The voter suppression and long lines issues Crockett (and Talarico!) are rightly decrying are real and substantial, and deliberate. But... the outcome is not in doubt. There's no plausible scenario in which this flips a margin that's going to end up at more than 60,000 votes and about seven points.

Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico on Tuesday called for an extension of voting hours in Dallas and Williamson counties, after reports of voters being turned away from polling places amid confusion over rules requiring voters to cast ballots at assigned polling locations.

Good thread and a reminder that every generation has its own moral panic

Tillis voted to confirm Noem. As did Fetterman, Hassan, Kaine, Kim, Peters, Shaheen, and Slotkin among the Dems.

I just, I just love Ari. Not even counting the fact he’s a free speech hero.

Earlier today, someone mentioned a study or survey which found that media coverage of crime in NYC spiked leading up to Adams' election in 2022, then dropped immediately after he took office, even though crime actually went up. Anyone recall who did that study? Can't seem to find it.

Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape. 50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.

My concern is this: Iran is using the cheap stuff to deplete the region's air defenses. Then, in a few days or a week, it launches what's left of its more capable missiles.

We are very far from normal, my friends, but the language the judge uses here is shocking. Any other time, this would fly through legal commentators with a collective gasp. Here and now, it's a Monday.

“The reward for being right is an absolutely shitty reality” fuck just engrave that on my public defender headstone

I cannot state with enough emphasis how refreshing it is to see someone of Steve’s intelligence and stature openly stating the obvious. The reward for being right though, is an absolutely shitty reality.

We cannot possibly engage on the distracting subject of just and unjust wars until every last Oberlin sophomore has been put in their place

I hope I am a good enough parent to steer my kids away from Arizona State.

Fairbanks winter in one graphic. Average temperature of -14.6F (-25.9C) lowest since 1970-71. However, the lowest temperature of -50F (-45.6C) was not especially unusual. Snowy, but mid-winter 2021-22 had more snow and 2016-17 almost exactly the same snowfall Dec-Feb. #akwx #Climate #Winter2026

“Morally, he deserved to die, but we didn’t follow the right legal process” is just incredibly unstable ground for an opposition party to stand on. and I say that as a law professor.

They’re not different, you believed someone who quite obviously would say any goddamn thing to get power and people told you not to

Congress doesn't want responsibility. They want to sit around and make stock trades. The American people haven't ever punished them for it.

This war is blatantly unconstitutional - undeniably a large enough military action to require congressional authorization. Its wisdom and morality are closer calls. But I'm skeptical regime change (which would be good) can be achieved by air attack alone: reason.com/volokh/2026/...

Good morning to everyone except “antiwar“ MAGA libertarians.

Welp

And so First Things (the leading Catholic magazine of religion and public life) joins evangelicals in making the pivot from “Christian nationalism isn’t a real thing” to “Actually, Christian nationalism is awesome and we need it!”

I still choose to chafe. The distinction between civil and religious authority needs to be maintained and should never be blurred in a court of law even for the noblest of reasons.

Cenk, meanwhile, has been endorsing Tucker Carlson. This. Is. Who. They. Are.

Fed. judge has scheduled a "combined contempt hearing" related to 26 Minnesota immigration habeas cases where the gov't is alleged to have violated court orders to return the personal property of people who were unlawfully detained. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I've made this point before, but I can't count how many times grave injustices, clear wrongful convictions, & other Constitutional abrogations ignored in southern states for years were addressed only after hitting the docket of a black judge elected by a majority-minority "opportunity district."

Only took 11 years of flagrant MAGA racism for contrarian anti-woke culture warriors to get to “pretty darn concerning”

We just cannot be the country we have long aspired to be if our government treats refugees as something less than “men ... created equal [and] endowed ... with certain unalienable Rights.”

The decision is indefensible, got a 5-4 majority by caviling over dictionary definitions, and could be fixed by Congress at any time. Add it to the long list of things we expect a Dem Congress to fix in the first 30 days.

It would be good if we could object to this on a basis other than total obvious hypocrisy.

A cynic might suggest that the only reason he slices things up here as he does is that he recognizes that permission to murder migrants is too much even for a sympathetic audience. Because there’s no good historical reason to say that you‘re entitled to the protection of the laws but can’t sue.

Does he really think nobody will notice this

Congress used to think of itself as a separate and equal branch of government.

My snow blower is going to need a tuneup. But I got some days home with my kids.

It's not surprising that right-wing commentators have tried to shift the conversation about Friday's #SCOTUS ruling in the tariffs case to the alleged inconsistency/hypocrisy of the *Democratic* appointees. But those charges are based on a decidedly superficial relationship with the relevant facts:

When you REALLY have the juice, you can drop a footnote that says "read my blog" in a Supreme Court amicus brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

A significant number of Americans think that being racist should be free speech but calling someone racist should not be.

Forcing reverence is not reverence.

Atticus, like me, is a conservative. We can see what's going on.

One of the best snippets of this still-shocking story about a US Supreme Court Justice accepting millions of dollars’ worth of undisclosed luxury vacations from this *definitely not motivated by anything untoward* billionaire is this one. It powerfully illustrates the total fraud of it all.

The expression of religious association or belief will always risk provoking a negative or bigoted reaction. And I think it’s fair to describe this post as bigoted. Free conscience liberty, i.e., secularism, where government is prevented from taking a side protects everyone, including the religious.

“In contrast to Oregon’s response, Portugal’s approach was coupled with robust addiction treatment services and an increase in first responders referring people to such services.”

This Fairbanks winter is unconstitutional. I will not be taking questions but I am prepared to litigate.

Today's "One First" goes deep into the snippy Gorsuch-Kagan exchange in the tariffs ruling, and why claims that the Democratic appointees vote in lockstep and are being inconsistent/hypocritical in statutory delegation cases are based upon a refusal to put the relevant cases/statutes side-by-side:

The third season of the Proof podcast is exceptional. Through dilligent, dogged reporting, they’ve exposed a cold case unit in Kalamazoo, Michigan that looks to have put multiple innocent people in prison with shoddy, coercive, deceptive investigations. This should be a national scandal.

Just a thought.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Oh, look. It's the "Free State Project" guy again.

But also Gorsuch: Any legislative body that seeks to expand liberty afforded under the establishment clause is a bigot and will be struck down. What about the free exercise clause you might ask? Thats in the same sentence as the establishment clause? Yeah legislatures, expand with no limits.

Hyper-presidentialism is not only something Supreme Court conservatives have inflicted on us, it has been the central project of Scalia school "originalism" since the 1980s. Congress *has* tried to claw back power w/ reforms, and SCOTUS has repeatedly struck those laws down or made them ineffectual.