#mvoieswatchedtoday: EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA (streaming)

I'm just gonna keep reposting this inane BS from Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence on the roving immigration patrol case from LA.

In the waning days of his longshot reelection campaign—and likely his tenure at City Hall—Mayor Eric Adams has suddenly embraced transphobia.

Definitely not alone when I say if Democrats let people like this off the hook when they regain power then they will deserve exactly what's coming for them

Given that the reports about Tom Homan taking $50,000 in a paper bag say that there is a recording of the exchange, it sure would be clarifying if we could see the tape. I wonder if a patriot at the DoJ might leak it?

I think @justinbrannan.bsky.social just killed the Coney Island casino bid. www.brooklynpaper.com/op-ed-coney-...

How it started How it's going

Hurry up and bury that racist motherfucker already. People got some pissin’ to do.

How could I forget that Emil Bove also led the charge to deport Venezuelan migrants to a Salvadoran prison *in defiance of a judge’s order?* If Democrats care at all about the integrity of the judiciary, an impeachment inquiry should be an immediate priority. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Democrats need to seriously consider an impeachment inquiry into now-Judge Emil Bove if/when they take back the House. He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo. He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up. And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!

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.

Next few days.

Hakeem Jeffries is the same guy who will not endorse the democratic nominee for NYC Mayor lol

A 42-year-old man has died while in ICE custody at a jail in Nassau County - the first known death of an ICE detainee under Nassau custody. This is tragic. ICE and the County must be transparent and forthcoming as this is investigated and should do all it can to protect people in its custody.

#movieswatchedtoday (Thursday): FAST COMPANY, PUMP UP THE VOLUME & ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (all streaming)

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

So far this year, the state’s county jails have held six times more people for federal immigration authorities than they did in all of 2024. nysfocus.com/2025/09/16/i...

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

BREAKING: Trump appointee Judge Tim Kelly GRANTS the plaintiffs motion for a preliminary injunction. Kelly’s order bars removal of “unaccompanied Guatemalan children who have received neither a final removal order nor permission from the Attorney General to voluntarily depart…”

#movieswatchedtoday (Wednesday): JUDGMENT NIGHT & GROSSE POINT BLANK (both streaming) and THE LAST WINTER (BD)

With Wednesday’s votes, the two Manhattan projects have no path forward to become legally licensed casinos.

A federal judge Wednesday extended limits on the number of immigrants ICE can hold at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan and requirements that it provide detainees with basic humanitarian needs and access to legal representation.

The loser energy that radiates off "it's illegal not to like me" shit like this is palpable bsky.app/profile/zack...

This tracks.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE: What I have not seen anyone discussing is that Nexstar pulling Kimmel, forcing ABC’s hand, comes as Nexstar is leading the way for the industry on trying to get FCC approval for media consolidation. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

Fuck Charlie Kirk. And just to get it in in advance: Fuck Donald Trump.

Wooooooooooooow: Both the Times Square and Hudson Yard casino permits get nixed

NEW: A court ruled that ICE can no longer detain immigrants in abusive conditions at 26 Federal Plaza while our case w/ @aclu.org continues. This ruling means ICE must provide people detained at the facility access to hygiene products, sleeping mats, and free, confidential calls to their lawyers.

I'm just an ordinary First Amendment lawyer but I'm pretty sure you can't transform "protesting the president" into criminal activity by recharacterizing it as "inflicting harm on the United States."

Really good piece from @dbernstein.bsky.social explaining where Charlie Kirk and Turning Point fit in the right wing grift-o-sphere: goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/charlie-in...

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Weihong Hu? She let Winnie Greco, she of the $300 attempted gift to my colleague @katiehonan.bsky.social, stayed in a hotel room of hers for seven months while the whole facility was being paid for by the government as shelter for people released from jail. An icon of the Eric Adams era.

The Eric Adams fundraiser charged with bribing her way into a city shelter program for her Queens hotels is now also charged with helping the program boss liquidate part of that alleged bribe — a $107,000 Mercedes — as the feds closed in.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to rebuke calls to target “hate speech” in an apparent swipe at Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” said Sotomayor.

Yes yes yes. Conservatives - including Charlie Kirk - made Kyle Rittenhouse a hero PRECISELY BECAUSE he killed two people. That's what they were celebrating.

Excellent statistics here on who is fomenting political violence: The Kirk Crackdown Is Underway www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

The last week has seen an absolute propaganda blitzkrieg from the right; it’s moments like this one that their media machine was created for. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/how-the-ri...

Bribery by any other name. bsky.app/profile/greg...

The NYPD's SRG has brutalized protesters, violated First Amendment rights, and operated with impunity for far too long. With First Amendment rights under attack across the country, now is the time to pass the CURB Act and safeguard New Yorkers' right to protest. Add your name:

#movieswatchedtoday: HARDWARE (4K) and WINTER KILLS (streaming)

You “regret” mistakes. This was not a mistake. They deliberately shackled these people and distributed video of them being humiliated. They detained them for days after. What they regret is that, this time, their gleeful anti-immigrant violence wrought negative consequences for the administration.

I just want to tell these absolute herbs to write a poem or take a walk in nature or maybe play peekaboo with a baby because imagine wasting this one fuckin life on checking whether the local hardware store is sufficiently deferential to a guy who said we should stone gay people to death

Good review of Zohran’s potential plans for the NYPD and its constitutional rights-violating specialty team, the SRG.

School policies that stigmatize trans students based on fear, prejudice, and sex stereotypes cannot be squared with Title IX’s promise of gender equality in education. www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/a...

Regret. WHERE IS KRISTI NOEM? These were her officers and agents. The South Koreans were detained by DHS - not the State Dept. Why is she being shielded from accountability for her Department’s irresponsible raid?