"Over a drink earlier in Donald Trump’s second term, one of the president’s advisers described the Oracle cofounder, chairman, and chief technology officer to me as a literal 'shadow president of the United States,' if not necessarily the shadow president." www.wired.com/story/larry-...

“In short, whatever way you play Halligan’s hand, you lose. You lose by bringing a conspiracy case. You lose by bringing a false statements case…The only question is whether you lose at the hands of a grand jury, a federal judge, or the president who just finished praising you on social media.”

Remember? Just 2 days ago...

Ken CHESEBRO, an architect of Trump's bid to remain in power despite losing the 2020 election, has been suspended from practicing law in D.C. (he'd already been disbarred/suspended in several states) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Erik Siebert, the federal prosecutor whom President Donald Trump pushed out Friday for declining to prosecute his political enemies, listed as an attorney on 675 federal cases. His replacement, Lindsey Halligan, who's Trump's former lawyer, has worked on only three.

CHOTINER: You suggested the confirmation “destroyed” your life but you were confirmed KAVANAUGH: To the highest court in the land, not some measly district court. I worked my tail off C: Why call it destruction? K: This was not some fleeting inconvenience, like being stopped by immigration agents

CHOTINER: So You created us right GOD: Yes CHOTINER: In Your image GOD: Yes CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things GOD: Oh Yes CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

A feed of all the Chotiner memes!

Mock the fascists relentlessly. (If I were funnier, I’d do it more.)

Darius Garland in the house tonight.

👀 the WSJ describing Trump finding out about its story about the Epstein birthday book and telling aides "he would try to kill the story himself." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"Jose Ramirez doing Jose Ramirez things" 💥🔥⚾ #GuardsBall #CleGuardians

Didn’t he call Trump Hitler

Tarik Skubal visited David Fry at the hospital last night, as did Stephen Vogt and members of the Guardians. All things considered, Fry is in good spirits and is back home resting.

Has he ever posted about the antivaxer who killed a cop outside a federal office building? Even once?

Sorry for yet another Kimmel post, but there's a lot of news on that beat today...

UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.

ABCNews is reporting that the 14 African migrants DHS deported to Ghana have now all been forwarded to the home countries from whom US immigration judges had granted them protection due to credible fears of persecution, torture, or death. abcnews.go.com/amp/Internat...

ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family

A police officer was killed in the attack on the CDC by an antivaxxer. Trump did not mention it. Use this as a benchmark to compare how the Trump administration responds to an attack on an ICE facility to judge which federal employees are deemed worth protecting. abcnews.go.com/US/1-week-af...

Yep, of course; and the worst part is that by the time he made that post (9:03 AM), the fact that the people killed were not ICE officers was already known and reported. The VP *should* feel some a higher level of responsibility to wait for the facts to come in than me, a rando, but hey. 🤷‍♂️

Updates on the shooting at the Dallas ICE office: the shooter targeted the entryway and it appears all three victims were “detainees” - unclear whether they were people in custody or people waiting to check in.

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

Federal district court judges are almost UNANIMOUSLY rejecting the government's new interpretation of a 1996 law to bar release from ICE detention to millions of people. Yet the Board of Immigration Appeals, fresh off a purge of Biden appointees, made it official precedent.

Expert here: We were not, in fact, ever puzzled. It has been and always will be a writing tablet. www.indy100.com/news/ancient...

DJT: I am using the state to punish criticism and extort people WH: this business decision was driven by DJT: No I am using the state to punish criticism and extort people WH: Unitary executive theory implies that DJT: I SAID I AM USING THE STATE TO PUNISH CRITICISM AND EXTORT PEOPLE FOR MONEY

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

cackling

lmfao

🥳💥⚾

That’s baseball for ya

That was a completely insane inning. 😬 #GuardsBall

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...

"The United States is less democratic, less self-governing, more dysfunctional, and more corrupt than it was 20 years ago, thanks in large part to the Supreme Court’s rulings."

NEW: CBP has been funneling DNA from US citizens—including kids—into the FBI’s crime database. Nearly 2,000 Americans swabbed, many with no charges. Once for violent offenders, CODIS is becoming a mass-surveillance archive. analysis by @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social

My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women. It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

@bostonglobe.com I fixed your headline for you.

When SCOTUS granted review yesterday in the case of the fired FTC com'r, it also asked parties to brief a 2d question: "Whether a federal court may prevent a person’s removal from public office, either through relief at equity or at law." That's incredibly broad. If the answer is no, God help us.

NEW: SCOTUS majority says Trump can ignore precedent if the majority doesn't like it. A 90-year-old precedent meant nothing to the majority allowing Trump to fire an FTC commissioner during litigation. This is no way to run a court, let alone a country. Tonight, at Law Dork:

"kristi noem and corey lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together" absolutely cursed sentence

In his entire answer he notably never once denies taking the $50,000.

Harvard makes it impossible to figure out where an egregious tenure denial ends and a slow death of a Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality program begins, and sowing confusion might be the point

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

OK, we got the Antifa "order," and it's weak. It cites no specific laws. I imagine, this was the drafting process: Boss: Quick, Trump said something, what can we do? Lawyer: Basically nothing, other than enforce laws? Boss: Hmm. Well, make it sound like something, OK? Lawyer: I'll ... try?

"The United States is less democratic, less self-governing, more dysfunctional, and more corrupt than it was 20 years ago, thanks in large part to the Supreme Court’s rulings."

“Trump Makes Squares Round” is a headline that would not surprise me at all

“Behind closed doors” being the most important words. fortune.com/2025/09/21/b...