"If you squinted hard, you could see they were the true, classical liberals. *Except they weren’t.* And all their work dismantling the social safety net and regulatory state served only to concentrate power in a demented demagogue and his chattering coterie of clout farmers." — @lizdye.bsky.social

A lot of us Jews would not be alive today if there hadn't been people brave enough to hide us in their houses for years at a time, so yeah, I'd take this deal.

JD Vance says he wants the Republican Party to be a big tent ... Big enough to hold a Nuremberg Rally. But as the Republican Party, and the fully Trumped Heritage Foundation, ever more openly embraces bigotry - and particularly antisemitism - there are some initial rumblings of discontent.

Justice Kavanaugh does not want to be known as Justice Kavanaugh Stop

Cool, NOW DO TARIFFS

Betcha a shiny nickel this is because they told their LLM to redact all the initials used to identify minor victims and so it also redacted S.D.N.Y.

It's pretty fucking fearless to go back and do your goddamn oversight visit where they last framed you for assault.

Kevin Roberts COME ON DOWN

Wrong. The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.

More seriously, the people leaving Heritage are … Heritage. They have been there for decades. They made it what it was. This is wild.

How racist do you have to be to freak out Hans von Spakovsky??? reason.com/volokh/2025/...

It's important to have goals. I for one think we should applaud Lindsey Halligan for her resolve! www.lawandchaospod.com/p/lindsey-ha...

Landry rushed to clarify he isn't resigning as governor of Louisiana and this will be, like, his side gig I guess. The state constitution explicitly bans state officeholders from simultaneously holding any federal office.

Trump’s for they and them

Jewish conservatives discovering that MAGA is not their friend is the Hallmark Christmas movie we didn't know we needed. And they didn't even have to shoot it in Vancouver!

I wrote about Aakash Singh, his ascendancy to a top DOJ position and his role in some of the most controversial Trump DOJ moves this year in September. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A reminder that Bari Weiss was hired to do exactly this: strangle news coverage that is critical of Donald Trump and MAGA. Here she's got the gall to suggest that a journalist with 30 years of hard news experience made some basic reporting mistakes. Come on. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

I guess there's not a Blackman at Heritage any more. @lizdye.bsky.social @andrewtorrez.bsky.social

Let's do the fucking [file not found]

NEW: Rep. Cory Mills owns a defense company that appears to have been illegally exporting weapons to Ukraine—while Mills sits on the committee with oversight of those sales. This has gone unreported and for a long time unknown in Congress. My latest here: sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/george-san...

[preparing to get screamed at] I think I officially don’t need to know if you’re mad that an article is paywalled. Perhaps that can be an Inside Thought

This is why Costco and the other companies are suing. Even if SCOTUS rules the tariffs are illegal, Hassett says Treasury won't give back cash paid by importers — effectively stealing their money.

if you want to express your agreement with me that Vance is terrible, I guarantee the way NOT to do it is to say that he's terrible because Peter Theil keeps him as a rent boy or any other anti-queer nonsense. I promise you can hate JD without being a weird fucking blue maga bigot. instablock.

Thanks to @klasfeldreports.com for coming on to talk to us about reporting on the law in the age of Trump. He really managed to sound a note of hope in this ugly moment! with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Free version: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

It may well be worse now than in the past, but this is extremely typical. I’ve had clients detained by ICE, and it’s like they fall into a black hole. Getting in touch with people in state or federal prison, or even county jail, is easier by an order of magnitude.

We welcome @klasfeldreports.com to the show to talk the Dugan trial & larger issues about journalism in the age of Trump and what we can do about it. With @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

I wrote about the cronyistic TikTok deal, and how it once again shows the U.S. is too corrupt to function in the public interest, despite a whole lot of pretense to the contrary

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

Check out the latest @lizdye.bsky.social for Public Notice!

Can Trump sue the BBC in Florida for (yes, seriously) $10 billion for tortiously NOT airing a documentary in Florida? Well, yes, but the question is really, "will he get sanctioned AGAIN for this nonsense?" with @lizdye.bsky.social www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trump-sues...

New in PN: Trump gets bored issuing real pardons, tries a fake one "Tmrw is the anniversary of Trump’s infamous tweet: 'Big protest in DC on J6. Be there, will be wild!' We know what happened next. All of which is to say his fake pardon of a grifting weirdo is very funny. And also…not funny at all"

🚨BREAKING: We just learned that the court in my lawsuit — Neguse et al. v. ICE — has temporarily stopped the Trump administration from blocking Members of Congress from unannounced oversight visits to immigration detention facilities. The rule of law will prevail.

Bridgegate 2

I regret to inform you that X Corp. likely has the edge in its trademark lawsuit vs. Operation Bluebird, which is trying to register and use the "Twitter" trademark for its own social media service. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Team Halligan: We can't give the Richman docs to the court to hold because they'll screw up chain of custody. Judge: Okay, tell me how you've preserved chain of custody so far? TH: Disappearing shoebox in the cloud, lol storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Another Kilmar Abrego Garcia video?? Turns out he’s kind of a big deal. And you know that if it’s @lizdye.bsky.social for @legaleagle.tv it’s going to be good! youtu.be/YgDFn4TukZo?...

The only hint in the CNN report that someone may have beat them to the story by nine months is a reference to Patriot Front founder Thomas Rousseau disputing "local media coverage." Here would have been an opportunity for CNN to credit our reporting, but no.... 3/

CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

What do the NLRB, Lindsey Halligan, and… Blake Lively’s lawsuit against Justin Baldoni all have in common? Listen and find out! With @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

As much as I'm concerned with Trump's failures with Aaron Rupar, I'm also very concerned about Trump's failures with everyone else. Fortunately, it's all covered here so click through and enjoy/be horrified:

Today, for the first time in six months, Angelenos are living without the National Guard unlawfully deployed in their city. Our team fought tirelessly against President Trump’s unlawful attempts to militarize American cities, and while the fight is not over, this is a step in the right direction.

Kind of darkly funny that the government's defense of the well thought out plan for Trump's bigly beautiful ballroom looks like this storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The problem with all arguments of this sort is that they effectively rewrite the statute to exclude critical limitations. If a statute says "the president may do X on condition Y," but no court may second guess a presidential determination that Y obtains (even if it plainly does not)...

NEW: A US trade court denied a request to suspend a customs process for finalizing import duties while SCOTUS decides whether to strike Trump’s tariffs. Admin said it won't oppose orders to recalculate tariffs (and pay refunds) if it loses, so the court said it didn't need to act now buff.ly/20b0YsM

Lindsey Halligan Humiliated In Court. Again. https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/lindsey-halligan-humiliated-in-court-again/

Oh hey we are getting a United States digital service This one has Force in the name though so you know it’s not woke. www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...

🚨🚨 JUDGE DUGAN'S TRIAL GETS ITS SIGNALGATE The witness agrees that federal agents spoke to each other in a Signal group called "Frozen Water Group," indicating ICE. Dugan's lawyer notes that's not the preferred mode of ICE communications.

What just happened? The Eleventh Circuit today (1) fundamentally altered First Amendment remedies, (2) in a renewed stay request already rejected once, (3) with no opinion, (4) that this very Supreme Court previously rejected.

BREAKING: The Eleventh Circuit grants Florida’s request to limit the injunction against the anti-drag law to cover only Hamburger Mary’s of Orlando. The preliminary injunction blocking all enforcement had been in place for nearly two-and-a-half years at this point. www.lawdork.com/p/florida-an...