There is almost no chance this investigation leads to conviction. Supposing the case gets out of a grand jury and survives the inevitable selective prosecution motion to dismiss, the prosecutors would then have to prove both false testimony AND Carrol’s subjective belief it was false. 1/

Looks like Miller decided to display his masculine bona fides by sending his wife on Fox News to complain that Dems called him ugly? (Note, she did not protest the underlying insult—she let that accusation lie).

They should remake the 1996 Mel Gibson movie Ransom only instead of a bounty on the kidnappers of Mel Gibsons’s kid, they should place a bounty on finding a real life woman who considers Stephen Miller to be an authority on masculine virtue.

This guy is going to lie about Talarico just like he lied about stealing a $1,000 pen. He attempted the “Shaggy defense” of claiming the theft wasn’t his despite being caught on camera.

After January 6, every Republican in Congress or the Senate should have ended Trump’s career by convicting him after impeachment. They didn’t. Now he’s helping to end some of their careers. It’s the price of cowardice. A handful of GOP defectors could end his career right now.

Fiscal Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About

What the CEO calls “measurers” are a huge chunk of your compliance people (HR and legal in particular). I predict poor compliance and a lot of litigation. If that happens, this opinion piece will be introduced as an exhibit against Cloudflare. 1/

Fair to say Markwayne is not on the shortlist of the world’s foremost authorities on international logistics. But the bigger issue is that the hard right is consumed with revenge fantasies against fellow Americans who just disagree with them. Economic warfare against fellow Americans.

I have “beta tested” this life hack conservatively 2,000-3,000 times in my life and can confirm it to be true.

“Now look who creepin', look who crawlin', still ballin' in the mix …”

A classic Trump policy maneuver: (1) concoct a hare-brained but incredibly impactful policy shift in secret with no buy-in from any stakeholders. (2) ambush the public with it on a Friday night when you hope it gets ignored. (3) get major pushback from your own allies. (4) backtrack.

One thing you can do to preserve your self respect is forbear giving money to Ken Paxton’s campaign.

Again, it bears repeating: Trump’s lol-suit against the IRS for leaking his returns is worthless. He suffered no cognizable harm. In the absence of actual damages, he gets a statutory maximum of $1,000. The statute also has a 2 year statute of limitations. He filed in 2026 for a 2019 disclosure.

Clinging to a shared mythology no matter how much it contradicts the facts is a good sign you’re in a cult. The reporter does a good job cross-examining Norman, raising facts like the multiple convictions and the bona fide terror of his colleagues, but Norman just repeats his “staged” conclusion.

Citizens United is among the absolute worst judicial decisions in US history. It took some doing to read into the Constitution an unfettered right to taint elections with money, but the Court did it.

Every American should be disgusted by this.

So if “they tried to destroy” someone, then that someone is entitled to a slush fund recovery? “Tried to destroy me” is not a cognizable cause of action. Trump’s lol-suit against the IRS is objectively worth zero (0) dollars.

When Ken Paxton filed his lol-suit in the Supreme Court to overturn the 2020 election, I was not 100% certain the Court would reject it. The Court denied Texas’s motion on standing grounds with Alito and Thomas disagreeing. My doubts stemmed from the partisanship Whitehouse describes below. 1/

People that hurt police get money all the time.” This does not happen “all the time.” It’s definitely not commonplace, as Blanche implies. But the key distinction is this: until this crooked slush fund, no one has gotten money from the government *because* they hurt the police.

Trump & Blanche’s heist of $1.8 billion to hand out to their supporters who committed crimes must not be a 1-2 day story. It should be talked about every day until it is stopped. Republicans should be asked about it every interview. Trump should be asked about it every day.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

This is the most sickeningly corrupt act I’ve ever seen. It’s grotesque.

The most corrupt presidential act in U.S. history

Musk says he can affect Tesla’s revenue by $1 billion by making better decisions, so his time is worth $100 million/hour. Is that $1 billion/year? $1 billion/week? If it’s per year, Tesla pays $20 billion/yr for $1 billion in revenue. If it’s per week, he’a saying he can increase Tesla revenue 50%?

Five years is a reasonable sentence for Peters. The problem is the extraordinary process applied to get to this result. She had her day in court and got sentenced based on the evidence. Polis’s justifications would apply with equal force to so many other convicts who are not getting pardoned.

I’m kind of buzzed, it’s all because, this is how @pbump.com do it (as it pertains to child-rearing)

A collaborator or a fool, and in either case unfit for office. He doesn’t advance a single justification that wouldn’t apply to hundreds or even thousands of other convicts who will never be pardoned.

The FDA regulates prescription drugs for safety, efficacy, and security. Justice Alito suggests that the Constitution, as construed by Dobbs, may require the FDA to also protect state abortion restrictions. Umm … what? What does that have to with safety, efficacy or security? 1/

Congress is 26% non-white. The US is 42% non-white. The Supreme Court recently ruled that the law responsible for narrowing the non-white representation gap to a mere 16% was borderline unconstitutionally racist. The gap should be greater again, in its view.

Alito reads Dobbs to confer to states a constitutional right to overrule federal regulations that allow abortion prescriptions without in-person examinations. He also believes Louisiana has suffered a cognizable constitutional harm by being deprived friendlier federal regulations. 1/

The objective fair market value of Trump’s claims against the IRS is $0.00. If he obtains anything of value from this lawsuit, it’s a travesty—a gross and corrupt miscarriage of justice.

Senator Ron Johnson and my most recent Miami Uber driver share this hypothesis:

I am just going to state this plainly: my intuition tells me that some of the stories posted on Reddit are not 100% faithful to the facts.

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

According to a series of SCOTUS opinions over the last four years, congressional elections under unlawful maps are good when Republicans benefit but bad when Dems benefit. It’s so good when Republicans benefit, that the Court doesn’t just let it happen, it stays lower courts from messing with it.

Yes. The South turned Republican because all those former Confederates and their heirs became born again civil rights activists. They concluded the Democrats were simply not progressive enough on civil rights—the single issue that mattered to them. That’s why the GOP is so progressive today.

Implied in the notion of “calling balls and strikes” is a static strike zone. When you change its dimensions pitch by pitch, you’re more accurately defining the strike zone than calling it at it is.

Max partisan gerrymandering is the preferred policy of SCOTUS. It is so preferred that SCOTUS has converted this preference into a constitutional mandate, more or less. It finds ways to strike laws that stymie partisan gerrymandering as unconstitutional. What’s the end game? 1/

Won’t you take me to, Impeachment Town Won’t you take me to, Conviction Town

In United States v. Bagdasarian (2011), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the conviction of a man who posted, "Re: Obama fk the [n-word], he will have a 50 cal in the head soon" and "shoot the [n-word].” The Court ruled the post was no true threat. 1/

Citizens United v. FEC--Unlimited money in politics Shelby County v. Holder--Striking Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act Rucho v. Common Cause--Partisan gerrymandering not justiciable Trump v. U.S.--Almost unlimited presidential immunity Louisiana v. Callais--Gutting Section 2 of the VRA 1/

Has the Supreme Court ever previously struck down all or part of a duly-passed, constitutional law on the grounds that Justices feel like the law achieved its goals and feel like the goal would stay achieved without the law so therefore it shouldn’t be in force anymore? Because that’s legislative.

Approximately 26% of Congress is non-Hispanic white. Approximately 42-44% of the US population is non-white. The practical effect of SCOTUS’s Callais opinion is that this gap is likely to grow. The Constitution forbids using race to redress racial gaps, according to the majority.

A pretty incredible four paragraphs from The Boston Globe. When you simply list all of the horribly violent things Donald Trump has said just in the past year or so, it really drives home how ridiculous it is to "both sides" about rhetoric. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/28/n...

This picture is more American than anything Norman Rockwell could have ever dreamed up

I will admit, I struggle with the logic here. Even if we (very generously) spot him the premise that the Southern Poverty Law Center committed fraud, how does it follow that the 2020 election should be “wiped from the books”?

Once, long ago, I was listed as someone who could verify facts in an Atlantic article. I got a call from a fact-checker at the Atlantic, I could answer some of her Qs but not others. Bottom line: The Atlantic is a serious publication. Patel will likely struggle to show actual malice.

Trump’s mom was Scottish. Many of his children were born to a Czech mother. If foreign lineage delegitimizes you, we are all in peril.