iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

CBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with @liamjscott.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I have never, once in my career, heard of a news org responding to a decline-to-comment with, “Well, we’ll hold it until you do.” The reason is obvious — it gives the subject of your story a pocket veto.

LOL "Bari killed this meticulous story because it was unfavorable to the Trump administration" is literally the story they're giving to their stenographer

Why would you need to put a pause on a story that has been meticulously fact-checked and lawyered? Sounds like the kind of story you’d want to run right away!

I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

This is the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation of university president selections. (You can tell they know this will be well-received, popular, and accepted as legitimate by the late-Friday-afternoon-before-Christmas email announcement.)

Nothing says "legitimate process" like "we announced the new head of this entire organization at 3:30 p.m. on the Friday before Christmas after literally every stakeholder overwhelmingly told us not to."

This guy got a PhD to become a university president.He got a PhD in "Higher Ed Admin" & wrote a diss./book about "non traditional presidents" aka consultant class experts who believe that faculty and students have too much say. Fullest expression of the BOV contempt for UVA &especially faculty.

This is a must-read story. Our kids w/cancer shouldn’t be treated like political footballs. 🎗️ www.thebulwark.com/p/pediatric-....

AOC: Donald Trump and Stephen Miller want you to believe that this is who we are as a country. And we are here to say that it is not. We are a country that has fought and defeated the confederacy. That has defeated a history of civil rights violations, of secret police, of fascism.

Breaking news: The Justice Department once again failed to persuade a grand jury to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James, another setback for the Trump administration, which pursued mortgage fraud charges that experts have long viewed as weak.

Democrats—if they take back the House—already needed to launch an investigation into Bove’s egregious criminal conduct on Trump’s behalf before his confirmation to the 3rd Circuit. But they should also look into his brazen partisanship, which obviously violates the judicial Code of Conduct.

the first and only impeachment proceeding against a supreme court justice was over excessive partisanship fyi

FDR argued against the independence of executive agencies because he wanted to fire the FTC's pre-New Deal holdover. 90 years later and FDR's args are now being used to undermine the New Deal, and the Roberts Majority's all in. This isn't about POTUS v. Congress. It's plutocrats vs. the people.

Rigorous and important empirical study on the impact of SCOTUS’s gutting of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Especially troubling now that Section 2 is also on the chopping block.

We're working on getting the paper Open Access, but in the meantime you can find the ungated version here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New from Michael Miller and me at @thejop.bsky.social: Evidence that, in most areas that were affected by the decision, the Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act in 2013 (Shelby County v Holder) increased the racial turnout gap. A thread... www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.” In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The recent shooting in Washington, D.C., “was horrific, and the perpetrator should be punished to the full extent of the law,” Amanda Frost writes in a guest essay. “But collective punishment is just the sort of bigotry that the nation rejected decades ago.”

Good headline. Less than a decade ago the Chief wrote in Rucho that ``[e]xcessive partisanship in districting leads to results that reasonably seem unjust'' and that ``such gerrymandering is incompatible with democratic principles.'' We now know just how little he meant it. They love this.

News: After 5 months, UVA has finally produced billing records from its outside counsel (McGuireWoods LLP) related to DOJ investigations. UVA spent over $1.7 million through end of August! Link to the heavily redacted invoices here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ev8ke...

A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.

it cannot be said enough, and should be shouted from the rooftops: this is a fake legal issue that's been backstopped by on-demand scholarship from academics who are part of the same project as the conservative justices. the "authority" they will cite is no better than citing AI slop.

To be crystal clear about this: The plaintiffs challenged the Texas law six days *before* it was signed by the Governor and became law. That was *too late*.

“The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out”

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

As Kagan notes, SCOTUS has given states a cheat code to enact illegally racist voting laws: just pass them close enough to an election that the Purcell principle will bar judicial review! Under this logic, courts couldn’t block actual Jim Crow laws within a year of an election. It can’t be right.

They basically fault the panel by saying that they failed to apply the presumption of legislative good faith and failed to take a near-dispositive adverse inference against the plaintiffs for not providing an alternative map. But the panel expressly considered both of these things.

these clowns are REALLY going to say that Texas’s map - which targeted majority minority districts - was NOT discrimination on the basis of race. But they’ll say Louisiana’s map - drawn to comply with the Voting Rights Act and give Black voters representation- DID discriminate on the basis of race

just an utter joke of a court.

Breaking: Supreme Court on 6-3 Party Line Vote, Allows Texas to Use Its Re-redistricting Maps for 2026 Congressional Elections electionlawblog.org?p=153359

"The First Amendment rights of our students remain fully intact," they said, with zero sense of irony. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

This poor child, this poor mom. This is just evil.

Oh man

The Incompetents!

Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...

Longstanding problem. Purcell fails on the most basic standard of what law is supposed to be: nobody knows what it means and nobody can know in advance how it will be applied. It's pure, arbitrary "I know it when I see it," untethered from any coherent test.

heres an example of politico covering the news while still covering for trump. the headline says trump is calling for a "trial" for dems. but what trump actually said is the dems should be offed. its very plain what he said. not saying so is a cover-up.

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

The different approaches taken in the Texas redistricting case by two Republican-appointed judges, Judge Brown (following the law) and Judge Smith (deranged conspiracy theorizing), provide a pretty good microcosm of our legal culture.

This *entire* episode is all of the evidence anyone should ever need, regardless of their politics, for why it's important to have experienced career officials in key government positions (like U.S. Attorney), rather than partisan cronies (unlawfully) appointed solely to do the President's bidding.

Bone-sawed body parts don't just "happen." Disgusting.

He was held civilly liable for sexual abuse and slandered his accuser. He’s been accused by roughly two dozen women of rape and sexual assault. He was best friends with a pedophile. He bragged about grabbing women by the pussy and said Ivanka had to beg him not date younger than her when she was 17.

Author Beth Macy, who wrote nonfiction bestseller "Dopesick" that became a miniseries, will seek the Democratic nomination to oppose GOP Rep. Ben Cline. Virginia's 6th District is safely red, but it may not be much longer if Democrats pass a new map. www.the-downballot.com/i/179197084/va