📣 OK, with ~3 hours to go before the midnight government shutdown, I'm going to go through ALL 50 STATES +DC ONE BY ONE to remind everyone of how many Americans healthcare Democrats are fighting to save (and this is just #ACA exchange enrollees; don't forget about Medicaid). Please bear with me.

We’ve seen some pushback on the fake third-rate history some SCOTUS types engage in. And we complain abt clearly bad-faith claims, like Kav’s here. But there’s almost zero effort to address the ginormous epistemic limitations all justices face. We COULD. We just don’t.

"no more superficial individual expression"

Yep, this fundraising text from @katmabu.bsky.social worked on me.

When the Secretary of Defense announces he’s overhauling the Inspector General while under investigation by them for disseminating classified material on Signal, leaders need to call it what it is: Corruption.

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Calling all your generals together to give them your best Amway pep talk is actually gender affirming care

Noting this for my developing MPRE and professional responsibility tutoring materials…

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Trump just called us "the enemy within" Those are LITERALLY the words Adolf Hitler used to describe Jews in Nazi Germany. Literally the same words.

This guy thinks he's George Patton but in reality he's Dolores Umbridge.

basically everything about this is wrong and horrifying but I'm stuck on the absolute fucking chutzpah you'd need to lecture professional military personnel like this after you personally texted wildly classified war plans to the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic

This is fair. Here’s a Heater in compensation.

They don't want Dem votes because they need them to keep going on a tyrannical crime spree. It's because they're useful to pretend it's all normal and legal, that it's something other than a tyrannical crime spree. They want the appearance of legitimacy. Nothing is worth giving that to them.

This but for me/Gen X, the day after Bush v Gore in 2000, when my main point of reflection was that I had been politically socialized for 25 years to believe that, despite policy disagreements, the vast majority of Americans believed that everyone’s votes should be counted.

Dear neighbor, It breaks my heart to hear the anti-immigrant bigotry being lobbed at street vendors on top of community members threatening ICE on them. This behavior is abhorrent and has no place in Minneapolis. 1/

i took a stab at editing ezra klein’s most recent comments about trans people and electoral politics to make a point often lost by the american liberal commentariat

this really is the entire thing we’re doing “the jewish question” with trans people it’s really that, not much else, and american jews owe it to themselves to see their experiences in discrimination against trans people

Well, if we’re going to prosecute people for lying to Congress…

This government is fascist and it is violating the laws and the Constitution.

If Portland is war ravaged, I’d like someone to ask who they’re at war with.

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say. If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court. I do not say this lightly.

Shame was the reason open gutter racism was not acceptable to most for a while. In a country with robust speech protections, it couldn’t really be otherwise. The present asymmetric sensitivity to shame is bad, not something to accept as inevitable.

Love that I can see just this in my TL and know SCOTUS dropped another shadow docket decision for Trump today.

Here’s hoping presidential powers and immunities aren’t on the next bar exam. Honestly not sure how to answer some MBE questions now…

If Supreme Court reform isn’t in your agenda, don’t ask me for money or for my vote.

This is an infuriating and shameful scandal. The Roberts Court is condoning Trump’s law breaking, again, pure and simple. There is no serious path forward for democratic government without Supreme Court reform.

I am, and it is.

Also, special shoutout to Onion fans in Minneapolis. We didn't even announce this screening publicly and enough people found it on their own last night that it sold out immediately. The Trylon, whose staff have been incredible, have already added a second screening. www.trylon.org/film/the-oni...

courts and state bars need to become willing, and quickly, to disbar govt attorneys for bringing these blatantly political prosecutions

Important thing to know: Grand juries only hear one side of the story. The defense doesn’t cross examine witnesses or present a case. Good prosecutors are committed to the truth & doing justice. They don’t indict cases when the defendant can contradict their case.

Let’s shout down Tom Cotton’s corporate PAC money. Will you help? Chip in $5 today. Link in bio. #hallieshoffner #tomcotton #ussenate #arkansas

Since Lindsey Halligan personally indicted Comey she should personally try the case and not hand it off to someone else. She can show us how competent and qualified she is for this job in front of a jury.

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move. 1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year. Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Virginia State Bar Rule of Professional Conduct 3.8(a): "A lawyer engaged in a prosecutorial function shall not file or maintain a charge that the prosecutor knows is not supported by probable cause." vsb.org/Site/Site/ab...

My therapist says giving up or stopping often just means you don’t want it enough for what it would take to get it. And that’s ok. Follow your values and what fills you - you won’t ever want to give those up!

I’ve been doing a lot of reading & thinking recently about mental health & mindset for pre-law & law students. That sent me to research (because of course it did), which set me writing and sharing with my students. But it’s time to take some of that out for a spin. Stay tuned for a blog series!

"To comprehend the true crisis of freedom of speech... one must appreciate the extent to which our current Supreme Court... has bolstered Trump’s megalomaniacal ambitions by thoughtlessly endorsing vast extensions of the so-called unitary executive theory." 15/

Damn, @andrewtorrez.bsky.social pulling no punches here in condemnation of this rogue SCOTUS. (Well, the conservatives…)

"This isn’t normally a problem prosecutors face, as they start with a crime, then figure out whodunnit, rather than starting with a person and only then deciding whathedun. But Trump wants Comey charged and is convinced he’s guilty of something, and it’s your job now to figure out what."

Bunk mates.

Kimmel’s show from last night has almost 15 million views on YouTube. I’m a Colbert girl typically, but he knocked it out of the park. The open killed, but my fave is his response to Trump’s comments about his low ratings…

Hey y’all, it’s FAT BEAR WEEK! Go look at pics of bears getting ready for hibernation! Extra points for doing it with stew or bread or cupcakes in your hand as you, too, prepare for winter.

An Update: I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly. (I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).

In case people in the Twin Cities were wondering, Sinclair owns the CW station here (WUCW). In my Green Bay Area hometown, it’s the CW AND Fox (WLUK).

Today I learned about the #VatiCats and it absolutely made my day!

Finally reading the full Gold Card EO and wow is it wild. The order says that any person who pays $1 million is, by definition, a person of "exceptional business ability" and therefore qualified for an EB-2 visa. Does anything better sum up the Trump ethos than "all rich people are exceptional."?