An astute point, well made, and necessary for a proper understanding of the baselessness of the prosecution of Comey.

ECM also comments upon The ONION mockumentary regarding Epstein which has released a trailer ahead of a theatre release. I share her view that this is a very questionable project where the tag line is “molested by law”

youtube.com/watch?v=Fo0p... Nazi History with fucking swearing. Note the anecdote from 5:11 of Geobbels segue from Wessel’s death to discussing his renovations of his appartment cf #TrumpBallroomGriefSoothing Sociopaths gotta #socio-path-ize 🤷‍♂️

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c... “The Evangelical mindset is: the world is dangerous, but the church is dangerous too, unless we purify everything; the driver is return to a more fundamentalist commitment to dogmatic principles” Kirk’s Martyrdom is created and expressed through this paradigm

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

Thread: Abrego This is a case of “unprecedented vindictiveness”

How dare the Left make crass jokes about political violence, which Republicans would never, ever do...

We know who made this number up - it was the Centre for Policy Studies. However, after I pointed out two major errors, they have admitted it is completely wrong and have withdrawn it - see note on their webpage here. cps.org.uk/research/her...

5⭐️Ep: lengthy report by AMcCabe (+ personal observations) on JSmith recent lecture is a GEM Report on persistent fuck ups by ICE and DOJ in prosecutions of protesters is a particularly poignant example of why Smith’s remarks are so important, and why good lawyering still counts despite Trumpism

Mangione’s motion to dismiss on constitutional grounds.

Republican Christmas Card For @rawstory.com Follow my work on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court. He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

After the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk, it was natural that his allies, including Trump, lionized him as a patriot, free-speech advocate, and activist. Here’s the problem: Kirk built his movement with falsehoods. And his advocacy was laced with racist and bigoted statements.

Kirk is not a modern day St. Paul, despite what Cardinal Dolan says. The only thing that such myth-making achieves is fomenting resentment, curtailing dialogue, and stifling action to otherwise prevent this tragedy from happening again, says John Grosso.

Terrell Jermaine Starr making the points. He’s an independent journalist, consider supporting his work. @terrelljstarr.bsky.social terrellstarr.substack.com/p/iryna-zaru...

This is worth your time haha youtu.be/7vRX-BQAjeE

BREAKING: Fed judge strikes Trump's libel suit v. NYT. Judge Steven Merryday (GHWB appointee) says suit 'unmistakably & inexcusably' violates court rules. 'A complaint is...not a protected platform to rage against an adversary.' Trump can refile. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Reform councillor linked to account which has *repeatedly* referred to to shooting the PM Once again evidence emerges of violent instincts of right wingers.

“Extraordinary” is barely adequate to describe this story. Kudos to @chrisgeidner.bsky.social for keeping track of this seeming abuse of power

Calling all the posters doom-moaned “Tim Kelly was appointed by Trump” This Judge has once again shown adherence to the Rule of Law vastly outweighs any claim on his loyalty by virtue of appointing him to the bench. The Lawfare people are better judges of judicial temperament than many kaktivists

Karl Rove … is … Antifa?

"The FBI director earlier today made a series of claims before the committee. Let me be blunt: I don’t believe them. I don’t believe Patel." @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org discusses Kash Patel's testimony to Congress in The Situation.

This is surely a “prepared ad lib” - ‘been busy doing historic stuff’defense Kash flubbed HIS PREPARED LINES Obviously flubbed, obviously prepped It takes deep incompetence +/- a serious hangover to be this shit in public on your prepared presentation and talking points

SWALWELL: You're the director of the FBI. This is the largest sex trafficking case the FBI has ever been a part of. And your testimony today is you haven't reviewed all the Epstein files? PATEL: I've been busy providing the safest country this country has seen in modern US history in historic speed

Going with the Flow: Visualizing Ocean Currents with ECCO Mar 03, 2025 science.nasa.gov/earth/oceans...

This mesmerizing video shows global ocean currents in motion using NASA’s ECCO model, which integrates decades of satellite, buoy, and sensor data. The Van Gogh-style swirls reveal complex currents that drive climate, ecosystems, and weather worldwide.

NEW: Reuters asked the Michigan Tax Authority whether Lisa Cook violated any mortgage tax rules for her home in Ann Arbor. They said no. That's in addition to Reuters earlier reporting that nothing was wrong with the documents for her home in Atlanta. www.reuters.com/world/us/no-...

A social media user—wrongly accused of posting negatively about Charlie Kirk—was suspended from his job alongside a tidal wave of threatening messages and phone calls, sending his mother and sister fleeing from their home. trib.al/pOclcrP

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

Oh dear. No wonder Kash has “Rabbit-bug-eyed-in-the-headlights” look about him🙄 bleeding support and Fox sniffs a kill www.foxnews.com/politics/kni... Director Kash Patel, FBI leadership is under fire, according to TEN sources from multiple federal offices granted anonymity to speak freely.

With a terrific team, I just published a large study looking at all court cases involving the Trump administration. Shows basis for courts no longer giving a so-called "presumption of regularity" (a legal doctrine involving a strong benefit of the doubt) to the administration. 🧵

There is important self serving context for this odious aside by Trump h/t @emptywheel.bsky.social ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/empt...

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@timmiller.bsky.social @jvl.bsky.social @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social Y’all down with this? My take is that it was a sorryNotsorry, BK bosses sent him out to do to tick the “apology” box. This is on par with “Ezra Klein-ing Charlie Kirk’s very fine practice of trolling campus libs,

And this was a prediction of professional integrity contrary to all but the most perverse interpretation of all the known evidence at the time of publication

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... William David created TikTok account to get a sense of what Farage and Reform were circulating online. He began by scrolling through the videos on their accounts, and then watched what came up on the For You feed. Faragist TikTok a funnel for political emiseration.

Robinson and Farage’s ‘civil war’ narrative is warping voters’ minds. How is any government supposed to counter it? | John Harris

Exemplary 🧵explaining #ManosphereDivisions [My take on #Theircommonality They all had their grievances nurtured by mutherf’kuhs, hatred spite and disdain are the core emotional components of their personalities, and fighting like rats in a sack is the paradigm interaction they constantly re-enact]

To understand the murder of Charlie Kirk, you have to understand the “Manosphere.” Yes that is a real thing. There are two masculine strategies vying for dominance. These strategies draw on different movement ideologies, white nationalist or alt-right. People have lumped

The Right using death of Kirk to transmit and enforce ideological conformity with propaganda narratives, in new way. Americans being conditioned, en mass by a mass effort, in DENUNCIATION as civic duty, to punish anyone who deviates from preferred hagiographic tenets about #KIRKThoughtLife&Times

This is the apotheosis of what I've called "the concentration camp tendency": the politically generated drive to remove from society and even murder whole groups deemed undesirable.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

A masterpiece. I hope it is broadcast loudly in the Streets, on the Television and via the internet, during the course of what promises to be an orgy of hagiography posing as a memorial service for this monster.

This is extremely bad faith. Kirk quoted Leviticus saying gay men should be stoned to death, then called it "God's perfect law." Pretending honest summarirs of these remarks such as "Charlie Kirk believed gays should be stoned to death" were false is itself dishonest and false.

Several people fired after clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting

Everyone is focusing on “Catch this, fascist”, and Ciao Bella being an anti-fascist song and reading that as literal. But these are both used in the video game Helldivers2 - which is a parody of authoritarianism. “Catch this, fascist” is satirical anti-fascism. 1/