When you lay it all out like that...

Seeing a lot of people say Trump deleted this post. He didn’t, he just edited it to include Lindsey Halligan’s full name. The post is still up on Truth Social.

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

Gov. Newsom’s tweet comes nowhere close to a “true threat” under Supreme Court precedent, including the recently-decided Counterman v. Colorado

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

Vaccinations have been so successful that “there's been a collective forgetting that measles, and mumps, and rubella—these used to be diseases that would kill people in fairly large numbers,” the Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic Festival. bit.ly/46a5DUE

Hey Secretary Signalgate, Your job is to keep what is meant to be secret secret. Journalists’ job is to disseminate newsworthy information. The law doesn’t allow you to restrain journalists because you can’t do your job.

The media can truthfully report on DHS’s and Trump’s activities. If the truth makes them look like demons, then it is not the media that should stop what it is doing. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...

This is legally (and hopefully obviously) incorrect. 100% of the stories can be negative and it is still free speech.

Marvelous!

BREAKING: Federal judge tosses out Trump's lawsuit against the New York Times, Penguin Random House, & journalists, finding that the complaint violated court pleading rules due to its expansive, over-the-top, "tedious" use of language. An amended complaint can be filed without all of the BS in it.

Key Supreme Court First Amendment cases to know today: The government may not: -suppress speech with a “threat of invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion.” Bantam Books v. Sullivan (1963) -“attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress” speech. NRA v. Vullo (2024)

We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away. We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”

This is three months old and the administration is way worse now.

This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.

“They're not allowed to do that."

BREAKING: Federal judge in Los Angeles issues preliminary injunction against Department of Homeland Security to restrict use of force against press, legal observers and protesters. Judge in LA Press Club v. Noem calls out "surprising savagery" of DHS officers: "The First Amendment demands better."

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Attacked Boat Near Venezuela Multiple Times to Kill Survivors American officials said the repeat drone strikes were carried out by Special Operations Command, and more attacks could come soon. theintercept.com/2025/09/10/u...

As grim as this story may be, there's still much to be inspired by. Look no further than this attorney for the children, who rushed to the airport to stop the planes. She stood near the tarmac, warning any officials she saw that they’d be complicit in violating a court order if the planes took off.

My piece for the Unpopulist: Trump Is Using Fake Emergencies to Grab More Power than King George III www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-is-u...

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

As called by Chris Brown on Buffalo Bills radio:

This is just so bad. “Vadim and Yuliya’s supposed crime in Russia was documenting the reality of the [Ukraine] conflict on an anti-war Telegram channel. They shared stories with tens of thousands of followers that contradict the propaganda peddled on Russian state TV.”

Super interesting interview of Jill Lepore by @dahlialithwick.bsky.social about Lepore’s new book on the history of the Constitution.

This on-the-record statement from the Air Force Academy is such clear bullshit, given that lord knows positive statements about Trump won’t result in speakers being canceled. This is clearly unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

Trump’s unfunny meme derives from the film Apocalypse Now, which is based on the book “Heart of Darkness” about imperialistic greed and the human capacity for immorality and depravity. Fitting.

What Epstein records have not been made public?

Protecting the Press: It’s Time for Massachusetts to Pass a Shield Law | The Harvard Press harvardpress.com/Opinion/Edit...

Americans don’t wear this helmet.

Video recording police isn’t the equivalent of throwing a Molotov cocktail at them, no matter what Kristi Noem says.

Trump v. United States

Great First Amendment win in 9th Circuit for @davidloy.bsky.social and @facoalition.bsky.social. Holding: “self-censorship” is an “injury-in-fact” for injunctive relief, and observation of events is “inextricably intertwined” with recording and reporting. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

SEN. CASSIDY (R) : “Do you agree Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for Operation Warp speed?” RFK JR.: “Absolutely.” SEN. CASSIDY: “But you just told Senator Bennet the COVID vaccine killed more people than COVID.” RFK JR.: “….”😬 🤷🏻‍♂️

White House official says it considers any House Republicans supporting the Epstein discharge petition as committing “a very hostile act.” So far, the petition has four Rs: Massie, MTG, Boebert and Mace. time.com/7314260/epst...

A federal judge in Boston said she found it "difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of [federal law]."

His what is saying what?

Were the drugs driving the boat or

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

Just wait until the geniuses in the WH take the word “Republican” in section 4 literally to argue for installing GOP cronies to govern in every state. #Satire: That is not what the word “Republican” means there!

This decision is rooted in history, logic and principle. It picks up steam, and just shreds the federal government’s positions.

Federal district court judges and a handful of governors are saving our Republic.

Finished reading “Shadow Divers”by Robert Kurson. Fascinating true story about American divers who discovered a U boat off the coast of New Jersey that was, according to historical records, not supposed to be there. Recommended if you’re interested in WW2 history and undersea adventures.

This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.

One thing I legit lose sleep about is how much important state & local stuff is un-noticed right now in the midst of journalistic implosion and total nationalization of social media spaces. NYT's recent piece on Chinese influence in local elections is a good example that's hard to mirror elsewhere.

I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hey Florida, you missed a rainbow in the bottom right corner. What are you going to do about that?

The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*

“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...