i haven't heard back from portnoy yet, but here's an update from @defector.com: "When reached for comment Thursday, Portnoy declined to say whether he'd follow through on his company relocation plans, but sent this instead: 'Suck my cock Samer'"

BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Trump scrap transgender passport policy Jackson leads the liberals in dissent, stating that the court ignored norms and abdicated its duty to ensure standards applied "equally to all litigants—to transgender people and the Government alike."

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Johnson responds to @benjaminweiss.bsky.social's question about Gorsuch's comments during the tariff arguments "He's missed the mark on this one"

Did the headline change or am I missing something? (I looked on desktop and mobile, but I'm only seeing the version below)

Weird that the NYT story doesn't note that the letter also mentions NBC News reporting (from more than a month earlier than its own piece) in which judges first expressed their views on this.

Text from a friend:

Something to consider in the tariff case, if SCOTUS is working on an expedited basis and plans to rebuke Trump for basically the first time of his 2nd term, the justices might find more agreement than some commentators are reading into the arguments.

Not one question on this during oral arguments

For those wondering when SCOTUS will rule on Trump’s tariffs, consider that the justices have been sitting the administration’s transgender passport policy emergency application for nearly 7 weeks (filed 9/18, fully briefed by 10/7)

Somewhat ironic… courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

Gorsuch pushed Sauer to affirm that Congress couldn’t delegate the power to declare war to the president

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan expressed exasperation during the tariffs case oral arguments today about the Trump administration's frequent invocation of "emergencies." #SCOTUS

Justice Alito seemingly asking if SCOTUS should issue an advisory opinion on an issue not before the court…

Very strange moment from Alito during today’s argument

Justices worried about the constitutional fallout of Trump’s tariffs. Gorsuch said “It’s a one-way ratchet toward the gradual but continual accretion of power in the executive branch and away from the people’s elected representatives.” @courthousenews.bsky.social

Supreme Court worried Trump’s one-man tariff war leaves Congress out in the cold @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

Spotted at SCOTUS: Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, Amy Klobuchar, Mike Lee and John Mulaney

Exit polling at NBC News has Mamdani up FORTY POINTS with young men (18-29)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayor’s race.

BIG BREAKING: Democrat Zohran Mamdani is elected Mayor of New York City, in the largest turnout vote since 1969. He becomes the first Muslim and immigrant mayor of New York City, and the first Muslim to be elected of a major U.S. city.

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

Blah blah blah men…Young women are ready to set the country on fire

this is genuinely wild

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

BREAKING The FAA has confirmed that a UPS Cargo plane headed for Hawaii crashed at the Muhammad Ali International Airport in Kentucky.

On the eve of Supreme Court arguments over his unilateral tariff authority, Trump amends drug trafficking tariffs on China

BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty. “They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”

Damn, even the cat voting?

Supreme Court could yank Whole Foods back into baby food brawl @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

Defense Department press office is putting out statements defending Laura Loomer

The high court’s dog food scuffle over federal versus state court jurisdiction has reemerged this term in a baby food brawl. @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

Bessent said he plans to attend tomorrow's SCOTUS arguments and hopes to have a "ringside seat." Unclear where Bessent would be seated in the courtroom but certainly not "front row." Here's an overview of the courtroom (via SCOTUSblog). I'd say closest Bessent could get is the justices' section.

Tomorrow at SCOTUS: Gregory Shaffer at Georgetown said if Trump can use emergency authority set tariffs without Congress or the courts then "everything has been delegated to President Trump, who literally becomes the sole decider of what the law is" www.courthousenews.com/major-questi...

CNN is reporting a bomb threat at Reagan National Airport

The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground. "That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks. "It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

NEW: The WH did not disclose several donors to the ballroom who have business before Trump: ▶️Jeff Yass, investor in TikTok parent company: $2.5m+ to ballroom ▶️BlackRock, trying to buy Panama Canal ports: $2.5m+ ▶️Extremity Care, Medicare reimbursement issues: $2.5m ▶️Vantive, Medicare reimbursement

This should alarm everyone. Emmy Award-winning journalist Guevara was covering a protest near Atlanta when ICE arrested and detained him. For more than 100 days, they refused his release, citing his reporting as dangerous. After more than 20 years in the US, he was deported to El Salvador.

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

Justices unsure if military contractor can dodge liability for Taliban attack @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/justices-uns...

SCOOP: Idaho’s health department quietly declined the entirety of its annual $1.5 million federal Title X funding in April, leaving patients statewide without any access to the family planning program. One Idaho health district no longer offers contraception at all. From me:

White House blames Democrats for airport delays

Got home from SCOTUS just in time to catch the National Guard patrol outside my apartment

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao? TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him. TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

The argument on the other side www.courthousenews.com/major-questi...

What do you mean dinner is going to be an hour later?

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do. Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.