Midterms are coming! Vote for honesty and integrity in the (current) VA-05, not whatever this is.

what a shot

Only one who got the ball into the end zone was Bad Bunny

Just hopped off a phone call with my grandmother. And she said something that I’m going to carry with me today: “God doesn’t care about how much people talk about you, but He does care about how often you talk for people who can’t.”

Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

I'm keynoting the Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review symposium Friday. Apparently there's a livestream, so FYI, I will be pulling no punches about the nature of the Trump regime or the abuse of history by certain law professors. ("Be there, will be wild") law.ua.edu/programs/sym...

I am done with collaborationist bullshit

If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...

This is such a familiar right-wing move: you use your propaganda apparatus to raise "concerns" among your slop-eating dittoheads, and then you use the existence of the concerns as a pretext to act.

Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

Reminder: Never capitulate to tyrants. Fight Back. #DefendHigherEd #AcademicSky

This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Especially if you're headed to a protest. interc.pt/4q6pmLx

Elon Musk chatting it up with his friend Jeffrey Epstein five years after he was convicted for child sex crimes 👍

I would bet my *life* that this is dissembling, misleading, face saving PR work. There is 0% chance that Trump's DOJ-CR division is gonna meaningfully investigate or charge Trump's DHS officers.

"The Democrats are pushing reforms that they know won’t work because they are doing performative, perfunctory opposition to try to quiet their base, instead of real legislating and fighting to dismantle Trump’s ICE and CBP." newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Jeffries: "We cannot trust the Department of Justice. They're an illegitimate organization right now under the leadership of Pam Bondi and the direction of Donald Trump."

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

Any charges are utterly baseless. This is an open and close case of a would-be fascist, very racist regime taking wildly illegal actions to try to suppress dissent and fuel fear.

Trump's awful post about Alex Pretti am confirms this point -- he's not sorry, he's not pivoting, and he'll use the same playbook as ever to survive yet another scandal that would have destroyed any other politician my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Ah so the people with guns get to be anonymous but the people actually protecting others get fed to the right wing harassment machine, is that it? bsky.app/profile/dbra...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Federal judge issues temporary order prohibiting removal of 5-year-old boy and father who were detained in Minnesota.

State lower court rules in favor of GOP in lawsuit against Virginia redistricting This will almost certainly appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court GOP brought the case in deep red part of Virginia I’ll review opinion and give some thoughts little later www.virginiascope.com/wp-content/u...

Not one single GOP senator can manage to vote to have school boards send info home to parents at the start of the school year reminding them about their obligations to safely store firearms and prescription drugs. Somehow this infringes on the rights of "responsible gun owners?"

Even if we determine to have a truth and reconciliation form of justice, people do not get to escape the public shame that should come from throwing gas into the streets and pepper spraying defenseless people, watching people assaulted by law enforcement officers, and engaging in racial profiling.

BREAKING Third Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ’s application to review Alina Habba’s disqualification en banc.

On Strict Scrutiny, Melissa announced ... she has a NEW BOOK coming out in May! It's a comprehensive & annotated guide of ... the Constitution! So you can call people (*cough*, SCOTUS, Trump regime) on their BS! @profmmurray.bsky.social @strictscrutiny.bsky.social bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

this guy has an incredible bit, "Originalist" lawyer who thinks every right outlined in the constitution is fake if Trump wants to ignore it bsky.app/profile/gree...

There should be new legislation on civil liability for federal officers who violate constitutional rights and establishing operational limits for the proper enforcement of immigration law.

Alex Pretti did not “tragically die. He was murdered.

i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices

I think our constitutional order collapsed the day the supreme court handed down their execrable, lawless immunity opinion. What we're seeing now is just the logical working out of the violent authoritarian state that the supreme court legalized.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing

Very much like the way the Fugitive Slave Act operated. bsky.app/profile/csha...

(No Longer) BREAKING: The US is governed by a white supremacist regime.

Complete lunacy.

NEW: District court grants summary judgment and permanent injunction in King v. O'Brien, which challenged disenfranchisement here in Virginia for persons convicted of "felonies at common law" as violating the Virginia Readmission Act of 1870. Huge news! www.scribd.com/document/985...

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels. Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

I'm sorry if this sounds radical, but I don't think Dems should be voting to give this deeply unpopular, lawless, fascistic secret police force billions more dollars.

The 8th Circuit is 11/12 GOP nominees and in competition w/the 5th Cir for the most right-wing federal appellate court in the county (see eg their decisions finding that private plaintiffs can’t enforce Sec 2 of the Voting Rights Act)

Minutes after preliminary injunction is paused by the 8th Circuit, feds are back to gassing residents.

Not sure if the justices or their clerks are aware of the extent of mockery by People Who Matter of the “federal reserve board exception” to the unitary executive theory A real emperor has no clothes realization for a lot of people

He's just straight-up telling everyone that he's deployed a vicious occupying force to brutalize an American state and terrorize every non-white resident because they didn't vote for him

A remarkable speech, the likes of which most of us never imagined we'd possibly hear in our lifetimes. The Great Rupture appears to be upon us. It's shocking, and deeply distressing, that the political party controlling our Congress appears not to care at all. www.youtube.com/live/JtF630g...

Check out this report documenting censorship in higher education in the US. It chronicles record-breaking numbers of state bills that directly or indirectly censor classroom speech and an unprecedented federal campaign to exert ideological control over research, teaching, and campus life.

BREAKING: Federal court in Virginia—noting DOJ's filing "falls far beneath the level of advocacy expected from litigants in this Court, particularly the Department of Justice"—rules that Lindsey Halligan cannot hold herself out as "United States Attorney," striking that language from case filings.

Unhinged. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-lea...

Just to be clear: the President is single-handedly dragging America to economic crisis and war with our closest allies. And why? To conquer an overseas territory that we have no claim to, have never had a claim to, and already have military bases on. Oh, and because he didn’t get a prize.