Part of what's great about this is how Hunter Hess tried really hard to not go into specifics but Trump (1) deduced (correctly!) that any reference to things that aren't "good" or "moral" must mean him and (2) decided he needed to elevate it with some bonkers response. Great work, Mr. President. 🫡

"More than 200" AI slop novels collectively selling "around 50,000 copies" proves that not one of them was actually good enough to create any organic interest. The entire business model is scamming people looking for something fun to read, thereby polluting the same waters where real books are sold.

The Epstein class loves to cite Machiavelli and so forth but they are still deeply insecure people who don't even have the guts to look people in the eye when they fire them. They know they should be ashamed, and this one of the reasons why it's important we constantly criticize their bad behavior.

"Epstein class" is terrific not simply because several of them are directly tied to Epstein's crimes, but because it strikes at the corruption, immorality and impunity of that entire circle.

WaPo's editorial board pines for a world that no longer exists: one in which liberals can be cowed out of responding to GOP tactics by accusations of "hypocrisy." That time is over. No more unilateral disarmament.

Yup. I whole-heartedly believe dogs can't play basketball but once your opponent has a dog dunking on you over and over, there is no choice but to get yourself a team of dogs. You can't let it go, can't merely reciprocate, you must do the same and crush them. So it goes with partisan gerrymandering.

this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth

Okay but you have overlooked Justice Jackson's most jarring ethical violation, a galling breach of propriety shared by other totally fair and reasonable Republican targets such as Lisa Cook, Gwynne Wilcox, Carla Hayden, and Ilhan Omar: She is a Black woman.

Big congrats to the Trump admin for walking themselves into an order that they declare, under oath, what actions they have been taking to mobilize ICE in Springfield, Ohio and South Florida. Whoops.

Funny thing, a good number of major corporations already have aggressive no-AI-for-our-data provisions in their standard vendor contracts, and I suspect in the next couple years we will see a good amount of litigation when other companies ignore those and then the predictable consequences occur.

oh my god all that money put into this tech and this thing is deep in the uncanny valley, they look like reanimated corpses

We are a society of constant violence at schools—everything from ICE kidnappings to shootings—and these filthy maggots who send their kids to private schools not covered by the bill want to pretend they care about education while doing nothing except preventing my kids from being able to contact me.

Love how the presumption here is that the President doesn't know what he's sharing and that's fine and normal. Sorry, no, if the President doesn't know what he's sending out then that is indisputable proof of gross incompetence, cognitive unfitness, or both.

the world if

One would hope that media outlets eventually understood that many of their readership woes stem from having no standards for conservatives. But the reality is that management prioritizes right-wing propaganda over profits, so they're not going to change.

Good. "But DHS isn't just ICE, it's also..." nope, wrong. DHS no longer serves any useful functions, the whole thing has been reassigned to repression. FEMA isn't even paying out to states. All DHS does is shooting, teargassing, facial recognition, and administrative warrants. Shut it down.

paragraph 48: "In Mr. Trump’s second term, Ms. Britt has voted in line with the president 100 percent of the time."

I'd like to know DOJ's reason for redacting who Epstein was emailing after the 2016 election, including "Holy hell! Is this good or bad??" and "By the way - do you think my long ago invitation to come to Mar a Lago 'whenever you want' still stands?? Hee hee" www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Not happy that my supposedly prestigious alma mater is a complete shithole these days, from the tenured misogynistic Epstein buddies, to the admission of fake candidates, to conservative donors taking over everything (like Grand Strategy) and making David Brooks a "presidential senior fellow."

Historian here President Abraham Lincoln opposed the Mexican War as a land grab for slavery when he was a first term Congressman from Illinois.

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

The only response here is a motion to enjoin the whole operation If the government's position is "I'm sorry your honor but we don't be the capacity to both respect constitutional rights and conduct the operation as it is currently being conducted" the answer is "then you must stop the operation"

Having literally written the book on the National Prayer Breakfast -- borne of the idea that God cares more for the rich and powerful than everyone else -- I can say this is the rare instance where Trump's grotesqueness is deeply appropriate.

Begging for index inclusion has more than a whiff of desperation to it, it's what companies do when they know their own performance can't justify their high valuations. (Which is precisely why MSTR was so desperate for it at the Bitcoin peak; it's down 63% over the past year.)

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

I suspect part is also a necessity these days. A district judge is at risk of a social media storm (plus threats) when they rule against the admin, so it's in their interest—and the public's—to explain the ruling clearly in non-legal terms, including by showing the stakes via dramatic prose.

I'm sure it will be a priority, in that WaPo will increase its output of dimwitted right-wing pundits spewing propaganda about "national security, in DC and abroad." They just won't bother to have any journalists doing actual reporting on it.

they're trying to be coy about salivating over the prospect of raping women, they'll contest that but if pushed to explain, that's exactly what they would describe. forced pregnancy of any kind, by a man or by the state, is gender-based violence

Kind of amazed she had it turned on? I only turn it on when I'm crossing borders or am visiting a country controlled by a repressive regime ahhh shit

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

One problem with billionaires is that they're so rich they no longer have rational incentives. To someone like Bezos, the financial performance of WaPo is wholly irrelevant, and so the only "incentive" is to satisfy emotional urges, such as breaking something just to show he can.

Delighted that I, some goofball lawyer, could walk into Meta and have way higher "performance" metrics than most of their software engineers, because I'm just going to brainlessly keep feeding stuff into the coding AI until some other AI says it works, without ever understanding what I'm doing.

Instead of nominating a qualified candidate to be US Attorney for NJ, Trump wants the DNJ judges themselves to pick a 30-year-old who joined the Justice Dept in 2025 as chief of staff to Emil Bove. She already runs the civil and appellate divisions of the NJ USAO office, because it's in shambles.

we say this guy chases polls or the Baileys or whatever, but the reality is that he’s just misaligned with Democrats. the polling is clear that this is not what Democrats want. Chuck is an ideological, pro-cop centrist. He’s saying this because it’s his policy preference. It’s what he wants.

*Volunteered could also be “jumped at an opportunity to get out of ICE while still maintaining her federal job, only to go out of the frying pan into the fire.”

Per Yahoo, Le was previously an immigration court attorney for ICE and volunteered* to help the U.S. Attorney's Office in MN. And it broke her. “We have no guidance or direction on what we need to do,” Le said. * "Volunteered" could be her boss saying, "you must volunteer for this."

Since day 1 of the Trump admin it has been Christmas for Criminals and the problem only gets worse. The whole federal law enforcement apparatus has been reassigned to repression and generating social media content.

It was always dubious to hear claims that Epstein was some sort of Renaissance Man but with the fuller picture of how dull he was it's now indisputable that the sole reason anyone interacted with him was because he was a pedophile and they thought that was cool and intriguing and wanted in on it.

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

Alito's book is going to be 99% AI slop, loaded with falsehoods and errors on every page, and it will make no difference because we need to bring back shame.

Not only excessive and gratuitous force, it absolutely does not work for the ostensible purpose. They love using it punitively to feel badass and because they can get away with it, but it only makes the situation worse even if you are properly trying to disperse a for-real riot.

Some people are acting like DC consultants about protests, "all is lost unless everyone's on exactly the same page, which is my page." Sure, in every situation some methods of protesting, organizing, and messaging will be 'better' than others, but nothing beats just getting more people involved.

Putting on my suit and tie and going on America Erwache to describe a 234 year old basic requirement of the constitution for lawful searches and seizures as a “nonstarter.”

There are some non-MAGA SpaceX defenders so I just want to point out, with the SpaceX–xAI merger (for the purpose of "orbital data centers," no less), that the true mission of SpaceX is to produce nonconsensual porn and fascist propaganda. It is a net negative for humanity and should be destroyed.

Columbia administration looking especially craven and incompetent about now.

It's a great opinion by Judge Ana Reyes (and sound on the law—Noem was too busy posting to follow even the basics of the statute). Worth a read, and don't skip the footnotes.

For context, "more than 3 million pages" is really not a lot in terms of large litigations, and there is no excuse for the freaking Department of Justice, in their highest profile matter, to miss any redaction, particularly not given the volume of over-redactions they made.

He's right: in light of Republican policies, rural Americans will have decreasing access to real healthcare. They will have to settle for some garbage chatbot selling them snake oil. It shouldn't be this way, but it absolutely will be this way if Republicans stay in power.

Chemerinsky is right, but he overlooked my favorite case in the post-Heller mess, Caetano v. Massachusetts, 577 US 411 (2016), the unanimous per curiam opinion finding a right to have a stun gun. It is inscrutable. Do you have a right to brass knuckles? A mace? The One Ring? An infinity stone? 🤷‍♂️

There are ample professional disincentives to spilling the inner workings of a court; even misconduct is rarely disclosed. Only reason to demand NDAs is if the Justices are engaging in conduct so egregious that the legal profession would recognize the need for court employees to disclose it.