Took a day off of the Law to go look at some rocks and walk along a lake

Melania Trump infesting the White House with bees is the funniest thing no one's talking about right now #Bees #WhiteHouse

1/ NEW: The Scientific Integrity Act has been re-introduced in the US Senate. This is an important step toward advancing this bill. Learn more: act.ucsusa.org/4dtzoSU #ScientificIntegrity

🔔 Tomorrow: Join us for a conversation with a group of former federal FOIA officials to learn about the current transparency landscape, featuring @kevinhbell.bsky.social, Michael Sarich, and Ginger Quintero-McCall. 🕑 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT RSVP: freedom.press/workin-foias

ICYMI: @kyle-rempfer.bsky.social FOIA'd the Air Force's report on Aaron Bushnell, the airman who set himself on fire in protest of the war in Gaza. There is a ton of previously unreported info here, including his work for the NSA and several details of his life. taskandpurpose.com/news/airman-...

You have many opportunities to hear me yap about FOIA, but my partner, Ginger, and I will be joining @freedom.press Foundation's @laurenleharper.bsky.social and former VA FOIA head Mike Sarich to talk records on Friday. Come check it out! freedom.press/workin-foias

New from 404 Media: spoke to four people who attended a trade show where senior ICE officials spoke about how much Palantir is supercharging their arrests. List of 20 million people on ICE agents phones now; increased chance of successful arrest from 28 to 80% www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

🔔 Join us for a conversation with a group of former federal FOIA officials to learn about the current transparency landscape, featuring @kevinhbell.bsky.social, Michael Sarich, and Bobak Talebian, and Ginger Quintero-McCall. 🗓️ Friday, May 15, 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT RSVP: freedom.press/workin-foias

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

🔔 Join us for a conversation with a group of former federal FOIA officials to learn about the current transparency landscape, featuring @kevinhbell.bsky.social, Michael Sarich, and Bobak Talebian, and Ginger Quintero-McCall. 🗓️ Friday, May 15, 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT RSVP: freedom.press/workin-foias

Please come watch our event! Please do not read into the implications of my being the only panelist on bsky!

Friends believe when I tell you I am HEATED about this

Alabama Legislature is meeting on redistricting; we are under a tornado watch, and it’s flooding in the building. These metaphors are too on the nose.

From a friend riding Metro this afternoon

Overwhelmingly proud that in just our 8th month since opening, the Free Information Group is already filing our tenth lawsuit. We are enforcing Investigate Midwest's right to records of Sec. Rollins' role in DOGE's unlawful mass firings in February 2025, delayed by USDA for over a year now

the regulatory approval process for vapes is unbelievably complex. Passages from Juul Labs v FDA, 2024 WL 1733043, make good scary stories to tell in the dark about the level of detail some FOIA responses need

Overwhelmingly proud that in just our 8th month since opening, the Free Information Group is already filing our tenth lawsuit. We are enforcing Investigate Midwest's right to records of Sec. Rollins' role in DOGE's unlawful mass firings in February 2025, delayed by USDA for over a year now

Also why I'm weighing filing a default judgment motion against a U.S. agency defendant for the first time in my career. Lights are on but nobody's home

The Y wing is the A-10 of the Star Wars universe

Slightly diminish a book Aggravated Assaultbot

ALERT: My dork-ass 80s scifi anime about Space Prussians has discussion of Space FOIA

He's all boxed up

New type of prosecutorial misconduct just dropped cases.justia.com/new-mexico/s...

"Circumventing records protocols with the intention of avoiding transparency is something that will not be tolerated by this FBI," said FBI Director Kash Patel I am quoting this in every lawsuit I file for the rest of this administration

DOJ talks tough about FOIA compliance for COVID researchers while VASTLY out of compliance themselves. Shifra Dayak at @notus.com catalogued 15 months of massive resistance to FOIA by every agency in Trump's government www.notus.org/trump-white-...

To my knowledge, this is the first time anyone has ever been indicted for evasion of FOIA, and of course it is not for use of deleting Signal chats or the DOE climate red team's private email, but an attack on a covid researcher by lab leak loonies running DOJ www.justice.gov/opa/pr/forme...

Great reporting here that features a few links to my prior reporting

Like, yeah man

I, too, will not be in attendance at the WHPC dinner tonight, in case anyone wants to give me money about it

buying indulgences from my duchy's loyal vassal priest

First order of business for ODNI last May? Remove all those pesky public records from their statutory FOIA website. That this was A FRONT OFFICE PRIORITY tells you exactly how scared they are of transparency www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Piggy dippin!

Can't believe there's no prediction market on how long Selig stays CFTC chair to leverage this on

The FBI takes 686 days on average to respond to an *expedited* FOIA request. Give me a break.

GOOD news everybody, after two months, CIA has finally *acknowledged* my request. Not everybody makes it this far but I guess I'm just built different

CIA Official opposed to assertion of constitutional rights, to the shock of all assembled

He nap

Nice (and infuriating) FOIA win from @annabower.bsky.social and @lawfaremedia.org!

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

We love to see it!!! share.inquirer.com/OoC7mu

BREAKING: Alongside Free Information Group and Colombo Hurd, we've sued four federal agencies for hiding records on Trump's Gold Card visa program — a pay-to-play scheme that sells U.S. residency to wealthy foreign nationals for $1 million, pushing aside qualified applicants.

Under Trump's "Gold Card" program, anyone with $1,000,000 can buy their way into an immigrant visa like a Mar-a-Lago membership. Over the last year, Howard Lutnick and the crony gang have bragged about "selling" billions in visas they have no legal authority to issue. Today we sued them about it

Our new case was written about in Newsweek! www.newsweek.com/trump-gold-c...

Under Trump's "Gold Card" program, anyone with $1,000,000 can buy their way into an immigrant visa like a Mar-a-Lago membership. Over the last year, Howard Lutnick and the crony gang have bragged about "selling" billions in visas they have no legal authority to issue. Today we sued them about it

suing the government today

Jesus told the woman at the well he’d give her living water, and the thief he would enter paradise, I told him WRONG, WEAK on crime, loser shit, no wonder the Sanhedrin and the Romans killed him, pathetic, he’ll never defeat death OR the world. And Allah, who was VERY UNFAIR to me is TOO MERCIFUL

Wonder if this song has now been sung in the actual orbit of the actual moon