their reality.

In their third open letter, Delaney strikers thanked community members for their support and asked them to keep fighting for justice for everyone unjustly detained at the GEO Group facility. “We want you to know that you give us the strength and determination to keep going.”

And the reference to claims that she proved in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to a jury of New Yorkers following a scrupulously fair trial as "allegations."

Another clear centering of Trump’s emotions from a few days ago: the number of headlines and articles that referred to E. Jean Carroll that referred to her as an “enemy” or “adversary” rather than “victim.”

And yet no story about how Mr. Trump responded to Milli Vanilli pulling out of his big concert. Curious.

When you see news reports about the pro-ICE protest outside Delaney Hall today, know that it is about 6 people total surrounded by a million cameras with about 75 to 100 anti-ICE demonstrators across the street.

Ghosts have dreams like everyone else. A common anxiety dream for ghosts is being summoned to a seance they haven't prepared for. Then discovering they're the ghost of a naked person. Then they wake up and experience a wave of relief when they remember they're dead.

But even if it's not a criminal offense, it seems like it would be a violation of DOJ supplemental ethics rules. www.ecfr.gov/current/titl...

Haven't done the research, but I'd be surprised if a DOJ attorney personally representing a private party without proper authorization is not at least a misdemeanor.

Looks like the judge decided to proceed under Rule 11, which is both less fun and more likely to withstand appellate review.

Hoo-boy, this judge seems a lot more open to this than I expected. She has ordered DOJ to respond, including by explaining whether there was collusion, whether the parties are adverse, whether the case was "premised on deception," and if the court was a "victim of a fraud." Link in alt text

I realize state AG's offices are somewhat busy these days but I wonder when one will go to court and get an injunction against this inanity. The threats are more than enough to create an Article III controversy.

Good, concise exam question for innumerable classes

Encouraging sign for the rule of law that a national arrest warrant was honored here

ICE agent Christian Castro, facing state charges in Minnesota for shooting Venezuelan immigrant Julio Sosa-Celis during Operation Metro Surge, was arrested in Texas by Texas Rangers and, notably, DHS inspector general agents, with Minnesota LEOs present www.startribune.com/ice-agent-ch...

A well-functioning tort system would bankrupt this company.

When we go high, he goes...

didn't think I'd be saying this in 2026 but: the eyes of the country are now fixed firmly on Flo Rida bsky.app/profile/alex...

"Trump sold you a false bill of good" is a framing that we are going to be seeing a lot of and it's an important move in building the political support needed to hold these crooks accountable.

i’ll add to josh that in addition to this idea that only the president can identify national priorities, there is a conception of the president as something like the sovereign embodiment of “the people” themselves.

And now for something completely different

Nevermind about the cost of gas

Scripps final three! www.youtube.com/live/PqtZlxG...

You can trust him because he just voluntarily dismissed his office's highest profile criminal case for grand jury misconduct.

Interesting AI story abovethelaw.com/2026/05/judi...

Monsters.

This is not only true, it only permits only one conclusion: the surviving member of Milli Vanilli must be made president of Columbia University

It’s ok I think he plans to attend next day’s function, which—if I’m not mistaken—is a high-class luncheon

I feel for people who were going to attend. Standin' on the Mall like you was Poindexter.

Reporters don't talk enough about how Republicans do not consider Democratic voters to be fully American.

Oh?

Penalizing interstate and international travel without statutory authority in retaliation for states declining to accede to demands to commandeer local police--did I miss anything?

Just insane. New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill says DHS just denied state health inspectors full access to Delaney Hall. She's calling for it to be shut down.

They thought about it for a moment there.

The were turned down by HALF OF MILLI VANILLI

Just so

Also: Anyone who thinks AI is "seductive as hell" has never actually been seduced. Sorry to this man.

It's good that universities are making six-figure payouts to people who got fired for their comments about Charlie Kirk, but now the universities need to do some new firing, of administrators who carried out those illegal actions. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...