It's fine to have Chef Boyardee Ravioli for lunch

Actually many presidents have had mental illnesses. There's no need to insult people with mental illness to point out what's wrong with Trump: immorality, not caring about human life, racism, xenophobia, misogyny, corruption, cruelty, incompetence. www.nami.org/blog/mental-...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor lets Brett Kavanaugh have it: “I had a colleague in that case who wrote, you know, these are only temporary stops. This is from a man whose parents were professionals. And probably doesn’t really know any person who works by the hour." news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

"The shattering of faith in America’s goodness is the hardest part to watch."

NEW: We have the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Now is the time to use it. It's past time for Trump to be removed from office. This is a global crisis. It's time for J.D. Vance and the Cabinet to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Now, at Law Dork:

Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country. Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

At first I assumed AI would get better—like they would build in a step where it checks its answers against trustworthy sources. But no! Not sure whether tech companies think truth doesn’t matter or that a world where nobody can determine what’s true is better for them. Not great either way!

Should the rich be able to send their kids to public school? use the library? parks? roads? Let’s make all public goods means-tested so they’re hard to access, the rich have no stake in them & starve them of $ and eventually eliminate them, that will show those fancy-burger eaters!

Should the rich be able to send their kids to public school? use the library? parks? roads? Let’s make all public goods means-tested so they’re hard to access, the rich have no stake in them & starve them of $ and eventually eliminate them, that will show those fancy-burger eaters!

There’s a good documentary about Louis CK that is illuminating about the effects of his behavior and covers the essential truths (as I see them) that (1) he was not cancelled and (2) he was not sorry. It’s a good watch. You can rent it on demand; here’s the trailer. youtu.be/YjWetrSafmc?...

Just amazing that the SG was like “I will not bother to come prepared with answers about how citizenship should work for babies left at hospitals and Native Americans, the groups that two of my target Justices are most interested in”

The Supreme Court's "conversion therapy" decision today is indefensible on its own terms. A ton of medical regulations restrict speech on the basis of "viewpoint." Nobody thinks they're unconstitutional. This court just subjects pro-LGBTQ protections to special hostility. slate.com/news-and-pol...

During a recent hearing, he shared how agents abused him while abducting his dad. “They told me I was ‘gay for crying,’ ‘an illegal idiot,’ a ‘border hopper,’ and other demeaning words." "I’m sharing my story so that this doesn’t happen to other ppl,” he said. "This is not the America that I know.”

So good: "You’ll be all, “Politics in America is divided—but it doesn’t have to be. Let’s discuss how to bridge the partisan divide.” Your sense of joy at the possibilities of the English language will have been so eroded that you won’t even understand why that sucks shit."

It's simple: The Supreme Court says bans on medical care—and speech related to that care—are only allowed in the conservative direction. Tennessee can ban gender-affirming care as a medical regulation, matter but Colorado CANNOT regulate therapists who wish to deny patients' gender or sexuality

Post-Chiles, Dobbs, and Skrmetti, states can deprive people of reproductive autonomy and youth of gender-affirming care, while simultaneously allowing medical and non-medical actors use falsehoods to deprive people of abortion or discourage them from living as themselves.

Jackson, from the bench, says the majority's decision is "wrong as a matter of precedent, first principles, and history."

JICYMI from @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app ▶️ "Revoking the constitutional right to abortion did not lower the rates of abortion. It heightened the risks of pregnancy, and has subjected families to untold, unnecessary harm."

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.

Walz: The president said it's a bunch of radicals. You're damn right we've been radicalized. Radicalized by compassion, radicalized by decency, radicalized by due process, radicalized by democracy.

Trump: "I used a mail-in ballot. You know why? Because I'm President of the United States and because of the fact that I'm President of the United States, I did a mail-in ballot."

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

Elizabeth Banks

The way federal courts decide qualified immunity cases extends the STRONGEST legal protections to the MOST illegal things the government does: When there is no case that says cops can't arrest journalists for asking questions, cops everywhere are...free to do so ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/lagor...

Cops in Laredo were tired of Priscilla Villarreal reporting stories they did not like. In 2017, they arrested her for texting two questions to a source in the police department. She sued, but a lower court gave the cops qualified immunity. The Supreme Court rejected her appeal this week.

Took 40-odd years but Bruce has finally allowed "Born in the USA" to be used in a commercial. By the ACLU. Supporting birthright citizenship. Yeah.

Good news from the union world: DC's first cat cafe that was previously shut down in an apparent attempt to quash their attempts to unionize is back. And yes -- their staff is now unionized. www.instagram.com/p/DWIHsbRkSh...

Jaw-dropping admission by DOJ to court. DOJ admits to having repeatedly made "material mistaken" representations to judge - ICE never had authority (under 2025 Guidance) to conduct arrests at immigration courthouses! DOJ admits court "relied on...prior misrepresentations." DOJ blames ICE (page 2)

I would just add court reform to this list, because I bet SCOTUS strikes down any Fair Vote style reform leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-democr...

Not to be all "human society is doomed," but wow this article

On this day in 1942, the United States evicted Japanese Americans from their homes in Washington and forced them into internment camps.

this is a bad one. seems very much like today’s guy was straight up murdered & ICE called it a suicide. no criminal record, just got his work permit, getting his SSN, and then it sounds like they grabbed him at a Kavanaugh stop. even the nurses thought the suicide story ICE gave them was suspicious

At least four justices appear to be on board with a frivolous lawsuit attacking voting by mail. www.vox.com/politics/483...

Steve Bannon: ICE at airports can be “a test case to get, to really perfect ICE's involvement in the 2026 midterm elections”

ICE Kidnapping: 3/22/26 - 10:00pm San Francisco International Airport CA

The "no corruption of blood" part of the Constitution would like a word about the idea that the 14th amendment says to punish kids for something their parents did

Also, though, legal scholarship is a bizarro world in which people whose expertise is only in law nonetheless write about history, economics, etc., and law journals are run by law students and have no peer review. It’s kind of a perfect storm for nonsense to get published!

I know I should stay in my own lane but it's frustrating to see law faculty taking seriously and debating an argument that boils down to understanding US citizenship as a privilege granted by the sovereign that the exec-branch-as-sovereign can withdraw at will. It's simply NOT.

Kenneth Windley, who spent 19 years in prison for a $550 robbery he didn't commit, was exonerated and freed

Republicans say their bill is about keeping noncitizens from voting. That’s a lie! The Republican bill is about stopping CITIZENS from voting—married women, students, Tribal communities. It’s just plain wrong.

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“I never got to hold her.” Those are DACA recipient Juan Chavez Velasco's words. He was driving to visit his baby in the NICU when ICE detained him. Juan told agents his DACA status. They said, "that doesn’t matter." Trump is abandoning Dreamers. Congress can't let this go on.

ICE agents detained a Texas father trying to deliver milk to his infant daughter in the neonatal intensive care unit, disregarding his status as a DACA recipient. trib.al/BOeMew3

This @the-independent.com story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL. And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story. In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/

wow! Rand Paul begins Markwayne Mullin's hearing by confronting him about comments he made describing Paul as a "freakin' snake" & "celebrating" Paul getting assaulted "I wonder if someone who applauds political violence is right to lead an agency that has struggled to accept proper use of force"

The horrific news about Cesar Chavez reinforces that too many powerful men are abusers. I don't know if that's b/c people who seek power tend to be abusers, or too much power makes people abusive, or both. Either way, would be better if we honored collective efforts instead of Great Men

“One of the great weaknesses of our era is we get lone superhero movies that suggest that our big problems are solved by muscly guys in spandex, when actually the world mostly gets changed through collective effort, more like caregiving than it is like war.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...