Adrien Vermuele and other RW ideologues want to replace the "secular" Constitution with natural law. Are they aware that natural law, according to Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologia, one of the most influential Western works, permits those in need to take from those with wealth?

“The Great Upheaval” has arrived, huzzah! Lovely volume, and it’s been five years since my last publication (other than those TIME pieces).

"Fool of a Took!"

We all need some good news. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

I am amused that autocorrect changed "Hahnemann" to "Hangman," especially since the former is the medical center for my annual wellness visit.

“Plus he was in his right mind.” Trump, on the other hand, . . .

For #SHEAR #SHEAR2026, seeking panelists for session on economic issues circa 1780s-1790s. My paper: examining MA debates over property requirements etc. in the proposed 1778/1780 constitutions. Proposals due Dec 1st, please contact me [email protected] if interested.

"Behind the Frontier" for only $10 (plus shipping?)! Other Univ. of Nebraska Press books also 50 percent off for the holidays! Use code 6HLW25 at checkout. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska-pap...

Pam Bondi will not have a license to practice law when this is all over. You can’t stay a bar member and agree to investigate only members of one political party for child sexual abuse but not members of the other. And, you can’t do it after previously saying no one else could be charged.

They're running from it now. But the fact that Senate Republicans tried to give 10 of their colleagues at least $1 million each for nothing but a bogus press op captures the corruption of Trump II. In no other environment wld this even occur to the most corrupt politicians.

Trump had a similarly close relationship with Roy Cohn, and since Cohn’s death has often said he really wants another attorney like Cohn. Since Epstein’s death, he’s probably been wondering how he can get a similar pimp.

Well THAT didn’t take long. Probably took more time to get the sandwich. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”

Scotch, of course. H/t Mark Sandlin.I

Hey Stevie: Speaking of celebrating ugliness, take a good look at the two-legged lump of lard you worship with the bad hair piece and awful orange spray tan job.

Oh fuck off into the sun. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

MAGA Newspeak translator: “independent” = far-right wackos. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“The ethical conflict . . . It’s bizarre and almost too outlandish to believe.” But this is the Trump regime, which every week has to find something more obviously corrupt and nasty than the week before. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Gee, Trump lied. What a surprise. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...

Another example highlighting how most of those in the Trump regime are washouts from amateur hour. It's too bad that the two or three who are competent are so damn evil. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Amazingly accurate depiction of what the Corrupt Ignorant Jackass is doing to our country.

Worcester #Nokings

#NoKings since 1649. And 1775. And today.

The original No Kings protest. To paraphrase Patrick Henry: Charles I had his Cromwell, and Trump … ought to learn from that example.

@lawdorknews.bsky.social Isn’t the 28 days up, for Trump’s lawyers to file a short and sane brief in his $15b lawsuit against the NYTimes?

Yes, fall is here huzzah.

NEW: Counsel for James Comey confirms that his defense team plans to file a motion challenging the lawfulness of Lindsey Halligan’s appointment as interim U.S. Attorney. Motion will be heard and decided by an out-of-district judge.

“This is, simply put, bullshit.” - @chrisgeidner.bsky.social www.lawdork.com/p/barrett-tu...

I hear that Logan (Boston) also refused to show the Noem video.

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor our country's first people and celebrate their culture, traditions, and contributions. We remain committed to honoring Tribal sovereignty and working in true partnership to strengthen Native communities every day.

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Worcester, MA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

MIT and Penn faculty are rejecting the Trump regime’s “compact.” The other seven need to do the same.

In the last week, Donald Trump has insisted that there are no more stores left in war-ravaged Portland, asserted that Joe Biden was president during the January 6th insurrection, hosted conspiracy theorists for an "Antifa" summit, and said he'd consider pardoning his good friend the sex trafficker.

Multi billionaire conducts months of historical and theological research into the Antichrist. Discovers, shockingly, that one thing the Antichrist would definitely do is tax billionaires. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Four days until we find out whether it's TACOs for that absurd lawsuit against the NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

There are SO many things wrong this drech. Begin with the deliberate shattering of long-held church-state norms and the clear advocacy of particularly reactionary Christianity. Then the embrace of ahistorical crap, highlighted by that image of GW praying — probably never happened.

An update from WGN on Debbie Brockman: "Earlier today, a WGN-TV creative services employee was detained by ICE. She has since been released, and no charges were filed against her. Out of respect for her privacy, we will have no further statements about this incident.”

Whatdayaknow, the Trump regime has found another law to violate.

Fed districts judge issues TRO barring CA national guard from being sent to Oregon.

1. This is one of the most insane statements ever delivered by a presidential spokesperson in U.S. history. Totally disconnected from reality. 2. There is either going to be a civil war or abject Democratic surrender to autocracy. They are telling this you, to your face, in explicit terms.

The fascist jackasses just can’t stop doing stupid thuggish things to the better aspects of our country. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Coincidentally, today in my classes we’re discussing how dispatching regular army troops to an American city would lead to revolution.

A hopeful report from rural Iowa (and Missouri) from Jess Piper, for whom (alas) I never had the privilege of voting. Also thinking of the fellow  in Chicago exercising his right to free speech (f*^#k Trump!) and then successfully escaping the chase by ICE CHUDs. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Go to Texas Tech for football (?), leave because you can’t learn biology or genetics. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Trump got his Comey indictment Thursday and issued a memo directing "domestic terrorism" investigations. And yet, both provided more evidence that Trump is losing. On Thursday’s lashing out from Trump the tyrant, at Law Dork:

Clearly an Antifa plot.

Listen Russ, you are a malignant political hack. We will not be intimidated by your threat to engage in mass firings. Get lost.

“Here’s more of my corruption, in your face.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...