The Department of Justice is trying to get the NAACP’s Clean Air Act suit against xAI tossed because it claims the government should be able to block *all* citizen suits it opposes to avoid “Article II” concerns. As today’s “One First” explains, this argument is as scary and alarming as it is novel:

Do you use Claude Desktop? Did you know that if you do, Anthropic installs silent brower hooks across all Chromium browsers on your machine? www.instagram.com/reel/DXwXjyw... Yet another reason to avoid the shitshow that is AI.

A new layer of AI hell: AudioJack. Those "AI assistants" that listen to you can be subverted by sending them instructions embedded in music/background noise (that you can't hear), to search for files or data and send information to a email address. cybernews.com/security/ai-...

No special treatment for Space X in the S&P 500! Just announced. Wow. That profitability requirement means it might never get in.

So FIRE is up to its usual stupidity, pretending that "freedom of speech" means "platforming racists who want to suppress the speech of others is good, actually." An excellent way to lose all credibility as a free speech organization is to invite Ilya Shapiro.

If you're voting in California, drop your ballot into a COLLECTION BOX, not a mailbox. There should be collection boxes by government offices and libraries. USPS is set to deliberately fuck with mail-in ballots.

My stress dreams still involve having to give school presentations, many decades out of school. Today I dreamt I was preparing to give a presentation on politics in a post-truth world. Maybe I should stop reading about politics before bed.

because I know y’all can’t click and read

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

If you take any generic medications you should listen to this investigation from @propublica.org. And check your medication’s manufacturing inspection history. projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/

And some of us who support independent journalism refuse to support substack.

Taibbi not beating the allegations.

Got a recommendation for where we should move a Charitable Trust? Because Fidelity is allowing the Trump Administration's bullshit indictment to block donations to SPLC, and I'm not OK with that.

An excellent turn of phrase: The point of the indictment is to demonstrate that the United States Department of Justice is wholly an instrument of Donald Trump’s senescent pique, no more independent of him than a boil on his ass. But this whole thing is important to read and internalize.

Fellow Angelinos… Remember who this POS is before you vote.

So how does this work without Congressional allocation of money? Where did the Trump administration pull those millions of dollars from?

The censorious assholes are denying kids the education they claim is important to defend “Western Civilization” because they hate trans people so much. Their “education” no longer permits teaching Plato or Joan of Arc or even Romeo and Juliet. It’s be a laugh if it weren’t so tragic.

Two weeks ago The Free Press let a whiner publish 2000 words ab how I got his book review cEnsoReD. It was pure nonsense from the moment it went out—but I spent the next 14 days trying to get them to post an Editor’s Note and admit reality. They won’t. open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

Read this entire thread about an arrest for using self-checkout at Target (with no actual evidence of theft). And continue boycotting Target.

On a more serious note, this does show the necessity of a big-tent single-issue pro-democracy coalition. Autocrats lose when anti-authoritarianism is the opposition-uniting priority, and win when they can play divide and conquer on lesser issues.

US subpoenaed Reddit to a Grand Jury to reveal the identity of a poster, who posted anti-ICE content. So far Reddit is standing up for its users & not releasing data. Please slap any MAGA-t who claims to be pro-free speech with a haddock for me. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

If you care about national forests you should be very concerned. Once the Forest Service goes, national forests are going on the block. I’m pretty sure this is not a valid exercise of executive power.

New over here so introducing myself with some commentary on Artemis II!

They @wyden.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov this is a slam dunk to specifically fund, especially during a war. Sponsor the bill. Bonus: republicans can’t claim to support the troops if they don’t support this.

I’m going to start using “fluffingly loyal” because it’s both more descriptive and more lyrical than merely loyal.

What Trump has done is change the calculus so that those engaged in really big ticket fraud of public programs see a financial incentive to pay off parts of MAGA rather than pay restitution to victims. From a DOJ lawyer: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...

This story is horrible. But also this is a picture perfect plaintiffs to bring a suit. Also fuck CoreCivic and ICE.

If you are headed to a #NoKings protest this is a worthwhile read.

I have no idea how anyone continues to work for this administration. How many "material mistaken statements of fact" can you make before you're done?

I've been quietly building out my website for a while. Here are some of the resources I've added over the last years, along with some oldies but goodies: (1) A list of affordable casebooks. james.grimmelmann.net/files/casebo...

So did Congress allocate $1B to do this? Because my constitutional law classes claimed that the power of the purse was with Congress, not the executive.

Holy shit. I would join a silent monastery after this, and never speak to another human being. Read the entire thread it is ... amazing. The judge is right, the AUSA's have lost the trust of the judiciary and the bar by playing bullshit games. Now let's see what happens next.

This explains a lot. He never thinks about why he's doing things, just does what feels good, like a toddler (or Trump). Meanwhile, we have literal books of introspective analysis of motivation and self from centuries ago. So in addition to being emotionally a toddler, Andreessen is an ignoramus.

Search your camera roll for ‘Hell’.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

I'm best known for making fun of Cabbage Patch Dolls on VH1 and I knew they were going to fucking close the strait.

When lawyers are motivated to “get to yes,” their work is prone to bullshit (in the technical sense). @danmaurerlawprof.bsky.social argues that the Maduro Rendition memorandum is full of it.

This is why I don’t think that arguing that the problem is that democrats don’t invest enough in rural areas is ever going to change voting patterns.

What Trump & the GOP have broken will take generations to fix, if it can be fixed. Not just because staffing up the agencies he killed will take time, but because the fact that this could happen tells everyone that the US is not a reliable partner, and that trust will never come back.

I love finding registered trademarks with a random assortment of goods and services. This one is for automatic pill counters, lenses for welding helmets, cases for mobile phones, and downloadable mobile applications for field conditions. The specimen provided? A single image of a phone case. 🙄

You know that this poor woman was locked up because it made GEO money to keep her locked up, right? We the American tax payers are paying millions for this unconstitutional idiotic bullshit.

This sort of thing is why people are understandably not coming to the US. I would be really surprised if the expected international crowds arrive for the World Cup, at least at the US venues. Maybe some diehard fans will come. But the risk is just too great.

This definition of NFTs is simultaneously accurate and lyrical. #Art

Roses are red, Violets are blue, Thank goodness I’m not an appellate lawyer, But you do you. #AppellateValentines

Fuck every one of the bastards that claim to be pro-life but support this horror show. Never ever let them say that again without calling this out. EVERY time.

When it looks like some stupid thing Trump says isn’t about the grift, it’s just that you don’t yet know about the grift.

Ah yes the people all about free speech and the rights of individuals at it again. The Firet Amendment protects people against state overreach like this.

This is a level of evil that no one can justify. What kind of fucking assholes would do this to children? I want every journalist to ask every Republican about this every day.

This is hard to read & necessary reading. From an attorney providing pro bono services to immigrants being snatched (illegally) in Minnesota. Thank you for what you do @MdDoogie3.

The list of people from the Epstein Files named by @rokhanna.bsky.social Here they are. Salvatore Nuara Zurab Mikeladze Leonic Leonov Nicola Caputo Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem Leslie Wexner www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_zW... The files remain redacted, which is against the law.