Whoa. ATRC is one of those super esoteric things in natsec law that gets mentioned once in class as a "btw we also have this; this is how it's structured; it has never been used even once since it was established in 1996. But it's still technically there" things

This is the point in Sim City where you’re like well I’m fucked

It's the "hashtag Jews" that makes this an all-timer.

“Nonwhite people in other countries are incapable of self-government” was such an self-evidently racist sentiment that I just quoted people like Wilson and Taft arguing it in Gangsters of Capitalism without comment as evidence of their racism. We’re plummeting backwards.

Most Americans have no idea how broad, deep, and effective Russia's attacks on the 2016 election were. That's because they haven't watched episode 1 of Ball of Thread. I GUARANTEE you'll be shocked.

Kenneth Kies, an assistant treasury secretary and the acting chief counsel of the IRS, was “forced out” after he warned that the White House was at risk of violating a law barring officials from intervening in IRS audits. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

just more construction competence from this administration

AOC on a movie that made her cry PabloReports: When’s the last time a piece of art—film, music, whatever—made you cry? AOC: Okay, let me go with the worst time one made me cry. I was on an airplane watching… what is that movie? The one about aliens with a linguist? Arrival. With Amy Adams.

In France authorities are looking at Jean Luc Brunel & Gérald Marie, two men associated with Epstein who also ran major modeling agencies & have been accused by several women of trafficking and rape. I report from Paris on new victims that may bring long-awaited justice. youtu.be/q-C1-_rM1Ao?...

Ballou on Epstein Files Lawsuit: The judge ordered them to produce these foreign-language documents, and the DOJ’s response was, “Look, Judge, we told Congress that we weren’t going to follow this part of the law, and Congress didn’t do anything.” That’s not how the law—or any law—works.

New PTFO investigation... The untold story of Les Wexner, Jeffrey Epstein, and Harvard University. youtu.be/jM3m3go0oys?...

Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley goes scorched earth on Russell Vought about medical debt.🔥

Sen. Alsobrooks tells Vought "I have been waiting for the opportunity to come face to face with you" and repeatedly calls his actions "depraved" and "evil"

When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

“Hormone therapy is a readiness crisis when a transgender captain takes it. Hormone therapy is a lethality program when the Secretary promotes it.” open.substack.com/pub/breefram...

Wrote about Judge Boasberg slapping down Marco Rubio for trying to deny visas to disinformation researchers, fact checkers and trust & safety folks. Rubio pretended that those jobs were censorship jobs. Judge points out that Rubio just doesn't like their viewpoints.

Top-tier Divorced Guy behavior: thinking your ex-wife is willing to cover and lie for you and not being right about that.

Honestly I think this "he's a loser" framing is way better and more authentic than hE'S dAnGeRoUs which obviously is also true but sounds like a polltested robot said it

Per @propublica.org reporting, FCC Chair Carr took $63k+ in gala tickets from Paramount while its billion-dollar deals sat before his agency @democracydefendersfund.org's Virginia Canter calls the alleged conflict "shocking" You can't referee a game you've been wined & dined by -TN

"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.

"Bolsonaro has begun a twenty-seven-year prison sentence for his role in January 8, while the instigator of January 6 sits in the Oval Office...Should we in the United States try a Brazilian strategy?" spoiler: I answer yes. me, for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/tru...

NEW: Senate candidate Mike Collins son-in-law—featured in campaign photos, registered to vote at a Collins-owned property and appearing to do work for his company— is a white nationalist influence who has promoted Nazi imagery and called for clearing America of minorities www.cnn.com/2026/07/16/p...

don’t worry we have the receipts

New in PN: "Trump’s gaseous Greenland blather seems like a minor monstrosity next to his murderous bombing of Iran. But they’re part of the same phenomenon — a foreign policy driven by ego & inflamed colonial malice, in which US sees no allies, just territory to be won & glorious carnage to commit."

Dani Bensky testifies that Todd Blanche refused to meet with Epstein survivors and explains why she believes he’s unfit for the position.

The @nytimes.com has filed a motion to quash the grand jury subpoenas to several of its reporters. The motion was actually filed 7/10 but is still sealed. NYT says it's trying to have it unsealed. Statement of David McCraw, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel below:

It’s really a great question because it immediately reveals whether someone is unfit for public service. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Contender for the most remarkably bonkers sports photo of all time: a 20-year-old Lionel Messi bathing a five-month-old Lamine Yamal (taken in 2007 for a UNICEF fundraiser). [kottke.org]

WATCH: Jay Clayton wants to run 18 intelligence agencies. He can't even confirm who won an election five years ago.

This is perfect example of how the Republican Party has shifted from once being comparable to your average center-right party in Europe, to now having most in common with far right, xenophobic and populist European parties like the AfD, Reform UK, Le Pen’s National Front, etc

BREAKING: A teen Chicago police employee resigned under fire after they wore a Nazi uniform and “goose-stepped” at their high school while performing a “Sieg Heil” salute. Another CPD member was fired for showing photos of the teen dressed as a Nazi at work, records show. @wttw.bsky.social

Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.

Whoa. on Williams's opinion Blanche basically says doesn't have to follow. I have studied 11th cir precedent and i believe I'm right and she is wrong So saying he and Department can ignore federal court. (Exactly opposite of what they did w/ Jack Smith) Someone needs to jump on this.

Blanche just testified that laws prevented the DOJ from releasing the Epstein files. That's false, and a federal judge told him that last year. "The Government is the logical party to make comprehensive disclosure to the public of the Epstein Files." Doc buff.ly/L599Gzb

Too often a crucial question goes unasked: is Palantir value for money for Britain? Me in the @theguardian.com on latest investigation from @lucasamin.bsky.social and I on the problems with Palantir in the UK www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wisconsin's election commission found probable cause that Elon Musk broke state law with his promise of $1 million to voters and referred the case for possible prosecution to the Brown County DA's office. www.cnn.com/2026/07/14/p...

Trump just shrunk Bears Ears by 91% and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 90%. Bears Ears was the first national monument co-managed by tribes. Five tribes spent years building that partnership. It's been walked back. 100,000+ archeological sites now exposed to mining and drilling.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit to compel New Mexico to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-15 in these cases. Elias Law Group and its clients are undefeated! www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-me...

I wrote about the Chinese Exclusion Act in White Borders. The last line of Sen. John Miller speech introducing the act in the Senate in 1882 was: "... of Chinese, we have enough and would be glad to exchange those we have for any white people under the sun." It was about race.

good club to have in the bag for this

JUST POSTED: Trump Paid $2 Million by South Korean Company Facing Trade Investigation The payment illustrates the minefield Mr. Trump has created by maintaining personal financial ties with foreign businesses while he is in office. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

Over at @slate.com, I have a primer on how Slaughter allows the President to break quorums and why the public (and Congress) should care.

Graham Platner's collapse is an indictment of what Twitter has done to people's brains, and a major W for this platform and the general idea of "not spending time in Elon Musk's sandbox" slate.com/technology/2...

I don’t think prison is the solution to most of our problems but I do think a judge should order Elon Musk to disassemble these turbines by hand and eat them piece by piece.

Happy Bastille Day! www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/unt...

We come not to praise Lindsey Graham but to bury him. If you only know Graham as “John McCain’s buddy who went crazy under Trump,” @lizdye.bsky.social is here to say he was awful long before Trump. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-245-lindsey-graham-bad-lawyer/id1727769913?i=1000776743359

Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

something important imo that isn't mentioned in the Reuters piece is the fact that, in response to the NAACP suing xAI, Trump's DOJ is trying to *take over the lawsuit as plaintiff* and "voluntarily dismiss" the case ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...