Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

We’ll be talking about post-liberalism and capitalism at GW on October 20th.

Come to Harvard's Center for European Studies on Election Day (in the Netherlands) on October 29.

if you ask the average American to describe what they think a tougher immigration system should look like, they will describe something a degree of magnitude softer and more generous than the current reality. The lesson here is that people are both better and dumber than they appear.

John Roberts: Good morning, counsel. Before we begin, I understand that there is an update to the caption in this case? Me: Yes, your honor. My client recently changed their name. JR: Alright. And what is your client's new name? Me: Webster Bivens, your honor. JR: <covering the mic> oh shit

Come to Harvard's Center for European Studies on Election Day (in the Netherlands) on October 29.

We’ll be analyzing the Dutch election results at AEI on October 31. Come listen to ambassador Tazelaar, Matthias Matthijs, @constelz.bsky.social, and Marnix van Rij. Register here: www.aei.org/events/the-n...

We’ll be analyzing the Dutch election results at AEI on October 31. Come listen to ambassador Tazelaar, Matthias Matthijs, @constelz.bsky.social, and Marnix van Rij. Register here: www.aei.org/events/the-n...

What I'm referring to. It's a privilege to be invited onto networks to talk about my reporting but I have limits. Similarly stopped doing NewsNation after Nextar took its Kimmel stance.

I’ve been looking around for the most credulous mid-campaign piece about Trump’s obviously fatuous Project 2025 disavowal, and I think it might be this one from Politico. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

"They hated immigrants more than they loved their own country's freedom" would make a hell of an epitaph.

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’. Our story about today’s attack. manchestermill.co.uk/on-their-hol...

We’ll be hosting European Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis at AEI on the 14th. Register here: www.aei.org/events/the-t...

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

Join this @budgetlab.bsky.social webinar on Tuesday at noon on “Tariffs in an Uncertain Legal Environment,” ft. @scottlincicome.bsky.social @anaswanson.bsky.social @natasharsarin.bsky.social

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

Join this @budgetlab.bsky.social webinar on Tuesday at noon on “Tariffs in an Uncertain Legal Environment,” ft. @scottlincicome.bsky.social @anaswanson.bsky.social @natasharsarin.bsky.social

NEW: Six people detained in California’s newest + largest ICE facility speak out, saying they are confined in filthy cells, struggling to access basic medications, going hungry due to insufficient food, drinking dirty water, and faced with “military-like” staff. “This place is built to break us”

Hunter Biden: Wait, this was an option?

Join us Tuesday, September 30 at noon EDT for the @budgetlab.bsky.social webinar "Tariffs in an Uncertain Legal Environment." Register: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Panelists: @anaswanson.bsky.social, Peter Harrell, @scottlincicome.bsky.social, @natasharsarin.bsky.social, @stanveuger.bsky.social

Did incumbent politicians benefit from the influx of federal spending during the pandemic? We use an IV strategy to show that incumbents performed better in places that received more aid due to their overrepresentation in Congress. @stanveuger.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Posobiec, Kirk’s frequent co-host on his podcast and a regular speaker at TPUSA events, was one of the key instigators of Pizzagate in 2017. His career started to really take off when Alex Jones started having him on his show. Doing politics the right way.

Ilya Shapiro declared a free speech crisis because he called Black women "lesser," students questioned if that bias meant he'd teach his law classes unfairly, Georgetown determined it was a speech issue and imposed no consequences, then Shapiro quit in a huff calling himself a victim of censorship.

Since immigration’s effect on job growth is in the news: @taraelizwatson.bsky.social & @stanveuger.bsky.social and I explain how breakevens are affected by current immigration policy. There’s lots of uncertainty but my preferred estimates from the paper are in this table. www.aei.org/wp-content/u...

Headed toward a CDA-GL/PvdA-VVD-D66-CU coalition under PM Bontenbal, would have a Senate majority too

Miran has seen the administration up close, and believes we are in deep trouble.

Glad the vice president of the United States, whose salary my taxes fund, is using his position to *checks notes* attack me on the Charlie Kirk show.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

After a Democratic state legislator is killed and another wounded, Trump doesn't even both to call. He removes secret service protection from Harris, Bolton (threatened by Iran), and Biden's children. Now he asks for $58 million in extra security, because Charlie Kirk. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Looking forward to teaching this next summer with @filipecampante.bsky.social

Bolsonaro tried to have his opponent, the duly elected president Lula, POISONED AND KILLED. That's in addition to the violent storming of the Brazilian Congress to try to steal the presidency. That's what Rubio is defending here.

Now forthcoming in Public Choice:

Building political capital by appointing Peter Mandelson to a public office

yesterday POTUS was videoed in an obviously unsecured space, stuff is falling apart from the inside

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

The red tape wall is going back up.

The New York Times on pardoning the biggest drug dealer of all time and an accused murderer vs the NYT on pardoning a guy who filled out his application for a firearms permit incorrectly. It makes you think is all I'm saying!

Christ, this is grim.

it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.

25 years ago, the CIA and Peruvian Air Force shot down a plane suspected of smuggling narcotics. It wasn’t. It was a family of Christian missionaries. A U.S. citizen and her infant daughter died. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Pe...