When my wife and I decided not to do Mr Happy Plate with our kids, I don’t think we realized how often we’d get Mr Clinically Fucking Depressed Plate

This is probably a stupid question, but: A stay seems like a supervisory power, and as far as I remember from law school, the Supreme Court has supervisory power over the lower federal courts but not the state courts. Where does it get the power to tell a state court not to try a case?

We’ve moved from strongly worded letter to very strongly worded letter, folks

The better angels of my nature told me not to subject you all to this, but this is not a time for better angels

Clarence Thomas is about to rediscover the Supremacy Clause

If Labour is an extreme parody of establishment Democrats, this a parody of why leftist organizing often struggles to take on the establishment.

Fallon? That dude tousled Trump’s hair and made him palatable to millions of people

It is somewhat cringe for you or I to say “Disney learned nothing from Andor.” It is cool and good for Ken Jennings to say that about his employer.

Randy Barnett erasure right here

"an Elon Musk who knows when to shut up" is a terrifying proposition

This could very well turn into “Elon Musk walked so Larry Ellison could run.” Musk is stupid, clumsy, and can’t stop running his idiot mouth; that has hurt his project to remake American politics with X. Ellison is potentially amassing a much more powerful empire—and he has few of Musk’s flaws.

I’ve always said that every Democrat running for office deserves a primary opponent. This is exactly why. They twist themselves into pretzels to defend the indefensible when the logical answer is right in front of their face. @housedemocrats.bsky.social

Sometimes I wonder how these people might have acted in an age without audience capture. Hardly the best minds of our generation, but certainly they have been destroyed by madness, dragging themselves through the social-media streets looking for an angry fix

Has anyone beclowned themselves more in this moment than “libertarians.” Ilya Shapiro, Robby Soave, just professional water-carriers for the regime

This really is the final expression of "libertarianism" as it is practiced in the US today.

Not sure I expected them to play out an episode with Stinkfist

his popularity being underwater includes the sympathy bump. a plurality of respondents took a look at a guy who got his throat blown out on live video in front of his wife and said to a stranger: that fucking guy sucked.

Video is up! We’ll see what the panel does but I think argument went pretty well for us.

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

I don’t think I’m ready for Karl Rove to get a redemption arc

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

I'll say this again: In my opinion, when companies and institutions cave to Trump despite the law being on their side, they are not misunderstanding the law; they are making an educated guess that the United States is heading in a direction where, in practice, the law won't matter.

imagine joking “i wouldnt give speeches in utah right now”

If you don’t like the way NYT and WaPo carry water for the regime, consider giving your money to an outlet that doesn’t

zero daylight between this and “peace for our time”

I think it's actually quite important that he do this, or something similar, and make it even more overtly anti-regime

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

[through gritted teeth] je suis jimmy

thank god ezra klein lowered the partisan temperature.

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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

Buzzed Helens so close I could practically touch it

the essential problem with what Ezra Klein wants is that he wants the conversation about What To Do About The Negro Question to be a polite discussion between himself and the Klan

i think you could have won over trump voters by ruthlessly punishing donald trump

I actually don't doubt it, and yet again one of those ugly reminders that immigration judges are not real judges; they are executive branch officials, and that fact alone is a vast condemnation of the immigration system we have constructed

Damn get. her. ass.

SEA just sucks so much compared to PDX, I don’t know how Seattleites stand it

These people don't want to live with some of us. They want to kill us, subjugate us, expel us, and drive us from public life. If your political understanding begins there, you will sound less foolish when you run your mouth.

I think the immigration judge deciding his case has a very real voice in the back of their head saying that if they rule against the admin, they'll be fired.

Argument done. Time for the post-argument ritual: Gym.

“Kirk lived as he died, trolling literally to his last breath.” Now that he’s dead, conservatives are trying to punish liberals for the kind of speech Kirk relished in. From Ryan Cooper: trib.al/qtztfi8

we’re in ur courts protecting ur rights

Gonna be arguing this morning in a suit that hasn’t fit me since before I started @pubaccountability.org. Every single case I’ve argued, every single win, has been in the same shitty gray suit I panic-ordered three days before argument in 2021

I’m about to defend the rights of disabled prisoners in the Ninth Circuit tomorrow (live-streamed if folks want to watch!)

I feel like I don’t come out especially well here… - Attia Drive - Divided Argument - Decoder - SCOTUS oral arguments - that’s it.

dating apps should just make men list their top 5 podcasts

Yeah, the only reason we're hearing about this person is because they (might) be trans. The press is just bringing this up to try to tie trans people to something we had nothing to do with.