U.S. preparing options for military strikes on drug targets inside Venezuela, sources say www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

President Donald Trump has dispatched federal agents to Portland, local elected officials said in a hastily scheduled press conference on Friday night

The majority's implicit argument that only the president has the authority to determine America's interests or values nicely supports @jamellebouie.net's most recent NYT column. They really do think (or want us to think) that he's the purest representation of the people.

Wishing this awesome guy a happy 46th birthday with an enormous ice cream cone and a stroll on this beautiful D.C. night. He’s the best.

It just so happens that Thomas just today "coincidentally" said something like precedents are not gospels. I wonder if he knew that this appeal was coming and sent a signal out to the admin.

the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.

OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

This is one of the more chilling things I've read in recent weeks. I can't believe Just Security had to publish this, but I'm glad it did.

NEW: SCOTUS's Republican appointees let Trump ignore Congress, cut foreign aid. Justice Kagan, dissenting for the Democratic appointees, noted the majority's "preliminary" order means $4 billion in aid allotted by Congress will be blocked "for all time.“ This evening, at Law Dork:

#BREAKING: Over the dissents of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, #SCOTUS grants (yet another) stay to President Trump—this one allowing him to cease obligating $4 billion in foreign aid funding appropriated by Congress. I’ll post the link when it’s up.

Also, if your city isn't on this list yet and you run a theatre or event space there, let us know and we'll let you run it for free. Email [email protected] and we'll get you fixed up. Again, this is real. Thank you.

In the last 24 hours, dozens of indie theatres from Los Angeles to the Farao Islands reached out asking to show Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile to their audiences on 10/2. We're on more than two dozen confirmed screens right now. The list is rapidly growing. You can buy tickets in your town here:

Folks, some incredible news: A couple of weeks ago, a national theatre chain axed our release of Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile because it mentioned Donald Trump. Now, because of you, Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile will now run on over 25 screens throughout the world. theonion.com/badpedophile

Do not bow down to these people. Do not allow them to convince you that you must. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

He's ready to declare god emperor T***p.

SIR MIX-O-LOTL

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

What the fuck?

In case anyone thought ICE shooting at journalists was just an LA thing. Or that they'd cut it out after repeated warnings from judges. Nope. More of the same in Chicago.

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

The U.S. government will collect a multibillion-dollar fee from the American investors who will take over TikTok. Some experts call the fee and other deals like it "extortion."

🚨🚨 NEW DOCUMENTS FROM EPSTEIN'S ESTATE DETAILING HIS DAILY SCHEDULE: They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet. DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

Just heard the news of an apparent suicide at Ohio stadium @ OSU www.dispatch.com/story/news/c... Things look bad, but I'm trying to stay positive and keep going.

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

ICE has erected a gate to keep protesters out. They are blocking a public street, despite the Broadview Fire Department ordering ICE to tear it down. Join us at 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM. Tell Broadview to tear this fence down.

Blogged about this excellent Jamelle video and another recent analysis of authoritarian entropy: how it happens and what it looks like. badfaithtimes.com/the-doomers-...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Amazing how masks aren’t an infringement on their civil rights when they do this mess.

1/ A bit of warning here before we’re all seduced by the practicalities of a “BritCard” digital ID. Although the tech heavy lifting may be mostly in place, the safeguards and protections for the vulnerable - particularly undocumented migrants are not.

Here’s something that all of you in the UK can do that helps trans people and is good for you too. Not to mention preventing a massive waste of government money.

For everyone asking: The Richman stuff isn’t about the memos. Before the memos episode, Richman worked with Comey as a Special Government Employee at the FBI. In that role, he sometimes spoke to reporters, including this story about the Clinton investigation.

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Hackers compromised Cisco firewall devices within the US federal government, hundreds of such devices in USG networks, they are still trying to understand the full extent of the breach. Incident investigation has been ongoing since May. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Oops. Looks like Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer lied to a judge. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

There's a really nice explanation (with clear graphics) in this @quantamagazine.bsky.social article of why most molecules in the atmosphere (oxygen & nitrogen) don't act as greenhouse gases, but a lot of the far less numerous ones (like carbon dioxide and methane) do. A great teaching aid :)

He was on the team of prosecutors who convicted Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes of orchestrating a violent plot to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, www.huffpost.com/entry/james-...

Former U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgeral will represent Comey in the case. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

From the criminal case cover sheet, it appears that the original Count 1 was a second (first) false statement count, and that was the count the grand jury did not go along with. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A federal judge in AZ enjoins removal of 59 Guatemalan & 12 Honduran children, rejecting the same unconscionable "reunification" ruse DOJ/DHS tried with Judge Kelly. No evidence of any "coordination between *any* parent & any govt." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

If you want to understand why Trump is purging Immigration Judges (IJ) + Board of Immig Appeals members, see our NSF funded ungated article. The work backgrounds of IJs strongly correlate to their denial rates. By loading up on IJs w/enforcement backgrounds, Trump is stacking the deck for denials.

The big news tonight is two-fold — Trump's "domestic terrorism" memorandum and James Comey's reported indictment — and both are signs that Trump's authoritarianism is here. Now. Both situations, though, show how weak Trump actually is. That will be coming tonight, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

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I would normally be horrified about someone releasing a video to talk about being indicted but this is pretty disciplined.

BREAKING: The Federal Bureau of Prisons just terminated its union's collective bargaining agreement this afternoon, according to this letter posted online by the national union president: