Today's Lawfare Daily is a panel with @sranderson.bsky.social, Claire Finkelstein, Christopher Maier, Larry Lewis, and Geoffrey Corn on the challenges of civilian harm mitigation in urban warfare environments at a conference hosted by the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law. youtu.be/bexOMyFLaPg

One of the ways you can tell this is all about shifting expectations is that two weeks ago the narrative was that Democrats were missing an opportunity to shut down DHS by only demanding minor reforms that the GOP was desperate to take because they were so scared.

oh look the single largest act of mass murder in the 21st century.... maybe some day someone will actually talk about it that way.

Look, Newsom having a good time with Kirk is a good reason why a lot of people here, even moderates, don't like him and won't vote for him in the primary. But I think this is an instance of look at what I do rather than wha I say.

Who is that ubermenschen in the middle? I assume he’s been elected to something, right? He’s not just some charismatic creation of the consultant class right? right?

"No big tent, a vanguard will do" has some Thoughts on AOC's troubling tendency to... (re-reads)... run toward the center

I kinda saw this one coming, and it was funny because I was musing to myself as we were discussing the "Dems are anti-trans" narrative how I could spy something familiar.

Never forget that the Nazis, in the greatest self-own of all time, started looking for Jewish ancestry in their own scientists if those scientists seemed too smart.

Hasan going on a paid Chinese propaganda tour and then coming home to say that Democrats—one of if not *the* most pro-trans political party in the world—would shoot trans people for votes is beyond absurd people like this should be heckled, bullied, and shamed every time they open their mouths

Stating up front: this is *NOT* a defense of Newsom. There's something about this general sentiment that's been bothering me for a while, unrelated to Newsom's many, many defects of both character and as a candidate, but I haven't been able to put my finger on it until the last couple of days.

There are three categories of Bluesky users who act like Newsom is the Democratic heir apparent: 1. Republicans, 2. Useful idiots who want to signal coalition-defying purity, and 3. Gavin Newsom's sockpuppets If you're pretending Newsom is in the lead of a race that hasn't started, which are you?

i like it when people are both robust progressives and good soldiers for the party

will not get over that the people that backed biden right up until the end were most of the squad, handful of progressives, motherfucking joe manchin, and like half the cbc, and they were also the ones quickest to back harris instead of doing an insane primary

Re: my "put federal LE entities current under DHS under DOJ so they're at least supervised by real lawyers" point, even trumpers in justice continue to not want a lot of what DHS is trying, because most of them understand (unlike DHS goons) there can be big boy consequences for lying on this stuff

The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill

Kamala Harris would not be randomly stopping flights into and out of El Paso for 10 days sans explanation.

Ask an actual homeland security expert and…yeah, we don’t know what this is

That bad faith finding could unlock a malicious prosecution suit

Some people I respect follow this antisemitic account.

Then confirmation bias takes over. Each new Jewish name strengthens the pattern, each non-Jew is just noise to be ignored. If you go through your days on autopilot, never stopping to engage in metacognition, this builds You start saying things like this quote, and no one around you calls you on it

Ed's 2020 primary remains so funny to me, because every 18-22 year old kid on-line thought Markey winning was the single most important thing and as a New England Democrat I know he's one of the most seat warming people in the Senate but sudden he was the most important Senator ever

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lawfare/116048314109181139 Lawfare has the unsealed affidavits for the Fulton County elections office search warrants, which are online at the link. I’ve so far only skimmed, but a couple initial impressions. -Lots of mentions of small discrepancies, but not much […]

Dan Quayle. The hinge around which history turned. There was an hour, and there was a man for the hour, and they found each other. In Indiana, for some reason.

The 119th Congress Constitutionally ceases to exist at 11:59 AM on January 3rd 2027 Whatever else happens from noon on, the 20th Amendment is explicitly clear on that fact. Even if the 120th Congress is not seated/whatever, the 119th Congress no longer exists ahd has no force of law

People are going to call mre alarmist and doomer for this, but I'm going to lay out the chilling truth. There are several nightmare scenario where the opponent can move their pieces into a position where they can straight up capture our king, permanently ending the game of chess on this board.

It occurs to me that being a billionaire must be an awful lot like having EVERY conversation with ChatGPT: Everything you say is a pearl of extraordinary insight, until you lose all realistic sense of your own capabilities.

Susan Collins just announced she’s running again. She’s had almost three decades to prove that she’s the right leader for Maine in this critical moment — and she's failed. Seniority without a backbone is just tenure, and another term won’t fix that. It's time for her to go.

The problem now—and the reason we have the ACA and Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson—is that the Senate minority does not actually dictate policy outcomes

His actual job is Sin Eater which makes it odd that people demand he be the Face of the Party

“Dems need to shut down the goverment until 2029” and “Chuck Schumer needs to wrassle with Greg Bovino” are mutually incompatible asks! If Senators aren’t in DC it makes it easier for Republicans to overcome the filibuster! You actually need to pick one!

The republican faction that has most opposed Trump is neocons. Other factions like business execs or religious conservatives have reasons for, and examples of, opposition to Trump, but Libertarians had the easiest case and the weakest examples. Total frauds, still preoccupied with campus left.

Ten years ago today, #SCOTUS issued five unsigned and unexplained 5-4 rulings granting emergency applications to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan—a completely unprecedented move that helped to usher in the Court’s modern … (mis)adventures … with its shadow docket. Me in today’s “One First”:

They’re rushing to rehabilitate themselves because they’re afraid the thousand year Trumpreich won’t happen after all and they need people to take them seriously when they complain President Inoffensive Normielib is Stalin after he says they have to pay taxes to fund the Mild Healthcare Reform Act.

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies. It was a "sideshow," I was told.

You guys stop telling me to pirate things, I want my views of the queer teen Star Trek to count so they keep making it

Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Unpopular opinion: Meme law is bad and if you have the New York Times movie and poetry critic writing your legal analysis it’s still the bad place even if the outcome is righteous.

The Coppola Movies with Mikey will be on YouTube tomorrow 💕

So it makes sense that they’d be most interested in killing off someone like Malinowski, who could more directly peel off their core of support, than a Tlaib-type, who they think makes for a nice foil/bogeyman for them to fundraise off of. (See also: why anti-Zionists hate J St more than ZOA).

A reminder to the "Good. Shut. It. Down." folks: ICE is funded for the next 3-4 years. Shutting down DHS is going to hit USCIS more than it will hit ICE. Go ahead and call for the shutdown, it's fine, just understand what you're calling for.

Speaker Johnson doesn't care about requiring warrants signed by a judge to protect your civil rights. Why? It'll take too long. The authoritarian police state & executive overreach Republicans warned about is HERE. But REPUBLICANS are enabling it. Not on my watch.

If ICE is going to straight up ignore statutory restrictions, we are in a totally new kind of world than before January 2025, and (I cannot stress this enough) you must have dogshit for brains to go looking to Congress (let alone the House and Senate minorities) for solutions.

Robert, the laws would be *part of the funding bill*, is this your first time dealing with appropriations or...?

Schumer posted this last night. #2 is a pretty straight forward "No masks: prohibit ICE & immigration enforcement agents from wearing face coverings." Its worth asking why these ppl feel the need to constantly poison the well by lying about what you can verify for yourself w your own eyes.

The kayfabe of this website is that Big Accounts get fed Axios Bullshit (sometimes it’s from the New York Times) and cite it to say the thing they wanted to say all along, that they’d say no matter what.

There were 89,000 polling places in 2022. 8 states have all-mail elections. At least 5,000,000 Americans marched in the October No Kings demonstrations. They have 15,000 guys. They couldn't "surround the polls" if they wanted to.

Incidentally there is a fundamental difference between "I am asking for help for a one time/unexpected thing" and "I do this every month as a part of my income," and if you can't see that difference, man

More supporting evidence that this MAY have been a negotiated deal to avoid stripping of committees. bsky.app/profile/sifi...

My rep is one of the 10 Ds who voted to censure Al Green. Why did she do it? Bc she won by less than a percentage point a few months ago. And she knows that a no vote today wld mean Rs spending unlimited $$ on a 2026 ad saying she disrespects Trump.

This is not “I’m unwilling to be in a coalition with people who disagree with me.” This is a dude wearing a sign saying “don’t let me into your house because I cannot be trusted.”