One of the really striking things here is that Roberts, at least, used to evince some concern for preserving the legitimacy and reputation of the Court, and that just seems to have gone out the window.

And while there are definitely outlets that I can say I would never work at, not everyone has that luxury. If someone intentionally goes to work for Rupert Murdoch, yeah, I’d have feelings. But there are too many good journalists out there doing good work for bad actors that don’t deserve our ire.

Although any prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich, convicting a ham sandwich is an altogether other matter . . . www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

We’re doing another whole round of sandwich puns and “indict a ham sandwich” bits and I am NOT EVEN MAD. The vibes are that immaculate.

Turns out it wasn't the basement of a pizzeria they were looking for, but rather the bottom of a McDonald's bag.

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

The jury trial, ladies and gentleman teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the...

FULL STORY: Finding that federal agents repeatedly used force that “shocks the conscience” and lied about their actions, a federal judge issued a sweeping injunction designed to permanently rein in agents’ use of tear gas and pepper balls. @wttw.bsky.social news.wttw.com/2025/11/06/f...

One of my favorite photos from No Kings is this clergyman taking a rest near the woman with the sandwich meme Free DC sign.

We're experiencing a French Dip in crime rates

We have reached a verdict: Not guilty.

“Look at those women with their Stanleys and their toddlers and their bullet journals” they will ruin your life buddy

I gotta say, I’m seeing the most Live Laugh Love women I went to all girls high school with in Ohio posting anti-ICE Instagram reels and demanding people pay attention to the threat of fascism

I love that the ruling is “Chicago fucking rules, fuck the liars and the haters”

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

This reminds me: A few CBP agents were recently overheard complaining about how much they *hate* the whistles. Apparently, in addition to the obvious, the racket makes it harder for them to communicate with each other.

“The attacks that we have seen on schools, libraries, academics, and government workers have all been made far worse by AI maximalism, and in many cases they are part of the same exact ideological project: A war on human knowledge.”

Heather has been an absolutely tireless resource in understanding what's going on with ICE/CBP in Chicago. And this thread is a critical read. Thank you for all of your work with this, @heathercherone.bsky.social!

Ellis is done. The preliminary injunction has been entered. Ellis grants plaintiff's request to certify the lawsuit as a class action, which means it applies to more than just the named plaintiffs and includes all nonviolent protestors as well as those engaged in news gathering & religious practice

Federal agents can only use force when it is "objectively necessary to stop an immediate threat of the person causing serious bodily injury or death to another person." There must be two separate warnings given before force is used, Ellis rules.

Ellis is concluding, with John Adams words to his wife in 1775 about the need to fight for the nascent American democracy. "Liberty once lost is lost forever."

Ellis says she will not order the plaintiffs to post a bond. Ellis anticipates the Trump administration's request to stay her injunction pending appeal. She says she will not do so.

Ellis: The use of force during the Trump administration's Operation Midway Blitz "shocks the conscience."

Ellis: "It is difficult to see how an injunction ordering the government to comply with the Constitution can be harmful."

Ellis rules that the Trump administration impermissibly prevented the free exercise of religion, in violation of the First Amendment. Those engaged in prayer have been shot, without warning, with pepper balls and tear gas, Ellis says.

Federal judges have for serious started to abandon giving the government any kind of presumption of correctness. Because this administration lies *even where there is indisputable evidence of its lies.*

I have lost count of the number of times that Ellis has said the Trump administration's arguments "lack credibility."

The Trump administration treated anti-ICE protestors worse because of the content of their speech, in violation of the First Amendment, Ellis says. In fact, the president and Secretary Noem have said exactly that, Ellis says.

Agents said "hit them" before deploying tear gas, Ellis says, and then they lied about it under oath. This calls into question their account of everything happening in the Chicago area.

"I find the defendants' (the DOJ) evidence simply not credible."

"The government would have people believe, instead, that the Chicagoland area is in a vice-hold of violence." "That is simply untrue," Ellis says.

Ellis says she sees a Chicago where neighbors "have shown up for each other .. standing watch to protect the most vulnerable among us."

This is it. And any democrats trying to score points by swearing at Trump should be treated as unserious unless they can also acknowledge this basic fact (looking at you jb)

I’m torn about this. On the one hand, Zuckerberg is an entitled wealthy asshat. In the other hand, so are his Palo Alto NIMBY neighbors. So, I guess, let them fight.

What happened at Rayito de Sol is despicable and completely unacceptable. EVERY member of Congress should sign on to the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act immediately. Democrat and Republican, there is no excuse!

Trump take critical economic data.

Counterpoint: This Is a perfect scene and, because it wasn’t in Gremlins, Gremlins 2 had to exist so that we could have it. (Had they done this in Gremlins, of course, there would be no need for Gremlins 2.)

Look, @nytimes.com, just because Ross Douthat writes something doesn’t mean you have to publish it. I assume there’s an editor who can send it back with a note like, “Are you okay man?” Or, “Give me something that isn’t pure garbage.”

Douthat is a textbook moron.

Good overview of the annual shareholder meeting today at Tesla, where investors are being asked to approve a pay package of up to $1T for you know who. (I am quoted, as is my sharp colleague @annmlipton.bsky.social.) www.theverge.com/transportati...

Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE

“Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The Trump economy is a dumpster fire “Layoffs rise to recession-like levels through October, new report says Employers have announced 1.1 million job cuts so far this year, the highest reading since the pandemic” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Winsor McCay on tariffs

Heartbreaking: Under Trump's ICE terror, a 2-year-old Chicago girl was tear-gassed while walking with her mom-burning eyes, screams of 'Ouch! Mommy!' This isn't enforcement; it's state-sponsored child abuse.

my preferred candidate in Seattle for mayor is not winning, but the alternative candidate is a Newsom-like anti-Trumper moderate, and my reaction to this is “the pattern is not exactly a swing toward the left in this blue wave, but rather toward ’the most anti-Trump candidate’” which is good imo

Anybody who would like an excuse for not flying somewhere to see their extended family over the holidays: Here you go

I'm sure Secretary Hegseth would tell you that real warriors don't need nourishment.

Parks and Rec isn't a hill to die on, but one thing it gets right is this whole government thing rests on the shoulders of people you will never know, caring a lot about jobs you've never heard of, fighting challenges thrown at them from every angle just to make life a little better for everyone.

Not only is it obscene that they went into a daycare, but the daycare is literally across the street from a 5000-student high school. And it happened around the beginning of school. The school (to its credit!) rushed the kids in without making them go through normal security. 1/