An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.

No Rapist Left Behind

I think it should be a bigger deal that before Trump made him a life-tenured appeals court judge, Emil Bove was at DOJ taking the position that the White House should do war crimes

The reason we have laws* against bribery is that companies will absolutely bribe politicians at the very first opportunity if it is good for the bottom line, because they see it as a sound business decision, not a civilizational betrayal. /1

Coinbase donated to Trump's $300 million White House ballroom project as an appeal to the administration, Emilie Choi, the cryptocurrency exchange's president and COO, said at Axios' BFD event today.

In case you wondered, and I know you did, the Texas redistricting case was before a three-judge panel because that’s what 28 U.S.C. 2284 requires when “an action is filed challenging the constitutionality of the apportionment of congressional districts” www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

This is so fucking embarrassing. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Fox News credulously reports that "the Saudis now say their investment pledge in the US will be increased to $1 trillion." THE ENTIRE GDP OF SAUDI ARABIA IS $1.1 TRILLION, so this is total nonsense.

Jim Jordan begged someone to not rat out the sexual assault that was happening at Ohio State. He was crying on the phone. Groveling. This man threw out all his dignity to try and cover for horrifying crimes of sexual abuse. Think about that for a moment.

Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, heir to the throne of Saudi Arabia and current de-facto ruler of that kingdom, whose word is law and power is unquestioned, is visibly like “whoah dude, dial down the authoritarian thing a bit”

Q: Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now? TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question

Run away from Border Patrol, they assault and tackle you and accuse you of assaulting them. Run toward Border Patrol, they assault and tackle you and accuse you of assaulting them. Stand still... you get the idea. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/i...

I'm awfully pessimistic about the Roberts Court, so I think they could find some way to let Texas keep its gerrymander—for example, have to let it go ahead while it's litigated—but I bet approving TX's while striking down CA's is too much, even for them. Well, maybe not Alito, but for a majority.

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

Deeply ashamed just because you were soliciting a convicted child predator for advice on cheating on your wife my pressuring a younger colleague into sleeping with you while sneering at her and her work? Gosh Ross Douthat better write another piece decrying woke culture

Trump: "I gave them as you know unlimited water, Biden came back with a rigged election, and he immediately restricted the water again. But I came back in and immediately unrestricted it again. So now you have unlimited water to clean your damn dishes."

This is the sort of brazen lie you tell when you’re trying to demonstrate your power by showing you can say shit that everyone knows is a lie, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.

An incredibly Trump-era headline theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...

"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."

Is the Mark Sanford part a joke? I don’t get it because I am old

Trump retreats on Epstein files. Three lessons: 1. It can be easier to fracture the MAGA coalition than get "responsible" Republicans to step up. 2. Democrats should fight rather than find reasons not to fight. 3. Dems need to be anti-elitist not just anti-GOP. www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-eps...

US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...

An endless amount of deranged details in this interview with Greg Bovino's sister, but most notably that his uncle produced the Jack Nicholson movie The Border and the depiction of the agent as corrupt radicalized him as a 12-yr-old. "Since then, he was like, 'Dude, I want to do Border Patrol.'"

So there are three possibilities here. First and most likely: Bessent and other administration hacks just constantly say nonsensical bullshit without any theory or fact behind it. /1

MY guess is she said “well, if there’s a another explanation for these communications, it’s up to him to explain it at trial,” or words to that effect.

Looking to finish what they started.

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

Great news. This is what an ICE agent looks like in a mugshot. Meet Gerardo Rodriguez, 45, of Temecula, courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested for "illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week." 🧵

Seems likely to me this is a case of Halligan telling the foreperson "oh this is totally normal, sign this one which reflects the charges the grand jury approved." They wouldn't know that's a fraud on the court. Halligan would or should know.

At 3 pm, I will be doing a Substack Live interview with Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com about Magistrate Judge Fitzpatrick's Opinion & Order requiring disclosure of the full grand jury record in US v. Comey to the defense, on the basis of eleven (11) separate types of prosecutorial misconduct.

Bluesky: your place for legal advice.

I think the universities didn’t convey clearly enough to Larry Summers and Laurence Krauss that they were expected to get sexual harassment PREVENTION training

If you find out that the United States Department of Justice has subpoenaed information about you from Bluesky, please don’t post through it here on Bluesky. That makes Ken angry.

A grim comedic aspect of Mag Judge Fitzpatrick's ruling in Comey's case, finding that Halligan "potentially undermine[d] the integrity of the grand jury" with "fundamental misstatements of the law," is that AG Bondi purported to review those minutes & to ratify everything Halligan did—twice.

Everyone's missing potentially the most interesting thing about this order, which is the judge's finding that Halligan may have returned an indictment that was never presented to the jury

At some point, incompetence and deliberate indifference to the law reaches a point where it is indistinguishable from deliberate misconduct. This is why you don’t hand a complex matter to someone who has never presented to a grand jury before.

Scene from the James Comey grand jury room.

the "just trust us" approach to presenting evidence before a grand jury storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

@kenwhite.bsky.social do you generally recommend that a client fabricate grand jury records (at least in part) in order to rush out an indictment before the statute of limitations hits in order to please Dear Leader? Asking for El Jefe's most loyal real estate lawyer.

Magistrate Judge Fitzpatrick orders the government to turn over all grand jury materials to Comey's defense team. That's separate from Judge Currie's continuing investigation into the legality of Halligan's appointment & her behavior before the grand jury. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71459...

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

ICE abducted Leticia Jacobo and tried to deport her, she is Native American. Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’. Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared. www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

The DOJ ordered US Marshals to the house of the pardon attorney who refused to sign off on a pardon to give Mel Gibson back his guns. Big law firms told her they supported her but did not want to be seen representing her. This is the use of government-sponsored fear to silence dissent.

There have been at least 154 cases in which federal district courts have issued preliminary relief against a Trump administration policy. Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:

The undergrads at the Crimson has consistently done a better job at investigating stories--big and small--than some of the legacy papers. Go college journalism.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.