This is a chronic problem in election administration cases. None of the justices are familiar with the nuts and bolts. Some are worse about making up their own ill-informed policy preferences, to be sure. But they all make pretty elementary factual mistakes when this stuff reaches them.

Reminder that this is intended. Literally. The person in charge of implementing POTUS agenda, Russell Vought, said one of his stated goals is to traumatize federal employees.

Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.

The United States Freedom House ratings over time, compared to other countries.

I suspect Trump likes it when his henchmen crime because it gives him leverage. Plus he just has more respect for people like him who think that morals and rules are for suckers

Oh man, the hit at Ras Laffan has taken almost 20% of output (i.e. roughly 3% of global LNG volumes) offline for *3-5 years*.

"The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think and then it happens much faster than you would have thought." ----Rudy Dornbusch

He wasn't just an asylum seeker. Paktyawal was an Afghan special forces soldier who worked with the U.S. Army's 3rd Special Forces Group. He was evacuated on August 30, 2021, entered the U.S. legally and had a pending case with a work permit and social security number. Killed by ICE maggots.

The way our nation turned its back on those who helped us at great risk to themselves and their families is an unforgivable national shame. We owed Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal. Instead, ICE arrested him in front of his children and he died in their custody. We failed him and his family.

People who stop needing more money when they become billionaires don’t ever become billionaires because they stop before becoming one.

This is an interesting Epstein file — a deposition of a JPMorgan banker talking about how Epstein helped the bank land some of the richest clients in the world

In business, Trump's tactics were bluff, lawsuits, heavy debts he would later walk away from He left behind a string of bankruptcies And he was younger then (he's now 79) What's happening was entirely predictable "Business the Trump Way" (Fortune, 2016)

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

In the span of a day he'll go from "it's over, it's done, why are you still talking about this stuff" and "well people die, that happens, whether it's good or not who can say, but they die in a very big beautiful way" To "and we will RAIN HELL upon them like the world has only ever seen in 1945"

This is amazing. The hacker found CSAM in the Epstein file and threatened to report the server to the FBI, not realizing it was a FBI server. That’s as close to an ethical actor as we’re going to get in this mess.

Holy f'in god. I worked on policies regarding the Death Master File when I worked at SSA and if you could have seen how hard we fought to keep that data private and out of other agencies' hands. And now someone has it on a thumb drive?!!

I don’t think people who aren’t regularly covering the reproductive rights beat realize how common it is for women to be incarcerated for miscarriages.

This is a technical story with stunning strategic implications. It is quite possible the US launched a massive war because Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff lacked the technical expertise to even understand what the Iranians were offering in negotiations. Absolute idiocy. www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

We also just murdered this guy’s parents, his wife, and his son so good luck getting a peace deal

Because she was working with a federal task force, she was considered a federal officer, and thus protected by SCOTUS rulings making it all but impossible to sue federal cops, even for egregious abuse. Now consider what this means for Trump's immigration thugs. Democrats had two years to fix this.

Misogyny is a hell of a drug.

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

you think you've seen the whole movie, and then the alt text reveals you haven't even finished act two

Cops understand that the process *is* punishment. So beating the rap is nice, but it fucks you up, though theoretically you’re not being punished unless and until you’re convicted.

Judge Quraishi says that if ICE keeps arresting people and detaining them without bond under the legal theory that has been rejected by hundreds of judges, and any of those cases come across his bench, he'll immediately order DHS and DOJ personnel hauled into court to explain themselves.

Generous as Alaska is 2.5 times the size of Texas.

Are we great yet?

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

I’m glad they didn’t spin around like a blender.

Took 2 ride shares last week: Trip 1: Uber $90 Lyft $40 Trip 2: Uber: $40 Lyft: $70

Once had an employee give retention bonuses to certain employees and then fail to tell several of the people receiving them about them. So the company set up bonuses to incentivize some employees to stay but didn’t tell them about it so they did not know they were being incentivized!

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

Hey everyone, double your bids and we’ll all get twice as much!

I saw The Argument was talking about abortion and I just want to say that I am for *Abortion Abundance*. But I am not some kind of reproductive radical. If you like your pregnancy, you can keep it.

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented. Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

One way to identify right-wing dominance of the US media environment: This is much more direct, egregious government censorship than the biggest claims of the “Twitter Files”—including ones they made up that had no evidence behind them—and will get a small fraction of the attention and outrage.

If you accurately describe the Trump administration, you often sound insane. One thing they did will likely kill almost 3/4 as many people as the Holocaust did.

Btw, what “Scots-Irish” means is Protestant. No Irish Catholics allowed. Certainly no southern or eastern Europeans, much less Jews.

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Name names. Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, Jay Bhattacharya, Tracy Beth Hoeg, Martin Kulldorff, Russell Vought, RFK Jr., Donald Trump. All of them contributed to this by their relentless attacks on vaccines and biomedical R&D.

This is hell. FYI Covid infections can re-activate the Epstein barr virus in the body (most of us have been exposed). The virus is mostly associated with Mononucleosis (the kissing disease) it's also linked to chronic fatigue syndrome. They want us sick and unable to function

BREAKING: Judge Nancy Brasel, a Trump appointee, has issued a TRO in the Minnesota access-to-counsel case about treatment at Whipple. "It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight. The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

That’s right; the last president to sign a law that created an amnesty program was in fact Donald J Trump. /it was buried with a must-pass bill and small enough that the White House didn’t threaten a veto over it.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

*precisely measures out 350 g of water, 500 g of flour, 8 g of salt, 2 g of yeast *turns on mixer *looks at counter and floor *adds 1/3 C flour, that’ll fix it

They should sue for at least $10 billion each, many of them are suffering real harm - much more consequential than the president is.