I’ll attempt to live-skeet the Trump v. Slaughter oral arguments at 10 am. I might be considered biased b/c I filed amicus briefs in Slaughter & Cook, with particular historical interpretations. Or I might be considered well-informed. You can judge for yourself. See the summary below & a thread…

I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS

The idea that public opinion on immigration is directly negatively correlated with the number of immigrants who enter the country is categorically false. It's entirely the information environment. Why have attitudes changed so fast in the other direction since Trump took office?

www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-st... Kid you not, “Why It Matters,” is asked. 🤯 An 80+ yr old, who struggles with a stutter, stumbled on a word. After watching, it kinda seemed like he wanted to say “America, Goddammit” but corrected and, that tracks 😂

Remember folks, during winter every ten degree temperature drop lowers your tire’s PSI by 1 so it’s very important to go to the gas station and notice that the air thing doesn’t work and then do that five more times at five different gas stations

Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award Also Boomers:

Oh hey, look what day it is! #ShutTheFuckUpFriday youtu.be/nWEpW6KOZDs?...

The Secretary of Defense taking extrajudicial killing requests from podcast hosts

William Freehling shows that 200,000 white Southerners in border states joined the Union. As did 100,000 white Southerners from Confederate states, incl future US pres Andrew Johnson. Majority of the 200,000 Black Americans who served were southern. Anti-Confederate Southerners preserved the nation.

My periodic reminder that Sarah Palin (quite correctly) called for Rahm Emmanuel to be fired when he used the "R" word. And my periodic reminder that maybe a political reporter wants to ask her what should happen when Trump uses it. Like any reporter.

New: The men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat after the Sept 2 secondary strike did not appear to have radio or other comms devices, top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers, undercutting claim they could have called for backup. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...

Hell yeah brother

Himes: "What worries me is what causes a man of real integrity & w/ a storied professional history like the admiral to order this strike? My guess is it has something to do w/ the secretary of defense who writes a book about how we need a lot less ethics and lawyers involved & a lot more lethality."

But if AI is so userful and everyone wants it, why does Microsoft have to cut its AI sales targets in half? Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

The reason the judiciary functions is because judges understand that despite everyone being human beings who hold grudges and have stupid opinions and peccadilloes and flaws, there is a sense that you have to justify what you're doing on more than "because I say so." This Court is undermining that.

It's not just liberal judges they're doing this to. They're doing this to plenty of conservative judges too; judges who actually spent weeks and weeks poring over the details and with their arms deep in the guts of thousands of pages of documents and days of testimony. Those judges are pissed.

I don't think the Justices understand the extent to which they are playing with fire. The more they do this, the more District Courts will engage in open disrespect of the Supreme Court, because what other response is there to open disrespect directed at them? That's bad for the Judiciary, period.

The Supreme Court majority has decided that they are the fact-finders, and the facts are what they want them to be, and quite frankly if District Courts disagree, they can pound sand because they're not the ones in charge. They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.

As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?

They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream. Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads. Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT REVIVES REDRAWN PRO-REPUBLICAN TEXAS VOTING MAP INTENDED TO HELP TRUMP'S PARTY KEEP CONTROL OF CONGRESS

this is extraordinary. too many people in my profession have circled the wagons around someone who lacks the moral sense of a child

setting aside other things, the smiling and pointing like it's a tourist pic is, man

This clarity is so rare among the pundit class

there are some extremely suspicious quotes that even the most charitable read can’t paper over 😵‍💫 time.com/7338176/pant...

I've been saying for the better part of a year that Trump is on a mission to decriminalize corruption. To make it the legal equivalent of jaywalking. I feel that more strongly now than I ever had.

POV a right wing Christian sees that they have a trans college professor.

she went to state legislators, TPUSA and conservative media outlets within a few hours of getting her grade, if you can’t identify the bad faith that can be seen from space, you need to get your eyes checked

Can you imagine if any other politician said “I had an MRI and I have no idea why?”

Time sent this headline a little too quickly

Good, we need real oversight on this issue.

I find OU's actions throughout this story to be very concerning, not only because the university caved to a bad-faith reactionary smear campaign but also because it appears to be enrolling students who are borderline illiterate

Ross County schools (Ross county, Ohio) have come out swinging about Ohio (Republicans) shifting the tax burden to citizens. I’m shocked to see them unite to press the issue.

Lawyers representing hundreds of victims say dozens of their names appeared unredacted in documents and emails from DOJ and Epstein’s estate released by Congress this month.

Senator Jim Justice, Republican of West Virginia, and his wife have agreed to pay the Internal Revenue Service more than $5 million to cover unpaid taxes from 2009. nyti.ms/48nq0xH

She just, like...said it? Out loud?

Hey yall…. Get your people off the streets!!!!! It’s slippery on the streets!

Man, oh, man. Keep it up guys! This rhetoric is going to be SUPER helpful to the party. "Dedicated to helping Democratic (not progressive) candidates" 🤮

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"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."

CNN: Trump in Epstein files NBC: Trump in Epstein files ABC: Trump in Epstein files FOX:

THIS IS BIG For non-academics who might not understand why: 1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house 2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

Watching this press conference between Trump and MBS. Trump’s answers on Khashoggi’s murder are absolutely vile.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Let’s see if the “personal liberties and free markets” editorial board of the Washington Post will actually take Trump to task over his comments excusing the murder of one its own columnists. Given that they’ve purged me and all their opinion writers who actually care about human rights.