Serious question: does there come a point where everyone admits that Constitutional originalism is just a made-up vibe-based philosophy that gives Republican judges a pretext for ruling however it is that Republicans want them to rule?

THREAD. Across the U.S., a lot of skilled lawyers, many of whom are well meaning, pose a big threat right now to our society. The legal advice the profession is giving to clients is walking us off a fascist cliff. We as lawyers need to shift our thinking.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant. By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Its insane that American politics now more or less revolves around infrequently passing a single comically large overstuffed money bill instead of like... normal legislation

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

“Progressives like Mamdani are too focused on winning.” Zohran Mamdani’s threat to deliver on his promises might lead voters to expect decent health care or education. Winning just isn’t worth it. From an Anonymous Democratic Consultant (@franifio.bsky.social): trib.al/6sXxV4G

GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s experiment as a model for the federal Medicaid work requirements set to take effect in 2027. A new report by a government spending watchdog found that the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement program spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care.

Half of all Americans die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation. (Published 2022)

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others. See what changes are in store for your county 👇

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Health policy by vibes.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

I released a bunch of new features in Failsafe-go recently: an adaptive limiter, adaptive throttler, request prioritization and usage tracking, retry and hedge budgets, and more. Check it out: failsafe-go.dev #golang #resilience

Labour is reaping what it has sown. My piece for @the-independent.com on the need for a real alternative. www.independent.co.uk/voices/jerem...

This Johnny Cash cover by Tom Irvine is so good www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEFB...

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Sometimes it only takes one chart. We're having a discussion about budget deals for health care when this is what our health care system looks like. Damon Silvers explains why tweaking around the edges is inadequate. prospect.org/health/2025-...

It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.

Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”

“Disaster money is just sitting,” one FEMA employee tells WIRED. “Every single day applicants are asking their FEMA contact ‘where’s my money?’ And we are ordered to just say nothing and redirect.” Trump wants to use the FEMA budget to build concentration camps around the world.

On the new acting CDC director. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The most amazing thing about the catastrophic US healthcare system is that the solution was invented long ago in other countries. It's like we're refusing to use wheels.

Reminder that in 2021, Senate Republicans filibustered a bill by Democrats that would have banned partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts.

This is a terrifying escalation in Trump's war on knowledge. His handpicked US Attorney is threatening governments statisticians with criminal charges because the crime rate is lower than Donald Trump needs to justify his invasion of the city.

Texas Lawmakers Push ‘Massive Secrecy Grab’ to Shield Police Files “This is the most massive secrecy grab in Texas since the adoption of the Public Information Act.” This bill would supercharge cops' ability to hide misconduct. www.texasobserver.org/secrecy-g-fi...

Declaring a fake emergency as an excuse to deploy the military to police civilians is one of the most canonical examples of authoritarian takeovers. Overseas, people see clearly what Trump is doing. Here in America most people — especially those with power or influence — are in denial.

Again, I’d like to encourage the people who think it’s a good idea to embrace a cruel and capricious dictatorship, while making it clear no legal or legislative authority can stop them from ruining ordinary people’s lives, to keep on reading to see what usually happens next.

What's happening in DC is a good reminder that martial-law-like declarations anywhere in the world are often less about public safety than consolidating power.

I'll say it a thousand times -- any account of the past that only celebrates the good parts of a nation without reckoning with the bad is not what we call "history" It is propaganda, pure and simple.

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

We figured out to *cure cancer* (ref: last year’s pancreatic cancer trials) and the Trump administration decided “nah.” That a society could reject a cure for cancer is astounding.

The idea that President can negotiate/dictate bilateral “deals” by using the full force of the federal government to punish and humiliate his perceived enemies goes against the whole idea of the rule of law. That should be the story, rather than normalizing this authoritarian behavior.

“Collapse isn’t just caused by structures, but also people. If you want to save the world then the first step is to stop destroying it. In other words: don’t be a dick ... Don’t accept relationships based on domination and share power whenever you can.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

RIP US offshore wind. US Bureau of Offshore Energy Management rescinds ALL areas designated for offshore wind energy development in federal waters. gcaptain.com/boem-rescind... 🔌💡

To recap: -ACA premium hikes "more than 75% on average" by Jan 1 -1/3 of Medicaid cuts already in place -Medicare cuts scheduled for Jan 1 without Congressional action -And now Medicare Part D premiums going up by "a lot," also by Jan 1 www.wsj.com/health/healt...

the executive order that allows the homeless and mentally ill to be incarcerated signed right as they started opening concentration camps

You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully. This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia. Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.