Oh hey look at that. Just as I said. Will any of the big accounts that pushed “THE JUDGE AGREES WITH THE FEDS AND IS ORDERING THE VIDEOS OFF THE INTERNET” issue retractions or nah? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Workers at CBS are walking out. The unionized team that works CBS' streaming service are going on a 24 hour strike in New York and San Francisco. The walkout comes after negotiations with CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly imploded.

Full disclosure: I worked with Megan briefly (I was a summer/law student while she was a real lawyer), though didn't stay in contact. I very much admired her work then and have full confidence in what she's saying now, and am so grateful she's speaking out in spite of all the risks.

Megan's story is so important and (characteristically) well written, tying together many different ways men in power shut women out of entire fields, very much including but not limited to pursuing inappropriate relationships with students. Important for today's election, but also more broadly

Megan's story is so important and (characteristically) well written, tying together many different ways men in power shut women out of entire fields, very much including but not limited to pursuing inappropriate relationships with students. Important for today's election, but also more broadly

I've been getting quite a few questions from press, etc. and so wrote up something a little bit longer here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...

Grew up in Chicago, and we went to the Field of Dreams (in Iowa) for some incomprehensible reason. There was a baseball field and a corn maze there, but we spent more time by far on the bus than at the field

There's a strategy Alex Jones uses now to address Sandy Hook, saying "people think I desecrated children's graves, and are shocked to learn I just asked questions" [he did not] Anyway, here's Platner's new line: people think I had a swastika tattoo, and they're surprised it was just a normal skull

This whole thread is incredible and horrifying, but this is the moment where my soul would have left my body. This is "just walk directly into the nearest woods and never be seen again" territory

Great thread (and extremely justifiably angry judge)

JD continuing his lifelong quest to prove the adage that they don't teach law at Yale

Eye-popping margins in the Pennsylvania special elections today: —Democrats won HD94 by 63 points. (Harris won it by 30 in 2024.) —Democrats won HD42 by 35 points. (Harris won it by 17 in 2024.) [The 2024 numbers are via the essential @the-downballot.com].

After falling down a rabbit hole on judicial exclamation marks, I have discovered that Westlaw erroneously replaced an exclamation with a question mark in no less a case than Marbury v. Madison!

Every word of this is a nightmare www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The 9th Circuit just took a case en banc involving the Court's internal procedures on administrative stays of removal in immigration cases. Judge VanDyke is extremely normal about this, as one can tell from the opening of his 23-page dissent from rehearing cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

So you agree? You think the major-questions doctrine is lawless?

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

That's what I'm fucking talking about!!!! ALYSA!!

ALYSA LIU IS GOLDEN HOLY SHIT

Very happy for all the countries holding leaders accountable today

Maxing.

I will never let an opportunity pass to post my favorite maximum gerrymander map. Come on, Illinois, you know you want to!

To unnecessarily deport a sick baby and his entire family is heinous. My staff and I are in contact with Juan’s family.

After falling down a rabbit hole on judicial exclamation marks, I have discovered that Westlaw erroneously replaced an exclamation with a question mark in no less a case than Marbury v. Madison!

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

This is an extremely funny peak Twitter moment, but I also just realized that David Simon was among the only people to correctly call one of the huge political shockers of the decade: Corn Pop *was* real!

To follow up on this a bit, focusing on logistics gives us real, actionable ways to make ratfucking harder and less effective. One response to "close House seats are hard to predict" is "what about Senate?" Those *are* easier to predict, so let's talk about them!

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

"In their words and drawings, they convey how much they ache for creature comforts and describe the anguish of being trapped. They write about missing their friends and teachers, falling behind at school, having unreliable access to medical care when they’re sick...and feeling scared."

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

More sports should be two sports One period of hockey, then put the team on a bobsled Ski jump while doing archery The possibilities are endless!

UPDATE: Another 1,110 ballots counted and Mejia expand her lead over Malinowski further, now to 1.4% and 868 votes.

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.

This isn't abolition, but this includes a lot of good demands. Prohibiting Kavanaugh stops that the Court expressly allowed, requiring state consent for large operations, allowing states to sue DHS for any violations (!) Oh, and removing Kristi Noem.

Le's meltdown made this news, and brought eyes (including mine!) to the hearing, but we need to listen to the attorney for the actual victims here. As she says, "people are just being treated like less than human." "And we shouldn't need a court order saying Don't put someone's life in danger."

If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

I just got off the phone with Elizabeth's dad...she and her mom were freed tonight! Updated story: sahanjournal.com/education/co...

The whole decision is extraordinary, but it's almost cathartic to see a section titled "President Trump has expressed racially motivated animus." Reciting his statements verbatim, she concludes simply "the statements are what they are: unmitigated expressions of animus towards nonwhite foreigners."

The whole decision is extraordinary, but it's almost cathartic to see a section titled "President Trump has expressed racially motivated animus." Reciting his statements verbatim, she concludes simply "the statements are what they are: unmitigated expressions of animus towards nonwhite foreigners."

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Deputy AG Todd "My Fox News interview is raising a lot of questions answered by my Fox News interview" Blanche

Nearly 500 people I follow are still following Neil on here so this seems like a good time to point out how on Bluesky if you block someone, you don't automatically unfollow them. So you'll want to unfollow and then block, in cases where someone you follow now seems worth blocking.

12 years ago today bill de blasio killed a groundhog on staten island nymag.com/intelligence...

Earthquake(s)! (the second one this morning)

If your children got tear gassed today I want to hear from you, even if you don’t live in my district. You can contact my office at [email protected]

Leigh Wambsganss raised nearly $2.3 million for the SD9 district, much of it coming from three billionaire-funded PACs. Taylor Rehmet raised $346,000, most of it coming from donations of $100 or less. His biggest donor gave him $12K, and a bunch of local unions also cut him larger checks.