Wow looks like my favorite team is in an entertaining, competitive college football game. If only the YouTube TV package I pay $90/month for allowed me to watch it!

Fernando Mendoza is canonically a California Golden Bear

That is also a god-level call on the field by the ref. The man did his job

For me, Trump attending a Commanders game during a 40-day government shutdown and *participating in an on-field ceremony* is an even crazier story than him wanting the stadium named after him. He’s going to get booed mercilessly! Does no one in his orbit realize this?? www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Today we celebrate the two-year anniversary of me at last persuading my insurance company to approve surgery for a back injury that had made me a miserable, hobbling, heavily medicated mess for the previous 12 months. Here’s me right after, high out of my mind, for some reason hitting a Half Trump.

The less the conservative justices talk about the "major questions doctrine" in the tariffs case, the easier it will be for the Supreme Court to strike down anything the next Democratic president does that they don't personally like

What is Kavanaugh talking about? Genuinely, what "cost" has Sam Alito incurred for his values or opinions or whatever? People who already didn't like him before now like him even less? These people are such babies, man. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

The Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump’s passport sex markers policy conveys as much casual transphobia as a two-page judicial opinion ever could without actually including slurs. Absolutely vile stuff. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

It is a stain on the legal profession that Sarah Isgur, the Trump DOJ flack best known for publicly defending his family sepration policy, has been allowed to rebrand as a savvy legal pundit who feels comfortable cranking out shit like this www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/776620...

The Supreme Court's decision to let the Trump White House implement its anti-trans passport policy is vile, and I appreciate Jackson going out of her way to include in her dissent, for the record, the administration's language justifying the policy. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Trump's tariffs are probably cooked, but the conservative justices are going to be very careful to preserve what matters most: their power to invent sharp limits on executive power next time a Democrat is in the White House

sit on your hands and let them wear it, it’s not the democrats job to bail out their stupidity over and over again

Just want to get on the record that I have not seen anybody of that name commit any sort of crime, felony or otherwise

Every time Brett Kavanaugh asks a question during oral argument, I’m reminded of the dumbest guy in my law school section who in every single lecture would raise his hand to talk because the professor, for some godforsaken reason, decided to make class participation part of our grades

So far my major takeaway from the Supreme Court tariffs oral argument is that the liberal justices are still so, so mad about the Biden student debt decision

IMPORTANT: you are fully authorized to lib out tonight. it’s fine! enjoy!

(to the tune of Eleanor Rigby) 🎶socialist muslim🎶

Look at how happy Republican politicians are that Republican judges are about to give them what they want

Hey here's something: If you live in the greater Seattle area and have old law school casebooks, hornbooks, or bar prep materials that you want to get rid of, please DM me, I will come take them off your hands and maybe deliver you a prize for your troubles

Wrote about Condé ending Teen Vogue as we knew it. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...

Here is something I wrote in 2018 about the obituaries for George H.W. Bush, and I think it is also relevant today

Talking to the 5-year-old about the election tomorrow has backfired spectacularly because she asked if she gets to vote, and I explained to her that she needed to be 18, and she is now crying and vigorously arguing that you should be allowed to vote “whatever age you are”

I can't remember a Democratic politician in my lifetime moving people quite like *this*

At his confirmation hearings, William Rehnquist said that his infamous pro-segregation memo reflected the views of the Supreme Court justice he clerked for, not his own. As a Nixon DOJ official, Rehqnuist drafted a *constitutional amendment* to prohibit courts desegregating schools. Lol, lmao even

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Watch the replay, Kike Hernandez never saw Andy Pages on this play. He was running at a dead sprint to try and make an unlikely catch to keep the World Series going, and then he got absolutely lit the fuck up and crumpled in a heap, and when he got up the inning was over lmao

[catching up on DVR after I had to put my kids to bed] WOW what a game folks am I right????

That’s the center fielder they just subbed in for defense???

Looks pretty safe to me

The boys are logged on

Need a Dodgers win here because a Blue Jays World Series title would raise the prospect of a transitive hypothetical Mariners World Series title, which might break me

I do not think YouTube TV subscribers who just lost their access to ABC, ESPN, FX, Disney, the college football networks, etc. are reacting the way YouTube TV hoped they would react

That’s the baseball equivalent of DOINK

Having done zero research I assume the YouTube TV/ESPN dispute is ESPN dragging things out on purpose in order to get annoyed YouTube TV customers to switch to the ESPN streaming package, and as a YouTube TV subscriber myself I can confirm that it is a VERY effective strategy

I remain skeptical that JD Vance has any future in national politics beyond his time as Trump's vice president, but I really do wonder if he'll be desperate and venal enough to dump his wife if we get to, like, December 2027 and he's polling at 8 percent in the GOP primary

My newsletter this week is a TRIVIA GAME: I put together a list of ten awful, racist quotes attributed Chief Justice William Rehnquist. I made up two of them. All the rest of them are real. Can you spot the two fake ones?

Pretty notable difference in tone these days between the conservative Supreme Court justices, who insist that their jobs aren't "political," and Republican politicians, who are already celebrating the death of the Voting Rights Act at the hands of the conservative Supreme Court justices

The great American pastime is finding any justification to make people suffer open.substack.com/pub/somethin...

Are you people fucking kidding me with this shit @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I found the relative apparent head sizes in this Getty Images photo to be really distressing, so I'm sharing it here

A fantastic case for the importance of having an editor

If you are a Trump-adjacent lawyer, the fastest way to lose your job is to mention January 6 in a way that makes him upset

The NBA media is not set up to cover a gambling scandal: defector.com/the-nba-medi...

Man shut the FUCK up

One of the more distressing trends I've noticed lately: If you search X for the name of any underperforming player in any game, you will just get a geyser of tweets from angry people who have seen enough high-profile prop bet scandals now to conclude that the fix MUST be in

Guys, guys, GUYS, it’s finally happening

Talked with my Slate buds about the Terry Rozier/Chauncey Billups gambling scandal, the betting apps that are swallowing sports whole, and the larger scam economy in which we are all trapped because no one in a position of power has any incentive to do anything about

TRENDING: My compulsive desire to witness the end of this game vs. the NyQuil I took a half-hour ago assuming it would be over any minute

Let's go. Lock in. We're here. We're ready. Lock in. 20 innings or bust.

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