See you in September! In a summer writing retreat. Fully unplugged. Exception for the eventuality that the orange menace meets his demise. In such case, I will be back here to celebrate.

"I feel that there's a need for accountability... by investigations and ultimately impeachment and removal of this criminal president. And, that's where I come in. As a lawyer who's litigated and conducted investigations for 3 decades here in New York, I think I have a special talent for that.

How can he possibly stay safe without a ballroom?

MTG is still a far-right racist conspiracy theorist, but Ryan Grim wants to give her endless praise.

Law students should be taking State Constitutional Law. If your law school doesn’t offer it, ask for it.

As you know, amazing things can happen when law students go deep on unexplored issues of state constitutional law.

Thank you, @katiephang.bsky.social

This place is amazing. Make an appointment to see it here: trumpsonian.us

Thanks for talking with us about the age of the billionaires…

While you can’t afford a trip for your family this summer, you just paid for Sean Duffy’s 7-month road trip at $4.55 per gallon of gas.

The President of the United States is a criminal. He SHOULD have been convicted for the crimes he led on January 6th, 2021. He WAS convicted of 34 felonies for corruption and harassment. Yet somehow, instead of facing the consequences he deserves, he’s running the government like a mob operation.

Zero arrests of those child predators in the Epstein files. J. Edgar Boozer is a joke.

Team Trump tear-gasses children

Dems who dismissed the ballroom as a "distraction" were playing dumb about the deeper significance of the ballroom as a Trumpian assertion of imperial/dictatorial power. That's why it's heartening that a new Wapo poll shows huge majorities oppose it. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2101...

Good. More evidence that Trump's enablers are cracking.

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

Yes please!!! 👇👇👇👏👏👏

Instead of allowing the biggest liar to bluster through debates, networks should incorporate instant factchecking after each candidate’s comments. Microphones would be silenced and the moderator would state which claims were correct, and which were false. Good for democracy and good for ratings.

Gotta say: Trump’s golden statue is not helping him in the antichrist discourse.

May 8, 2026

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

some wisdom from james wilson, framer. "The truth is that, in our governments, the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power remains in the people."

Apparently so, at least according to the majority in this case -- in the 1782 VA case of Commonwealth v. Caton. For your reading pleasure: www.vacourts.gov/static/opini...

Real question. Does the Virginia Supreme Court have any kind of “Marbury vs. Madison” type decision under which it granted itself judicial review including the authority to strike down state referenda? Because I’m not seeing why this decision invalidating the new voting maps has to be followed.

Close, it rhymes with “right.”

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus???

People I care a whole lot about rely on SSRIs to make their lives work. I don’t know where I would be without SSRIs. Get your fucking hands and your crazy conspiracy theories out of our medicine cabinets.

The Epstein case is so bad the government gave you a war, a new virus, and aliens to keep you distracted from it. Sit with that as long as you need.

Nobody: Me: I would prefer if my internal monologue were sung through by talented Broadway vocalists.

Gift link “But in a signal of its importance, the company’s paperwork was signed by one of the most experienced Supreme Court litigators in the country, Paul D. Clement, a solicitor general under President George W. Bush.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/b...

At this point I think “Generic Alien” could crush Generic Republican in any special election. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

A 9-0 gerrymander designed to completely lock Black Tennesseans out of political power. A disgusting, naked reentrenchment of white supremacy. Shame beyond words.

"Let me see . . . should I listen to my child's pediatrician or the former heroin addict who cuts the penises off roadkill to take home? Yeah, the dude with the racoon penis, not the dude with an MD. Boy, that was an easy decision, y'all!"

Louisiana v. Callais will “probably go down in the history book as one of three of the worst Supreme Court decisions in the history of this nation,” said NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson. From @jonshorman.bsky.social.

Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

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“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

How many Scaramuccis until Ka$h Patel is fired?

NEW: John Roberts likes being political. He just doesn't like the accountability that comes with it. Roberts complained Wednesday that people view the justices as "political actors." They are, though, issuing political decisions that have real-world consequences. Today, at Law Dork:

Wow weird I wonder what sort of cognitive bias might have led the administration to underestimate the capabilities of this foreign adversary so catastrophically.

The lead plaintiff in Callais v. Louisiana said on social media that he was at January 6:

Conservatives: The epidemic of male loneliness is a scourge and we need to have compassion for all the incels worshipping Nick Fuentes. Also Conservatives: Men who have male friends are gay.

Ahh, yes, the unpopular decisions like “black people don’t deserve political representation,” or “rich people should be able to control everything,” or “women shouldn’t be in charge of their bodies.” Truly a man committed to justice.

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

“When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing.”

BREAKING: Another appeals court rejected the Trump administration's policy that subjects millions of people to mandatory immigration detention, in violation of immigration laws and due process. This ruling is a critical victory for immigrants' rights.

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hahaha holy shit! The same day it's reported that Kash Patel sicced the FBI on the Atlantic reporter behind the story about him being drunk on the job, she drops another banger about him handing out personalized FBI-branded bourbon bottles to staff and friends. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...