At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

If everybody who believes in the Rapture disappears tomorrow, it's going to make things a lot easier for the rest of us, ngl

Disney allowed itself to be bullied by Sinclair Broadcasting, a company worth less than $1b, into firing Jimmy Kimmel. This has cost them about $4b so far. They could have saved $3b by just forcibly buying Sinclair. Good job, money boys.

In retrospect, I think it funny that Qanon was both right at the highest level (deep-rooted corruption and sexual perversion among elites) and simultaneously wrong about every specific detail below that

Today for the first time in my life I hung an American flag on my house. I have never been much of a flag guy, but that is my flag and I will be damned if I let some fascist claim it away from me.

I notice that nobody talks about Benghazi anymore

Toad Lily (Tricyrtis hirta) seen today at Juniper Level Botanic Garden, Raleigh, NC

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

Donald Trump wants the United States to fail.

My youngest is almost 2 and is both very smart and fairly stubborn. Currently she is refusing to learn the word "food" and instead uses the phrase that she came up with: "I bite it".

My body hurts and will probably hurt way more tomorrow. But it’s a lot less pain than what our neighbors are enduring inside the Broadview ICE facility.

OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8. Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

/3 My point is that with a gleefully fascist government — supported by the sort of gleeful fascists who like Dan and Erick — it IS possible that people who stand up to the government will be hurt or killed, but there worse things than being dead — like living as a willing fascist.

The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more. This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov, you gonna let that wannabe dictator do this? How has this facility been allowed to stay in operation?

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

Congress authorizing a serially lying president to use military force against anyone he says is a drug trafficker or connected to traffickers would address some of the legal concerns. It’d also be an absolutely terrible idea, giving legislative approval to horrors, ones that won’t stay contained.

Don't mess with Mr. Strawberry

My former law partner is litigating against a pro se party that uses ChatGPT to draft filings. He asked the court for a gatekeeper order, which would require the person to at least run her filings by an attorney. In the 10 days it took to get a hearing, she made 24 additional filings.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

COLUMN: On the latest Little Big Moments, Andrew Taylor-Troutman writes about returning to Med Deli after their triumphant reopening, and how the experience reminded him of what he values most about America.

If a study came out showing that a substantial portion of the world population got stupider as a result of COVID infection, it would really explain a lot

In connection with the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel, I am proud to announce that my boycott of all Disney parks will continue in this, its 41st year

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

BREAKING: Judge Kelly (Trump appointee) bars the Trump administration from deporting Guatemalan kids in HHS custody, finding the claim they were “reunifying” kids with their parents “crumbled like a house of cards” upon review. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

First Amendment: dead Second Amendment: completely useless Third Amendment: still doing its thing

The Republican Party as it is currently constituted will destroy the United States — politically, economically, socially and culturally. The democratic reform of our federal system isn't only justified in itself, but necessary to force its moderation into a party compatible with liberal democracy.

How does this all square with all their years of insisting on the importance of free speech? That's very simple, they were lying

I'm not saying we should do this. But...if we took the 100 richest people, stripped them of their assets and shot them into the sun, the rest of us would be a lot better off.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

It appears the right is behaving hypocritically. If we point that out they’ll probably stop. They’ll probably be soooo embarrassed.

Words I never thought I’d say: Karl Rove is right.

Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.

The thing with designating a group that doesn't actually exist as a terrorist organization is that they can then say anyone they want is a part of that group.

this moment is so deeply fucking infuriating to live through

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

What a stupid environment we have built for ourselves!

I feel terrible for his roommate, who is clearly as surprised as everybody else and is now taking the blame because of their existence.

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025

Yesterday, the Attorney General asserted that "hate speech" is not free speech. Today, the President asserted that speech that is "mean" or "unfair' to him is "hate speech". Water funparks have slopes that are less slippery than this.

Visiting Williamsburg this week I have been struck by the fact that the country's founders, for all their many faults, were thoughtful well-read people who spent a lot of time thinking and reading and writing about what they were by doing. By contrast, the ones destroying the country can barely read

I'm on vacation! Governor's Palace and grounds, Williamsburg, Virginia

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?