Gramps with his bingo participation medal😂🏅

We need to talk about the massive loophole that the Supreme Court just carved into election law over the shadow docket—giving states a free pass to enact patently unconstitutional voting rules within nearly *one year* of an election. A stunning new limit on judicial review. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The White House's National Security Strategy includes some smatterings of Great Replacement rhetoric, naturally. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

When everyone knows it's probably Grandpa's last Christmas so everyone makes a big deal about him

Presidential Walk of Fatigue

JUST IN: Statement from Abbe Lowell, defense counsel for Letitia James, on Virginia grand jury’s refusal to re-indict the NY Attorney General on mortgage fraud charges:

Scathing dissent from Justice Kagan: "[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."

POLLING CALL CENTER: "Now I'm going to read you some conspiracy theo— …" MAGA RESPONDENT: "I don't need to hear them, they're all true."

Okay, then

The President of PEACE goes to war… My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Abbe Lowell, the attorney who is representing Letitia James: “I can't tell you a time in the federal system...where a federal prosecutor thought a case was strong enough to bring to a grand jury, and the grand jury said no.” @kaitlancollins.bsky.social

SCOOP: The Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect told the FBI he believed in 2020 election conspiracy theories. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Occam’s razor prevails, says the news org that settled with Dominion Voting System for $787M

What is going on here?

The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the matter. nbcnews.to/4pRUOh8

JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"

It really is amazing that the president has a noticeable an unexplained physical ailment that is disfiguring his right hand and there's no reporting about it. The White House's line is that it's from Trump shaking too many hands! Something is clearly being covered up.

After seeing the photo of Jeffrey Epstein’s living room just released it now makes sense what Donald Trump is doing to the Oval Office.

We have become a profoundly ridiculous country. This makes the Nero-era look sane and normal.

Today in the most depressing thing I've ever heard

BREAKING: cert. was just granted in our @democracydefendersfund.org case to defend birthright citizenship We and our wonderful coalition incl. ACLU, LULAC & more have won at every level & we have a strong case at SCOTUS as well We are fighting for the babies, their parents--& the Constitution!

NEW: The Supreme Court will once again consider the legality of Trump's attack on birthright citizenship, this time (likely) on the merits.

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

2/ What Adm. Bradley and Gen. Caine told Congress raises credibility concerns. "The military officers briefing Congress on Thursday said the survivors could have been trying to beckon to other alleged drug traffickers in a plane or boat to come get them...." But ... get this ...

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

Speaker Johnson should SPEAK UP for the millions of Americans who will go without health care because of his and Donald Trump’s Big Ugly Law. It’s not too late to work with Democrats to extend the ACA tax credits.

If attacking the Capitol is an attack on America, why did they defend the people who did it? The hypocrisy is wild. Spare us the selective outrage. www.instagram.com/reel/DR2pZj3...

Alligator Alcatraz Detainees Tortured in Small ‘Box,’ Amnesty International Says Migrants were allegedly sent to what detainees described as a four-by-four-foot "box" as punishment.

WALZ: “.. Donald Trump’s calling our Somali neighbors ‘garbage’ and calling the state of Minnesota a ‘hellhole’. I’m assuming it’s unprecedented for a United States President. .. We’ve got little children going to school today, their president called them ‘garbage’.”

No "two different realities" bullshit. One side is calling for release of the video, and the other is not.

Employers have cut 1.1 million jobs this year. Here's what's behind the wave of layoffs www.cbsnews.com/news/employe...

They are SO WEIRD people.com/white-house-...

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, the federal agency behind mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #DontStreamFascism app.sosha.ai/s/bQqCXjE5

"who these people are" is deliberately weasel-worded to dance around saying they know actual individual identities, which they obviously don't

Speaker Mike Johnson, being a traditional “Christian,” is disparaging of women. He even recently complained that they “can’t compartmentalize” their thoughts. So it’s fitting that four women reps in the GOP are setting fire to his leadership in very interesting and damaging ways. My write-up below.

Trump pardoned all of the Jan 6 rioters.

Last year, Republicans said Joe Biden was sleepy and inept, totally disengaged as president. Now, 11 months after Biden left office, Republicans depict him as a hugely influential figure, casting such a shadow over current events that he's to blame for every bad thing that happens.

Holy fucking shit.

Hegseth's "fog of war" claim is nonsense, if this account of what video shows is correct: The two men obviously were visible. Tom Cotton's claims also in doubt: Rep Smith says drugs not visible. The decision that the men were still in the fight looks very shaky: newrepublic.com/article/2039...

“Three weeks ago your father killed my brother.” A Ukrainian journalist confronted Vladimir Putin’s alleged daughter, Yelizaveta Krivonogikh, in Paris.

We are so far off the playing field here we can't even see the stadium.

If you want to know about the charges against Congressman Cuellar, the Democrat Trump just pardoned, here's my breakdown from when the case was indicted. Trump's abuse of the pardon power is so destructive to the rule of law, in so many ways. www.sidebarsblog.com/p/unpacking-...

Your grocery bills and expenses are lying to you, folks. Hassett will send you an email.

Trump's bandaged and discolored hand was visible today during an event where he again at times struggled to keep his eyes open (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)

FOX: 76% of people say the economy is "only fair" or "poor" and 62% of people say Trump is responsible for economic conditions. What would you say? HASSETT: When there's a govt shutdown, the survey data tends to really really tank because everybody's in a terrible mood

I've never seen an economist who looked and acted like such a weasel.