bingo 🎯

Nexstar is a private company with the right to not air programming it objects to. Disney (owner of ABC) is a private company with the right to take Monday Night Football and other programming to local affiliates that will air all of it. If they don't, they're asking to be pushed around. We'll see.

Finally reading the full Gold Card EO and wow is it wild. The order says that any person who pays $1 million is, by definition, a person of "exceptional business ability" and therefore qualified for an EB-2 visa. Does anything better sum up the Trump ethos than "all rich people are exceptional."?

I made the mistake of venturing onto Facebook… Where HHS no longer seems to know how to spell acetaminophen. Of course, that’s the least troubling part of their proclamations.

(Bloomberg) - President Xi Jinping’s export engine has proved unstoppable during five months of sky-high US tariffs, sending China toward a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Trump's model for his emerging drug war has been imprisoned and awaits trial for war crimes.

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

Lawgeeks, Kilmar Abrego Garcia's reply filing in support of his motion to dismiss the criminal case in Tennessee for vindictive and selective prosecution is an excellent, powerful (and short) read. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

They gave up on pseudo-science, now it's anti-science. They no longer try to make it look like authentic science, instead the hook is, "this is not what the scientists and doctors tell you, and that's how you know you can trust it." Depressingly, this view controls the whole federal government.

Good for Professor Bakken at West Point. Apparently their faculty restrictions now even include a ban on "expressing opinions" (how does that even work when teaching? We ask our students to express opinions!!!) apnews.com/article/west...

Smdh at Sinclair. THIS is exactly why so many of us have for years and decades spoken up against media consolidation.

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Their feelings are very delicate

Jimmy Kimmel isn't returning to the airwaves because of "thoughtful conversations" with Disney executives. He's back because consumers sent Disney a clear message: selling out our fundamental rights is not an acceptable cost of doing business.

meanwhile costco was all “DEI is good and we’re keeping it, fuck you” and they’re now basically printing money

SCOTUSblog had long called the shadow docket by its neutral term, the “Emergency Docket,” but the site has just switched to Kavanaugh’s new preferred term, “Interim Docket.” Dispatch Media’s helping Brett make fetch happen.

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

NEW: White House officials are "ecstatic" at their long winning run at the Supreme Court. Details on their aggressive legal strategy here: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Trump’s delusional if he thinks this ends with Bubba from Oklahoma landing a tech job. Tech firms will just move operations overseas to reach top-tier talent. 📌 After Trump slapped a $100K fee on new visas, several passengers bailed minutes before takeoff, afraid they couldn’t get back into the US.

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl

Has anyone ever pointed out to Trump that The Village People were (I think?? some of them?) gay? It just feels like something they need to reconcile since it’s his theme song

Tucker Carlson to the cultic mob whose leader pretends his bonfire of the universities is about protecting Jews: "I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamp-lit room with a bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus, thinking about, ‘What do we do about this guy telling the truth about us?’"

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

A white man killed a white man. No "them." A 22-year-old white man, Tyler Robinson, mostly apolitical, allegedly killed Kirk because Kirk's homophobic comments radicalized him. Robinson came from a gun-loving, conservative, Trump voting family. "One of us," as Republican Gov Cox said.

They are running this ad in blue cities in blue states. It’s propaganda intended to create an “internal opposition force”

hi this is a dumb question but who is paying for this memorial service slash merch extravaganza?

Karl Rove in the WSJ: "‘They’ Didn’t Kill Charlie Kirk" www.wsj.com/opinion/they... JD Vance again today: "they" killed Kirk www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

This piece by Robert Post is excellent. I especially like that he traces the Trump Administration's authoritarian trampling on the First Amendment to, in part, the Roberts Court's extreme unitary executive theory. verfassungsblog.de/turn-against...

They are not hiding it, people who don't see it at this point are choosing not to

Yes, “the worst of the worst.” Drug traffickers. Predators. 73 year old Sikh grandmas who sew saris and pay taxes www.bbc.com/news/article...

Democrats must impeach FCC chair Brendan Carr over Jimmy Kimmel. Yes, we know Dems don't have the votes to actually impeach Carr. But they can use the threat of impeachment to fuel the narrative of how the GOP is coming for our freedoms. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/heres-why-...

I’m in Boston. This ad just came on TV

I suspect a lot of the ceremony around Kirk is an attempt to leverage Christian nationalist symbology in order to convey the messianic fervor of MAGA from Trump to Vance.

Bloomberg Defends NYPD's Controversial Stop And Kiss Program

It’s heartening to hear many principled voices argue that those in office should wield political power in a way that they would be happy to have it wielded when they’re not in power. But it’s worth saying this clearly: the current administration is not acting as if it intends to be out of power.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Ironically, by demanding prosecution, Trump may have given his “enemies list” a built in defense if he can find a prosecutor to indict them: Selective or vindictive prosecution is grounds for dismissal joycevance.substack.com/p/show-me-th...

This chaos also speaks to the growing awareness of the profound corruption of the Supreme Court. The excessive H1B fee is clearly illegal according to the text of the applicable statute. But no one can have any confidence anymore that it will ultimately be thrown out.

Russian politicians, journalists, and public figures who have fallen victim to Putin's regime⤵️

I understand this ad is running in Texas this weekend during football games 👀

⬇️⬇️⬇️ (Russia recruits criminals to work on behalf of the state with the leverage of prosecution if they don't)

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

Holy shit www.youtube.com/watch?v=emiB...

“The Watergate scandal was unfair to Nixon” is basically the ethos of the unitary executive theory.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.