I spoke with #ABCRadioNational about the Kouri Richins trial and what it says about our culture: why we are obsessed with women who poison, and why very unhappy people cannot bring themselves to get divorced “for the kids.” www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

THIS MORNING: Todd Blanche, Acting Personal Counsel to Convicted Felon Donald Trump will testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee about the DOJ budget. I better see some hard and tough questions to him about this $1.8 BILLION slush fund. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

What is the word for when low-level academics are being crushed by inane bureaucratic rules, while powerful people fragrantly commit war crimes and fraud with impunity?

It’s not enough to dismantle the Voting Rights Act, they have to whine about getting criticized for it.

Professor @teneille.bsky.social is quoted in this @apnews.com article about the push to ban cameras from the courtroom during the Charlie Kirk case. apnews.com/article/tyle...

I have a lot of thoughts on how difficult/impossible it will be for Robinson to get an impartial jury. But I’m quoted here on camera access: apnews.com/article/tyle...

Breaking News: The Trump administration will pay a French energy giant nearly $1 billion to abandon its plans to build wind farms off the East Coast.

"Declaring that no quarter will be given" is specifically prohibited by Art 23 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, which means it is a war crime under US domestic law by virtue of the War Crimes Act (18 U.S. Code § 2441).

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense. People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.

On the one hand, the presidency is a fundamentally broken institution. On the other hand, Congress is a fundamentally broken institution. On the third hand, the Supreme Court is a fundamentally broken institution.

DOJ to consider whether this time they might just comply with the law. Wow. What a lawless world we live in.

If you’re an American service member who gets killed in a retaliatory strike, your family can take comfort in the fact that it was done in service of making the host of Celebrity Apprentice feel like a big man for a minute, before he moved on to something else and forgets about this forever

Great to see the new House Oversight Democrats’ report on the schemes behind DOGE's creation, the benefits it offered the billionaire class, and the harms it brought to taxpayers, federal workers, and public services. 🧵 oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/do...

That's a weird way of saying "keeps violating court orders," ABC. Just wondering what would happen if a judge told me to do something and I said I "declined the request" 🙃 abcnews.go.com/amp/US/trump...

Professor @teneille.bsky.social is quoted in this @nytimes.com article about Tyler Robinson's lawyers arguing a conflict of interest on the prosecution team because one prosecutor’s daughter was present when Charlie Kirk was killed.

every single “how are you doing?” these days comes with a sheepish grin and an implied “you know, aside from all the horrors”

Shared some thoughts on the defense attempt to remove a prosecutor for conflicts in the Charlie Kirk murder trial: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

Professor @teneille.bsky.social is quoted in this @apnews.com article about defense attorneys for the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk that are trying to block videos of the shooting, claiming bias. apnews.com/article/char...

I’m quoted in this article discussing the difficulty of empaneling an impartial jury in the Robinson trial for Charlie Kirk’s murder: apnews.com/article/char...

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Associate Dean @teneille.bsky.social is quoted in this @ksl.com article about whether adding more justices to the Utah Supreme Court will help.

Some straightforward and useful accounting here from M Gessen:

Somewhere in the D.C. suburbs, John Roberts is probably watching news reports from Minnesota and thinking, "you know, what we really need to do is give this man and his confederates *even more* unchecked power to act with impunity"

New: Alex Pretti, the man killed by the Trump-Vance mob of agents was an outdoorsmen, a mountain biker, an ICU nurse who "would go out of his way to help," say Veterans Affairs colleagues. Cheerful. Funny. Gentle. And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."

Outrageous!

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

This is quite a sequence: —Trump asks aide for video of ICE shooting to convince NYT interviewers that driver tried to "run over" agent —They watch together —Interviewers note it shows nothing of the sort —Trump says "well . . . it's a terrible scene" GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.

Huh. It's almost like when institutions stand up to that spineless coward fascist, he loses and folds. I sure wish more institutions would take note of that.

I am not sure I understand why we even have an impeachment clause if we aren’t going to use it for this.

BRAVO, Rep. Delia Ramirez! @ramirez.house.gov demonstrates the advantage of diversity in U.S. House & our federal gov. Rep. Ramirez dressed down corrupt MAGA Republican Kristi Noem, U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary. - Rep. Ramirez also told Noem of her plan to hold Noem accountable.

Don’t look away

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Budget bill’s inclusion of funds for senators to sue DOJ for up to $500,000 each for investigating them is the ultimate pork barrel legislation. I’ll discuss with @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @msnbc.com at 8:25 pm ET.

#FireproofingTheFDA Panel 2: FDA, Politics, and Public Health (1) @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social (2) @pzettler.bsky.social @ohiostatelaw.bsky.social (3) Lewis Grossman @auwclhealthlaw.bsky.social (4) Joseph Daval @portalresearch.org Moderator: @teneille.bsky.social @sjquinney.bsky.social

I wrote an op-ed with some amazing local Utahns: www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...

The pandering to bigots at all levels is remarkable—installing them as heads of news rooms—we live in a time of unprincipled cowards, racing to the bottom.

LABS hosted a provocative and engaging talk today by Romina Boccia from CATO on the role of Medicare and SS on the enormous national debt. These are crucial benefit programs, but the way they’re funded is not sustainable—and I enjoyed hearing Romina speak frankly (and expertly!) about that.

This is exactly the attitude that prevents some of you from becoming the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Showing the endangered leader of an invaded country my hats

I can't believe that nobody is talking about the optics of a bunch of mostly white, mostly male Republicans locking this woman up and refusing her freedom to walk out the door without a police escort to make sure she complies.

why are this doorknobs dressed in jungle camo to go to a goddamn home depot. it's just the stupidity of it all. dressed up like the brotherhood of steel in fallout 4 for fucks sake. but instead of an apocalyptic wasteland it's a fucking home depot

HIPAA has exceptions for warrantless law enforcement access to your private medical records. This Biden reg kept the police (say, in Texas) from accessing private records from other states where abortion is legal (like Colorado).