This is how I see it foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/24/t...

i think that people really underestimate reality that 1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man 2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually 3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas

When you have introduced aesthetics into political life

Two fun historical facts: You know who was in charge of prosecuting Manuel Noriega after OPERATION JUST CAUSE?! Robert Mueller and Bill Barr.

my theory of Jan 6 is that nobody (except for a few weirdos) likes to think about it. from 2021-2025, the investigations/prosecutions meant that Biden was the guy who was making people think about it (which they hated). now Trump is the guy making them think about it and they also hate that

marty supreme was 30 minutes too long

Among other things, “what is near CECOT” is an answerable question, not a fun imponderable. There is actually a lot of reporting out there about the construction process behind the prison and how it polluted the surrounding areas

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

Not for the first time, the signature block for Self-Proclaimed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan spelled it “Virgina.”

Save democracy, be cringe www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Kennedy Center name is established by federal statute, and therefore may be repealed only by federal statute. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

Basically Pleasant Bureaucrat Total Cultural Victory

these two sentences would be verboten DEI if you read them as as referring to any other demographic

In response to SSRN's removal of Professor Edwards's "The Originalist Case for the President's Power to Pardon State Offenses," I have posted "A Response to SSRN's Removal of Jerry Edwards's 'The Originalist Case for the President's Power to Pardon State Offenses'" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Trump on Bongino: "Dan did a great job. I think he wants to go back to his show."

"Because the District of Columbia is a federal district created by Congress, rather than a constitutionally sovereign entity like the fifty States..." statehood please

NEW: Pardoned January 6 rioters have been advising Justice Department officials how to pursue – and perhaps prosecute – the very prosecutors who helped put them behind bars. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The VF profile notes Wiles was incorrect about violent Jan. 6 defendants receiving greater-than-recommended sentences, but it doesn’t capture how wildly off base she was. I don’t think there was a single above-guidelines sentence given in a J6 felony case. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

In Trump's first year, he has developed a distinctive style of government — authoritarian, but so poorly thought out as to blunt its own effectiveness. I call it "haphazardism," and it may just be the thing saving American democracy www.vox.com/politics/472...

We talk a lot about how race and gender grievance are offered to white men to distract them from exploitative working conditions that are in fact universal, and this piece is a beautiful example of how the work of that distraction gets done.

On U.S. soil, the worst antisemitic massacre in living memory was perpetrated by one of Vance's white nationalist fellow travelers, who was specifically incensed about the Jewish community providing aid to refugees and asylum seekers.

articles like this are aimed at other members of the demographic who feel that wokeness has quashed their job prospects, but As A Woman, it's pretty discouraging to read them and realize how many of my peers might see me as having achieved my own career only by stealing what was rightfully theirs

masterful move by susie wiles

Really thought-provoking work here

"Mr. Bongino has said he plans to leave his job as soon as this week or as late as mid-January, according to three people with knowledge of his plans."

Kind of darkly funny that the government's defense of the well thought out plan for Trump's bigly beautiful ballroom looks like this storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Judges Rao/Katsas have iced Judge Boasberg's contempt hearings until at least the New Year. And they want to know whether he has the power to investigate contempt at all or must refer it to DOJ. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

material politics are not dead yet www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Following the “administrative stay” issued on Friday evening by the D.C. Circuit — www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-d... — and the lack of any further action this morning, Chief Judge Boasberg of the D.C. District Court cancels this week’s scheduled contempt hearings.

NEW: Lindsey Halligan's next-in-line as top prosecutor in EDVA, Robert McBride, resigned from prior senior role at a different US attorney's office in 2010 amid multiple employee complaints about his management. External DOJ report recommended he step down. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

That's a nice literary genre concerned with toughness and cynicism in the face of inescapable societal rot and corruption you've got there. It'd be a shame if someone named it after a popular way of cooking an egg

>the gyre? narrowing >falcon? hears the falconer >things? sticking together >center? holding >mere anarchy? never heard of it >blood-dimmed tide? locked up tight >ceremony of innocence proceeding as normal >the best have so much conviction >the worst? listless and apathetic we're all gonna make it

this is a difference you see between more "traditional" detective stories (holmes, poirot etc), where the dapper detective is more removed from the action itself, and noir and hardboiled detective fiction, where the troubled, traumatized, alcoholic detective shapes and is shaped by the plot

“I’ve been thinking we should update the kitchen cabinets” okay that’s cool but the house is on fire

Counterpoint: don’t

BREAKING: Judges Rao and Walker — both Trump appointees — issue an "administrative stay" blocking Judge Boasberg's contempt proceedings set to begin on Monday. The administrative stay is issued over the objection of Judge Childs, a Biden appointee.

A nation turns its lonely eyes to Katsas/Rao

And another possibly-illegally-appointed US attorney resigns (no one challenged her appointment in court, as far as I know, but Chris Coons had raised questions about the legality of her appointment) www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights

18 USC 111 makes it to Minnesota

Not to worry, articles will soon issue explaining how this is more complicated than it seems.

More consequential than the two house seats, frankly, are the signals that this sends 1) Indiana GOP thinks they are better off not spreading their numbers thinner, even though these were *all* double digit Trump 2024 seats 2) They're no longer afraid to tell Trump to shove it

Short thread. Can't emphasize this point enough. This plus the worldwide context (that most incumbent parties did even worse. Also my guess is always that the swing to GOP and other out-parties was part economy and part/most post-pandemic general unhappiness, not just economy).

Hahahahahaha

BREAKING: Judge Xinis orders ICE’s release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia “immediately.”

when it's going great storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

solution: study political theory, which no one thinks is a science

I think this is probably a new era of grand jury practice where there is communal awareness of abusive policing. The GJ just doesn't believe the state. I'm not an expert on the history of grand juries, but my sense is that this is the first time we are seeing that phenomenon at scale.

JUST IN: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Snell just confirmed, at the prodding of U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling, that this motion for dismissal followed a "no bill" from a grand jury. That means the grand jury refused to indict.