Holy shit!

Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel. "Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."

grifter

sorry, The Atlantic sucks

Best explanation of the liar's dividend that I've ever seen.

Justice Kavanaugh v. the Kavanaugh Stop

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Check out the Kavanaugh FN 4; I think it's pretty clear that the Kavanaugh Stop thing has gotten to him:

ineptitude AND corruption

inept redaction in the Epstein docs

The proper headline, per Betteridge's Law, would have been "did an amateur codebreaker just solve the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings?". Not a chance.

NEW: Judge Cannon blocks release of Special Counsel's report about Trump’s retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. “There is no legitimate reason for the report’s continued suppression. ... We will appeal this ruling," @scottbwilkens.bsky.social. knightcolumbia.org/content/judg...

thread on Bari Weiss hypocrisy

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Probably not. She's probably just referring to the JGG v Trump case.

Got this text, looks like somebody starting a touting pyramid: "Good day!Our team has discovered a promising stock with projected gains of 80-120% this week. Reply "yes" to receive this investment advice for free."

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

this is a good illustration of how much the particular pathologies of the people in charge matter even if the forces pushing them don’t rely on individuals donald trump has been evil don quixote for years, hating windmills is one of his most deeply held beliefs, so we don’t get to have wind power

Bari Weiss's CBS is corrupt state media, unsurprisingly

Here's a macOS process accounting bug (with sa) reported back in 2012 that has never been fixed: discussions.apple.com/thread/36394...

The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law. It has no legitimacy whatsoever.

US defense firm Anduril has announced a joint venture w/ a state-run Emirati weapons conglomerate whose arms have been repeatedly linked to atrocities in Sudan, including the RSF’s genocidal campaign in Darfur, The Intercept reports. The partnership will focus on autonomous weapons systems...

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

As others have noted, these redactions appear to be blatantly illegal (assuming Fox News' report is correct). www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. " h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social

Ahem: lol www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Over no public dissents, #SCOTUS *denies* Trump administration's application for a stay in the immigration judges case (about whether the dispute should be in a district court or before the Merit Systems Protection Board). It's the Trump administration's first real loss at #SCOTUS since April.

Yes, it’s illegal. Like changing it to Department of War, like ten thousand other things. Part of the Trump strategy is to break the law and convey “the rule of law is weak and feminine and laughable and should be overridden by Our Guy.” Trump is fundamentally anti-law. /1

There's nothing "libertarian" about projects like this. They're cyberpunk dystopias where business makes the laws and imported guest-workers live under them. c4ss.org/content/59956

US investment manager charged with pre-IPO fraud scheme involving US drone maker Anduril Separately "Anduril founder Palmer Luckey accused crypto firm AlphaTON of defrauding investors" Alphaton is led by former Cambridge Analytica exec Brittany Kaiser

Westboro Baptist Church protesting at AmFest, also trying to stir up division

let them fight

I know a lot happened today, but just a reminder— This morning Trump's Bitcoin holding company with a social-media side hustle announced plans to merge with a nuclear-fusion firm, causing the president's stock to go up by $500 million

The real cost of the administration’s utterly bonkers restriction on visas for trust and safety workers. dcjournal.com/state-dept-v...

well, that should adequately address any national security or bias concerns

Full list of sponsors & cosponsors on the S230 repeal bill www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...

NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230. No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech. We can't let this happen. Share & take action www.badinternetbills.com

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

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that Maples quote, god DAMN

Today I stumbled across Apple macOS Sandbox Profile Language (SBPL) for the first time, wondering what is going on with these .sb files containing Lisp code (it's a Scheme derivative). (In /System/Library/Sandbox/Profiles.)

“Leave it to business journalists to successfully stage a boardroom coup against an AI chief executive.” This is a really funny story about an AI vending machine. And does not seem to be paywalled.

Gallego again, Kelly too

The Trump administration is breaking up a research center praised as a “crown jewel” of climate research after accusing it of spreading “alarmism” about climate change. From our friends at @theguardian.com:

This meme format has never seemed so apropos

hard to see how this doesn't end up a Thiel vs. Musk final.

thread, this seems pretty bad

It is international law 101 that a military blockade is not just a violation of the UN Charter, but a crime of aggression. Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.' None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack. 1/

they keep emphasizing that these are on "known narcotrafficking routes" and like, those are just route-routes. there are not special ocean highways for drugs.