just learned that one of the prosecutors on sandwich guy's case also prosecuted the abu khatallah case. how time flies www.justice.gov/archives/opa...

Sandwich Guy thanks everyone for their support, “emotional, spiritual, artistic or financial.” Intones, “Let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says…‘ out of many, one.’…You all have a right to live a life that is free.”

so far, grand and petit juries are the institutions with the best track record in standing up to authoritarianism

toddlers victorious

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

We have reached a verdict: Not guilty.

what a time www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

The Murray Rothbard articulation of the conservative movements goal to “undo the twentieth century” is often cited in their attacks on the accomplishments of the New Deal and the Civil Rights Movement, but they very much mean the Second Wave feminists, too.

To quote @helldude.bsky.social "if the judge starts quoting poetry at the beginning of an opinion, you're fucked."

I had a great conversation with Joey Kellner on the @lawfaremedia.org podcast about how shared reality and consensus on sources of truth and information dissolves when a superpower declines—a situation totally exceptional to the Soviet collapse with no bearing on our present…. right?

Telling. On. Yourself.

Change in Headline

there's only one conclusion: labor law is woke www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This is the "felony footlong" patch that the defense displayed in closing arguments in the sandwich guy trial, but it was never introduced in evidence, so jurors were told to disregard.

‪Closing arguments begin. The government says, “Everyone has a right to their personal beliefs…However, that does not give them the right to touch another person, to strike another person, even with a sandwich.”‬

I think this is correct except that a relatively small but still influential subset of the bosses (mostly in Silicon Valley) have themselves radicalized far to the right and are down with authoritarianism, just maybe not this particular flavor

Live Laugh Love

What is so baffling to me is the crisis of faith among elite liberal pundits following Trump's victory in 2024, and to a lesser extent even in 2016. There's obviously an unease with the progressive wing of their own party, and I suspect an element of PMC self-loathing in there as well. But still.

I'm busy and can't listen to the tariffs argument, have fun today everybody

I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.

The obsessive wokeness panic is about elite labor market competition and prestige. People use a lot of fancy words to obscure this, and offer some substantive criticisms as well, but that’s ultimately its driving force.

More broadly, heavily-Latino counties moved far to the right in NJ last year, and back to the left this year:

In 1918, Eugene Debs was convicted of sedition for publicly opposing American participation in World War I. Debs gave a statement upon being convicted that was, among other things, hopeful that we would make a more just society. Last night, Mamdani said those words from his victory stage.

Not until Fox starts doing sit downs with voters in diners in Hudson County to find out why it swung 22 points +D

Spanberger-Sherill-Zohranism lives

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

Tell me more about the vibe shift

I made a bet with a friend the week before the NJ gubernatorial democratic primary that the democratic nominee would win no matter who it was. Thermostatic public opinion works its magic once again

every single post in this thread is a treasure. I can't stop laughing

Defense wants gag gifts provided to the officer after the incident included in discovery. One is a plushie sandwich and another is a patch that says, if I heard correctly, “Felony Footlong.” Sounds like we won’t end up seeing these physically but will hear them described.

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

This is an incredible and very specific hater energy substack.com/home/post/p-...

the bleakest moment in this article is the point where a heritage staffer, horrified by fuentes, discovers that "a growing number" of heritage interns are groypers

in this analogy, avowed hitler fans are part of the political community that must be protected

Here you can read Ed Martin’s email to James Comer from a week ago insisting that the pardon power is nondelegable. www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/p...

the goal here is the theater of domination, not actual effectiveness

(butterfly man) is this a vibe shift

Trump posts his worst-ever net approval rating in a CNN poll this morning, 37% to 63% (-26) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

I'm fine with the public health argument but please for the love of god can we not build this around a Section 230 critique

The Democrats' problem in the Senate is not progressives, it’s the nationalization of our politics www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...

makes sense. after all, if you go to college, you might have to take classes with female students

Spanberger, Slotkin, and Sherrill were all "Resistance" candidates who were not particularly ideological.

fwiw, the core base of anti-Trump pro-democracy opposition during Trump 1 was never particularly doctrinaire. there has always been a steely-eyed pragmatic streak among the people denigrated as corny Resistance folks.

🧵 Trump admin is "doing a Libya"—claiming that US maritime strikes don't constitute "hostilities" under the War Powers Resolution and thus that law's 60-day limit on hostilities doesn't apply. Shared thoughts with @washingtonpost.com, but here are more: 1/n www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Scoop: FBI ousts senior official after Kash Patel’s fury over news of his use of government jet to see girlfriend perform. The removed head of critical incident response group was 27-year FBI veteran who oversaw aviation sections. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/fbi-o...

Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition www.vox.com/politics/466...

this man is a true poster

Judge Nichols, not a lefty firebrand

this seems like kind of a problem for the comey prosecution! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...