Somewhere in Dallas Harlan Crow telling his accountant right now to amortize Clarence Thomas as a business expense again this year.

Antiabortion extremists have purchased a facility that will host an antiabortion academy capable of training hundreds of militant extremists at a time in tactics including blockades, harassment and other intimidation actions. msmagazine.com/2025/11/26/a...

A small startup funded by 1789 Capital, a venture capital firm where Trump Jr. is a partner, will receive a $620 million loan from the Defense Department, the Financial Times reported. The contract was awarded just three months after 1789 invested in Vulcan.

Once again, a Scottish newspaper takes a stand, refusing to follow the mainstream media mob in perpetuating the great fiction that is the Gaza “ceasefire”. The @scotnational.bsky.social puts their peers to shame.

D-Day vet who moved to Normandy in final years dies at 101 trib.al/PRx8cQb

DOJ lawyer warns Midway Blitz is not over as judge considers lawsuit's dismissal From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

This is an insane paragraph. This is at the very least, literally, not "indisputable". The lower-court ruling you're overturning said otherwise, and there's written, public evidence the DOJ said do this for racial reasons! "Indisputable" just means "I don't care to deal with contrary evidence."

Alito's (brief) concurrence says the "impetus" for the Texas map was "partisan." This is a response to the lower court that struck down the map, saying there's evidence of racial impetus. A big evidence was that the DOJ wrote to Texas explicitly saying they should redistrict for racial reasons.

By rolling back auto industry fuel efficiency goals, US president Donald Trump hopes to make new cars cheaper. But prices won't drop for years, and consumers will spend more on gas in the meantime. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

This week's special election in Tennessee demonstrated the power and consequences of partisan gerrymandering, with lessons for the rest of the country as redistricting efforts spread.

Last week, I spoke to SCOTUS scholar @leahlitman.bsky.social in an interview about how the Texas map case posed a test for the Roberts court. It'd show "immense hypocrisy" to uphold Texas maps, but void Louisiana's, she said. ICYMI at All Rise News www.allrisenews.com/p/texas-loui...

As I've said from the start, these charges are baseless. It's time for the weaponization of our justice system to stop. I'm grateful to the members of the grand jury and humbled by the support I've received across the nation. I will keep doing my job standing up for New Yorkers.

NEW📰: Democracy requires both an informed citizenry and a free press. But how do these ideals show up in public policy? Today, we have a paper out that looks at how media has become highly concentrated, commercialized, and drained of its public interest potential.

Yesterday, @hcrichardson.bsky.social interviewed @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social... Good stuff.

Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.

On every front this administration is filled with the most reprehensible people.

The reason the judiciary functions is because judges understand that despite everyone being human beings who hold grudges and have stupid opinions and peccadilloes and flaws, there is a sense that you have to justify what you're doing on more than "because I say so." This Court is undermining that.

I don't think the Justices understand the extent to which they are playing with fire. The more they do this, the more District Courts will engage in open disrespect of the Supreme Court, because what other response is there to open disrespect directed at them? That's bad for the Judiciary, period.

As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?

Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full. 25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan. Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.

I'm struggling to articulate this in my teaching: there is a point in preserving the ideals of avoiding fear or favor and exercising reasoned judgment in law, even if they have to be kept in exile

The boat was split in half. 9 men were dead. 2 more clung to a floating piece of wreckage and tried desperately to flip it over for 41 minutes straight. There was no possible way they were going anywhere. Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.

“I really believe that if I didn’t have [my] birth certificate, I would be somewhere in a facility,” one resident said, recalling that one of the armed federal agents who stopped him on the street aggressively asked if he was from Ethiopia or Ghana. With @mlk50.com

A grand jury rejects a new mortgage fraud indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, an AP source says.

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

Pleased to speak with @nickturse.bsky.social. “Oversight needs to be broader than this one incident. It needs to cover the entire maritime bombing campaign. And it needs to go beyond the Department of Defense. We need to know how this policy was formulated in the first instance.”

NEW — Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources, one resident writes. Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget. thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...

BREAKING: A D.C. Circuit three-judge panel administratively stays the D.C. District Court order that would end National Guard deployment in D.C. on December 11. The order notes that it is not a ruling on the merits of DOJ's motion for a stay. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/federal-ju...

Abbas Alawieh, a 2024 delegate to the Democratic Convention and one of the spokesmen of the Uncommitted Movement, announces today that he's running for State Senate in Michigan's 2nd District.

Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention. This story was originally reported by @19thnews.org, and republished through RNG‘s partnership with The 19th News Network.

Scams now function as sprawling transnational criminal enterprises. But journalists can expose these networks by following inconsistencies, mapping operations, and collaborating across borders. Learn more about the scam supply chain:

At least four countries have announced they are pulling out of next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. This decision follows the organizers' choice to allow Israel to compete, despite concerns over its conduct in the Gaza war.

Alternate headline: meta to KEEP at least 70% or metaverse budget.

New: “Eric Trump Has Gotten 10 Times Richer Since Dad’s Election” @kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com

NY AG James argues Albany US attorney investigating her is illegitimate https://gothamist.com/news/ny-ag-james-argues-albany-us-attorney-investigating-her-is-illegitimate

Kind of seems like this Chamber of Commerce brief filed in the FTC firing case at SCOTUS is basically preaching to the choir. Key arguments: 1- full bore on firing members of independent regulatory agencies biz doesn't like. 2-but Federal Reserve is different. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

LIHEAP applications are open in PA! If you are struggling to afford heating costs or need assistance paying utility bills, help is available. Learn more and apply here: www.pa.gov/services/dhs...

Not what we were expecting: Bradley apparently exonerates Hegseth, contradicting the anonymous sources in the WaPo, & says he never got a command to "kill them all." Moreover, he is defending the 2nd strike as lawful on the ground that the survivors could have righted the ship and taken drugs to US

After an Afghan national was charged with shooting two National Guard members, veterans who worked closely with Afghan refugees who were once frontline allies are scrambling to respond to the blowback. n.pr/4pT5ufq

Millions on ACA plans face doubled premiums if tax subsidies expire; KFF poll shows broad voter support for extending credits.

Stay warm, Memphis! The Hospitality Hub is operating an overnight warming center. Here’s what to know:

A judge last month once again upheld Washington’s 2023 law banning the sale of certain semiautomatic firearms classified as assault weapons. But the dispute is likely not over. via @washingtonstatestandard.com

The FDA plans to begin requiring one clinical study, instead of the standard two, for medical products before consideration for approval. www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/f...

NEWS --> Tons of fresh detail on what video of the strike shows: Rep Adam Smith says two men are sitting on capsized boat, drugs aren't visible. Rationale officials gave for killing is they *may* have been able to keep trafficking. "It's bad," Smith says. Read here: newrepublic.com/article/2039...

After the DOJ press conference, I asked FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino if this DC pipe bomber was tied to the FBI. (He's long said this was an "inside job.") He declined to answer my question. Full story from today's press conference @notus.com: www.notus.org/us-news/fbi-...

The guidance includes a provision denying H-1B visas to anyone who has ever used social media to describe members of the administration as "sweaty bald wannabee-goebbels racist-ass wormtongue fucks," though a spokesperson for State denied the provision was in reference to any specific individual.

Hundreds of U.S. Border Patrol agents are reportedly set to begin a major immigration crackdown across much of southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi this week as part of what has been dubbed operation “Swamp Sweep.”

The US State Department is now targeting anyone applying for an H-1b visa who has worked on "activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October www.france24.com/en/live-news...