Judge Simon's right - he wasn't required to recuse, though he had the discretion to. The problem arises when principled judges recuse even if there's an appearance of bias but unprincipled judges like Alito and Thomas don't.

I don't think it would be possible to overstate Blake's influence on the DNA revolution in criminal justice and the exonerations that followed. He genuinely changed the world for the better. Rest in peace. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/s...

Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick called Jeffrey Epstein, his former neighbor, the "greatest blackmailer ever."   Those comments are in direct contrast to the DOJ's findings this summer that there's 'no credible evidence' that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What actually happened? Egyptian cotton. With lots of fertile farmland and desperate for something to sell for cash on international markets, Egypt's leadership dumped resources into building up cotton farming in Egypt.

The moment where Hegseth ends his speech and not a single officer claps is the most hopeful thing I have seen in a long time.

I really do hope the phrase “Kavanaugh Stop” or “Kavanaugh Encounter” sticks.

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

He’s grabbing American democracy by the Posse Comitatus Act. When you’re a Republican, the Supreme Court will just let you do it.

The whole “it’s the left’s fault the right supports censorship” bullshit is rubes and propagandists trying to save face for being useful idiots or willing accomplices for the greatest censorship campaign since the red scare. Otherwise they’d have to admit to being wrong bsky.app/profile/jeff...

fun fact that while trump v. us says that the president cannot be held criminally liable for using his core powers, this does not extend to his officers

wonder if based mike lee, who never met a conspiracy he didn’t amplify, has any thoughts about the guy photographed in a “trump - make liberals cry” shirt who killed some of his fellow LDS parishioners and burned down their church

wrote about Comey, arguably the first capitulator in advance. trying to palliate trump led to the destruction of basically everything he was trying to preserve. it feels like we should learn from that. www.publicnotice.co/p/comey-indi...

Peter Thiel dined with Epstein after his conviction and at a time when his crimes were common knowledge.

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

You might also remember when Ken Starr was forced to resign from Baylor University for failing to act on the reported sexual assaults of at least 6 students.

Boy howdy, am I curious what Peter Thiel would have discussed with Jeffrey Epstein over lunch in late 2017!

If we're finally going to crack down about lying to Congress under oath, I think there are several Cabinet members and a few Supreme Court justices whose testimonies might need revisiting.

Imagine a politician giving a speech down the street from an ICE processing center, telling protesters to "fight like hell," and those protesters then breaking into the center and smashing stuff. Clearly that wouldn't be his fault.

Even low information voters should get that it’s not normal for a President to make billions of dollars as soon as they’re in power.

Alex Padilla NAILS it!

When you have an administration that so constantly, shamelessly, openly lies, pretty soon there’s no faith in any information streams coming from the administration, so there’s no way to convey true information in a way that lands right, which leads to more chaos.

“These ‘tough on crime’ dipshits are too inept to secure convictions” is actually not a bad Dem message, tactically

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

A good rule is to start from the position that these right-wing officials and operatives are not operating in good faith. It’s on them to convince you otherwise. You will generally be well-served.

More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff... Do you support or oppose "defund the police"? Support - 21% Oppose - 74% Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services? Support - 54% Oppose - 41%

Democrats need to seriously consider an impeachment inquiry into now-Judge Emil Bove if/when they take back the House. He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo. He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up. And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!

The Supreme Court could say the president’s allegedly illegal actions must be put on hold while the Court reviews it. Instead, they repeatedly say Trump’s abuses must be allowed to go forward while in dispute. That’s entirely a choice. There’s no basis in law. Made the opposite call with Biden.

genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

Just leaving this here. AOC just ended Tom Homan.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Every day there are like 3 new things that happen that 25 years ago would have instantly disqualified someone from public office.

Old enough to remember the shitfit Republicans threw after Paul Wellstone’s funeral, when they characterized some of the oratory from the dais as incendiary libels. Let’s stay tuned for the gentle rhetoric we’ll hear about Dems today.

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.

Just randomly opened 'Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas' to the chapter that begins with only the half-coherent notes written on the back of a Keno card; "Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators." Some non-trivial part of Hunter Thompson understood America better than any author since Twain.

Trying to imagine the reaction on Fox News if they were discussing gun reform after a mass shooting and a guest said "For all the concern about the Second Amendment, what about the amendments that all these victims lost? They have no amendments right now. None." I bet they'd agree wholeheartedly.

Here is the Garry Kasparov essay Jen was referencing on The Briefing tonight: www.thenextmove.org/p/i-saw-how-...

Senate Democrats should introduce a “Melissa Hortman day of remembrance” and see if Republicans object to it.

Lol

Civil rights attorneys say that people listed on the “Charlie’s Murderers” website—who were subject to death threats and in some cases lost their jobs—may have a case for defamation

Never stop the ridicule for one second.

Exactly this