Yesterday, I went to an ICE check-in with 16-year-old Joel Camas and his lawyer, who expected him to be out in time for school by 8am because he has special immigrant juvenile (SIJ) status. Instead, he was detained. Here is what happened (free link): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/n...

Maybe cover the cost of the gold fixtures, gold plateware, and silverware in the new Trump East Wing Social Club?

Really interesting stuff. Compelling argument for a framework that's manifestly needed. Neither government agencies nor privacy companies will get the US where we need to be alone.

Not to mention that casual anti-semitism that drives naming Soros when pushing the canard that that protestors hate America.

lol "lost its trucking mind", well-played @nyc.streetsblog.org team.

Article I Section 8 has never been so badly immolated.

We try to stay current but Gen Xrs have a Gen X lense. This is a great interview between two Millenials that displays why those outside of that generational band may never have predicated how dominant Mamdani would be this year. (ht @katie-drummond.bsky.social) www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

Free speech maxmimalists, the "public square" zealots, etc.

Of course, the discretion is a function of the enabling statute. Brookings has a good brief here. www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...

What laws authorize any of the bailout of Argentina that the Treasury Secretary has floated? What authorizes a "currency swap line" with a foreign nation for $20 billion, to the extent that can even be understood? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Great piece. I had forgotten that Justice Kennedy provided the fifth vote in Shelby County, which has to be one of the most bad faith decisions in SCOTUS history. He also authored Citizens United (which Roberts joined). We shouldn't see his legacy with rose-tinted glasses.

Just got an annual subscription to @blockclubchi.bsky.social whose reporters are doing just vital beat reporting from the streets of Chicago, e.g., this searing dispatch from @themelodymercado.bsky.social. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/13/f...

Since the Office of the Attorney General was founded in 1789 it's possible it has had a more dishonorable year than 2025 but I struggle to readily identify one.

Mariska Hargitay portrays a fictionalized detective for the NYPD, whose officers and detectives have been effectively fighting crime without masks and with identifiable uniforms for 180 years.

With bullies you fight or you yield, there is rarely if ever a middle road. Bravo indeed.

Powerful piece from @mimirocah1.bsky.social @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @dahlialithwick.bsky.social & @rachelfoster.bsky.social & Rachel Foster reminding us to avoid tabloid framing and center Epstein's victims in lieu of him and those who reprehensibly abetted him. slate.com/news-and-pol...

A true nadir given that the reason for the block is to avoid disclosure of facts on the relationships one of our countries' worst pedophiles had over his decades of malevolence.

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They can't seek nor would they expect credit but the First Circuit law clerks who worked on this did a bang-up job. A+.

Great thread full of great questions to which I'd add: does Congress act in dereliction of its duties under Article I when it sits idly by with an Executive assuming a carte blanche war power that derives from no law?

Great piece and it somehow vanished from our memory that just last week Tucker Carlson told a packed stadium and millions viewing a funeral ceremony that his "favorite story" from the bible was when Jews conspired over a plate of hummus to kill Jesus.

indeed, also equal opportunity policies derive from our civil rights laws and the 14th Amendment which Hegseth can neither ignore nor flout (unless the Supreme Court permits him to, which has greater than fifty percent odds alas).

Great piece and jarring to see FDR's central role in the history here given the effects polio had on his body.

US wineries *alone* (i.e., not including retail, distro, F&B, etc.) employed ~64k people in 2022, per BLS statistics. Probably down a bit more since. The coal-mining industry *overall* employs ~40k and falling, per FRED. www.bls.gov/spotlight/20... fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES10...

Most days now I'm not sure which mass shooting we're talking about.

What are the names of the murdered or wounded at the ICE facility? Why don’t we know this yet? Has the victim’s body been returned to his family?

Yes, this judge's opinion is really something. (And, as DJT would put it, something "not good" for the guy who is now a Harvard dean.)

Come join me at the 92nd Street Y for a conversation with Doriane Coleman and Dr. Joanna Harper about transgender athletes and the future of sports. Sign up today, you will not want to miss it: www.92ny.org/event/fair-p...

So much this. Make Speaker Johnson give the "each kid only needs one small toy" speech during the whip count.

A great piece by @stevenlevy.bsky.social with all-world graphic work where the great prof @marklemley.bsky.social makes an appearance in the lede. My @wired.com subscription feels like the best thing I'm spending money on. www.wired.com/story/silico...

If there was a more grotesque vote in the Senate in the last century than the vote to confirm RFK I struggle to think of one.

This is very funny

Must-read via @tarapalmeri.bsky.social on the personal motive for the ravaging (and unconstitutional) assault on an independent media. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The only real example I can think of from the past five years of a person using speech to incite political violence was the President's speech in the lead up to and on the day of January 6th.

Correction, I realize Kimmel doesn't need a first amendment lawyer because ABC likely just violated his contract. So a great contract dispute litigator will suffice. Would be shocked if Kimmel's actions warranted a "for cause" termination.

The Commissioner is debasing his law degree and law license. The "public interest" language he keeps citing does not apply to cable or streaming services but solely to the airwaves from which virtually no American gets content This is all a ruse for censorship of content, and he knows it.

Pseudo-science that advances nothing but misogyny, and it's all made worse by the implication it carries that women in the past made choices that caused their child to have autism. Truly repugnant.

Because today and all days I refuse to live in a world where we are told to pretend an act passed by Congress, signed by the President, and upheld by the Supreme Court does not exist, I present to you the "Qualified Divestiture" provisions of the federal law that banned TikTok in the US.

So: 1. Ninety more days of pain and suffering for our soybean farmers and the freight workers who haul the produce. 2. No relief for working class consumers trying to buy toys by Christmas. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

Per a binding treaty to which the US is a signatory, the US and all other NATO members have a duty to engage to assist Poland with the defense of its territory.

There is no greater way to disgrace and dishonor the brave men and women of the NYPD than to insinuate they can't do their job and that federal troops can. www.amny.com/news/nypd-co...

"On Aug. 29, for the first time in nearly a century, small-dollar items coming into the U.S. — also called de minimis goods — began facing import duties." Meanwhile Congress, derelict. www.nbcnews.com/business/rcn...

For those wanting to cut through the overwhelming noise surrounding the NYC Mayor's office, I strongly recommend this interview with @lindseyboylan.bsky.social. The Me Too movement, and we Me Too voters, are alive and kicking. www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...

Said it before I'll say it again. Not giving a young child a safe, effective vaccine to protect them from getting deadly illnesses that can ravage them amounts to child neglect or abuse under any state penal law. (ht @petridishes.bsky.social) www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Tariff inflation means people have less money to spend which means employers have less money to hire which is made worse by immigration raids that disappear workers, so yeah I agree.

22,000 new nonfarm jobs in a country with 300 mil+ people smdh.

A video of the Minnesota church shooter walking into a gun shop days before the killings, acting "normal," buying a revolver, raising no red flags and it all being perfectly legal. Surely no lessons to take from this

He's also said COVID was "ethnically targeted" to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people, so yeah he's terrible in all respects.

"The Project is projected to deliver enough domestic energy to power more than 350,000 homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut." Per the 2020 census, there are 480,000 homes in all of Rhode Island. The President's wackadoodle obsession with wind fortunately has no legal foundation.

At the end of its opinion, the District Court vacates and sets aside the funding freezes to Harvard, which means the funding should resume immediately. I can't think of a defensible reason for a stay from the First Circuit. (cc @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...