All these people are awful and I hate that I know so much about their lives ...also I absolutely read this whole part and admit I laughed at this parenthetical. And I guess good Lizza finally got to the true horror of the whole thing—RFK's agenda—in part 5.

A friend served on a state grand jury once and found the process was designed to be confusing—e.g. they heard witnesses based on availability, so might jump back and forth between cases. In general, jurors relied more on the prosecutor We're seeing that trust break (to great results).

Code of Conduct for United States Judges, Canon 5: "A judge should not . . . attend or purchase a ticket for a dinner or other event sponsored by a political organization or candidate... A judge should not engage in any other political activity." (All judges receive training on this.)

To review: Sincerely : formal Best : neutral All the best : positive All the very best : can we be friends??? Regards : from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee

It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there. A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Judge Illston issues a TRO blocking State Dep’t RIFs set to go into effect as soon as Friday.

American Canto is nearly indistinguishable from parody, except that "Olivia Nuzzi describes sounds" is somehow weirder than any joke.

Scoop: They tried to bury this news on Black Friday, but, well... Trump crypto partner Alt5 Sigma told the SEC its auditor quit in Nov. We called the auditor. He resigned in August. That's the second SEC filing with an apparent conflict that Alt5 Sigma has made in recent weeks. 1/

This Indiana proposal just means it's finally time for Illinois to threaten the ultimate map!

I'm the two-bathtub Mudroom & Laundry

1. Over Thanksgiving, texts from Dem. Sen Ruben Gallego leaked where he repeats far-right talking points on masculinity, lamenting that Democratic women "look like men." Using far-right gender-panic rhetoric will not ingratiate the Democratic Party towards men. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I am a strong believer that every household bookshelf should have a Tom Stoppard section. RIP.

"Strong floor, no ceiling"

I just did a bunch of research about a possible fun purchase and have concluded that research is bad

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The true joy of Bluesky is seeing how many other people share your niche holiday traditions. Happy listening to the full Alice's Restaurant day to all!

Sixty years ago this week in the Berkshire (MA) Eagle: "Saturday, Richard J. Robbins, 19, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Arlo Guthrie, 18, of Howard Beach, N.Y., each paid a fine of $25 in Lee District Court after pleading guilty of illegally disposing of rubbish...." web.archive.org/web/20201125... 1/2

"There was something inherently dishonest about the 18-year-old I met at 52 and started dating" is an outrageous and morally bankrupt way to try to seem prescient. How are you still trying to join this discourse?!

Somehow the news today is managing to be far too immediate, with the WaPo replacing sourced reporting with bigoted speculation, or far too late, with Lizza sitting on information about the HHS secretary who's destroying public health. Why can't we just get important info once it's confirmed?!

People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.

Okay so what I’m reading here, if this account is to be believed, is that Lizza and Nuzzi are complicit in withholding major dark political actions that have had insane implications for like, everybody. Journalistic malpractice doesn’t even begin to cover it

everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas

Lawyer for protesters to ICE bigwig Russell Hott: “Do you agree that it's unconstitutional to arrest people for being opposed to Midway Blitz?” Hott: “No.”

The only response is, "So you're saying service members SHOULD comply with illegal orders?"

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

It's hard to adjust to almost all images being suspect these days, even when they aren't fully AI generated. Here, someone seems to have recolored the Mamdani image from a real event

Sneeuw!! Dutch is a delightful language for news (neeuws?)

Since someone cracked and took one for the team, it's clear that Ryan Lizza reversed convention and put the most explicit (and scarring) content in front of, not behind, the paywall. But this is a major new accusation of Nuzzi killing stories (and more) for RFK Jr.

I am sorry and I now regret this

Today, the judge asked how many grand jurors were present when the second indictment was handed up (and when the amendment to the report re: the original was made). AUSA Lemons said only the foreperson and one other grand juror were present when the docs were handed up.

More: The original indictment—the one the grand jury did see and vote on—was also handed up in open court along with the second indictment. But, as noted, the document was marked as though the grand jury had returned a no bill as to the entire indictment, not just Count 1.

So my best guess here is that the jury didn't know how to mark a single no-billed count, and signed the no verdict form instead. Halligan now has a form she can't use and jurors heading home. Instead of presenting a whole new indictment to the jury, she devises a shortcut!! (Always a bad idea...)

"If it lies within the province of a court to change the charging part of an indictment to suit its own notions of what it ought to have been ... the great importance [of] an indictment by a grand jury ... may be frittered away until its value is almost destroyed." —Ex parte Bain (1887)

Buckle up folks, we're doing Speech or Debate Clause immunity.

I think it should be a bigger deal that before Trump made him a life-tenured appeals court judge, Emil Bove was at DOJ taking the position that the White House should do war crimes

Wouldn't be surprised if SCOTUS stays this PI until it decides Callais, then blocks a new PI under Purcell. (IOW: don't get too excited.)

to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness

I'm laughing at how absurd this is, but also filled with rage at RFK now jettisoning the worm story that he only made up to get out of paying financial support to his first wife in the divorce. But it's a pity that his correction to his new girlfriend is too late to stop the meme?!

In addition to the vital dog content, I love the jab at the "discerning wisdom of King Solomon" (I have a gripe about how lawyers often use "split the baby" when they mean each side taking a partial win. That's not what happened in the story! One side got the whole baby!!)

"It is undisputed that Tucker is a very good boy."

This peacock wants to remind you that we never cross a picket line Don't buy from Starbucks during the strike!

This is an absolutely wild set of choices. Also, it's very possible he was exaggerating, but I want to know which 23 of these 32 people "agreed in principle"

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

He was really struggling to be cohernant Sorry, coherentt Sorry, coeherent

Not the most important part of this insane list of names sent six weeks before his death, but why the hell does Jeffrey Epstein have an email signature claiming his messages are attorney-client privileged?

JUST IN: Katie Wilson significantly extends her lead in the Seattle mayoral race. She now leads Mayor Bruce Harrell by 1,346 votes, or 0.5%. That's up from the squeaker-lead of 91 votes in yesterday's update). She won today's batch of nearly 6K ballots by 20% (!). Not much left at this point.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

November 10, 1975 7:39-54pm: Captain Cooper of the Anderson radios USCG Group at Sault Ste. Marie on channel 16, the distress frequency. The Coast Guard asks him to call back on channel 12 because the storm damaged their antennas and they needed to keep the emergency channel open.