There are monsters among us… www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

I have a longer piece in last December's issue of the Harvard Law Review on how a Court that used to insist it was one of "review, not first view" is, in fact, leapfrogging everyone in lots of cases, including through cert. before judgment: harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/u...

lol this is not what I had in mind

In cities like LA the real story is: “the rent is too damn high.” Every day you’ll see rows of campers lining the roads. Some are so broken down you know they can’t even move. These are people down on their luck, stuck in a system that keeps kicking them while they’re already down.

Because of their complete capitulation to Trump, today's Republicans have become the party of slandering a multinational corporation with anti-science lies when that company has, in fact, helped millions of people. That was a choice by Republicans to do that.

Excellent read and watch.

Brett Meiselas: Trump always tries to exploit tragedy or people’s pain. You can always be sure that when tragedy strikes, when people are fearful, Donald Trump will be there exploiting it to his political advantage. Trump has one mode: here are people in pain, let me manipulate and exploit them.

Good hed from @apnews.com

The 1947 version of this during the Cold War Red Scare was called the Committee for the First Amendment who flew from Hollywood to DC to protest the HUAC hearings. It included Humphrey Bogart, Danny Kate, Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, and more

Nature is usually right.

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

As much as anything they are EMBARRASSED right now, and the Kimmel stuff has simultaneously shown them which way the wind is blowing. And by the way, they SHOULD be embarrassed, they all crawled up that dead Nazi's asshole and it was completely fucking embarrassing.

Donald is trying to get the AG to find a reason to prosecute his opponents, but is fine with Tom Homan taking a bribe. Got it. Most corrupt president in history

No but like…where is the money?

Everywhere except among Republicans in Congress & among the six right-wing Republican SCOTUS justices, Americans are, in fact, standing up to Trump & Vance's lawless authoritarianism and winning against it.

So one guy on Tik Tok said the rapture is tomorrow and now so many people are convinced? The internet has broken minds

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

That is not a denial.

I'm sorry to post this so sooner after the timeline cleanse. But wtf. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - UN secretary-general says statehood for the Palestinians "is a right, not a reward."

Disney paid $16 million to Trump to settle a bogus lawsuit involving George Stephanopoulos. Disney fired Terry Moran for calling Stephen Miller a “world-class hater.” Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel. That Disney has walked back one of those after immense public pressure doesn't change who they are.

Kimmel is back! Ted Cruz says Trump went too far! That’s it! Trumpism is crumbling! Turns out stopping fascism was so easy I don’t know why we didn’t do it sooner! (It isn’t. We haven’t. Celebrate victories; don’t tell yourself fairytales.)

like i was saying

Notably and unusually, neither Fox News or Newsmax is carrying Trump's autism press conference live

Pallone: Trump keeps saying, “Well, I don’t like the way solar panels look. I don’t like the way windmills look.” What the hell does that have to do with what we need to do in an energy crisis? The price of electricity keeps going up.

The only time Elon will use “they” as a pronoun to describe a single individual.

It’s got to be so wild trying to teach law school classes now: “Um, yea, so there’s no such thing as ‘precedent’ or ‘law’ anymore — the law is just whatever John Roberts thinks helps Donald Trump the most right now.”

Trump: "If you can't tough it out, if you can't do it, that's what you're gonna have to do. You'll take a Tylenol, but it'll be very sparingly ... I think you shouldn't take it."

Pushback works

L’Shanah Tovah to everyone gathering tonight for Rosh Hashanah. During this time of reflection and renewal, I wish you a sweet and healthy new year.

JFC

Flights have been halted to Copenhagen Airport after multiple drones were spotted over the Øresund Strait, Reuters reports.

Unidentified drones reported over Stockholm.

And this, folks, is why you want to be careful when you run a story like WSJ's "Trump sends birthday letter to Epstein" piece. Trump is claiming the story is false because he didn't sign the letter. But WSJ never *said* he signed it. Rather, they said, it “bears Trump’s name.”

I guess ABC/Disney decided that their artists, celebrity guests, viewers and subscribers who were canceling on them in droves began to outweigh threats from Trump and Carr. Purely a business decision as usual.

Peewee German is just recycling N*zi garbage.

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄

regardless of the details I think it’s important to spin the Kimmel thing as a win Trump is weak, he’s unpopular, he massively overreached and inspired enough of a revolt that Disney had to backtrack immediately he wants to paint himself as an all-powerful dictator, paint him as a loser who sucks

🚨 BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, SCOTUS allows Trump to dismiss the last Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, signaling a potential overturn of a 90-year-old ruling protecting independent agencies from executive control.

RELEASE THE HOMAN TAPES!!!

230 dead Black boys. A ‘secret cemetery’ at Maryland’s House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children, a juvenile detention facility with a documented history of abuse and neglect. Officials knew, and didn’t act. They even grossly undercounted the boys who died. wapo.st/4mphCCv

These findings in the new Washington Post poll jump off the page: Trump is underwater by 19 points on his handling of the economy (40/59) and underwater by 30 points on his handling of tariffs. By contrast, the same poll found him at +14 net approval on the economy in Oct. 2020.

The reality is, this SCOTUS is going to let Trump do whatever he wants. The Republican capture of this institution is full and complete. And any Dem that tells you this can be fixed in any way other than packing the court and term limits is playing in your face.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court will consider expanding Trump’s power to shape independent agencies by overturning 90-year-old precedent.