That's a lot of words for "yes, there's absolutely more dirt to come."

Took the fam to an Isotopes game. Happened to be pride night. Honestly didn't really care; just wanted to see a ball game. It was great. The gay men's choir did a great national anthem. Rainbow Isotopes gear everywhere, whole stadium singing Pink Pony Club between innings. What more could you want?

Purty morning 🙂

I am fascinated by the coverage from all major news outlets for literally months now about how an Iran peace deal is close at hand. Not even an acknowledgement that we have been through multiple cycles of this and nothing is happening.

Long week of trial. Finally got the case to the jury this afternoon. Excited to sleep tonight.

My brain is blasting too many thoughts at once in all different directions while I'm trying to focus. Giving in to the chaos. Hallelujah for [effectively] 3 monitors and the ability to open loads of tabs with loads of documents all at once, lol.

Long day in trial. Came home to a lovely treat that I honestly hadn't noticed had even progressed past flowers yet 🙂

Feels like a rough sign for the presumption of regularity when defendants are starting to be able to point to multiple other current cases involving the same administration to prove vindictiveness.

Judge ruled no probable cause for the arrest more than 18 months ago. A year+ long trip to the court of appeals later, and then bonus months waiting for the state to decide if it wanted to go to trial with the pre-arrest evidence, and I finally got to make the call. 1/2

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

Presidential assassination attempts that didn’t get close happened in the past too, but you heard about them less because previous presidents all thought strength was shrugging “you can’t phase me, nothing can,” while this president thinks strength is whining “I’m such a victim, soothe my feelings.”

Oh, a commenter just reminded me. #7: all the unexamined puritan shit that's like "oh I'm paying for her health care? well DID SHE DO EVERYTHING RIGHT IN HER LIFE? no??? she smoked weed once in college? well, no health care for HER"

LMFAO 😂😂😂😂😂

/21 Boutros announces the government is dismissing the charges with prejudice — meaning they cannot be re-filed. The judge is not particularly impressed.

If you want to work on sprints in the park in all black, including a hoodie with the hood up when it's about 4,000 degrees in the blazing sun... it's a free country I guess. But you should know that you look like you're training to run from the cops 😆

One reason I hate death penalty cases is that capital punishment is incredibly stupid and irrational. It's cruel, expensive, and serves no deterrent effect. It's rarely imposed, except against a tiny minority of unlucky defendants—and in those cases, racism almost always plays a role. Just end it.

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

Judges citing Orwell feels like a troubling sign.

Starfleet Academy was unsalvageable. If you like spectacle and JJ Abrams, you may enjoy it. If you like plot or the ability to think beyond "oh, pretty boom," then the show just wasn't it That said, the one thing I will give SFA is the first season of *every* Trek show has been utterly unwatchable🤣

I've used goodreads for a while as a PDF reader on my tablet. It's terrible though. Does anyone have something similar that works well on the tablet, synchs with my desktop, let's me highlight/take notes on documents, and isn't absolute trash?

This is fucking epic and actually made me burst into tears. Fight fire with fire. youtu.be/EtvKvmTIaQU?...

@heinrich.senate.gov the collaborator strikes again.

shoutout to jared polis

I loved the first seasons of Good Omens. Was looking forward to the final season 85 years and several sexual assault allegations ago. I see that the finale is finally out, and I hate that I'm so unexcited about it. I'm guessing Amazon feels similarly considering how little hype I've seen about it.

Sex is great, but have you ever found the *perfect* dead on point case?

For not the first, and surely not the last time: It would be amazing to have an opposition party to vote for. Anyone who continues to think Democrats are an opposition party is delusional.

We're out here risking our fucking lives fighting fascism. People are staring down federal charges for defying this regime and the so-called opposition is springing their foot soldiers. Fuck out of here.

Why do we even have Democrats? These weak fucking politicians brag about the harsh sentences they authorize for the poor people I represent every damn day in a corrupt, racist, merciless system, but the first time a wealthy white fucker faces consequences over crimes they all become abolitionists.

10yo won a competition at school and won a soda. She doesn't like soda, so she hooked her dad up with an orange jarritos. My baby does love me; she knows what I like 😍

I'm done fighting to keep enough space available to download discovery. Just ordered an 18 TB hard drive. One would hope that'll be enough to last for the foreseeable future, lol.

People seem legitimately surprised that Trump is using his tweets to pump stock he owns and buying or selling based off of confidential information he receives as POTUS. Grifting is his entire personality. Why is anyone shocked?

You can take all the corruption from every single US administration in history, add it all together, and it will not equal the amount of corruption committed by the Trump Regime in less than two years.

Get excited for October!

The markets are fundamentally irrational, and I don't think anyone is capable of predicting exactly when reality will catch up to the dow. But I also think you'd be a fool to not think that day is coming, and probably soon.

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti He's nervous, but on the surface, he looks calm and ready

Seattle. I've never been, can't explain why, but I just feel like it would be my city if I ever got the chance to move there 😂. Seems like a cool place, and after a life of living in the desert, it would be so cool to experience a place with regular rain🤷‍♂️.

Always fun to roll into a motion hearing being able to whip out "actually, there's this new case from the COA just the day before yesterday that completely supports my position," then watch the prosecutor scramble to try to pull up their case on their phone before I finish my argument 🤣

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

the gas tax has been frozen at 22 cents since 1993. it would be 55 cents now if it was indexed to inflation (which it obviously should be)

Other than discovering that I’m apparently John Oliver’s son, @lastweektonight.com’s deep dive into the shadow docket is really quite good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKeq...

Hey @stevevladeck.bsky.social , is it true that John Oliver is your father?

200 years from now, a doctoral student is going to do a history dissertation with Trump’s “truth” posts as primary sources, & no one will believe it