It should be referred to as a Kavanaugh stop.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

WOW. A lawyer told @miamiherald.com that a Florida Highway Patrol agent told her that they are calling Border Patrol to investigate anyone who "appears Hispanic" that they pull over. That is direct evidence of racial profiling — said over the phone to a lawyer! They aren't even hiding it!

one way you can tell he’s lying is that the story was sold with a hard news headline as opposed to the poncy “From Kampala to Queens, Mamdani navigates a complex identity” feature hed it would have gotten if it was actually about the decisions “people with overlapping identities wrestle with”

The core problem to me isn't the sourcing so much as newsworthiness. Does it reveal any wrongdoing? Lying? Receiving a benefit he did not earn? Does it have any baring on his qualifications for mayor? Fill a notable gap in his biography? It's all insinuation and implication

The story itself still entirely depends on a falsehood, which the Times despite itself now documents is false: it claims that Mamdani was "[a]sked to identify his race" on the form, but the image of the actual form reads "ETHNICITY/RACE INFORMATION"

I don't think "divorced guy" is widely enough recognized as a political affiliation

For anyone who wants to read a critique of the Times piece, here is a gift link donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...

Personally I am using the phrase "Everglades Detention Camp," which I think is a good middle ground. Note that apparently Florida has declared that "Alligator Alcatraz" is the *official* name of the facility, which is clearly designed to force media orgs to call it that.

Wow. Please, PLEASE watch this two-minute video. In which Lisa Murkowski, in a self-pitying way, admits to being everything that is wrong with the politics of this moment.

The key question: What are states doing to protect their people from a hostile government? Are they prepared for how much harder that will be when the president has a $45 billion private army?

NEW: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage A @propublica.org analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

I also completely agree with this assessment of lawyers giving themselves too much power to direct the messaging of repro movement. (AND progressive mvmnts in gen. rely too much on polling to direct messaging rather than to inform us about gaps in understanding and what we need to do more of)

I’m a big proponent of the possibility in losing forward. Litigation is an important tool, even if it cannot deliver a win, but to lose effectively, you have to work with organizers, media, and policy folks in a coordinated campaign. We (lawyers) are often very bad at that collaborative work.

I think part of the key here, having thought about this a lot in repro, is to stop forcing the movement to follow the framing most likely to win with the courts rather than the framing most likely to actually be politically effective/preserve the right.

one factor in Mamdani's appeal is "what if I had an elected official who didn't hate my guts?"

People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations.

Lisa Murkowski can get bent but so can all 49 other hateful idiots that voted for this bill. This legislation is so heinous & will be so damaging. The fact that it garnered so many votes is a disgrace, and should embarrass the Republican Party (and Dems that have failed to effectively counter them)

In other words, voters who chose someone other than Mamdani and Cuomo as their first preference went for Mamdani over Cuomo by almost 2:1.

Speaking to nonlawyers: never let a legal pundit tell you a SCOTUS case isn't a big deal because it's written around a wonky technical issue. The true wonky technical cases are readily apparent and look quite limited in the number of people affected. If it looks big and serious, it is.

Listening to @strictscrutiny.bsky.social question why Barrett was assigned CASA & I’m stunned no one suggested it is precisely *because* she is a mother (of non-White children!). White supremacy has a long history of using white womanhood and motherhood in particular to do its dirty work.

"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

🚨In its fourth decision, the Supreme Court holds that parents who object to LGBTQ books in the classroom have a First Amendment right to "opt out" their children from seeing those books. Alito writes for the 6-3 majority, with all three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

Unless something dramatic happens in the interim, a birth certificate will no longer be sufficient to prove the citizenship of any child born in much of the United States after July 27.

Brad Lander: "We are sending Andrew Cuomo back to the suburbs." "Andrew Cuomo is in the past. He is not the present or future of New York City. Good fucking riddance."

what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

A story that got less attention was the incredibly cynical primary of my amazing Councilwoman—the first Muslim woman ever elected to the NYC Council—by a billionaire, corporate-backed candidate also lobbing gross accusations of antisemitism. Anyway, the challenger got trounced. Hell yea.

This race is NYers taking care of one another, showing up for the city we want and deserve, rejecting the same ol’ nonsense crumbs the monied powerbrokers keep asking us to accept. We did it, y’all. We all we got, we all we need.

When Trump won, I had a lot of conversations about needing to focus our energies locally, take care of our neighbors, do more small-scale work. To me, Zohran’s campaign & win reflect that: NYers coming out for the candidate that demonstrates a real love for & attention to his city, his neighbors.

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

i will say again that given the trajectory of the white house so far, strident opposition a la 2017 would have absolutely been the most prudent and effective decision and the absence of that opposition in the first two months made things demonstrably worse.

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

whitmer completely misreading the moment and tanking her presidential hopes in the span of a few weeks caught me a bit off guard

The least of the concerns here but as a person hoping to become a parent i am overwhelmed by the feeling of utter despair about the possibility of having to home school my future children. I wasn’t built for that!!!!

I swear to god these people hate winning and hate their constituents almost as much

I think people have a kind of Gell-Mann amnesia towards LLMs — like, they can think "AI is bad at things I am good at and know about, but good at things I can't judge because I'm bad at them" Tech bros think AI is good at everything, including coding, and that's because they are also bad at coding

my reaction to this is not "oh Trump's losing it" it's "the entire point of fascism is that the leader declares reality and everyone else has to follow it".

yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone

anyway it is very clear that the united states has no actual president and the acting president is whoever is in the oval office (stephen miller) at the same time as donald trump

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

Ten years of Trump going on TV and just fucking saying whatever, and still nothing like an industry set of best practices to deal with it. Put someone on the set with a laptop to look stuff up, pause the interview, whatever. He'd walk off but so what. Amazing to still be at "agree to disagree."

Hope nobody is going to ask me to take the time to understand what these maga chumps are feeling or whatever cause that is some sick shit . Fuck them

Miller is just itching for violence. I bet he spends his days searching, longing for something he can use as pretext for a drastic escalation, for the escalated purge of all his "enemies" he dreams of. He desires his Reichstag fire - or something like the death of Ernst vom Rath in November 1938.

The Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen on Friday.