Lamest opposition party ever

A 50 year mortgage would just cause house prices to increase, right?

Don’t get me wrong, this is nuts, but it’s also far more cogent than I’d expect, so I doubt he wrote it.

Pay down the debt by televising ripping these garish things off the wall in 2028 on pay per view

On a whim I picked up a role playing magazine from the early 80s, and enjoyed this letter to the editor complaining about an oped saying that computer games would never really be art. At the end, the author says “I know what computers can do, and you’ll find out soon.” Prescient!

I’ve realized one thing I’ve given the Kid by where we live is that he doesn’t exist under the constant threat of having to go Colonial Williamsburg if the weather is even ok

Listening to the Bankman-Fried appeal on my morning walk, and merits aside, that is very much a New York City style Appellants’ argument. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions

Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling? Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

Nice to see a per curiam win from SCOTX this morning for our firm on a Rule 702 issue. Could be useful for anyone fighting about expert admissibility. www.txcourts.gov/media/146151...

FTW

The jury trial, ladies and gentleman teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the...

The funniest thing happening in Houston is that the personal injury Pusch-Nguyen has broken up in spectacular fashion,and Pusch replaced Nguyen with a guy named Wynne.

No. It's not time for aspics. Not today. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/d...

Got an email this morning with an article about AI potentially hallucinating metadata. Now here's a thread about a lawyer who used AI that hallucinated statements in an affidavit. Everyone should be aware, it's not just about fake authorities.

My thread for my not-so-live skeet of the tariff arguments. /1

I've been saying the Pope is just saying standard catholic teaching on immigration, and he is, but at this point I have to admit he's repeating it a little more & with more force than can be attributed to "he's just Popeing."

So that's a really good question.

Right. This is the thing Sauer doesn't get, in part because he's performing for an audience who doesn't care about that sort of persuasion (imo).

I'm to listen to the tariff argument eventually. But it's truly a zoom-out case: does it make any sense that the President has the power to institute any kind of tariff based on any kind of insane whim? And the answer to that must be no. Whether that's what SCOTUS will say I don't know.

The only person who has been seizing private companies through the power of the state is Trump.

I’m sorry but Cuomo losing after running that odious campaign is very funny.

Ok well, “I’m not gonna” is not usually a thing you can tell a judge in response to an order

Just a writing point, I hadn't seen this version of the cart/horse thiing before.

A case I litigated in the Court of Appeals is at SCOTUS today: I think it’s fascinating. Assume a plaintiff sues a Texas and non-Texas entity. The defendants remove to federal court. The district judge keeps the case on improper joinder grounds: the Texas entity shouldn’t have been sued. /1

I am shocked to discover that indiscriminate taxes based on vibes cause economic problems

I'm sorry for the people in the article just now realizing it, but it's been clear for a while that some of the big institutions like Heritage have been staffed by what we used to call neo-nazis.

In a qui tam concurrence, Judge Ho just adds some comments about the virtues of solo dissents, although his opinion is not a dissent. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

Every time Musk opens his violent, hateful, inciteful mouth about the UK, I remember this. Apart from EVERYTHING else that shows he doesn’t know shit (Amer.) about the country, advising a King called Charles to dissolve Parliament against parliamentarians’ wishes is so on the nose.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. #AppellatePlaces

In a normal situation, this order would be so humiliating the district judge would act within the week.

Deep down he's exactly what he seems right on the surface.

So good

This exodus can meet up with the migrants eating cats and dogs in the right wing's fantasy world. Mamdani may be good or terrible or something in between but there ain't a bunch of people fleeing.

Really convenient ready meal for Texans with access to an HEB: broil a pack of HEB's pork al pastor with a few cubes of pineapple, griddle some of the HEB brand blue tortillas from the fridge, add onions and cilantro, and you've got some *very* serviceable tacos.

Kid misheard the announcer in the Bengals/Bears game to say “the Bagels are on the march” and candidly that’s a great start to a short story

What is the best cheap tool that has repeatedly come through for you? This is mine. From a $1.99 pack at Harbor Freight. Great for small repairs, cleanup, and most recently reassembling hooks and loops on a car seat.

If you want to crave tacos, let your social media algorithms show you Mexico City tacos.

This is my point again that the electorate has no idea of what's actually going on. Not in some ideological way, so you can argue whether it's good or not, just in a fact way.

I didn’t expect this to come back to Rubio but of course it does

Ok ok you guys made me turn on the baseball

Aaron is a consistently pro-immigrant voice with deep knowledge of the immigration system's guts and mechanics that he shares freely, so of course he gets yelled at a lot by non-experts on this here BlueSky.

Homework the game!

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”

It’s sort of interesting that the code for “tip” has become “the screen’s going to ask a question .” I’m pro tip fwiw. I’ll push whatever number you want me to push.

Best costume so far tonight: expensive tinned fish

CA5 cuts down NLRB’s enforcement power in a case about a “struggling” karaoke bar www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

Like I said yesterday, the 5:45 pm order was *very* aggressive, and this doesn't surprise me. Alas.

If I promise to hire Trump as my general contractor for some house reno stuff, will he resign and leave us all alone?

BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund. Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.