This is a great thread. The only way out is through, and no matter how you slice that, it’s going to be incredibly painful for a lot of people who deserve better.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

“More than 14 million people could die over the next five years because of the Trump [regime] dismantling USAID… Around 4.5 million would be among children under 5… 88 deaths per hour.” “It’s not left-wing rhetoric to feed the hungry, heal the sick. If this isn’t murder, I don’t know what is.” Bono

My least favorite genre of skeets is screenshots from X. Friends, if I wanted to see right-wing AI slop, I'd create my own account over there. Leave it be.

What's your sign?

The first time there was almost a vote on the Epstein files, Johnson sent the House on vacation early to avoid it Now he's on the brink of shutting down the entire government No one loves protecting child sexual abusers like Mike Johnson does

When the guy that wrote your Con Law casebook talks about the Constitution, it's good to listen.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

Looking for something else and stumbled on this from 2009. How far we’ve come.

In London, hate will never win.

people are mad at Ds for not fighting Rs. but they hate Rs and are still voting against Rs! D failure in the next couple years doesn't look like losing elections. it looks like winning a lot of elections but then not being willing to confront fascism.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to rebuke calls to target “hate speech” in an apparent swipe at Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” said Sotomayor.

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

Today is a good day for the “block” button.

There is a real possibility that Charlie Kirk’s death will serve as a pretext for authoritarian purges. And our political culture does not have much experience with that. Mainstream reporters and politicians are not in the habit of recognizing or naming it.

After the standards underpinning the World Wide Web were created in the early 90s, we decided the best way to fund the web’s development was through ads and not as a public resource like roads or libraries. Every day I think about how different things would be if we’d gone the other way.

don't think it's a good thing to have a society this highly armed and this unstable

The birthday book is clear: there was a cabal of rich, powerful people (mostly men) whose fondest memories with Jeffrey Epstein involved trafficking young girls for sex—trading them like baseball cards—and one of them is the current American president. You’re cool with this or you’re not. That’s it.

Hi US citizens. You are now subject to sudden seizure at your workplace and lengthy detention, at any time, by a blitz of heavily federal armed troops—despite having committed no crime and not even being charged with any crime. Not my opinion. This is what HSI *says* that it did.

Master Plans I, II, and III fared so well Tesla had to try again, but this time by making the maniac who failed the first three times a trillionaire. “…the company unveiled what it called its Master Plan IV…” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/b...

I can't believe I have to say this out loud, but no, a stupid tokenizer that only works on stolen data cannot have legal rights just because a few Stanford dropouts think it would be cool if they did. Can we please never speak of this again?

Imagine at your summer internship a guy gives a talk about how women generally have lower IQ. It's awkward enough that a senior administrator later explains that the talk was inappropriate. Now, imagine reading that the President has nominated this person to lead a major govt agency!

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing

A show about a series of negligence claims against a sandwich shop in East LA. Torts and Tortas

But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.

They are disappearing undesirables. They are deploying the military into cities. And now they are trying to commandeer railway stations. I can’t put my finger on it but this sounds familiar.

There are so many skeets and responses and sub-threads in this I’m not even totally sure where it starts, but a very fun 1A / ConLaw exercise on GenAI. Kudos to @aricohn.com for tirelessly engaging here.

I see the use of facial recognition in law enforcement is going well. This case has it all: unauthorized use of software, unauthorized access to data, deceitful manipulation of data, lack of transparency, and an attempted cover-up. Stellar work all around. www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3ds...

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw

You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.

DC: If you see anything related to Trump’s ride along this evening, send to marisakabas.04 on Signal.

You can tell me we need the ABA as an accreditor of law schools. You can tell me we need the bar exam to ensure lawyers are practice ready. You cannot tell me both.

No amount of other people’s money will deter Sam Altman from continuing to fail to deliver on vague non-commitments.

I'm not right wing but some of this "woke" stuff is a little over the top [6 months later] Slavery was fine. Your city is under martial law

I hope nobody named *Y*g*l*e*s*i*a*s never does anything important because I just muted the word forever.

Echoes what @vermontgmg.bsky.social said to @maddow.msnbc.com yesterday, noting forces Trump already deployed: "You don't need to discourage all that many people voting in all that many places across the country to radically reshape national politics."

This is such an important point. Ruling by executive order is generally fleeting. A lot of the damage that has been done in the last 7 months can be undone.

I hope DC residents and organizations consider these hostile acts by the governors of Ohio, South Carolina, and West Virginia when making spending and investment decisions.

there’s a popular digital guide written and used by police that recommends sharing links with URL tracking elements to capture people’s IPs. Linkumori is a browser extension that purifies URLs before trackers can log you.

For the zillionth time: AI chatbots are NOT search engines! Scammers are now reverse engineering the likely results to *create* the fake URLs and resources AI will hallucinate to you, thereby steering you directly to malware or bad actors. Stop treating ChatGPT like Google.

Micromanaging the day-to-day affairs of D.C. is not what voters elected the president and members of Congress in their home states to accomplish. We need D.C. statehood NOW: dcstatehoodnow.org

Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪

These two things cannot both be true: 1: throwing a sandwich at a federal officer is a violent assault worthy of prosecution. 2: raiding the Capitol grounds, assaulting police offices & vandalizing federal property in an effort to interfere with an election is a harmless protest worthy of pardons.

US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked