Two defendants who received 50 years each, Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto, were never accused of helping plan the demonstration here. They arrived separately, left the protest when guards asked them to, and were not accused of any act of violence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

Really worth reading dept: 100% recommend reading this just-now-unsealed shareholder complaint about utter corruption of Trump/Intel deal. Villain #1: Trump et al. Villain #2: Skadden Arps. Doing "pro bono" work for Trump. Check it out. Seriously. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

He was literally the originator of all the Jeremiah Wright nonsense. These people are terrible. But they hate “mango Mussolini” so they have been cashing in for like a decade now

It’s illegal under U.S. and international law to kill civilians who pose no imminent threat of violence, even if they are smuggling drugs or otherwise breaking the law. This is called “murder” most of the time, and a “war crime” if it occurs during armed conflict.

Jesse Watters on Cuba: “My banking buddy told me that after we topple Castro, we’re going to be able to buy 100 acres of pristine Cuban coastline for like 50 Gs”

The number of people enrolled in Medicaid and Affordable Care Act plans fell by more than 5 million in the last 12 months. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Tennessee is telling 400 families to decide between their critically ill child dying in Tennessee or dying somewhere in the deportation system. “The cruelty is the point” has become too glib to understand this stuff. Republicans in TN want kids to die because they’re not white.

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Your periodic reminder that the holding in Biden v. Nebraska was that the statutory power to “waive or modify” student loan payments did not entail the power to modify student loan payments

🚨Per @kyledcheney.bsky.social, earlier today the DOJ and Texas colluded with Reed O’Connor to erase a Biden-era regulation permitting immigration judges to administratively close removal cases. Texas filed this morning, DOJ filed a consent decree hours later, and O’Connor entered final judgment.

"Medically necessary abortions for me, for women who can't phone the governor's office from the hospital, eat shit"

I've seen a few people in tech-ier spaces celebrating the X-Labs thing on LinkedIn, and I just want to be abundantly clear about something: it's been very obvious from the start that this is part of the malicious capture of NSF, and if you're still excited about it after this news, you can fuck off

These numbers are enormous, well beyond the scale of normal project grants or even major multi-center initiatives. Capital is raiding the NSF. This is not a serious policy proposal, they're just taking money from public-interest research and funneling it to wealthy friends and donors.

TRUMP: THE PINK ANTIFA FROG PUT ALGAE IN THE POOL AND CUT A LINE INTO IT every normal person: what in the fuck are you talking about every political pundit: the president today suggested that terrorism might be responsible for the algae problems plaguing the reflecting pool

I am *never* going to get over the Court holding that targeted student loan forgiveness was a "major question" that Congress needed to weigh in on, but refusing to intervene to stop the dismantling of the entire cabinet agency overseeing the student loan program.

I haven't seen it discussed on here but in Spanish-language circles Espaillat and his allies have been claiming DAC, a Black Dominican, is really Haitian. it's jaw droppingly racist shit.

As @donmoyn.bsky.social said, DOGE “operated effectively as a place for people who wanted to get into venture capital networks to demonstrate their skills and loyalty to the owner class” www.wired.com/story/the-do...

2/x The reality is that HE was largely, though not entirely, a vanilla statement of American law. As I show in an article forthcoming with the Pennsylvania Law Review, HE represented Congress’s view of agency “independence” and longstanding admin law understandings.

For those not familiar, there is an incredible project called the Immigration Policy Tracking Project which has exhaustively catalog all immigration policy changes in Trump’s first and second terms. immpolicytracking.org

From attorney Christopher Parente, whose firm represents one of the defendants seeing their charges dropped:

Yeah, the voters absolutely hated it when Labour means-tested a benefit people didn't need, they're really gonna love it and re-elect Labour if it is 'a benefit whose importance is only going to grow'.

It's sort of interesting that the perspective on much of the populist right is that Starmer was an ultrawoke superlib, because that in itself basically invalidates the whole political strategy that McSweeney et al cooked up for him. That they'll always think as much is pretty much the whole problem.

to the Trump DOJ, if an ally of the administration breaks the law and the administration decides not to do anything to stop them, they can also prevent anyone else from making sure the law is enforced, regardless of the law’s explicit language. An open invitation to corruption.

Florida Surgeon General announced ALL vaccine mandates will be ended As a polio survivor, i was joyous when a vaccine became available. No other child would endure such fear & suffering. He said "who am i to tell u what to put in your body. it's God's business". Hes a doctor! This is lunacy

”The Director of National Intelligence was acting at the direction of an obscure Hindu cult you’ve never heard of” is up there with “DOGE was led by a teenager involved in a Nazi-Satanist child abuse network” in terms of True Facts That Will Make You Sound Unhinged If You Say Them Out Loud

McGurk is a walking talking indictment of the entire US FP establishment. The fact that this absolute fucking moron (and I stand by that assessment) somehow continued to fall upward and remains an influential voice after the absolute debacle of his time as the "Maliki Whisperer" is... Staggering.

Happy Father's Day 🖤

Worth remembering “take bribes for clemency” is one of Justice Sotomayor’s examples in the Presidential Immunity dissent that Roberts complained was far-fetched catastrophizing

ICE agents are parking their cars on the street in Manhattan. These protesters want the public to know about it.

NEW: 35 retired fed judges escalate challenge against Trump $1.7 billion slush fund & IRS deal They say Trump Admin's latest filing "underscores the need to investigate whether the parties have perpetrated a fraud on this Court & corrupted the integrity of the judicial process"

"Because faculty no longer control the curriculum, Texas A&M is quickly becoming an institution of dead dogmas." - Martin Peterson His full resignation letter below. Hear from him directly at our next Resistance Salon - June 24 @ 12pm ET. Register 👇 www.resistancestudiesseries.com/salon

FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK: Marco Rubio just had a man arrested and jailed, and is seeking to deport him, because he publicly supported Petro and opposed a presidential candidate in Colombia that Donald Trump would prefer to be elected. He committed no crimes and had an asylum application pending.

This piece is just maddening - in laying out the incredible destruction the Trump admin is doing to scientific research that might help to understand or cure … who knows what. We’ll never know since they’ve destroyed it. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

pete hegseth is engaged in open racial discrimination against black officers. the clear message is that there is no place for black or women leadership in his military

Jim Crow Hegseth www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/jim-...

the simple answer to ny/dc republicans crying about mittens is: mittens is a piece of shit, and nothing obama said about him was wrong. die mad

Mitt Romney, a scumbag who made millions ruining people's lives, brazenly lied about his involvement with Bain Capital as it made millions bankrupting companies and sending jobs overseas. When Obama called him out for it, Romney lied more, calling Obama a liar.

The President, today, flaunted an explicit violation of the constitution by showing off a jet gifted to him by a foreign country and this is how the paper of record is reporting it buried deep on its home page Legacy media should never claim itself as a protector of democracy

This is the type of story that a certain type of old rich men tell each other and they all believe is true. It's also why these same men fall for every social media conspiracy theory, no matter how implausible, that confirms their priors.

To underscore: the 1910 law in question wasn't passed by the elected local government of DC - because DC had no elected local government between 1874 and 1975. It was passed by *Congress.* And it doesn't contain any language exempting federal buildings, or suggesting it doesn't apply to them.

Today I’m remembering the very last people in America to be freed from chattel slavery, who were not the Texans who learned of the Emancipation Proclamation on this day in 1865, but thousands of people in Delaware, Kentucky and New Jersey, who were freed by the 13th six months later.

Also let me recommend historian Annette Gordon Reed’s “On Juneteenth” for your summer reading list. I felt vindicated reading that Reed, a Texan, always saw Juneteenth as a Texas celebration. Her dive into the complicated history of Texas, slavery, integration & this holiday is riveting.

He hasn’t tweeted today what happened

RFK Jr. says that HPV vaccine is “dangerous and defective”. A new study from England shows that HPV vaccines have reduced deaths from cervical cancer to ZERO for women aged 20-24. Significant reductions in older age groups were observed as well, though the latter have lower vaccination coverage.

It is not “hawkish” to point out that the Iran war was a counterproductive disaster www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/it-i...

You will not read about it anywhere, probably, but as of Yesterday the IRS doesn't have a chief counsel, not even an acting one, because Trumps/Bessent's shill Ken Kies acting appointment has expired under the Vacancies Act, and no one has been appointed in his place.

missed this the other day but "Zlatan and Henry look at and speak to Lalas as though he is a badly disguised undercover cop" is just a perfectly turned phrase (that's not even the best sentence in here) defector.com/alexi-lalas-...

HAHAHAhaha! they're making the world's biggest synthetic scum pond!!! The coating is a polyurea used inside pipes. It gels in about 3 seconds, making it non self-leveling. The texture is like an orange peel, the perfect substrate for biofilms. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...