35/ For those in need of something a little different today: 1st day at the beach! #ajax #dogsky

It's almost like the Trump presidency is ... the Chadha presidency ...

It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.

“We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can.” It’s … it’s a cookbook!

Going to be very exciting when Carr brings back the Bellamy salute to accompany the Pledge.

quinn hughes has the chance to pull the men's hockey team back into the nation's good graces by simply kissing connor storrie on snl this weekend, as god intended

34/ So. Much. Vigilance. #ajax #dogsky

Also, screenwriters take note: the full version is impeccable three-act drama.

Also, civil contempt is not pardonable.

A very happy Llamas on the Lloose Day to all who celebrate. (The video of this set to Yakety Sax should have been up for an Oscar.)

imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.

There’s been far too little focus on what the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act would do below the congressional level. Republicans in several Southern states may be able to gerrymander quasi-permanent legislative supermajorities and wipe out Black representation across local governments

Am looking forward to WaPo reporting on Elon's draft executive order that would "unlock" time travel.

NEW: Black voters in Mississippi are on the brink of a major victory — a federal judge ordered the state to redraw its state supreme court districts to ensure greater Black representation. But GOP lawmakers are dragging their feet for now, looking toward SCOTUS & its Callais order to "save" them:

JFC This is legal gibberish. There is no emergency national security power that “unlocks” presidential control. If you want to invent magical legalism, you should just write “if the President says abracadabra he can dissolve Congress.” That makes as much sense as this does.

33/ When you _finally_ become a large dog the day the park's closed for maintenance... #ajax #dogsky

That "Okay" from Judge Murphy sounds very familiar.

If I made a list of judges about whom it’s especially inadvisable to say stuff like this, Royce Lambeth would be at the top.

@stevevladeck.bsky.social’s writing is always a thing of beauty, but “Make Denominators Great Again” is next-level.

32/ And if a couch armrest isn't available, steps will do just fine. #ajax #dogsky

In re Nick Shirley: Written 20 years ago, and still sadly relevant, the Investigator’s Guide to Voter Fraud helps tell fact from fiction. Nick’s latest UPS store nonsense is covered on p. 3.

"SLOPPINESS": The Trump administration claimed that a man detained by ICE had a criminal convictions for marijuana possession in 2009. The judge pointed out that the man was 4 years old at the time. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

THREAD.

If you're worried about the November election, there's something important you can do to help: sign up to work at a voting location near you. You don't need experience; you'll get trained. Elections happen because thousands of ordinary people step up and help: www.eac.gov/help-america...

31/ There are other versions of sleepy, of course. Everybody knows that the armrest of a couch is calibrated to sit at perfect noggin-resting level. #ajax #dogsky

The bigger challenge is CBP. I don’t think we can abolish CBP. But however bad ICE is, CBP is worse—many “ICE” horror stories are really CBP, and others involve former CBP who are now ICE. How we replace CBP is a much thornier, but also far more consequential, question.

Profs, if you don’t have a policy about the bot-that-logs-in-as-me-*on Canvas*-and-does-all-my-homework the time is now

30/ Afer a vigorous outing in the park, this is what tired looks like. Readers, he _chose_ that angle to rest his head. #ajax #dogsky

The strangest thing about politics in Ohio is how often the voters speak clearly — and how rarely the politicians listen. The good news is that Ohioans can fix this — permanently — by putting a constitutional amendment back on the ballot in November, 2027. www.toledoblade.com/opinion/lett...

29/ This is the other vision of peak adolescent-Ajax happy. In the park with Bea, his OG bestie, so exhausted from chasing each other around that the only thing left is a prone battle of the teefs. #ajax #dogsky

Umm… no. We expect more rulings on emergency applications as soon as Monday.

28/ And this is absolute peak adolescent-Ajax happy. In his office, in the sun, with a ball. Which is really just a slobber sponge at this point in the game. #ajax #dogsky

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker. Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

Honestly don’t understand how @atrupar.com does this shit every day. The level of stupid is off the fucking chain.

27/ What he's communicating here is "Yeah, I'm a little cray." #ajax #dogsky

We should try electing some kind of deliberative body that makes decisions about levying taxes.

Don't look at the Court's correct ruling on tariffs and what I anticipate to be a correct striking down of the birthright citizenship executive order as evidence of a moderate Supreme Court. The Justice have done, and continue to do, lots of mischief, including accreting more power for themselves.

BREAKING: DOJ to investigate Supreme Court for mortgage fraud.

opening up the tariffs decision

This picture is so crazy that if you had this as a scene in a made-for-TV dystopian scifi movie in like 2014 people would switch channels because you’d ruined the suspension of disbelief.

26/ He was a star communicator from the get-go. When he wanted to go for a walk, for example, it wasn't usually that hard to tell. #ajax #dogsky

Heck of a day to be trying to teach Trump v United States.

IT BEGINS. Now let's set an escalating structure and prohibit indemnification. I'm betting you'll see compliance a lot quicker.

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Levitt refutes Leavitt: This was both false and an irrelevant nonsequitur 14 years ago, and I believe it’s both false and an irrelevant nonsequitur today. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

As with so much, SCOTUS owns the creation of the habeas conveyor belt that breaks the system:

25/ And here, happily posing on some op-art. #ajax #dogsky

YES. This. 100% this. If you’re anxious, see a therapist. That’s far more productive than letting your anxiety do public work as a Steve Bannon signal boost.

Sowing fear of "ICE at the polls!" could do more to suppress votes than any actual ICE at the polls. Here's an explanation of the right's strategy on this, along with my recommendations for what to do instead of playing along. katestarbird.substack.com/p/effective-...