Apparently Judge Maloney is unfamiliar with the authoritative doctrine of "Matthew Kacsmaryk vibes standing."

I was out there in the first term saying Trump's SCOTUS appointments would be bad, but they wouldn't be "Trump judges." I was so wrong on so many levels.

Can't wait for this to be overturned 6-3 with a Kavanaugh decision that boils down to "get the message already, bozos"

Totes agree -- and while I don't believe he's dead, I *DO* think there's some kind of medical issue they are hiding.

Well, this gave me today's grim chuckle!

Evergreen SCOTUS skeet, but: JFC

We are truly in a golden age of things you learn about in law school, but that you are told are basically so rare as to not exist.

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

From back when we were a REAL country

We cannot allow ourselves to grow numb to the fact that these attacks are nothing less than the government of the United States committing blatant and unjustified murder.

"Suffer the little children to come unto me, so long as they are properly insured."

Is it just me, or does this fish look like J.D. Vance?

More like Silly BOREwood

It's worrisome how familiar people are with the famous Martin Niemöller poem, "First They Came," but how little they appreciate its message. Americans are witnessing the illegal, inhumane, and tyrannical treatment of immigrants, but are largely passive because they aren't personally targeted (yet).

Oh did he? Did he exceed his authority? How awful. Just terrible to imagine a U.S. president being capable of doing something like that. Exceeding his authority.

Combine his hypocrisy here with Pizzagate, and I think it is only fair to conclude that he is trafficking children out of his basement.

I really think Sotomayor is in enough of a "YOLO" period that she might use it in a dissent, and I cannot wait.

"Terrorizing people doesn't make them love you. Who knew?"

I love Eugene Levy, but something in my head can't compute the guy from "SCTV" and "Waiting for Guffman" sitting down with the future King of the United Kingdom. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This may be as close as we’ll ever get to an official confirmation

I kind of hate to say it, but I think everyone (whether they agree or not) should read the latest from @laurajedeed.bsky.social: substack.com/home/post/p-...

On a personal level, I was quite surprised in "Peacemaker" outtakes how genuinely amiable and funny he is.

Uh, wow! I had no idea this was in the offing.

How the conspiratorial race to the bottom works: Marjorie Taylor Greene tweets that she is not suicidal and implies Israel would try to kill her but doesn't name them. Days later, Theo Von just says it straight out, because you need to keep upping the antisemitic ante to shock.

Citing Earl the Goat! It's nice to see someone who obviously loves and cares about NYC.

Re: Bari Weiss--remember, authoritarians make a huge show of dominating their enemies, but they also make a huge show of rewarding their supplicants.

Well this is a whole bunch of bs. The first thing you learn about copyright is that it attaches automatically and you shouldn't have to register it.

Love that people have taken to calling them Kavanaugh stops. Hope the naming convention spreads.

The graf is from Trump's petition asking SCOTUS to review his EO wiping out birthright citizenship. In the highlighted sentence let me point out two major problems. 1) The birthright citizenship clause was NOT JUST to confer US citizenship on formerly enslaved people. 1/

A good day to consider donating to Wikipedia gizmodo.com/elon-musks-w...

First they said "learn to code" and that has turned out...not great. Now we have this....

I mean, they think Trump is a king, so "honi soit qui mal y pense" is kind of a fitting response, I guess.

Yup. Just a reminder that while the results-oriented approach here is understandable, to some extent, it is entirely lawless.

One should always listen to Professor Vladeck. And I quite agree; I have a strong sense that this is Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett essentially, saying "get your ducks in a row before you do this."

I have not seen this, but a reminder to everyone: you should be especially skeptical of things that tend to reinforce your priors

In exceedingly rare instances, military political jockeying bullshit can be good, actually

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Ted Cruz, taking the Kinsley gaffe to a whole new and horrifying level: www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-267...

Tell me with a straight face he's wrong here

Drop whatever you’re doing and read the last 15 pages of this 161-page opinion. I’m serious. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Again I say, Judge Young has reached "fuck you" age. Good on him, and may we all be so lucky.

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

So a group of democrats are putting together a response speech to what just happened… right?

I think we're all pretty familiar with the concept of "fuck you" money, but I'd like to submit that there's also "fuck you" age.

This is such a minor, bitchy complaint, but I hate the fact that "wandering around the stage like a youth pastor" is now accepted as a proper look for people in authority.

Glad to see the obvious but important point here: the First Amendment is framed as a restraint on government, not a privilege held by some class of people.

For those of you who think some of us are alarmist Chicken Littles, you might want to look at our record of predictions. We keep saying what the horrible next step will be and then it happens. Meanwhile, the "wait and see" crowd is batting .000. You are in denial.

BREAKING A federal judge that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment. His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response.

The choice between good and evil doesn't look like Lord of the Rings or Star Wars. But we all make choices between good and evil.