OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks: I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

What @notalawyer.bsky.social said.

Autism doesn't need to be cured, because neurodivergence is not a disease. New essay: open.substack.com/pub/lauriepe...

I have a couple of comments about the "free speech hero" narrative about Charlie Kirk. First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it. /1

Attorney General Bondi sent me a letter last week. It purports to notify me that Washington state “has been identified” as a “so-called sanctuary jurisdiction” — on grounds that her letter makes no effort whatsoever to explain.

I spent the week tracing how HHS Secretary RFK Jr. canceled $500 million in mRNA research and reporting on a(nother) very chaotic week inside HHS. Let me introduce you to the fringe doctors, anti-vaccine activists, and MAHA operatives behind the mRNA “debacle.” www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

This Sunday, we’re hosting a back to school drive in Evanston with 500 free backpacks, all-day free haircuts, and free food by two of the best restaurants in Evanston! Drop by the Fleetwood-Jourdain Center this Sunday afternoon to start the school year with everything you need!

Really frustrating seeing journalists continue using “peace deal.” This is such an insult to Ukrainians. What “peace deal” implies is rewarding a terrorist state committing genocide and an illegal invasion by an aggressor.

"Reich citizenship will not be laid in the cradle of every one born in Germany, but will be ceremoniously conferred on him after he has shown himself worthy of it through special accomplishments, through loyal services to the State." NY Times, July 6, 1933.

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

Read my latest essay for the @newrepublic.com - out today! newrepublic.com/article/1961...

Juneteenth is the perfect moment to remind everyone of two facts: 1. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. 2. Those who prevent history from being taught are plotting to repeat it. Read this out loud. Read it again. Then teach it to your kids.

The biggest questions in the universe are on page 12! #particlephysics ⚛️ 🧪

This Is Very Suspicious… Hope We Find More Around The Country…

As @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org knows I have a weird hang up about pictures of government leaders in offices and this is why.

open chart, keep scrolling down www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...

Judges need to start ordering that officials giving answers like this be jailed for contempt.

Trump Confesses Migrants Aren't the Criminals He Claimed They Are www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/16/t...

Gave my Uber driver an extra big tip.

Naming the white conservative/fascist/supremacist definition of "efficiency." The thing they want efficient is not machines, nor systems. The thing they want efficient is us. Human beings. They want to get more from us and they want to pay less. www.the-reframe.com/our-purpose-...

also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes

ICYMI: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it to boycott those businesses. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...

The Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, went to pay his respects to the servicemembers and civilians lost in Pearl Harbor on “June 7th, 1941.” It looks good, except Pearl Harbor happened on December 7th. It seems Mr. Phelan skipped that part of history class. Only the best people, right?

I have some breaking news: a list of all the countries with which the Trump administration has failed to make a tariff deal.

Authoritarian use of digital infrastructure in the most dystopian way possible. The interactions you have with the new Gestapo are digitally erased and become a matter of one person against institutional power. This is literal police state material and only going to get more clear in its use.

You can't report on this garbage without informing readers of the literal identical policy under Hitler. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence

The only way to square this circle is to drop the idea that economics is what motivated them and pick up the idea that their bigotry has value to them, enough value that they can and will withstand whatever economic hardship they face.

You may think, from the visible caption, that this is a skit about the Oxford Comma. And it is, but oh, it is also SO MUCH MORE.

This!

The very LAST thing I want to see is that cotton candy haired shitbag standing in front of the flag draped caskets giving a thumbs up and that stupid grin for another photo op. No, go golfing. It's actually less of an insult than showing up. Again, fuck Trump. 5/5

Dude we elected the lettuce

cc. @latenightseth.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/char...

I’ve been sort of idly keeping track of all the points in the Declaration of Independence’s bill of particulars that arguably apply to the Trump Admin. This is the first four-in-a-row I’ve hit. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

THREAD: Trump just signed an EO about voter registration, but in 2023 the super-conservative Chief Judge Pryor in the 11th Circuit penned an opinion as to why Mark Meadows (and the president) have no role in supervising state elections, and therefore, cannot have his case moved to federal court. 1/

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

For those of us who grew up in the Reagan 80s, when the spectres of Stalin, Mao & Castro were invoked as terms of harshest condemnation by the GOP, it is almost unimaginably disorienting to find ourselves in a right-wing dystopia led by people who apparently view Stalin, Mao & Castro as role models.

Trump's only move. Blackmail. He's doing it to everyone: law firms, companies, colleges, states, Canada, NATO, Ukraine. He was impeached in the first term for it. It's the only "art of the deal" he's ever known: strongman mafioso extortion. He'll re-run the same play forever until America collapses.

Forget it Jake, it's Caputo.

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

When a participant in the meeting asked him why he wouldn’t more forcefully call out Trump’s false claims about Social Security fraud, Dudek answered, “This is dealing with — have you ever worked with someone who’s manic-depressive?”

Abraham Lincoln is often quoted for saying: "As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” But the passage I think of daily from the same 1838 speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois is this one. (don’t get hung up on his use of the word genius)

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Last night I stood up for those who need Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Democrats will never abandon the fight to make sure every American has a safe, healthy, and financially secure life. #ISaidWhatISaid