Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom

UPDATED: One woman has been found dead in the village of Kwigillingok, where another two people remain unaccounted for, after a devastating storm battered Western Alaska over the weekend.

Large cat the size of a small cat

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Trump (1) reveals he doesn't know what habeas corpus is and (2) punts to Noem, who famously revealed her own ignorance at a Senate hearing when she defined habeas corpus as "a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country." www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...

I gotta say: the papacy of a Chicagoan with the cultural competency to comment firmly, yet carefully, on U.S. events has been a hell of a plot twist.

Nobody wants to sit next to me at Thanksgiving with my plate of turkey neck and giblets. There is no delicate way to eat turkey neck

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

It matters that Bill Clinton and Barack Obama both ran on progressive ideals that they ultimately turned their backs on It matters that Biden had things rigged for him, to undercut more progressive candidates It matters that Obama didn’t reverse the executive branch power grab that GWB started

Lucky glimpse of the Orionid meteor shower #stargazing

i think the true millennial experience is being raised on this kind of bullshit and realizing it’s a corporate scam at some point during your first entry level job orientation.

"This is not law. It is a spell, announced by a phantom." Tonight at Law Dork, my look at today's SCOTUS order:

there's been too much fighting on here - let's rerun Trump Is Secretly Dead this weekend, that was fun last time

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

If a Hollywood director had shot this scene for a dystopian movie about America's slide into fascism critical and audiences would have said it was overkill. Our country did this to children and families this week. Sit with that. Be ashamed of what our country has become. Then change it.

This is a very bad ruling for all of us who value the First Amendment.

You really gotta spring for the full service reputation laundering if you want to get all the blood stains out

every single person claiming to yearn for this would kill themselves if they were subjected to the tyranny of the 56k modem for one hour

I reviewed the court transcript. It’s true that only 14 grand jurors voted in favor of the Comey indictment, but the total number of grand jurors who voted is not specified. The minimum number required for a quorum is 16; the maximum is 23.

"Who would have predicted this?" - Black women did. - Trans people did. - The *entire* disability community did. - The anarchists did. - Post-Evangelicals did. "Well why didn't I hear them." You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Download libby, go to your library, support the arts!

I just spoke to NYC Comptroller Brad Lander as he left police custody following his arrest at immigration court. Here’s what he said:

Hundreds of people detained at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration processing center west of Miami, Florida, appear to have vanished. They have disappeared from the ICE online database, and their lawyers and families have been unable to locate them. english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-...

note the difference between being afraid of enforcement and retaliation there's no risk of anything legitimate here but you have a federal government that can bury you in nonsense. fake investigations, bullshit audits, etc. could disney just eat that? if they really wanted to but why would they

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

the most suspiciously malleable part of the rule imo is it would withhold loan forgiveness from workers if the Dept of Education decides their employers are “aiding or abetting” violations of federal immigration law & antidiscrimination law like.....wdym by that ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Here in Oregon, this is the solitary confinement cell we put children in. Yes, children. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

Gonna write some brief troll mitigation tips for you all because like any successful, happy woman on the internet, i’ve had ‘em Tips break down into two main areas: 1. Defensive tactics: how not to make it easy for them 2. Offensive tactics: fuck ‘em up 🧵:

Every pundit article: BLUESKY IS A HOTBED OF RADICALIZATION Majority of posts in my feed: Check out this cool bug/bird/random historical personage I found! Small but vivid minority of posts: Do you think Gritty and Alf are in a polycule or nah?

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

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How it started. How it’s going

Michigan, please take notes

This is one good illustration why diversity on the court matters: Sotomayor can imagine a version of the world where this ruling would affect a younger version of herself, her family and people that look like her. Kavanaugh cannot.

Important insight about SCOTUS inventing their own 'facts' if the actual facts* go against them. *Actual facts as established by trial courts based on evidence. Appellate courts are supposed to defer to the trial court's findings of fact unless they are "clearly erroneous".

Public health WORKS

10/10, no notes

The bumbles are bumbling this evening in my Rose of Sharon. #tuesday #bloomscrolling #pollinators

NEW: The world’s largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide just voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution declaring that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. apnews.com/article/geno...

Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend

The solution to Christofascists trying to outbreed progressives isn't progressives outbreeding Christofascists. Arms races of children only harm children. The solution is deradicalizing Christofascists' children and creating safety nets and support networks for when they leave.

the big 4 sewing pattern brands are being sold off for parts. if you want patterns, get them *now*. (if you're secretly a zillionaire who likes sewing patterns, call the liquidator immediately with your chequebook) craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...