My daughter finally discovered Frozen 2. My verdict: definitely worst than Frozen, but better than I expected from a Disney animated sequel

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Omg the duke/UNC game

Shut the fuck up

Plenty of other reasons this is dumb but it is not hypocrisy! Morality does not require that you keep cooperating if your partner in the prisoner's dilemma always defects.

photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.

My daughter is old enough now to have friends at daycare. So when I dropped her off today I got to see her delight when she spotted her arab-american bestie. I heard an adorable little black girl yell her name as she went into her classroom. I saw black history month stuff all over the school...

Its a whole party of crybullies

John Roberts: Good morning, counsel. Before we begin, I understand that there is an update to the caption in this case? Me: Yes, your honor. My client recently changed their name. JR: Alright. And what is your client's new name? Me: Webster Bivens, your honor. JR: <covering the mic> oh shit

It's as if the Nixon Tapes were broadcast on the radio in real time.

"We're shutting down the special sham courts we built to make deportations much easier, because we're too dumb & mean to see the value of a sham effort; we expect this will make deportations easier" says most competent fascists of all time

Last year the GOP invented the idea of federal agents wearing masks and having no real uniforms, and now they are saying it is unreasonable and sort of nuts to insist on the status quo ante.

the Republicans are telling the truth when they say they believe in two genders, but they aren't male and female; they map to those in their mind, but they actually mean "predator" and "victim"

When he's dead Evangelicals will go back to pretending they cared about the morality of politicians and I'm telling you it will be the most shameless shit you've ever seen

Tony Snow (George Bush's press secretary) gave a talk at my college during Bush's second term, probably in 2007 or so. Bush was quite unpopular by then and Tony Snow was always on TV, so when they opened it up to a q&a everybody there thought "now I'm gonna pin this jerk to the wall"

Within a month of our President calling all Somalis "garbage," saying "they contribute nothing" that "they come from hell," "I don't want them in our country," the DOJ appears to be creating a separate process for deportation proceedings based on nationality just for Somalis.

Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening

497 likes is enough for the "so you hate waffles" replies to come in

I’m sure chuds think the Boy Scouts let girls in because of woke, but the BSA actually let girls in because they’re capable of reading a chart and understood a precipitous drop in membership is an existential crisis

there's a lot of people who mock liberals with "what are you going to do, vote harder" and yes actually that is exactly what will happen if you try to intimidate people outside voting places like this! that's how you drive presidential-level turnout from normie libs in a midterm

This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):

I don't want to quote dunk but I saw another "body cams don't do anything" post and I just want to say that I, a criminal defense attorney, very much like having body cams.

Look what you made us do

Mike Johnson's brand of Christianity does the exact same thing with the Bible that the conservative legal movement does with the Constitution. The text is always in service to their desires and prejudices.

Not in my jurisdiction, what a tragedy. I would have loved this shit

Bingo.

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

It's easy to get lost in the weeds but the reason there have been so many shenanigans about Lindsey Halligan and Interim/Acting/whatever US attorneys is that trump isn't willing to nominate anyone who could get confirmed by the Senate.

This is one of the ways it works: the Trump administration's public thuggery and lawlessness is reducing the state's capacity to do the things that it wants to do.

It is not illegal to watch, record, follow, or track immigration officers. It *is* illegal to threaten, punish, or point a gun at them when they've done nothing illegal. If all these people were doing is observing, this is a crime. As are all the similar videos. We can't let this become normal.

Yes! Another way to put it is that the government's willingness to use violence and it's political capacity to use violence are just as binding as the physical or logistical limitations on its ability to use violence.

BRB, gotta put my daily impeachable offenses meeting in outlook so I don't forget and run late.

the transition from “you cannot say this shit in public” to “saying this shit in public will get you a job in a presidential administration” has been rapid and extremely bad for society as a whole

Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

We could avoid a lot of these headlines if we stopped assuming that people on the hard right believe in universal principles.

So I don't think there's going to be a national 30-point leftward swing from the 2024 result. But in the unlikely event that there is, I wonder how a hypothetical president JD Vance governs.

If you have any particular reason to worry about the cops having access to your devices, passwords are more secure than biometric

Anyway, good morning from this evergreen quote from a guy we teach the kids is a great American hero

Biery is probably not writing with the usual audience in mind.

stephen miller just a few posts away from recreating the "mudsill" theory from first principles

Not just any amendment, either: the literal single most important sentence in the entire document

Has anyone seen the charging instrument? Interested in how they got it.

You tend to think that being level-headed and suppressing any pre-existing prejudices leads to a better read on a volatile situation. Yet with Trump, it’s those level-headed people who keep misreading the situation, believing that he’s softening and this will end soon, over and over and over.

The degree to which Trump has corrupted the department of justice in a single year in office is terrifying.

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Statutory Bivens and abolishing QI have got to be on the agenda when/if Dems get to pass legislation again