I am a little surprised that Trump ended up fighting for congestion pricing for the Strait of Hormuz.

This is very funny. no, career prosecutors in Chicago would never behave badly, how dare you sir/ma’am

"Israel" doesn't start with a J.

by @lizdye.bsky.social “the law requires TSA workers to be paid by an act of Congress. Framing the debate as a question of why the president didn’t steal the money faster is like a little old lady tut-tutting at a mugger for failing to snatch her handbag at a reasonable hour”

The unironic use of the term "deep state" to refer to elements of the US government or society is a reliable indicator that the speaker/writer is a crank.

Heather Cox Richardson has a larger audience than almost any dudefluencer. More informed. Better values & policy preferences. And yet there are no profiles, no elevation or lionization, because there's *nothing* US media is less interested in than middle-aged lib women. No diner interviews for them.

So, after losing at the Supreme Court in their censorship lawsuit, Missouri v. Biden, the right-wing AGs and the Koch-linked New Civil Liberties Alliance get a meaningless settlement from the Trump administration as a conciliation prize. That’s how this story should be covered.

It is extremely wrong how Dems talking point on this is that paying TSA by EO is totally legal and he should have done it sooner. It is not legal, that $10B is only for border security and TSA is not border security. He's stealing the power of the purse, stop saying he should have done it sooner!

For No Kings, I thought I would create a tl;dr for the Motion to Dismiss filed by the remaining Broadview Six defendants.

This is just like the time that @ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social found Jim Comey’s secret Twitter account because who tf else cares that much about Reinhold Niebuhr Why u mad bro? www.reuters.com/world/us/ira...

We’ve got a dense show today with weighty discussions of jurisprudence, Section 230, how the DOJ is lawyering when its client (the Dep’t of Homeland Security) keeps lying to it & much, much more! With @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Oh my God. "The Eighth Circuit does not apply—and has specifically rejected—a heightened standard for mandatory injunctions." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Well if these dipshits would quit believing every dumb lie the president blurts out in an OBVIOUS ATTEMPT TO MANIPULATE THE MARKET ...

DeSantis appointed-FL AG Uthmeier is emitting a squid ink cloud of racism to cover up his corruption again. (He helped DeSantis steal millions in Medicaid funds to fund political ads against ballot initiatives.) www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/03/26/f...

It would be nice if anywhere in the eight paragraphs of this story the WP mentioned that this is illegal and not how things work. The president can’t “sidestep” Congress on funding and payments.

Lawyers have a saying for when a judge tells a lawyer to preserve their records: "Fuck fuck fuck I'm so fucked"

Just what Baltimore needs, more underground tunnels that catch fire www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Hey @lizdye.bsky.social wouldn't it be an absolute baller move if Abrego filed a petition for asylum and said he actually meant to file it when he was 16 and so it's nunc pro tunc to that date?

BREAKING: The PA Supreme Court holds that mandatory life without parole sentences for all "felony murder" convictions -- a sentence more than 1,000 people in PA are serving -- violates the state constitution's "cruel" punishment ban. This is GROUNDBREAKING: www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...

And here's another prediction. I think this is just another step on the road. If they're running my playbook they're expecting to lose this case, and the next step is to ask a state judge to issue a criminal warrant for FBI/DHS records and say "we tried Touhy and it didn't work."

Long live Wonkette! by @marciej.bsky.social www.wonkette.com/p/is-wonkett...

"Annoyingly, Congress refused to 0 out funding for VOA, which have been a major source of US soft power since WW2. Now the president seems to be trimming his sails, hoping instead to turn USAGM into a North Korea-style state mouthpiece to broadcast MAGA propaganda worldwide." — @lizdye.bsky.social

I said this should happen before Pretti was killed and when they sued to preserve the records about that shooting I told @andrewtorrez.bsky.social @lizdye.bsky.social that the only reason they would do that is because they were going to go after them in court, and here we are two months later.

Motion to compel in Pentagon Press Pass case citing DOD lawyer Tim Parlatore bragging "we used more words to say the same thing" WOW WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I also would do some crazy shit for tahdig

BREAKING: I'm suing the federal government for access to evidence in the shootings of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Julio Sosa-Celis. It's astonishing this lawsuit is even necessary, but in Minnesota, nobody is above the law.

Specifically, Parlatore is Hegseth’s personal attorney. He was allowed back into the Naval Reserve so he could function as Hegseth’s senior advisor all at the same time his firm is suing the Navy. He’s also done legal work for Trump.

Sorry folks you’re going to have to be sincere and earnest and uncool and otherwise lame if you want to defeat fascism

NYT: Pentagon is back on its BS with press passes. “We used more words to say the same thing and to foreclose creative misinterpretations,” Cmdr. Tim Parlatore, a special adviser to Mr. Hegseth, said in an interview. Parlatore is a lawyer. He knows that won't fly. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/b...

What’s going on with Kilmar Abrego Garcia? And also… find out why the Supreme Court siding with a misogynist hate preacher is… good actually? With @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

There’s so much to unpack in this order regarding Pentagon press access. Make sure you read it! (No paywall.)

OBSCENE: Trump is using ONE BILLION of our tax dollars to bribe a French company to invest in the fossil fuel industry instead of renewable energy. "It comes as the war in the Middle East has shocked global oil markets, prompting concerns about energy supplies." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...

DOJ taps out in fight over US Attorney in New Jersey. The judges appointed longtime prosecutor Robert Frazer, and Todd Blanche didn't immediately fire him ... so, looks like they know this is a fight they can't win. www.njd.uscourts.gov/sites/njd/fi...

The Defense Department was probably always going to lose in court on First Amendment grounds. But the constant shitposting about revoking press access for those "scum" reporters didn't help. www.lawandchaospod.com/p/hegseth-ge...

BREAKING Voice of America staffers say in a new lawsuit that the Trump admin and Kari Lake have “censored news coming out of Iran,” including “stories about anti-government protests” and opposition to the regime. They’ve sued over a breach of the statutorily-protected editorial firewall.

Tom Homan just announced on @cnn.com that ICE will be deployed to America's airports starting MONDAY. He says they won't do passenger screening. He also claims agents are so well trained that this should be no big deal. Here in Chicago, like Minneapolis, we've seen the truth about that 'training.'

For those wanting to catch up, @lizdye.bsky.social and @legaleagle.tv posted a great video summarizing this up until now. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2AQP...

This is such a hard and weird time to be Jewish and Online. I am disgusted by Israel. I also see a wave of new antisemitism building on top of already recent antisemitism that is coalescing around and using legitimate critique of Israel.

This won't be a popular opinion but the focus on AIPAC compared to, say, crypto or other huge spenders bothers me in the same way that the relentless focus on Israel bothers me compared to other significant world stage bad actors. It feels like the intensity is a byproduct of latent antisemitism.

2/ "When the DOJ is no longer drawing the absolute most highly credentialed and excellent attorneys from private practice, from local prosecutors offices, then the quality of work that's being done will be decreased," Mitchell Epner, partner at Kudman Trachten Aloe Posner LLP . . .

Remember when Iran got a couple pallets of physical cash under JCPOA is part of sanctions relief and the right wing absolutely lost their fucking minds? apnews.com/article/unit...

Read about what a cesspool DOJ has become:

*sigh* Yes, married women is by far the largest individual group of people who have changed their names and so would face procedural hurdles to vote under the Act. But they're not the only people who have changed their names. My husband, for example, took my name when we got married.

We were gonna make a podcast... and then we got high. And then we went to New Jersey for some reason?? Listen up and you'll know why! with @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

I think it’s notable that a whole lot of Jewish (and non-Jewish!) folks are saying that the antisemitism here is as bad as it’s ever been and getting worse maybe worth paying attention to the voices of people who live this stuff

Folks, I'm probably gonna charge you so much more than $15,000 to fix what Claude fucks up. At your own risk.

I don't really feel like the press coverage of the metaverse implosion honestly captures the access tech press' role in propping up Mark Zuckerberg's fake innovation mythology if you go back and read "journalism" from this era, 97% was indistinguishable from advertorial

Live Nation managed to bribe the Trump DOJ to drop its antitrust case for just $500,000. It's a deal so bad that even some red states have refused to settle. @lizdye.bsky.social tells you everything you need to know in the latest @legaleagle.tv Go! Watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AQP...

It gets worse. Now someone is leaking that Kent has been under FBI investigation for a while for leaking classified info? And they left this person in his role that entire time? My clients get shown the door and put on unpaid leave after a mere accusation like this.