A lot of free speech absolutist are being awfully quiet about this sort of thing.

lots of people can’t handle the idea that the pill, television, and microchip can’t be “un-invented”

The tone of Ezra Klein's output is reminiscent of attempts by moderate Republicans to reform their party just before they got steamrollered by Trump.

Misrepresenting testimony and evidence to a grand jury to secure an indictment is a lot easier to do in that setting since there is no defense lawyer present to challenge it, but it is a pretty perilous road for Lindsey Halligan to go down right after her predecessor resigned.

A judge ruled the firing of thousands of federal employees was illegal. But he stopped short of ordering the government to reinstate them, predicting the Supreme Court would overturn it.

Wow! This ICE agent has bigger problems than just dropping his gun. Just asking questions: why is tough guy pointing a gun at bystanders, and does he even notice that the magazine is on the ground too?

Crazy how the executive branch goes “if we can’t break the law it’s irreparable harm to our lawbreaking,” 6 Supreme Court Justices go “yeah sure,” often with no further explanation, and 3 are left doing an eloquent version of “but checks and balances, duly passed statute, what are we doing here.”

Basically, you can get fired as a government employee for doing what Jerry Jones and Jaime Dimon did in 2020

The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

Pete Kegsbreath has summoned the entire 800-person leadership of the US military to an in-person meeting. This has never happened in US history. Anyone got a feeling we're less than a week away from Martial Law?

If I was Donald Trump I would not be drawing the public’s attention right now to my ability to release files

Weird how this comes on the same day new Epstein evidence is released by House Oversight.

Just a reminder that the Solicitor General *promised* the Supreme Court during the CASA argument in May that he’d bring the birthright citizenship cases back up on the merits. For as much as the government has been carefully picking the cases it has brought to #SCOTUS, it didn’t have a choice here.

BREAKING NYT:   Trump just fired a U.S. attorney who insisted on following a court order.   Michele Beckwith, the top federal prosecutor in Sacramento, was fired hours after she reminded a Border Patrol chief to abide by court-ordered restrictions on immigration raids.

OUTRAGEOUS behavior from the Department of Justice; a seasoned prosecutor was fired for reminding a Stephen Miller ally that he was required to obey the Constitution and the valid orders of a federal court.

Today marks exactly one year since Eric Adams became the first sitting NYC mayor in modern history to be indicted on criminal charges.

you probably need to be of a certain vintage to understand the absolute hilarity of ken starr being in the epstein files

BOLDUAN: When I was asking you about Comey, you've twice now brought up the Epstein files and Tom Homan. Why? RASKIN: Because the DOJ is in full coverup mode

No veteran should have their social security number leaked, let alone passed to a political opponent by the government.

this story was very emotional to report but i just want to say how much i appreciate all the replies saying it looks like the ICE agent is about to shoot his dick off

Alan Dershowitz for the Defense: L’État, C’est Trump At the Senate impeachment trial on Wednesday, Donald Trump’s lawyer said that the President can do just about anything he wants. (2020) www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

🧵 “Not many figures in Epstein’s legal circle have been more closely linked to him than Dershowitz, a central member of his legal team for years. The emails show the depth of the support he gave Epstein.” Bloomberg gained access to a cache of 18,000 emails. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

What is there to decide? The very first sentence of the 14th doesn't exactly have a lot of ambiguity: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...

the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.

More tragic accidents in Russia.

This latest "emergency" ruling - in a Friday nite news dump no different from what politicos do - is a doozy for a host of reasons, not least b/c of how stunningly clueless the majority somehow remains about both public & elite view of their work, obvi on the left & increasingly even on the right. 🧵

"Epstein collaborated with Trump and Musk’s inner circle during the presidential election. Epstein reportedly arranged meetings between influential Trump backers Peter Thiel, Thomas Barrack, and Russia’s U.N. ambassador, Vitaly Churkin." #OpDeathEaters spookyconnections.com/2024/10/26/e...

House Oversight Democrats released another batch of Epstein estate records: daily schedules, flight logs, ledgers. Entries note planned meetings with Trump backers, Steve Bannon (Feb 16, 2019) and Peter Thiel (Nov 27, 2017) and Elon Musk. #OpDeathEaters #Epstein

Trump's bogus indictment of former FBI director Comey is unlikely to stand up to scrutiny for more than about 30 seconds. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Musk, Bannon, and Thiel!

[Yes, sir, that editor's note cleared things up, sir, and we can move on to other things, sir.] via the Daily Caller's op-ed, "Enough Is Enough … I Choose VIOLENCE!" dailycaller.com/2025/09/26/i...

"This column reflects the personal views of the author and does not represent the position of the Daily Caller." Hilarious. Ingersoll was with the Daily Caller for a decade, serving as its editor-in-chief until January 2025. And they're trying to act like they barely know him.

The stupidest timeline www.ft.com/content/535c...

Kagan on the “asserted harms” to the Trump’s foreign policy, to which the conservative justices deferred in their unsigned order:

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts was detained by ICE agents Friday morning, the school board said. “We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps,” a district spokesperson said

NEW from LCRW: Rotting trash, the Westboro Baptist Church and heat exhaustion. @azrww.bsky.social and our staff report back from Charlie Kirk's Horst Wesselization Ceremony last Sunday as Trump prepares crackdowns on antifascists and everyone else he doesn't like in Kirk's name.

Last Sunday, I trekked on down to the Charlie Kirk memorial, which felt like a twisted version of AmericaFest except with way more trash, way more cops, and way more bloodthirsty speeches attempting to elevate an unrepentant bigot into a Jesus-like martyr. Enjoy?

SCOTUS: Congress doesn't matter when Republicans hold the Executive and the Executive doesn't matter when Democrats hold the Executive.

The Army Training and Doctrine Command cased its flag Friday at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., to close out 52 years of building the framework that shapes soldiers to fight on the ever-evolving battlefields of war.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court greenlights Trump's "pocket rescission" of $4 billion in foreign aid appropriated by Congress. Kagan, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson, has a sharp dissent. She says this "result conflicts with the separation of powers." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Here's the thing: The mere possibility of investigations and prosecutions is itself designed to achieve Trump/Stephen Miller's goals. “The threat to do it is itself a form of intimidation. It’s intended to chill lawful political expression.” 6/6 newrepublic.com/article/2009...

Officials at liberal advocacy groups and immigration organizations tell me they fully expect to be targeted now based on the trumped up pretext that anti-ICE rhetoric constitutes incitement of violence. The Texas ICE shooting heightened their alarm. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2009...

/3 The message is that violence is righteous and justified when we — people like us — use it, and unacceptable when anyone else uses it. Violence is always a privilege of the state, but this is enshrining it to a particularly authoritarian degree.

The administration celebrating Wounded Knee is congruent with the administration asking for dismissals or one-day sentences for cops convicted of civil rights violations. It’s part of a coordinated message. /1 apnews.com/article/woun...

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

Re-upping this thread as the Trump regime keeps doing fascist things, like ordering a TV show to be taken off the air and charging a political opponent with crimes even though the regime's own prosecutor said there was no case.

We have a white supremacist gestapo with complete immunity in our country now.

Everybody saying that Democrats need to moderate on this or that issue in order to win is engaging in historical revisionism. Harris barely spoke about climate or LGBTQ issues, she was conservative on immigration, and her abortion rhetoric was mainly limited to restoring Roe.

courts and state bars need to become willing, and quickly, to disbar govt attorneys for bringing these blatantly political prosecutions