Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

This is the video the Eric Adams retweeted on his own account which I believe makes this criminal fraud. The Fox Business clip states that "New York City is launching a new digital token called NYC Token." That statement was materially misleading as NYC wasn't doing anything.

Eric Adams engaging in a new brazen fraud - scamming "investors" a mere 30 minutes after he launched a meme coin in a "rug pull" scheme. His marketing of the coin, named $NYC, suggests an apparently successful attempt to make people believe it was an official NYC crypto coin.

Chicago Pope putting his thumb on the scales ...

The Bears man, I don't know.

Or as another mayor recently said: "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty."

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." -George Orwell, 1984

Make it viral.

Great scene:

This war is completely illegitimate: 60% of Americans disapprove of going to war with Venezuela—74% disapprove war without Congressional approval. Only 19% are in favor. The people oppose it. Our representatives didn’t approve it. Trump should be removed for this unconstitutional war.

I have to imagine this is the rank and file MAGA reaction to the idea of open ended nation building in Venezuela. I'm sure they would have been fine with capturing the guy and leaving Venezuela to fend for itself. But running the country? No way they want that.

I can't imagine this is going to be popular. Who wants this? Why do we think this is a good idea? We suck at this.

Trump: "We're going to run Venezuela until a proper transition can take place." What the actual fuck!?

What a ridiculous carpet for a presidential address about starting an unauthorized war.

Ate soup dumplings at the same table as Mark Ruffalo at Joe's Shanghai. Luckily, nothing happened to make him angry.

I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.

Craziest 2 point conversion ever

I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

Besides providing an opportunity to Trump for graft, our anti-trust laws are effectively meaningless. Any coherent anti-trust regime would have prevented this deal from even being proposed.

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

This is incredible

You can take my obsolete cables from my cold dead hands!

This is weird and lovely and will effectively counteract the latest Nuzzi-Lizza horrorshow.

The widely shared picture of JD Vance, apparently recovering from a bender with the Rat Pack, is on the official White House Flicker account. Now today on war.gov, a picture of the Usha Vance without her wedding ring just got published (taken Wednesday). Vance might be sleeping with the couch.

The Preliminary Statement in this dissent is fucking bonkers. Clearly Judge Smith ignored one of the most important rules for lawyers: "You can write when your angry, but wait till you've calmed down to edit and finalize." www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...

The woman in this story asked for an abortion to protect her health during the first trimester. If not for Dobbs, that choice would have been hers. Instead, she got increasingly sick for another 2 months, and then died.

Leave it to Trump to take an otherwise constitutional partisan gerrymander and turn it into an expressly racial gerrymander

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

. @kenwhite.bsky.social I really do love listening to your takes on the law and the Trump administration, but I think we're now at the point where I can't in good conscious keep paying for "serious trouble" as it enables your co-host. His reflexive centrism is bad enough, but this goes after my kid:

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

This is a patently insane story. The BBC didn't misrepresent Trump's speech. He sent them to the Capital and claimed he would be with them. The January 6th Committee provided unrebutted evidence that makes it clear he meant for that to occur. Orwell would be ashamed of the BBC.

Hiding the legacy of racism is racism.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

The longer the Jury deliberations go on in the "sandwich guy" trial, the odds that one juror throws a sandwich at another juror, in order to prove a point, approach 100%.

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

Has no one on the Supreme Court bothered to learn the relevant history of England that lead up to the Revolutionary War here? The power to impose/set and collect tariffs caused multiple rebellions in England. It was a primary cause of the Revolutionary War. They seem ignorant of this.

Wow, the majority on the Supreme Court is just completely willing to debase themselves with obviously dumb and bad faith arguments on this tariff issue. It's sort of amazing how willing powerful men are willing to debase themselves for Trump. I just don't understand it.

What a powerful acceptance speech. I hope he is incredibly successful. Let's fucking go NYC!!

"I wish Andrew Cuomo all the best in private life but let tonight be the last time I utter his name" Fucking cold blooded

mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.

Cuomo is going to move to Florida now, right?

This is bait ⬇️

You better deliver @schumer.senate.gov

Donald Trump will be the first President to lose the World Series to a foreign team in over 3 decades if Toronto wins it all. #ALCS

Thanks for the assist, Geoff. Ya done good. chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

DHS has used the Statute of Liberty's likeness in at least 16 ICE recruiting posters it posted to its X account in the last two months. Lady Liberty had been "permanently stamped" as "the role of unofficial greeter of incoming immigrants." DHS is clearly seeking to change that perception.