This one kind of surprises me. The coalition really does seem to be fracturing. www.rawstory.com/senate-provi...

My “my 17 references to George Soros aren’t political” footnote is raising a lot of questions answered by my footnote.

BREAKING: 7th Circuit stays Judge Ellis' order reining in federal tactics towards anti-ICE protests in Illinois. 'Overbroad' & limits on use of riot control devices 'resemble[] a federal regulation.' Judges Brennan/Easterbrook/Scudder (Trump/Reagan/Trump) Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The only way I can relate to this tweet is insofar as 2025 has me feeling pretty darned blent

calling TCW "wa-luigi coates" is... god.

Yes, if the facts are as (the excellent reporter) Anna Bower has them, i.e., that the grand jury returned a general no-bill, I don't see any way this thing survives Gaither.

NOW: Chief Judge Boasberg is holding a hearing in the Alien Enemies Act, and announces that he does plan on continuing the contempt proceedings. He believes that will entail having people testify, but is asking the parties for their positions. “Justice requires me to move promptly on this.”

Here’s the best I could do at summarizing the indictment debacle. It’s complicated! bsky.app/profile/anna...

Two things: (1) Ms. Wheeler really has been on top of all this; and (2) I see a lot of people questioning the foreperson's role in all this. It's not their job to know. The prosecutor is the legal adviser to the grand jury. It is 100% on them.

Todd Blanche always looks like he just shit his pants and is deliberating next steps

Indeed: I would call this a fancy bit of tap dancing.

So here’s what apparently happened: they tried to indict Comey on the last day of the statute with a three-count indictment. The grand jury rejected one. Rather than cross it out or indicate on the indictment that only two of the three counts were voted upon, Halligan creates…/1

What in the name of heaven?

Every journalist, politician and opinion writer who amplified Trump's claims during the Biden Administration (and especially the 2024 campaign) to be the "champion of free speech" should start every new story on this topic with "mea culpa maxima". www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdh1...

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

Kind of oddly resonant with "The Witch of the Westmorland," my favorite version of which is by Stan Rogers.

“heyyy you guys said you’d vote no with me, you promised me bro”

This plays right into my theory of Trump's appeal, which I call pareidolia politics: Trump spews so much incoherent bullshit that people are able to see whatever it is they want in his gibberish.

Poor old Chucklefuck Schumer

Lawgeeks, check out this amicus brief in the upcoming SCOTUS case about state bans on trans women athletes. It directly challenges the nutso "ascertainability at birth" argument that Justice Barrett nodded to in Skrmetti and that the 6th Cir. has adopted. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Mr. Farias explains this well regarding the Trump/CNN lawsuit dismissal, but I feel the need to put it a bit less eloquently--sometimes a court signs per curiam as a judicial way of saying "duh."

Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.

He might also want to read the memo that reminds him to speak in coherent sentences and not gibberish.

I don't even know how to process what I just read....

If ever there were a set of facts that scream out "moral turpitude," this is it.

Utterly bizarre. There is no basis to transfer her into federal custody.

My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away. Fuck cancer. Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...

Comey prosecutors are really scrambling now. Just filed an emergency motion to block the magistrate judge's order that the GJ materials be disclosed. In it they seem to suggest there wasn't two indictments! But Halligan told the court there was!! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My god

Trump might actually do so much looting of the public fisc that he starts an inflationary crisis.

My only hope is that along with socialism, Katie Wilson can bring spiedies to Seattle. (Yay Binghamton!)

The Butcher's Bill for 10 Months of Trump 2.0 open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Again I say, any normal DOJ would voluntarily dismiss this thing to save itself embarrassment.

Where did Epstein get his money? Obviously we can surmise that blackmail and trafficking provided some of it, but it feels like that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Some things never change.

By close of business...today. The DOJ is absolutely being roasted in this case.

BREAKING: Magistrate orders DOJ to turn over grand jury materials to Comey, finding real prospect that "government misconduct" may have tainted the case.

If ever anything made the case for continued anticolonial and, yes, "DEI" efforts, this is it.

I think this is absolutely right, but I think we also have to remember that a lot of these chuds genuinely think they're the good guys and that there's a silent majority out there supporting them.

"Who are the ones we put in charge? Killers, thieves and lawyers." -- Tom Waits, "God's Away on Business"

As a historian of the 18th c and an American, I've always known 2026 would be a critical moment. This doc is worth watching, and thinking through. Begins and ends w Indigenous contexts, conveys the horrors of a civil war wrought w racism + the ideals of liberty and equality we keep reaching for. 1/

oh hey look at that

Great, now I have to worry about illegal cattle immigration? Still, if they can get the cows across the Darien Gap, I say they deserve to be here.

I HATE that this co-opts one of my (many) favorite lines from Casablanca: Renault: "What's he like?" Rick: "He's like other men, only more so."

If we're just making up random stuff, here's my list: AI will invent leprechauns, make it so strippers really do always like you, and guarantee that Han will ALWAYS shoot first.

😝😝😝😝😝

I can't believe I am typing this -- but MTG's apology for past behavior on CNN was...pretty good? Not perfect, and I have no clue if she meant it in any kind of good faith, but yeah. What a world.

So, I absolutely agree with this, but I think that's a couple steps beyond what Senator Schatz is saying. I don't read the original as saying "bring them into the tent," I read it as saying, "don't drive them away." Related things, but different.