interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

The Yale Law School Federalist Society just gave this guy a profile in courage award this weekend.

2 reactions- • maybe I should start saying that people have committed “gaffes” when they disagree with me about something • the article frames Katie’s “bye” as being about companies leaving the state, when the full quote is about individual millionaires leaving the state. Those seem different

Powerful words from Kagan in #SCOTUS voting rights case: The VRA "ushered in awe-inspiring change, bringing this Nation closer to fulfilling the ideals of democracy and racial equality. And it has been repeatedly, and overwhelmingly, reauthorized by the people’s representatives in Congress."

My colleague @ericlevitz.bsky.social has Hasan Piker dead to rights www.vox.com/politics/486...

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

@ronanfarrow.bsky.social and Andrew Marantz interviewed more than a hundred people with firsthand knowledge of how Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, conducts business. They also obtained closely guarded documents that have not been previously disclosed.

"I only chose to live here because there wasn't a state income tax" Okay bro, enjoy Florida or whatever

really liked this @mattglassman312.bsky.social on the tariff case and the legislative veto (also shoutout to @joshchafetz.bsky.social) blog.mattglassman.net/the-court-th...

Thanks Claude

IRS executive Kathleen Walters was asked to break the law by the Trump administration, and refused.

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

Next up in our "100 ideas" series — New by @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social — "Extreme Wealth Inequality Destroys Constitutions" Part of @nyulaw.bsky.social Democracy Project's "100 Ideas in 100 Days" Read the full piece here: democracyproject.org/posts/extrem...

I have mostly Mamdani/AOC politics but as a person who sometimes talks about foreign policy I had to leave DSA over the IC and I can't go back until the organization represents democratic and anti-imperial politics, not just anti-US ones

Saw Jafar Panâhi's "It Was Just an Accident" this evening. An amazing film, with several scenes that literally made my jaw drop.

"The thing about cities is that there is never just one story to be told about them." - @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Zohran Mamdani “is part of a long tradition in New York City that has framed itself as seeking to reclaim the democratic community of the city from wealth, power and greed,” Kim Phillips-Fein writes.

Silicon Valley billionaire responses to wealth tax proposals: “It’s illegal confiscation!” Property taxes go back to ancient times “We will move away!” Yes you lack loyalty to society “You’re just jealous of us!” ?? “We will buy new politicians to stop this.” Yes this is precisely the point

even if look past the errors of fact and poor reasoning throughout this piece, you are still left with a massive normative claim that isgur doesn’t even bother to support, which is that the purpose of the executive branch is to execute the president’s will and priorities.

Does anyone have that sharpie tool where we can name every one of the people smiling, nodding, or even standing silently as Trump unloads this racist attack? Because I can see a future in which a lot of people will be saying, “I wasn’t there.”

Happy Thanksgiving! Abolish ICE! www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

There's an underutilized tool states can use to directly challenge Citizens United and build momentum for legal change. My colleague @jayswanson.bsky.social and I write about the potential for trigger laws in our latest piece. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures. ...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

I feel like this pic tells a larger story about the political-intellectual role of FedSoc

in Greenland, the government owns a bunch of businesses--a fishing company that is the largest single employer, a shipping company, a ferry company, several retail and logistics companies, etc, and it all works pretty well?? I traveled there to investigate: prospect.org/world/2025-0...

Another reminder that people around the world risk their lives for liberties that many Americans seem ready to surrender without a fight or even a lawsuit. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

announcing my new think tank, the "people hate inflation, that's like 90% of why harris lost" institute

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Amazing story www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...

@sbagen.bsky.social has a somber but timely warning about various 2029 rebuilding efforts. This to me is the key. If future leaders bake imagined political constraints into their planning, there just won’t be much “rebuilding” per se. www.offmessage.net/p/project-20...

the campaign finance advantage of incumbents at all levels of government has declined 25% to 50% over the last decade, driven entirely by individual donors scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Can’t help but wonder how many electeds and staffers might misinterpret the percentiles listed here as percent approval

BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

I recently saw Snow Leopard by Pema Tseden, the late Tibetan director. Tense, poignant film that depicts a standoff between some rural Tibetans and Chinese police. When it ended, there was a title card that said something like “Afterwards, the family and police resolved the issue. Things were fine.”

“Professor Shenk described the elite Democratic approach to politics as: ‘We deserve an ‘A’ from politics because we’ve ticked all the boxes. Are you proud of me, professor?’” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/m...

New online: an interview with @ositanwanevu.com, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

I remember reading that Murphy at one point became fascinated with the postliberal right, reading Yarvin, Deneen, Ahmari and even listening to Red Scare. For that reason alone he probably has a different understanding of today's GOP than his colleagues'.

i didn't get into it in my essay on this speech, but beyond the basic incoherence of vance's assorted grievances, i'm struck by how ungrateful *he* is, a man who owes his fame and fortune to the open, cosmopolitan society he is trying to destroy for the sake of power

Me, at a party: hello would you like a drink You, at a party: the west is good

Horrifying article that also draws attention to the expulsion of the Lhotshampas, who I cannot help but think about whenever I see someone praise Bhutan’s eco-friendliness or “gross national happiness”

Here’s a map of precinct-level results in the Seattle mayoral primary, as of election night:

So many undesirable tradeoffs lie downstream of our state’s bizarre limits on taxation, rooted in weird court decisions from 90 years ago. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/seat...

Bruce Harrell's campaign misleadingly sent out a text tonight that implies he's the only candidate endorsed by Democrats. In fact, our campaign has the SOLE endorsement of the King County Democrats and every single local Democrat group in Seattle.

The Seattle Times editorial board recently endorsed a "No" vote on the renewal of the city's democracy voucher program. Bad call! gradyshort.substack.com/p/what-the-s...

Texas House Democrats offer a brief response to Gov. Greg Abbott's threat of arrest and expulsion: "Come and take it."