The strategy for elections cannot be landslides to prevent them from being stolen. That makes no sense at all.

Could write a dissertation about how this is the inevitable result of a culture built on Calvinism and dominated by Evangelical Christianity

It is. The Jewish Musuem in Prague has a collection of children's drawings from the Terezin ghetto. It was the worst thing I've seen in my life.

Concentration camps. Literally. Start using the correct language NOW.

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

They’re trying to open the largest prisons-turned-camps in the hemisphere and it barely registers as an issue

The U.S. teaches North and South America as 2 continents. Many other countries teach 6 continents, with all of America as one single continent.

And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

shorter ring commercial: your spy camera’s auto-search function will only be used to track down lost dogs AND NEVER TO HUNT HUMANS (probably)

No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.

Fatphobia is used to police access to healthcare and public places. It is used to police who is worthy of being seen and who is not. It is used to harm and other. Unlearn it.

“God bless America”… and then naming every country in the continent. Fuck yeah.

Fuck fatphobia

I grinned and cried through that whole thing.

This years Super Bowl ads are all sponsored by the buy nothing movement

The ball wanted to touch grass

The coinbase commercial was like someone rushed to complete a class project they’d totally forgotten about

All the lawyers watching that commercial are like WTF this is a solvable problem...

This feels a lot like the year all the ads were about NFTs.

Using Mr. Rogers in a Super Bowl commercial for mortgages should result in prison time

I’m going to trebuchet myself into the sun

Green Day: “don’t wanna be an American Idiot” Page Six:

Did not realize Charlie Puth has a voice like butter.

Judge Dana Douglas, about Judges Edith Jones and Kyle Duncan: "The majority seems to be unable to imagine what it might mean to be detained ... [and] to require the services of a federal habeas corpus lawyer to show that one ... deserves to see the outside of a detention center again."

This is a very, very bad decision from one of the two Reagan judges left on the Fifth Circuit, joined by one of the two most extreme Trump appointees on the court. And, it is about the issue I walked through at Law Dork earlier this week, in the context of Minnesota: www.lawdork.com/i/186796727/...

Everything is awful but if you subscribe to Law Dork, you already understand how out-of-line tonight's Fifth Circuit ruling is. www.lawdork.com

Lmao I see someone has already updated the Wikipedia page for the National Prayer Breakfast

Oh.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

BREAKING: BRAD KARP OUT AS CHAIR OF PAUL WEISS.

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

What’s up with the government lawyer who told a federal judge in Minnesota on Tuesday that “the system sucks” and her “job sucks”? I have you covered at Law Dork:

Psh, look at this law nerd game for law nerds. Anyway, when will this game be available for purchase?

Memphis’s winter storm strategy of “close everything down for 2 weeks and hope the ice melts” is cute until it means my Lupus meds are a week late and I’m in a full-blown flare 🥲

I have confirmed the gist of this report out of federal court in Minnesota today from a source familiar. If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.

The front page Hachette Book Group website, which just announced it will publish Sam Alito's book this fall, is all about condemning bans on kids' books that discuss LGBTQ identity—the same books that Alito's majority opinion in Mahmoud v Taylor is scrubbing from classrooms across the country

Buried lede: he realizes that it is absolutely impossible to achieve mass deportation if that process is required, which it constitutionally is.

Breaking: Eight more prosecutors are leaving the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, including Ana Voss, the current civil division chief, the Star Tribune reports. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

BREAKING: Judge Jia Cobb issues a TRO blocking DHS Sec Noem's Jan 8 memo purporting to require 7-day notices by members of Congress to perform oversight visits to immigration detention facilities. The effect is that congressional oversight visits are allowed on request, as is required by Sec. 527.

Not ICE, but CBP. ICE is terrible, but CBP is orders of magnitude worse. In many ways, abolishing or radically overhauling CBP is of greater urgency than ICE, but likely tougher to do. One can argue that ~all of ICE's duties can be reallocated. Harder to say that with CBP.

Is two years enough time to add the SS guardposts and the stone tunnel?

I genuinely loved law school and sometimes I miss being a student. But honestly, the thing I miss most about law school is Duke Healthcare. 🥲 I would move back to Durham just for that.

NEW: “Liam Conejo Ramos and his father have landed back in Minnesota following a judge's order,” @mprnews.org reports: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

“On Saturday, as this longest of months comes to a close, a federal judge in Texas granted a writ of habeas corpus ordering the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias.” In today’s Law Dork:

Here is the judgment (with no date issue): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In other words, the liberal arts has provided an all-you-can-eat, buffet style approach to education while the “skills-based,” careerist approach that now seeks to replace it is more like being force-fed spoonfuls of tepid gruel.

Police aren’t angry about ICE because they see their methods and tactics as wrong, unethical, or immoral. They use similar illegal and dehumanizing tactics. They’re angry because they’re worried about reactions to ICE trickling over to them and highlighting the fact that policing operates similarly.