This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

Local law prof proudly proclaims: 1) his ideology dictates his legal analysis; and 2) he published his NYT op-ed before doing the scholarly legwork supporting it because it would have taken too much time to do the other way. Wow.

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

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Another, non-Claude visualization courtesy the Ritter IPO dataset: using the current Hyperliquid price as an estimate, SpaceX is roughly the size of the total market cap of every single VC IPO, deSPAC, and direct list *post-day 1 pop* from 2021, 2020, 2000, and 1999, adjusted for inflation, COMBINED

This is maybe the most R-U-S-S-I-A thing ever.

Beta test the PlainSite MCP for Claude and ChatGPT! In Claude, go to Settings -> Connectors (now "Customize") -> Add -> Add custom connector -> Call it PlainSite (or whatever you want) with URL: www.plainsite.org/api/mcp.js Then ask Claude questions about cases or stocks!

The hidden arrow in the FedEx logo is design perfection. Paris Tennis School: Tiens ma bière.

Kamala Harris’ book published 8 months after the Nazi salute said Musk was a great entrepreneur and that Biden made a mistake not inviting him to the White House (he was not invited because of all of his union busting)

The costs and benefits (within narrow domains) of AI are so extreme that it is extremely hard to wrap one's head around. At the same time that I think the sector as a whole is fundamentally overvalued (and by a LOT), I'm also ~100X more productive than I used to be, and that's not exaggeration.

Guess what I just got (it's still downloading)...

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SpaceX's total addressable market is... $28.5 trillion, larger than the real GDP of the United States, a mere $24.2 trillion. Sure thing, Elon! /3

Um. Jail? (For the prosecutors.)

Elon Musk is a mass murderer.

The SpaceX IPO isn't about stock manipulation. It's about rule manipulation. Elon runs the government now. You don't need to manipulate the stock anymore when you make the rules and run the regulator.

YET ELON IS STILL FIGHTING ME OVER $405 THAT ISN'T HIS

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A superloser is a leader of a great power, or (onetime) superpower, whose disastrous choices lead to a crash. He possesses a combination of skills that allow for a rise to personal power and the collapse of state power. I spell out the phenomenon in this video: snyder.substack.com/p/the-era-of...

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Oh. Now you tell us. He’s been doing this non-stop since 2017, jackasses.

It sounds crazy and I'd love to see some audited numbers.

NEW: The tobacco company Reynolds American donated $5M to the Trump-backed super PAC MAGA Inc. on 4/30/2026. 8 days later, the Trump administration rolled out a new policy that could be very lucrative for Reynolds by allowing it to begin selling flavored vapes.

My message this evening to Todd Blanche:

Oh this is delightful. Let's start with SpaceX's violation of 17 CFR § 229.504 (Item 504). Their "use of proceeds" neglects to mention they are contractually obligated to use the first $20 billion from it to pay off a bridge loan. This is also while their quarterly cash burn exceeds $8 billion. /1

It is about fucking time. More of this!

"As of March 31, 2026, we [SpaceX] had an accumulated deficit of $41,311 million" Nice. Does that include the $44 billion spent on Twitter? Anyone know?

File under 'this will haunt me forever': Read The Bezzle by @doctorow.pluralistic.net, forensic accountant Marty Hench dives into the inhumanity & graft of California prisons. Marty's right, most business today is basically a scam and our prisons are a tragedy that no one will fix. #booksky

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

Legend has it that when the SEC promulgated Rule 10b-5, a Commissioner explained the reasoning, "Well, gentlemen, we are all against fraud, aren’t we?" Now I'm thinking the answer is actually, "No." news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar...

This is absolutely true. The presidents we would have previously held up as examples of corruption have been repeatedly lapped by Donald Trump.

look trump can have his government sign any docs he wants; either the next democratic government throws all the corrupt motherfuckers in jail and seizes all their assets, or it's pointless anyway.

Bluesky, enjoy. Full interview here: www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

Fun fact: under the Trump Administration, the National Endowment for the Arts has removed all art from its logo.

When I think of permanence, I think of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

NEW: The top lawyer at the Treasury Department just resigned. Even though he clerked for Clarence Thomas, perhaps the $1.7B heist was probably too much. Also note the Times (right) and the WSJ (left) refer to it as a settlement. The judge found IT IS NOT A SETTLEMENT. 1/

lol "isn't hard to figure out" NOPE. The company is run by criminals.

Updated. www.plainsite.org/profiles/spa...

In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.

Here's what the House Democrats just filed in court. www.plainsite.org/courts/flori...

I think we're gonna need a bigger protest.

The NYT removed the "um"s in Trump's answer on Taiwan, but put "um"s in AOC's answer on Taiwan to make her look dumb Trump said "Um, I would say 'like' is maybe too strong a word...um, no, I'm holding that in abeyance and it depends on China, depends, it's a, it's a.." L: Trump R: AOC Video below

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every single person who touches this needs to go to jail.

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It’s already a privilege to have a lawyer in this country, which is ironic because most of them really suck at their jobs and charge usurious rates to do it. My hope is that AI accidentally does something good by ending the profession altogether. Give it 10 years.

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My eyes cannot roll back in my head enough

This is "among the most corrupt acts in American political history...a shakedown of the American people by a crook president and his crook lawyers,” says Sen. Ron @wyden.senate.gov. "Trump is a parasite on the American republic.” Why is Wyden this outraged? Click below. I will explain everything.