The things that are happening, no one could have predicted.

Oh boy. 9th Cir. sanctions two attorneys for briefs containing multiple nonexistent cases, misattributed quotations, and gross misrepresentations of real cases as a result of undisclosed AI usage who then doubled down and lied when caught. Sanctions in next. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

I mean, the hope is that with Tillis, Cassidy, and maybe one of Murkowski and Collins, Pulte isn't confirmed. But what a dark time if that's our hope.

It's always the ones you most suspect.

Congrats to James Fishback and his new wife on their pregnancy.

A famously good way to get people to buy your product is to tell your customer base they're too stupid to understand it

I don't think we in the legal community are giving sufficient attention to just how unlawful, corrupt and unenforceable this document is. It's so absurd--and was, until now, so unimaginable--that I wouldn't have even considered using it as a law school exam hypo. static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

So now, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will not be broadcast into a single American home, making it no different than The CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil.

It is hard to tell with Trump because he lies and spins BS so effortlessly, but it is really starting to seem like these are dementia moments.

A true fact about Trump's stock trading- I ran the numbers and Trump traded up to ~$700 million in stock in Q1 of 2026. All 535 Members of Congress made a total of ~$635 million worth of trades in 2025. So Trump bought and sold more stock in 3 months than all of Congress put together did last year

Andrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in a Florida court in October on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old. Johnson dangled the prospect that one of the children could receive money bc...he was entitled to $10 million as part of reparations for his January 6 arrest.

Not now

On taking office, the new Hungarian government has found a massive volume of shredded documents, most of which appear to have to do with dealings with the Kremlin and the financing of right-wing populist movements and personalities across Europe and in the United States.

This is bad.

Pro-tip for Iran: Put nuclear demands at the end, because the first sentence is about as far as his attention span will get him.

Just...I need everyone to realize how far we have fallen. This is, like, the sixth thing Trump said in this presser that would have been career-ending for any politician of 20 years ago.

Your honor, The People accept this juror.

Guess what's back? *US APRIL PRODUCER PRICES RISE 6.0% Y/Y; EST. +4.8%

With enormous thanks to @allyjar.bsky.social for starting this resource, link to the map here: tyler-mcbrien.github.io/state-court-...

It is super easy check this: All you have to do is see where excess deaths from 2021-2022 were the highest. If the COVID vaccine had actually killed this many people, you'd find sky-high excess deaths in highly vaccinated areas. Instead, you see the opposite. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Evangelical Christian leaders literally gathering around a gold statue of the president and celebrating it, all while raging against any accusation of idolatry. This is what idol worship looks like.

I had never been there until last year, and it is truly amazing to see in person.

Hang on some of my unresolved inner trauma just stirred

Fetterman is getting the attention but man how humiliating for J.D. Vance.

Roberts could address a lot of the Left's skepticism of the Court by simply asking Thomas to step down.

oh god was he in the files

The worst part of this is that there are way better bottles of bourbon at Woodford's price point.

The Iran War really captures the fundamental problem we are facing with the anti-intellectual Right more than any other issue, even COVID. Trump's current pickle is a tale of incompetence spread across three Administrations: Obama's second term and Trump's two terms.

Julie deserves this but special bonus for me is that it will leave Michael Tracey seething.

lol this will be used in a request for dismissal

WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd

Absolutely extraordinary. The Democrats conceded *nothing* and got everything they demanded. They said no ICE/CBP funding, and that's precisely what happened. In other words, they did not cave. At all. But the GOP did—completely.

This is actually the perfect distillation of the right wing worldview. A predatory industry treats consumers unfairly so it must be immigrants' fault.

Good thread. Alito's decision has echoes of Dobbs, where he engages in the half-measure to get where he wants, but is afraid to be logically consistent because of what that entails. And it's Thomas again who is willing to say it out loud: He would overturn Griswold and he'd essentially nuke §2.

Obviously there is other stuff to be said but worth noting that *Gorsuch* signed on to Thomas's concurrence, which basically argues that all the jurisprudence associated with the Voting Rights Act has been racist. Plainly insane.

beast mode

one time the biden administration politely asked social media platforms to take down covid misinformation to save lives and the rightwing ecosystem spent years screeching about the perils of censorship

Does anyone know who is arguing for Doe I in Cisco? He is brilliant.

there is something genuinely clarifying and useful about this kind of stuff. they are totally hoods off and proud of it, which means we should not hesitate to describe them accordingly

This is so unbelievably cruel. SSI recipients are some of the most vulnerable people in the country, and they face enough adversity just from within the disability system itself.

It's an understudied element of our media environment that Republicans can insult Democrats in any way they see fit, regardless of propriety or truth value, without repercussion, but Dems are consistently forced to use measured tones to describe Republicans no matter how outrageous their actions.

Bruh maybe don't do this? Just a shot in the dark

O'Donnell's response here is on point. Why did Trump jump to his own defense?

Insane that he just ran through.

This is not the time for wild speculation about what happened. It’s time to bet on Kalshi about what happened

how many fake assassination attempts are going to happen to this guy

I really don't think the media class understands the conservative anti-vaxx movement. They do not think they have been alienated at all; they think they were right. They think liberals are all dropping dead from the vaccines. By definition you cannot alienate people who do not engage w/ reality.

Donyell Malen isn't human. What a sequence of play.