hmmm what kind of features could be being looked at there, I wonder, what kind indeed

Once again the supreme court uses an unsigned opinion to dismiss months of work by lower court justices and trample on civil rights. www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...

Not for the first time, Justice KBJ has read my mind, laying out in this new dissent how there is 0 risk of harm to the govt and yet "This Court has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification" www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Other attorneys who spoke at the presser wished to remind the public that they can visit tinyurl.com/chicagotro to report when federal immigration agents in Chicagoland potentially violate District Judge Sara Ellis' injunction order against abuse of press, protestors and religious practitioners.

better get that in writing on the docket ASAP

Bovino is a Chicago villain in the tradition of Henry Rhines, the 1840s Chicago cop who spent most of his energy trying to find people who’d escaped slavery (or at least looked like they had) and pretending he had the authority to arrest them. A NY paper called him “a degraded drunken wretch.”

Wait you mean that far-right lunatics hate women?

TARIFFS ARE TAXES

Politicians can get away with lying to people for quite a while about a lot of different subjects, but they have never been able to get away with lying to them about how much things cost.

lol the WSJ has noticed that the only "justice" to seem sympathetic to Donald Trump's Personal Stamp Act is the most dishonest partisan hack to sit on the court since Taney

Area party upset to discover that years of sadistic, violent rhetoric and actions critically eroded political norms they forgot that they also relied on, news at 11

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Immigration-driven diversity increases innovation How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in U.S. History www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

tldr: yet another step on the road to military dictatorship facilitated by the supine uselessness of the other two branches of the federal government

Important.

"Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states" according to an FBI bulletin. Which, of course, gives ICE cover to commit the same crimes. "It wasn't us, it was different thugs, dressing up as us."

Katyal plays heavily on the problem if Congress never gets the ability to tariff back.

I'll do a new thread for the response, from Neal Katyal. Tariffs are taxes, is the big thrust.

The plaintiffs' next witness is Oak Park Trustee Juan Muñoz. Plaintiff atty playing video of Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino pushing Muñoz down outside the Broadview ICE facility during a protest on Oct. 3. Muñoz says he was arrested, held for hours, and then dropped off at a gas station.

Day 3 of the “no more than 2” day trial of Sandwich Guy. The prosecution intends to rest; the defense hasn’t decided yet. Dispute over jury instructions continues, a few morsels (sorry) to follow.

"Law professors @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and Anthony Michael Kreis pointed out in a rebuttal of Wurman and others echoing his argument in July that this entire [allegiance and birthright citizenship] exercise took us far afield of the Fourteenth Amendment’s context and circumstances."

It is honestly an extremely big deal to me that Americans have come through big in beating back the fascist elements in our country. Tonight’s margins plus the drubbing ICE is taking in our best cities is really giving me hope.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

The crashouts are already in progress and they are delicious.

so it turns out that fascism is unpopular

i will venmo any reporter $600 to ask trump "when was dick cheney vice president"

Much like dictatorship or climate change, the threat of AI taking your job is no longer hypothetical. It's here, as shown by last week's bloodbath at UPS, Amazon, etc. Should the government be sending us $1,000 a month? Is there any alternative to UBI? My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

What the actual fuck?! Is this a joke? Surely not even Abbot can be that stupid. Needless to say, that would not remotely be constitutional. God help me I'm going to have to put the privileges and immunities clauses on my con law syllabus aren't I www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-...

Another chapter in Kristi Noem's brutal war against Christians, especially priests. An Episcopal Texas priest is being detained in a Conroe ICE facility despite being allowed to work in the U.S.

The way the firewall against *outright* gutter racism on the right has disappeared is perhaps the single thing I find most worrying about the world right now

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Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

Another big endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it only cost $959 million in tax breaks.

if u do not have anything nice to say well sometimes u are not wrong

One. Special. Boy. A 230+ year old experiment with the rule of law & a constitutional republic, all cast aside for the most boringly corrupt & lawless authoritarian one can imagine. Mind boggling how completely every institution has failed to meet the moment.

Faces of veterinary betrayal, a continuing series (aka Leonidas's annual checkup)

One reliable law of US politics: if you find someone loudly complaining about the other party engaging in election fraud, it's a Republican; if you find someone *actually engaging in voter fraud*, it's ... also a Republican. www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vances-ha...

This would be a firing scandal in any other administration but TBH the bigger scandal is that someone is willing to date Kash Patel (does he have J Edgar Hoover-style dirt on her?)

It's just amazing, he looks at the Oval Office and says "Cover all the blank space with random gold crap" and everyone around him smiles and nods and says "you're so right sir, this room really needed random gold crap"

A deeply disturbing plan, but one thing important to clarify here is that these contracts would be for skiptracing, i.e. establishing locations, and NOT for carrying out arrests. So this would not see private contractors grabbing people — although it could mean contractors surveilling immigrants.

I do not see identification of this federal agent in a "conspicuous" place on his uniform, as ordered Tuesday by U.S. District Cout Judge Sara Ellis, in this photo of him making physical contact with Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez

it's entirely his fault things are this bad. He could have stopped this on 2021.

it would be darkly funny but bad if things in the GOP presidential primary get so bad Mitch is forced to endorse a Dem

On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.

As the federal shutdown comes up on one month, states are showing what a functional government can do: defending voting rights, protecting food aid, and more. bit.ly/47eUTVA

Our new paper in Nature uses ecological energetics to track ten ecosystem functions of all birds and mammals in sub-Saharan Africa. It shows that the ecological power of African wildlife has declined by a third since pre-colonial times @natureportfolio.nature.com

"...it seems unsustainable for those who care about British democracy to remain on a platform whose owner is fixated on its very destruction."