John Bolton is being prosecuted because Trump hates him. I cannot understand why anyone credits anything in a document prepared by Trump's DOJ targeting his political opponents. The coverage of this case makes me think we have learned nothing about giving Trump's DOJ the benefit of the doubt.

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

This is no more lawful than if Iran / North Korea / whoever blew up a couple American yachts in the Mediterranean for suspected drug trafficking. On the legal spectrum it sits in the middle of a Venn diagram between overt acts of military aggression, state-sponsored terrorism, and simple murder.

Extraordinary NYT story: Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted. They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most important redistricting and voting rights case of the term. Democracy Docket isn't just covering it for the day. It has been covering this case for years. Support its vital work to help keep you informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

GOV. WALZ: "The biggest myth is that this guy understands business. He's an absolute abject failure at business — the irony is calling Democrats socialists when I am begging for free markets here to allow capitalism to work. Trump’s the one with government interference." (From @atrupar.com )

🚨NEW: A case at the Supreme Court cites Trump reportedly promising oil donors favors as proof that pay-to-play influence is so pervasive that bribery laws must be narrowed so pay-to-play is no longer a prosecutable crime. The case is represented by a Trump-connected law firm.

Last year, we wrote about survivor Taylor Cadle. When she was 12, she told police she’d been raped. They said she was lying and charged her with false reporting. She then took the extraordinary measure of recording the next act of abuse. Now, Taylor has legal counsel and filed a lawsuit.

Four decades wrongfully incarcerated isn’t punishment enough for these sadistic fucks.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

Very cool and awesome that Congress can pass a law which functions as intended but 60 years later an unelected, unaccountable 9-member superlegislature can just say "Nah" and poof the law doesn't exist anymore.

Clarence Thomas announced that he doesn't care about precedent and is making it up as he goes along. He didn't say it *like that* of course, because then people would have noticed. But I noticed, through the jargon, and explain it here in @thenation. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Court reform must be part of any plan to save democracy Read: @elienyc.bsky.social @thenation.com on what's at stake Our new analysis finds court reform would check SCOTUS as a facilitator of autocracy, while preserving litigation as a tool to fight back: peoplesparity.org/research/no-...

Me: You don’t have Columbus Day off? Wife: No. 13yo: What’s Columbus Day? Wife: Indigenous people day. 13yo: oh, we have that off. Sorry you don’t mommy. Daddy, did you know Christopher Columbus sucked? Me: :).

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions. Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

Turns out, the MAGA Supreme Court is the one interested in converting your kids through the use of quack doctors with medically unsound practices based on no scientific evidence. "Every accusation is a confession" with them. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

If my "it's bullshit" isn't convincing enough, here's a good @lawfaremedia.org piece explaining... it's bullshit www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

If you live in a red state, you’re getting screwed the hardest by Trump and Republicans. 📌 The top 10 states facing the highest projected premium increases are all Republican led. #TrumpShutUSDown

NEW: Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

Stop grading Republicans on a curve. There are no Republican heroes in the fight for democracy. Staying grounded in the truth is essential — our democracy depends on it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDs3...

One point Judge Waverly Crenshaw pointed to in granting Kilmar Abrego discovery on Vindictive Prosecution is people, including Pam Bondi, kept making false claims publicly about Abrego. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Breaking: Andrew McCabe breaks his silence . "I never asked Jim Comey to authorize any disclosure to the media because I DIDN'T HAVE TO!"👇

I want a 13th Amendment lawsuit challenging prison slavery, espech in immigration detention I know youre thinkin 'the Constitution's ban on slavery explicitly exempts prison labor' but it's actually slightly narrower, exempting "punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted"

If he is really worried about democracy, he could tell all of us what Donald Trump whispered in his ear before he jumped.

More reason to pass my bill requiring a security audit of the data systems infiltrated by the DOGE boys. What data did they access? What data did they take? What back doors did they leave?

This is how elections in competitive autocracies work. Your vote can still lead to a change in who holds an office -- but those in power use the state to tilt the playing field in their favor.

Good question, and unfortunately, the answer is grim

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

Autism is a complex condition with no one cause. But we already have a strong understanding of what’s driving its increased incidence, that isn’t a mystery. We’re better at screening for it. And common risk factors (environmental, genetics, older maternal and paternal age) are rising.

Re-upping my post from earlier this year about how ridiculously thin the Court's embrace of the "unitary executive theory" in these cases has been: www.stevevladeck.com/p/153-living...

"When the right doesn't have power, they turn to appeals on principle. But when they do have it, those principles become an impediment, so they are discarded. How many Republicans have you heard talking about corruption or an independent judiciary or due process lately?" — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

It's also darkly funny that this entire monologue was an attempt to refute Ms. Rachel saying "love thy neighbor as yourself." Imagine reading this and rushing to debunk it. ca.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-c...

When you lay it all out like that...

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

this is… not how it works. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

“Stop the Count”: food-insecurity version. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

It’s a new kind of Saturday Night Massacre as Trump removes an experienced prosecutor he himself put in place in hopes he can find one who will prosecute a case based on politics, not the evidence. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

“As long as we obey, everything will be ok.”

Where are your columns attacking your own publications and networks for trying to impose white-think on everybody else? WHERE IS YOUR VAUNTED INTELLECTUAL CONSISTENCY NOW you soulness, opportunist ghouls?

The diminishment of prominent Black journalists is the latest indication that a period of progress in America has ended and a period of retrenchment is in full bloom. trib.al/VSbmOMm

So let me get this straight: the purpose of legacy media now, is to venerate Trump, white supremacy and Christian nationalism (and also Israel…) and any journalist of color who doesn’t go along will be fired.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.