If a country is suddenly exposed to swarms of hostile military drones, the operating assumption is that country would immediately attempt to shoot them down, and employ subsequent actions to prevent a re occurrence. That's not happening. That's bizarre and, as O'Brien says, "ominous."

It's meant to. Trump needs a precipitating event so he can declare martial law. Given these sorts of unconstitutional, flagrantly illegal general warrant sort of events (e.g. Mass attack on a Chicago apt. building) some within one of the targeted groups will

BREAKING: The First Circuit rejects Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In the New Jersey-led multistate case, the appeals court, in a 100-page ruling, keeps the nationwide scope of the injunction blocking the EO in place. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

1) ???? If essentially the entire coaching staff is fired, why would you keep the manager? Doesn't the purge reflect on the manager's judgments? sports.yahoo.com/mlb/breaking...

Excellent commentary, albeit essentially instructions about to to survive a judicial landscape while chained to a rock while an eagle pecks at your liver. slate.com/news-and-pol...

1) Clarifying one point on the shutdown: Currently, a Continuing Resolution needs 60 votes to pass the Senate, which would require Dems to sign off. The GOP uses this to signal it’s the Democrats’ fault. However, all that’s needed here is a majority vote in the Senate to change

So much for Jewish immigration here......... This is what Christian Dominionism looks like. I fully expect if Trump retains power, Jews will be forced to emigrate....or worse.

Good piece on the shutdown. " Finally, as someone who spends a fair amount of time talking with reporters about current events, I have noticed that, as a group, reporters are getting less and less interested in whether....... balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/shut...

1) Amongst other things, this demonstrates SCOTUS can defer shadow docket decisions when it wishes. The standing point: this limns how virtually every decision SCOTUS makes is politically driven, not merits derived.

1) I'd love to say I found this informative, possibly refreshing, but I didn't. Prof. Vladek was by far the best of the three, but he's better than his showing here.

I don't understand, though, in the clear bloody light of what this court has done to American jurisprudence, how such an

1) I wrote at the time it was announced all commanding officers of the military would be summoned to a meeting, Trump would use it to prepare the military for domestic use. Here we are. No one should believe for one second SCOTUS will stand in the way. SCOTUS understands if this

Since Hegseth never trained for the position he's occupying, he's mouthing what he thinks is appropriate. This is the Dunning-Kruger effect & The Peter Principle combining for awful effect.

1) I don't disagree with one word of this, but if this becomes the mantra, the present court will have been put on notice their careers - in some cases, their personal lives - will be at stake. The Corrupt Supreme Court Must Be Reformed: Dems Must Champion It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-c...

Anyone paying attention understood the Mayor was speaking the truth.

1) I think I'd like Brian Stephenson to represent me, should I ever need it. His precision is refreshing while simultaneously despairing. Ultimately, this is about power for a very few, but that drive

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Jeebus! They even screwed this up. :: sigh :: Acknowledge the failure, and do better. This is just embarrassing. An acknowledgement of what actually happened....I mean...we all saw it....contains a promise to properly fix what management and the players got wrong, and to do that fearlessly.

Jeffries' refusal to endorse the Democratic nominee for mayor of NYC is about money (and therefore, too, about careerism). I've written this repeatedly. Jeffries has no visible principles he'd stand and fight for. Makes him a perfect protegé. Basically, he's the dentist's drill, not the dentist.

1) When a team forgets how to play baseball, that's on more than the manager. Maybe, just maybe, Mets should have focused on getting Craig Counsell (if he had been willing to come), and worried less about Stearns, because.... www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...

Gotta hand it to our Mets. We went out with the traditional Metsian whimper, upholding decades of baseball mediocrity. 0-4???!!! In a must game? :: whips out the carefully stowed Mets self-destruct razor and starts sawing::

as far as i can tell, people are having substantive conversations about ezra’s interview with ta-nehisi, but then i’m not thomas chatterton williams, professional dilettante and, apparently, liar

Eric Adams Abandons Re-election Bid for Mayor of New York City www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...

I already re-posted the Klein-Coates extravaganza twice, so no more. It’s there on the NY Times’ website, for any who need to find it. The word for Ezra Klein is “deracinated.” Worth looking up if you don’t know the definition.

Here’s the money quote: EK—-> “I think there really was a move toward the sort of approach Clinton is offering here. I think we began to pull back. I really do” — T-NC——>Maybe it would help if you define the “we.” AFAIC, that’s the entire ballgame. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

1) It’s hard to separate the political malice from our complicated narrative, but it’s worth pondering what might have been had North and South never attempted congress (lovely double entendre there…) together. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

LArry Summers explicitly said back during the 2008 calamities that bubble economies would be necessary for economies to deliver GNPs large enough to drive necessary tax revenues. It appears his forecast is coming true.

Full force???!!!” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

Wow!…and I mean that in a bad way.

Bob Bauer is a well-respected, well-known lawyer. He’s served under a presidential administration. He’s smart & experienced, so, if he chooses to write on this topic, how come he offers no solutions? www.execfunctions.org/p/the-comey-...

In a genuine WOW moment, this administration publicly acknowledges (perhaps for the first time) that an ICE officer violated procedure and will be taken off duty and subject to an investigation. This is a step in the right direction — I just wish it wasn't only because of such an awful viral video.

We were always going to get here. Amongst other things, possibly the single biggest reason this was inevitable, the administration wants troops at every critical polling place come election time. They were always going to need some rationale, and this one seems to me to have always been at the ready

I hope Marshall's right. Our best hope, seems to me, is Trump's growing dementia will render the administration even more incompetent t than it's been. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/let-i...

1) Interesting idea. If SCOTUS abandons Stare Decesis for a "Look, Ma! No Hands" approach to outcome judging, why should lower courts follow the resulting "precedent?," especially since how they might rule won't matter, regardless? open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...

This article places the Jeffries/Schumer refusal to endorse Mamdani in a brighter light. The party establishment's besieged by outsiders trying to force change.

1) I may be the only one paranoid to believe this, but..... if Trump were a Russian asset, and Putin had direct or indirect control, firing everyone competent within the US Federal Government leaving the US government unable to perform the

1) I've been clear I'm a Henry Farrell fan, so perhaps I'm just consulting my own biases here, but I think this a remarkable piece about far more than "The Village & The Sewer." The Village and the Sewer www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-villag...

I don't like this guy one little bit. Also true: he's saying the unvarnished truth here.

1) So....... Yesterday I wrote on one of my favorite Mets threads an excellent, insightful analysis of how the Mets are paper tigers, most of their players only good for trading chips and DFA's. Today, the stupid team plays like a playoff contender, turning

1) I've said this repeatedly. It's not doomsaying to say the truth. This administration has no intention of surrendering power. They'll either cancel elections, or set it up so they can't lose. It's stuff and

He knows what he's talking about, as would any other person who's worked in pediatrics.

Jimmy Kimmel's viewing audience tomorrow will almost certainly set records. I'll be interested to see which companies buy advertising.

The details are going to matter, he said portentously.......

This is a categorical disaster, the effects of which will haunt us, if not destroy us, for a long, long time.

Recognition of Palestine is welcome, but the time has come for more direct measures. States should consider e.g. naval escorts for the Sumud flotilla. Israel has no legal right to block humanitarian aid while committing genocide.

1) Hard to comment without reading the book, but worth remembering the 14th and 15th amendments were eviscerated in The South even before Reconstruction officially ended with the Hayes administration.

Parliamentary systems have their own vulnerabilities (see Israel, the UK, & France)

When we get to pleading in my first-year Civil Procedure class, my students often ask me just how over the top a complaint would have to be for a judge to strike it without even being *asked* to do so. Thanks to President Trump, we have an answer: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

1) This is excellent. Hochul should take Jacobs up on his offer. Israel fanatics will drag the Dem party down into the dust. Jacobs would throw his own party (and country) under the bus to support Trump and the latter's support for Israel.

JUST IN: Bitter exchange as 2nd Circuit denies DOJ's en banc petition on Ozturk/Madhawi, even though no one publicly dissented. Menashi/Park think courts must stay out of immigration detention & stay decisions aren't precedent. Nathan & 5 others would keep powder dry for merits

Maudi's right. The opening is splendid

This is such a right thing to do, I'm surprised the relevant governments got together and did it.