NEW: Here's our report on the "SIM farm" the Secret Service discovered, which hopefully helps better explain what the hell is up with all this. @agreenberg.bsky.social, @lhn.bsky.social, & @mattburgess1.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/sim-fa...

Kimmel is back, but many Americans won’t be able to watch. Two companies — Nexstar and Sinclair — control hundreds of local TV stations and have business deals pending Donald Trump’s approval. They won’t air Kimmel tonight. I’m pressing for answers on potential corruption.

Here's a list of Fox News advertisers. You know what to do, America. Tag them in a post, email them, whatever you have to do. We can not normalize what Kilmeade said today. whoadvertiseson.org/foxnews/

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed. Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing. Both sides!

I just woke up from a long nap, can someone tell me if Trump has already apologized to the nation for falsely blaming the Kirk assassination on the left when—as with both his assassination attempts and 85% of political violence this century per the data—it was a far-right nutjob?

God help me, I Kirkposted www.todayintabs.com/p/groyper-wa...

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

The really fucked up thing is that if the guy who killed Kirk really is a groyper, or of some other far-right brain rot cluster, we just cannot rely on Trump's Justice Department to be honest about it.

yikes: a rundown www.todayintabs.com/p/groyper-wa...

The MAGA prosecutor probing NYAG over her civil fraud case was hit with a bar complaint this week accusing him of "potentially illegal conduct." A deep dive into his tenure at @AllRiseNews.com — with my video breakdown on @MeidasTouch.com's LegalAF www.allrisenews.com/p/john-sarco...

For those who were hopeful that Trump “pivoted” on Ukraine, the meeting in Alaska will sell Ukraine down the river. Trump is scared to death of Putin. Taco

Loomer, who has serious influence on this admin, is now arguing that the military is "disloyal" if they publicly praise past medal winners if they were Democrats.

A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

The US military is making bank getting soldiers addicted to gambling. www.wired.com/story/us-mil...

The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/

“It turned out, I had made a terrible mistake: I had remained friends with someone who had appeared on Kash Patel’s enemies list. How did Bongino find out about this private friendship? I honestly don’t know. … I faced a choice: get demoted or resign.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...

1/ Elon Musk wanted Texas legislators to create new crimes so people who fly drones or interfere with operations at SpaceX can be arrested. And he wanted to change who controlled the highway and public beach near SpaceX’s site so he can launch his rockets according to his timeline. He got them all.

"They have borrowed directly from Nazi sources to make the very same points that the Nazis were making. They understand very well that the way to establish a form of government that is not bound by law or reason is to declare a state of emergency."

Angus: Canadians need to be really ready. We are upping our investment in military spending significantly. We are now procuring from the Europeans—whereas before, we would have just gone to the United States as usual to buy gear. We’re not buying gear from the United States.

At ~6:15 p.m. tonight the Los Angeles City Attorney sent out a statement on the ICE raids. "The dangerous escalation of the tactics being used across Los Angeles undermines trust between our immigrant communities and government, and makes us all less safe." cityattorney.lacity.gov/updates/la-c...

Bad shit happens when the military comes into to a volatile situation. This reminds me of a story from the 1992 riots in Los Angeles, to which some Marines deployed. I knew one of them and he told this story I also saw elsewhere — absent his telling it I would have assumed it was apocryphal. /1

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

userland ROP on day 1 💪

I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/

She rejects both sides definitions of "predatory incursion," but adopts her own, which she says is satisfied. (It relies a lot on the fact that Secy Rubio designated Tren de Aragua a foreign terrorist organization in February.) /2

I find Judge Haines' reasoning weak. She doesn't discuss the history of the AEA (the Quasi-War), rejects a "military" requirement on pure textualism, cites to use of the word "incursion" in the modern era to refer to terrorist attacks, and thus concludes acts by FTOS count as "predatory incursions"

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Walz: When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child has? Government just big enough to fit in your bedroom, your womb, and apparently now in your toy chest.

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And there you have it.

Hardcoded credentials in the Signal archiving tool used by the White House is a five-alarm security dumpster fire.

For background see NYTimes story below. TeleMessage, an app built by Israeli developers to archive Signal messages, was acquired by an Oregon company. That company says Signal msgs it archives for US-based Signal users stay in US and don't go to Israel. But hardcoded credentials raise new concern

UPDATE: Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social and Brenna Frey—two former Skadden associates who resigned over the law firm’s response to Trump’s executive orders targeting lawyers—are joining a new firm launched by Abbe Lowell, the high-profile criminal defense attorney who represented Hunter Biden.

For those keeping score at home… (Source: @TheEconomist)

#WorldPressFreedomDay 🔥 @froomkin.bsky.social

The sleepwalk into authoritarianism continues

We hadn’t won World War II by May 8th. I know because my family and I were still in an internment camp in Tule Lake, California.

I wrote up a detailed analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app that senior Trump fascists use to organize their war crimes micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-...

The source code for the TM SGNL apps (basically a backdoored version of Signal used by Trump officials) is public! Since it's open source, I've pushed it to github for easier research micahflee.com/heres-the-so...

Dear Bluesky, Because of you, 'Letters from God' has grown by 60,000 people in the last 4 months. Thanks! That said, growth has slowed, maybe 'cuz everyone is sad. I just need 69 more free subs to reach my next milestone of 135,000. Please help God get there: www.thegodpodcast.com/subscribe

Mitch McConnell is retiring after 40 years of working hard to make Kentucky one of the poorest, most under-educated, and unhealthy states in the US.

This guy outside the Capitol seems to really be enjoying his weekend. What a vibe.

The most dangerous legal doctrine right now is a "norm" the courts developed to presume good faith and regularity from presidents and their administrations. For the sake of democracy, the courts must stop presuming donald Trump is a regular president. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

“See you in court.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".