My interview on the BBC was immediately preceded by: 1) A UN expert characterizing atrocities in El Fasher, Sudan as crimes against humanity. 2) A former prosecutor for the International Criminal Court characterizing U.S. maritime strikes as a crime against humanity. What a time.

Thread about the horrors in Chicago:

to be clear: the government's claim - validated by the Court - is that it would *irreparably harm* the president to not misgender trans people

Today is the day that the architect of this unforgivable mass murder of poor people got 1 trillion dollars

Everyday, I say to myself, Chief John Roberts—if he were a smart man—should not use the Emergency Docket and everyday, Chief Justice John Roberts, uses the Emergency Docket.

Congratulations to Sabrina Shroff on obtaining a “not guilty” for client: Sean “Sandwich Guy” Dunn on misdemeanor charges of assaulting a federal officer with a Subway sandwich. I had the pleasure to work alongside Ms. Shroff in a high-profile federal case in SDNY. She is a fierce advocate.

he keeps saying this, it makes no sense as an intentional lie, and I have no idea why he thinks it's true

Does he even have a clue that everyone knows he's lying?

Wait, which is it. Million or Billion? Because the former is like .3 lbs and the latter is 355 pounds per American.

One of the slave power secessionist complaints was that Northern juries kept acquitting people who obstructed the Fugitive Slave Act. But even when the bastards had the federal government on their side, there was no way around the Sixth Amendment's requirement of not just a jury but a local one.

"Beyond being the 24th consecutive grant of emergency relief to the Trump administration, the cryptic ruling in Orr is a reminder of just how bankrupt the Court’s proffered justifications are in these cases—both legally and in other ways, too." Me on today's ugly #SCOTUS ruling in Trump v. Orr:

He gets remembered as a safe boring pick for VP, but one thing where Kaine is an outlier is he is genuinely good on congressional war powers and has had a keen interest in it for a long time, including finding bipartisan support when he can.

This story in the Boston Globe that quotes @ethanz.bsky.social reminds me of the fascinating story over the last decade of how to moderate dopers who cheat their way onto the leaderboards of online sports platforms like Strava (1/n) www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/01/b...

And Jesus said, thou shall not feed the poor and the hungry from your bounty because you must build ballrooms with lots of gold to honor the Lord while remaining liquid in case Argentina needs another bailout. - Book of Trump, 11:06. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.

New ad dropped:

One thing I'm seeing over and over again is that leftward-shifts aren't only being driven by places with sky-high turnout; places with lower turnout also shifted left around the same amount, implying a decent amount of voters changing their minds

What a queen

The senior Senator from Maine nicely illustrating the Article I Crisis.

This was required as part of a Day One executive order. Took them a while to get them operationalized it seems.

Judge Sara Ellis began with Carl Sandburg’s beloved poem, “Chicago.” That’s the vision of the city she embraced as she decried the feds’ use of force here that “shocks the conscience,” and extended an order meant to curb it. From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

(1) We don't know that this was a jury nullification situation. (2) It could as easily be the jurors simply decided that the prosecution failed to demonstrate the crime occurred as charged. And that's fine. It's what juries are for.

For those thinking about Elon Musk today, remember there's a very good chance he is liable for violating the CFAA,* and an awful lot of people are in line for that $trillion to be compensated for the injury he caused them. * And likely other torts too. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/04/w...

VICTORY: Federal court dismisses class action lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer, filed by the “Center for American Rights” www.thefire.org/news/victory...

There's a reason why earlier this year I compared the world of ATprotocol with the Mamdani campaign. Both struck me as examples of that principle. Stop begging the captured systems to give you something you want. Have a vision and build it! www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/s...

Javier Bardem, I reckon

Govt doesn't want Comey to look at grand jury transcripts. Way to look guilty, guys. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It's a meme, not a stock.

This world is cults all the way down.

He's never invented shit.

One of the really striking things here is that Roberts, at least, used to evince some concern for preserving the legitimacy and reputation of the Court, and that just seems to have gone out the window.

Reminder: It benefits nobody in a way to list sex assigned at birth on passports, there is no requirement to include it, this is just about punishing trans etc. Americans.

I really hope there are people selling funds, even index funds, that skip over any company Musk owns.

Good grief.

I’m of the opinion that these problems can be solved, but there’s no point in pretending they aren’t real problems

CNN: "A brand new report is out showing layoff announcements hit their highest level for October in over 20 years. It's painting a picture of a job market that is really hurting. US-based employers announced 150,074 job cuts in October, more than any October since 2003."

Someone ask Ted Cruz how he feels about Trump 2028

Not for the first time, Justice KBJ has read my mind, laying out in this new dissent how there is 0 risk of harm to the govt and yet "This Court has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification" www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

It appears that Donald Trump’s angry social media posts have once again landed him in hot water in the courts: The judge said the president and his allies had openly admitted they were withholding funding for SNAP benefits for “political reasons.” trib.al/MCRjhI1

NEW: Senior official says government shutdown is having 'quite a bit' of impact on Justice Department. 'There’s so many people who are out....We don’t have the resources or the help to get it done,' ADAG @KetanBhirud told a Federalist Society confab. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

I've disagreed with plenty of SCOTUS decisions in the past, but under previous administrations mostly regarded those AS disagreements. Increasingly I just view the majority as partisan hacks acting in bad faith. And a lot of legal observers seem to be leaning that way for the first time these days.

You'd hope most people would have an "are we the baddies?" moment if they had to acknowledge they're a member of a party with a substantial "Cool With Hitler" Wing.

"Extreme act" by an "activist judge" to *checks notes* require DHS to abide by the Constitution.

NEW: California’s attorney general said Thursday he’s wary of moves Trump could make to use federal power to interfere in the 2026 elections — through intimidation, suppression or purges of the voter rolls. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis' preliminary injunction is in. Read it in full here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/37/f5/b85033...

From a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, who calls today's preliminary injunction an "extreme act" by an "activist judge." "We shall appeal."

A hearing has begun over the enforcement of a federal judge's order to fund SNAP benefits through November. Plaintiffs say Trump is holding "full SNAP benefits hostage for political leverage during the shutdown." Coverage ahead www.allrisenews.com/p/snap-judgm...

What this order makes clear is that plaintiffs can collect a mountain of animus, the district court can write extensively about the record, and the Supreme Court will just go “nuh uh.”

Judge McConnell to DOJ's Tyler Becker: "In fact, nothing was done consistent with the court's order to clear the way to expeditiously resolve it."

BREAKING: A federal judge finds the Trump administration "did not comply" with his order.