“National Poetry Day,” huh? Sure, why not. Anyway here’s Paul Celan.

Just rediscovered a piece I wrote a week after Jamal's murder in which I retraced two suspicious jets that appeared to have shuttled the assassins in and out of Istanbul. Curious how much of this was ultimately corroborated in subsequent investigations.

The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

Tell that to Jamal Khashoggi.

“It’s easier to talk here than it is in America.” — Dave Chappelle, doing his shtick in front of a whooping, cheering crowd in … Riyadh. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...

Today marks the 7th anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.

The same administration that posts website landing pages and out of office messages specifically blaming Democrats for the shutdown considers an employee’s display of a desk flag a year ago, before Trump took office, to be objectionably political.

I am more qualified than Bari Weiss to lead CBS News. Ex: - Actually did journalism in high school and college - Hired a lawyer to help me assert newsman's privilege - Interned and worked at local news station for several years - Mass com major - JD and practicing lawyer focused on 1A issues - Etc.

It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a bonesaw.

And this is why trans people asked for correct bathroom usage to begin with...

/6 If you are stuck in the McArdlian view "we can't think of the other side of evil" -- which I view as sociopathic -- I have to ask, is there ANYTHING they can do that will make you call it evil? Is there ANYTHING they can do that won't make you say "I should focus on finding common ground?"

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil. The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage. /1

It's worth asking how differently things might look on the ground right now if #SCOTUS hadn't eviscerated Bivens—and made it all-but impossible to bring damages suits against federal officers (like ICE agents) who violate our constitutional rights. This is from my rebuttal in Hernández v. Mesa:

Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

one of those leadup to the election stories that's going to live with me forever is the reporter who found a project 2025 branded duffel bag full of policy documents abandoned in a parking lot and when he tried to return it in good faith they were super snitty about it and called security on him

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

They’re loving it. Your health care is not on their minds.

ICE lies so blatantly and with such impunity that taking them at their word, hell even giving them a platform to say it, is an intentional choice. There's no good-faith here, no benefit-of-the-doubt, no appeal-to-ignorance; you're either condemning ICE'S brutality or you're in support of it.

And one guy just got shot dead after dropping his kids to school. They said he was a criminal; in fact, it turned out he had no record at all.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

Terrorizing and wrecking an entire 150-unit apartment building--hundreds of people, mostly legal or citizens--to detain 37 people. This should be a much more massive story.

I’ve been looking around for the most credulous mid-campaign piece about Trump’s obviously fatuous Project 2025 disavowal, and I think it might be this one from Politico. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

The federal surge didn’t end in DC. It became entrenched. ICE is still riding with MPD. We have “local control” back & people are still being detained & deported. National Guard is still here with long guns pacing our streets.

Good piece by @cathyyoung63.bsky.social on Peter Hegseth's insane totalitarian Christian nationalist world view.

Deeply disappointed to hear that the Israeli Navy illegally stopped the Global Sumud Flotilla 75 miles off the coast of Gaza. This was a non-violent mission to break the IDF’s horrifying siege and deliver food and medicine to those who need it most.

It’s August 1968 and DeForest Kelley is having a right go at the makers of Star Trek in the pages of America’s massive-selling TV Guide.

My wife in elementary ed also explained this well. We recognize kids at one end of the distribution need special services and support. It follows that kids at the other end are just as differentiated and need specialized services as well.

My wife is an elementary gifted ed specialist. The idea that gifted kids either don't exist or don't benefit from gifted education services is both wrong and harmful to those kids. Phasing out gifted programs is stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

I am told that furloughed Department of Labor employees were instructed today that out-of-office messages should blame Democrats.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

"I'll just go use official force to coercively raise my own revenue (a/k/a taxes!) and then spend it on whatever government stuff I decide I want to do" is complete and total executive tyranny, Congress reduced to nothing but a powerless sham legislature, a head of state with absolute power.

This is more or less what the American Revolution was about

Here is a @scarymommy.com piece about food aversion I was I interviewed for last year!

“This seems to be far more directed at ensuring loyalty to DOD [the Department of Defense] and the Trump administration leadership rather than countering any foreign espionage,” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

a) this is a really good, insightful piece, and i continue to recommend Law Dork as a means to stay on top of US legal developments b) "Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty" goes so, so hard. I have been thinking about it since yesterday

The ADL defended Elon’s Nazi salute and still got here. Who could’ve expected this except everyone.

Folks might want to poke around as to why the USPTO is firing people to scare the Democrats into submission.

I really like the phrase "Kavanaugh stop." It's not a Terry stop, because a Terry stop is short and based on reasonable suspicion of a crime. A Kavanaugh stop, by contrast, is when masked goons kidnap a person for speaking Spanish.

Good job Brett

Feel like @durbin.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov @welch.senate.gov should maybe answer that fairly basic question?

Far-right Catholics freaking out about the Pope doing normal Pope things will always be entertaining. The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?

President Pritzker is going to get record ratings when he takes a wrecking ball to that ballroom on prime time TV.

immediately leaks, ofc www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

gotta say, as a slogan, "make soybeans, and other row crops, great again" could definitely use some work

JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump admin bid to pull from NY/transfer to other states $34 million in public transport counterterrorism funds due to NY sanctuary policies. Judge Lewis Kaplan (SDNY/Clinton) halts for 14 days. Was supposed to happen yday. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants