Civil forfeiture allows law enforcement to self-fund with little accountability. Until those incentives are removed, it will remain a fertile breeding ground for waste, fraud, and abuse.

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor." Donald Trump in 2023⬇️

It is difficult, as a Jew whose family was massacred in the Holocaust, to watch people come to this realization. Millions of us died because of people like this. The Holocaust was not that long ago! People have not evolved out of racism and bigotry. Folks like this will always live among us.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

#AT40. My turn to drive. Document the atrocities at the top, crew!

Innovators became rent seekers and are very aggrieved that they’re no longer treated like innovators. Sorry the public doesn’t see the world’s biggest companies and richest people pushing enshittified, mediocre, or damaging products as plucky start-ups doing exciting things. But whose fault is that?

Brandy! Everybody sing! #AT40.

I don't know what to do but just keep repeating it so I don't go insane: the rise & eventual total domination of RW media is the single most significant political development of my lifetime and the entirely of the US political & media elite resolutely refuse to discuss or even acknowledge it.

Driving culture in the US is toxic. NY State raised the number of points you get for various offenses, and from the comments in a local Facebook group you’d have thought they were summarily executing people on the roadside for speeding.

As an attorney with occasional experience with the Equal Time rule, I can explain what's going on here and how the FCC's Brandon Carr is leveraging his position to force late night and daytime talk show hosts to exclude Democratic candidates. First I need to explain the Equal Time rule itself. 1/

Businesses sometimes threaten lawsuits over negative reviews. Section 230 helps ensure platforms don’t just take speech down automatically. www.eff.org/pages/inter...

This is straight-up Nazi rhetoric from Musk, and the only tiny thing I can do is address myself to those of you who are still on X. No more excuses about how you need "reach" or how good the conversation is there or the importance of debate. You will not regret walking away, and it's time.

Elon's racist little post made me mad enough to write about it at CAMPAIGN TRAILS.

Guillotines are the moderate solution

Trump has fired the judges pick. I think there's a viable statutory argument that he does not have authority to do so - that he can only remove Kinsella by getting a nominee confirmed to the post

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

People need to start understanding how much better for everyone but the Republicans it is for them to need to be on television saying these things because the Dems are not demanding "abolish ICE" than it would be for them to be able to get on TV and say "Dems want no immigration enforcement"

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

Post a banger that isn’t in English:

Secretary Howard Lutnick lied to the country about his ties to Epstein. Now we learned that they were in business together. He has no business being our Commerce Secretary. He should resign. www.politico.com/live-updates...

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

Good. Hiding the names of people asking for 10 year old girls is fucking disgusting.

we need to stop excusing "weird old guys" who are in positions of power and prestige and being shitty esp to women that's the only way to change things

A simple proposal for federal judges frustrated that Trump Regime isn’t freeing people in response to habeas corpus orders: Order that DHS bring each individual to court for their habeas hearing. If the judge grants habeas, the petitioner walks out free. Bonus: huge pre-hearing burden on feds.

Being horrified by child rape is now polarized and politically decisive. Since that was already true of rape generally I suppose it was only a matter of time.

#AT40 Well, it's up to 8 degrees here in upstate NY, so time to put in the airpods and go out and get the snow off the driveway. Whee. #AT40

Five of my favorite movies that were box office flops. What are yours? 1. Buckaroo Banzai 2. Big Trouble in Little China 3. They Live 4. Valley Girl 5. Bubba Ho-tep

The only response here is a motion to enjoin the whole operation If the government's position is "I'm sorry your honor but we don't be the capacity to both respect constitutional rights and conduct the operation as it is currently being conducted" the answer is "then you must stop the operation"

Absolutely fucking repulsive.

If you won’t say this, you should not hold public office

If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.

read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

What the rest of the country needs to know is those days don’t exist in Minnesota right now. Every single day we hear about them terrorizing one of our neighbors, tear gassing the helpers, and driving around our city like maniacs

I didn’t know I needed this version of This Land Is Your Land until I heard it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ78...

The #AT40 crew might be interested in this. Great local independent station #WEQX (www.weqx.com) is doing an “under the covers” weekend. Some good, some bad, some weird. They just played String Cheese Incident doing Solsbury Hill.

I'm against there being a secret police in America, and I vote.

ELO!!! #AT40

ICE/CBP want to terrify people into submission and compliance so that they can operate with impunity, unimpeded, in semi-secrecy. It is not working. In every urban center these masked goons descend upon, the local community is rallying in solidarity.

clearly identifiable uniforms, clearly identifiable names / badge numbers, clearly identifiable faces should all be non-negotiable until we actually have the numbers to dismantle the agency; an enormous part of the reason these bastards act like this is because they're currently allowed to hide

I don't know. I think in some ways it's worthwhile to point out that as bad as things are most of us have no idea how bad they could really be if we become an actual fascist state. It's actually a calling for us to do MORE right now while we can.

For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.

Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.  
That’s what we have to change.

I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/ (New piece) newrepublic.com/article/2057...

inventing a drink called The Susan Collins. to make it, you say "I'm very concerned about this" and then you serve gin and bleach to an 11th grader

It’s just incredibly funny this is supposed to be the “freedom” party. It was never about any freedom except their right to be selfish assholes and not feel bad about it.

you’re all making jokes but the reason Greg Bovino was removed from duty is a safety issue we all need to take seriously

Heroes. Say their names.

More than a little late, but a great development that will hopefully find echoes in other local PDs