The U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia investigating Letitia James and James Comey resigned under pressure on Friday after Trump called for his ouster due to his unwillingness to pursue bullshit cases and IT'S A LONG DRIVE TO DEEP LEFT FIELD, HOME RUN #250 BY NICK CASTELLANOS.

Bayesian thoughts and priors

::Says “idiot” at ACIP meeting:: At least eight heads turn.

Stop indulging these losers.

these guys are not popular, they are getting much more unpopular very quickly, and they have absolutely no plan to turn any of it around. i'm not even sure they are aware that they need to, which is not a mistake a more competent regime would make.

Come on. What would *German* journalists know about creeping authoritarian crackdowns on dissent in art and journalism?

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

Trump: Jimmy Kimmel is next Trump admin: We will definitely exploit this murder to censor our critics Carr: ABC must fire Jimmy Kimmel ABC, minutes later: We have suspended Jimmy Kimmel Anti-cancel culture crusader: I sure wish this clear business decision didn’t look so much like censorship!

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

There's not meaningful freedom of speech without institutions willing to promote and implement that freedom. On one hand, private media entities have broad editorial discretion under 1A doctrine. On the other, it's bad for *everyone's* freedom if that discretion is exercised to please the state.

I believe absolutely that Kirk had sacred freedom to express his ideas free from physical violence or threat. I believe—because he said it frequently—that he did not believe that about you or me. This isn’t the kind of disagreement we can tolerate, far less celebrate. In other words: FOH.

journalists are still obsessing about charlie kirk and trump's back to, "i coulda banged Markie Post back in the day"

Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score.

pam bondi is trying to get a guy fired from a random office depot and y'all think they're gonna round up all the libs? be serious

I want every single person who’s ever argued passionately that we need a law criminalizing hate speech to sit with this interview, and think about what this administration could accomplish with it.

Important to recognize that he is a coward and a loser and his regime is unpopular and he cannot do this. literally, this is impossible, unless people think and act like he can because they think he can do it legitimately or are scared of him. Don’t be.

The worst allocator of capital in history has an idea everybody. Surely this one has, er, legs.

Potentially unpopular opinion: American society is not in a particularly health place right now.

Yes, Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden’s execution. But he called for it in the right way.

It’s Saturday night. Many things are bad. But today I am in Telluride watching music and looking at mountains and rainbows with my sister and dad and I’ll carry this for some time as bulwark.

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

Fair warning: if you want to argue comparative wrongness, go elsewhere. I grew up surrounded by refugees from the Troubles; Terry George lived in our building, there were parades in support of hunger strikers etc, when I was growing up. Nobody wins when political violence takes center stage.

there is a reason why i spend so much time fighting with people who think that the only way out of this is violence

When your tree of liberty is Moloch.

I’ve now rid my brain of this. Tyvm.

Age verification? I had a colonoscopy. In the ordinary course!

GHISLAINE MAXWELL: here we go, boss. a big book of letters from all of your horrible best friends JEFF EPSTEIN: oh neat! look at this one from Donald GHISLAINE: that one's fake actually

“We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI…” I’m gonna stop you right there, Jeanine.

SAY IT WITH YOUR CHEST!

DECLINE!

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

I practice trolleyamory. With Mr. Roger’s, King Friday, Lady Elena Fairchild, Henrietta Pussycat, and others!

I don't know exactly how and when we'll get there, but there will come a time when the Roberts Court era and especially from ~2024 onward becomes treated as an irredeemably tainted anti-canon, when citing them as a favorable precedent joins the ranks of invoking Dred Scott, Plessey, or Korematsu.

The story here is the clever “Money Folder” sample. Securing the old head vote.

Seems Marsellus Wallace was wrong.

Fairly certain this is a typo and it was Los *Locos* they designated. And with good reason.

And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas

Good news: back to school! Bad news:

Keith David Foster Wallace Shawn Bradley

Eso es.

This is the definitive thread on the significance of today’s highly unusual Appellate Division, First Department decision in the Trump business fraud case. Written by a practitioner who knows what he’s talking about. Much more so than take your pick among legal talking heads. Good stuff.

Awful news. Can we quit it with the motorcycles please?

I mean why doesn’t someone at the DNC call for TWO general strikes? That would be twice as effective, no?

Solanennenrad

So? He sees a red fence and he wants it painted black.

Jews who take issue with you endorsing and promoting revisionist history literally championed by neo-Nazis and the KKK about the lynching of an American Jew in Atlanta, Georgia 33 years before Israel even existed aren’t engaged in “liberal Zionist tone policing”