Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.

It would cost $30 billion to end homelessness in the USA.

*Camp of the Saints* is one of the fundamental texts of global white-supremacism.

Note: I assume Richman wrote to Jocelyn Ballantine bc she was one of the prosecutors with whom he worked in 2019 and 2020 on the original warrants/privilege claims. Thus far, William Fitzpatrick blamed EARLIER failures for the recent 4A/AC violations.

More background here. www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/02/d...

Richman did ask for the TRO. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

On Friday, as she was busy charging accused pipe bomber Brian Cole, Jocelyn Ballantine was also fielding Qs fr Jim Comey friend Dan Richman abt whether DOJ would hold off on 4A violations or whether Richman needed to ask for a Temporary Restraining Order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"The Trump administration’s vision of American greatness is making the country poorer, weaker, and meaner. The new strategy document will do its own little bit to accelerate that process."

If you live in these states--call your governors NOW. No baby deserves to acquire #hepatitis B. 3/

Note, Dmitriev has no blue check, yet these tweets are getting 10s of thousands, and some cases >100,000 views. Which sort of gets to the point about the blue check (I have one I did not pay for).

Over on Xitter, Kirill Dmitriev, whose country censors Xitter entirely, is on a 7-plus tweet rant about the EU enforcing transparency rules on Xitter.

Headlines like this are really unhelpful, IMVHO (& this is not unusual). Who is the agent in headline? Pressure doesn't *grow* by itself, it is applied, often ineffectively. Are there ways those trying to pressure Whiskey Pete could be more effective? Probably keep focusing on service members.

I wonder if Brett Kavanaugh will rethink his cavalier attitude towards these things once he sees a white blonde woman can be targeted repeatedly as well?

US now essentially telling NATO allies that we'll break the treaty if they don't ethnically cleanse their populations.

In her dissent, Judge Pan says the emerging view of executive power by Trump and his backers in the courts "concentrates excessive power in the President and thus paves the way to autocracy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.

“The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out”

Forgot to post here! Asked Mamdani for comment on the anti-ICE mobilization that sabotaged a major ICE raid last wkd. Mamdani described the action as people exercising their free speech, that he looks forward to protecting that right. He has not previously commented on the community defense.

"Gone is the long-familiar picture of the United States as a global force for freedom, replaced by a country that is focused on reducing migration while avoiding passing judgment on authoritarians, instead seeing them as sources of cash." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

Trump loves the Village People because they're just like him. They're both tacky as hell. They're both a universal punchline. They're both operating at one sixth of the original capacity they had in the late 1970s.

Training my daughter for a future in which she finishes 18th in a regional pickleball tournament and blames her failure on -- (spins wheel) the Amish? OK, sure -- and rides it all the way to a seven-figure Fox & Friends hosting gig

from top to bottom all of these guys treat the united states government as a neat toy they can show off to their friends and use to impress girls and we're all just a bunch of action figures to play with and discard when they're bored

The 2028 Dem nominee for POTUS really needs an old school fire-and-brimstone anti-corruption platform

Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.

Or could be annual panels made up of 9 circuit appellate judges drawn from a hat (sortition method)

Also they have to ride the circuits whenever there's a need in the lower courts. Humble their asses.

Huh and more cases could be heard because there wasn't a limited window of time available... Ryan Seacrest - Your centori has been granted!!! Lets find out who your judges will be!! *100 balls drop into the drum & tumbled* 15, 95, 04, 71, 34, 68, 78, 28, and for the chief justice role... 55!!

This + eliminate cert. Make them big enough that they can hear the controversies that bubble up. Also keeps them so busy they cannot pick and choose what new law to make. The current MAGA-6 to excel at picking new law and they have primed fake plaintiffs and the 5th circuit to help them.

Randomization should be the same norm at the appellate level, and district level Scrap the regional circuits, and have a national pool to draw panels, making it impossible to concentrate power like at the Filth Circuit

Not for nothing, but a Supreme Court of 27 (or 100, for that matter), with panels drawn at random for every case, would basically eliminate the fucking nonsense we're inundated with every time a vacancy for 1 of 9 spots is filled. That alone is reason to nuke the current structure.

Just make every appellate judge part of the pool. Draw either every case or every term. No additional costs or salaries need be expended.

I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.

okay, what the fuck is going on with this dumbass franklin the turtle shit. this is even stupider and more embarrassing than normal, and these fucking clowns aren't within a country mile of normal to start with.

Biden never slept through meetings but Jake Tapper wrote a whole book about how he was too old.

Were the book sales worth it @jaketapper.bsky.social? You really are an insufferable sellout.

Under President Trump, SEAL Team 6 bombs shipwreck survivors with kinetic lethality. Under Obama and Biden, SEAL Team 6 would have rappelled down to give their pronouns and make a land acknowledgment. by Pete Hegseth

As a US senator, my heart breaks for the families of the Venezuelans that Pete Hegseth ordered executed without trial. If they could see my state’s Republican primary polling data, I think they would understand why I had to vote to confirm him.

If the Texas plaintiffs want us to overturn the new congressional maps, they are welcome to come back and prove that they would actually favor Democrats. by John Roberts (joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh)

Thanks a lot, Olivia. kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...

A heroin addict who writes bad porn poetry says eliminating the Hepatitis B vaccine will make kids healthier. Medical experts say it will kill thousands of innocent children. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to believe.

Also: This was an administrative stay. Yes, the D.C. Circuit panel consists of two Trump judges who are very Trumpy. But it's still an administrative stay. Don't overdo it. media.cadc.uscourts.gov/orders/docs/...

One problem of mainstream legal journalism is treating constitutional subversions as horserace political coverage. I don't know how to fix it, other than to urge news organizations to ... not do that.

Under current and future Supreme Court doctrine, Congress cannot insulate public-health experts from being replaced by an anti-vaccine secretary or president. The unitary executive theory kills people.

A remarkable report that doesn’t deadname the person. Good on NPR. Far more dignified than the Supreme Court, which suggested last month that targeting transgender people by pointing out their past “is merely attesting to historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment.“

I assume by “our” he is not talking about the company he owns that is the subject of the fine. I think by “our” he means that the government of the US must fight his battle for him.

So Bondi and Kash make a big deal out of arresting the J6 pipe bomber then the guy confesses that he is a Trump supporter who thought the 2020 election was stolen and his lawyer is arguing that Trump’s broadly-worded J6 blanket pardon applies to him and he should go free. Poetry.

What's Not Being Said about the Allleged Pipe Bomber www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/04/w...

What's missing from this arrest affidavit, something that appears in ALL other January 6 affidavits, are data points showing that Brian Cole did ANYTHING between December 19, 2020, when Trump announced the rally and when he appears on Capitol Hill on January 5.

Note: This was the (a?) Norfolk GJ. It may be they heard the testimony from James' niece, which made it clear James was not making $$ on this house. It also may be that whatever lawyer presented it was less unethical than Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer in October.