BREAKING: Judge Ellis, overseeing the protest/journalist case in Illinois, orders DOJ to bring top Trump admin Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino, accused of personally violating the TRO in the case, to court for a hearing at 10a CT Tuesday.

This is a perfect case study in how to frame legal news in a totally misleading way that scares people for engagement. The actual "news" here is that the petition is scheduled for conference. Nothing about this is meaningful—*all petitions* must be considered at a conference! Almost all are denied.

This is bizarre framing. SCOTUS “officially considering taking up a case” is just an incendiary way to say, “someone filed a cert petition in this case.” The court “officially considers” every cert petition. Most of them are denied. 1/

Ah, yes. I see the Department of Metaphors and Idioms is still fully staffed, despite other government cuts. This one is a little on the nose, but effective.

New filing: "Oregon v. Trump (national guard deployment [ca9])" Doc #63: ORDER FILED. Sidney R. THOMAS A judge of this Court has sua sponte requested a vote on whether this case should be reheard en banc pursuant to General… [full entry below 👇] Download PDF | View Full Case #CL71554902

This is a good speech, but sorry, I am entirely distracted by the grumpy casual vibe of protest Mike Quigley

Absolutely gorgeous day for a march in San Francisco

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

i don't care for this level of tension

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today. h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

Federal worker unions are suing over what they contend are the Trump administration’s unlawful threats of mass firings if the Republicans and Democrats in Congress can’t reach a budget deal by midnight, forcing the US government to a shut down www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BREAKING: AFSCME & AFGE have filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s threats of a mass firing of federal employees in the event of a government shutdown.

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

Victory for the Rat Rebellion!

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Okay, that felt big because it was basically right here. Rude for the earth to do that at 3am, frankly

Well, that was certainly a pretty intense (but quick) earthquake in SF

Incredible that anyone takes this seriously when you can immediately see what the AI "enhancements" do to the shirt. This is the Boston Marathon internet sleuthing nightmare on steroids

What is Congress supposed to do here? Specifically authorize the spending? Pass a statute that says it's illegal to impound it? They've already done both of those things.

This is *wild* But I guess it makes a dark sort of sense that the next step in "tech designed to try to help you" -> "tech that pretends to help you while stealing your data" is -> "tech that yells at you while stealing everyone's data"

Not to brag but I don't need a wearable chat bot to shit talk me all day because my brain came with that feature pre-installed

I can't tell if Sammy Sosa actually doesn't know the words to Take Me Out to the Ballgame or if that was an elaborate tribute to the Ozzy Osbourne version of the stretch

Eric Adams scavenger hunt takes forever because you know first stop is always Istanbul

Rewarding my laptop by opening every program at once and letting the computer choose what it wants to run

“It depends.”

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is: (To be fair, I might have called cherry blossom season a hell-hole while I lived in DC because of all the tourists. But it was lovely to happen to overlap with the blooms earlier this year)

Fly like a butterfly, be like a bee

This is troublingly accurate

Okay, I let Bluesky convince me to go see the Naked Gun, and it did not disappoint!

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Jesus

1. Marvin Miller was hired to run @mlbpa.bsky.social in 1966, and deserves great credit for his transformative work helping professional athletes get paid what they're worth. But he almost wasn't. Before they hired Miller, the union was very close to offering the job to: Richard Nixon. Seriously.

"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!" The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:

ESPN's tribute to Ryne Sandberg

I cannot stress enough how little information about the various misconduct allegations appears in Judge Newman's Wikipedia page, in stark contrast to the many paragraphs about how she was "unusually cognitively intact" for a then-96 year old.

Nico Hoerner! First an intentional drop of an infield fly for a double play, now great aggressive baserunning—really making this Cubs game fun!

Sorry to ruin anyone's fun, but this does not mean Trump is actually filing pro se, it almost certainly is just the PACER system updating slowly. The same thing happened in the national guard case (and sparked the same confusion) even though the California AG's office was on the initial filing.

I'm stunned. ICE attorneys not identifying themselves in COURT?

Do you like Zohran's videos? Then at least some consultants are sure you'll love a slower paced, lower energy version featuring a sexual predator with no ideas

Prof Fallon's Fed Courts was one of the most challenging and rewarding classes I've ever taken. He balanced teaching the doctrine with a clear-eyed, deeply historical look at the case law, while being kind and available to a giant class. He'll be deeply missed as a teacher, a scholar, and a person

Dick Fallon was a brilliant scholar, inspirational teacher, and all-around wonderful human being. I owe my career to him. He was the best mentor, and I will miss him. I'm glad I had a chance to tell him how much he meant to me before he passed, but the pain is still searing. RIP to a beautiful soul.

CNN tomorrow: Posters on NextDoor wonder "What was that loud noise?" and "Does this guy walking down the street look suspiciously not white to anyone else?"

"The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers, according to a person briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal matters."

everybody please calm down there is an AXOLOTL ON THE NURSES PICKET LINE IN DULUTH MINNESOTA

JUST IN: Judge Gallagher says either El Salvador is lying to the UN or the administration is lying to her about the people deported to CECOT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

An unexpected benefit of applying to mostly small liberal arts schools is that I guess they're inefficient to hack

There have been rumors going back more than a year that Adams' long-time associate Jeff Maddrey was selling NYPD promotions. I believe this is the first time we've seen allegations in court to that effect.