What in the nepo baby is this?

Sort of tragicomic that Brett Kavanaugh is getting (deservedly) skewered for his concurring opinion in the Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo shadow docket order, when the SCOTUS majority stayed the trial court’s 4th Amendment order with *no opinion at all* www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

They sure make a lot of mistakes

Someone share this video with Brett Kavanaugh.

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

1.6 million crypto traders had their positions liquidated after Trump announced 100% tariffs on China. There were $16.6B in losses from liquidated long positions which is 10x the amount from COVID and FTX related crashes. I’m surprised Trump Always Chickens Out didn’t apply this time, instead panic

“YOU hit HER.” CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility They kidnapped a disabled child!

China’s ongoing aid to the Russian industrial war machine not only provides political cover to Moscow but undermines the multilateral system of which a democratic China was once a primary author and the first signatory, Kevin F. Hsu writes.

Mike’s not wrong. This is like the column you’d get if someone said “Ken, write a strong opinion on economics.”

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Trump take everything.

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation Depraved. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Imagine that

a russ vought special

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The corruption and self-dealing is staring you in the face. Hello?

I spoke with analyst Gil Luria at D.A. Davidson, asking if the capital existed to build OpenAI's promised 17GW of data centers. He said "of course there isn't enough capital for all of this," but "enough capital to do this for a at least a little while longer." www.wheresyoured.at/openai-onetr...

Quintenz is now officially out as nominee for CFTC Chair, per Politico

On this week’s “More To The Story,” journalist @molly.wiki examines the rise and fall of FTX and the ever-growing reach of cryptocurrency in American politics.

Crypto lending — a major factor in the 2022 crypto meltdown — is having a comeback. In fact, one crypto lender just hired the guy accused of bankrupting BlockFi after he extended a huge line of credit to FTX based on a pinky swear.

it's giving Germania

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

This is that "plenary" authority Stephen Miller was referring to in the now edited CNN interview. Arguing that the president's deployment of troops is unreviewable by the courts is arguing that his power is plenary.

Some new art for Zeo Genesis www.zeogenesis.com/blog/zeo-gen...

What? The former lawyer for Andrew Tate who also would tweet out glowing praise for Andrew Tate... is reported to have done an extremely creepy thing regarding a woman? How surprising.

I've just said this to an online mate, but seriously - imagine losing a battle of the diss tracks so badly that you sue in a desperate attempt to save face and then the judge hands you your arse a second time? Absolutely staggering body of work.

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

Perry: "I agree with you about the seriousness of threats, generally, across the United States right now. I don't think there's a single public servant, really, who is not being subject to threats. "Mine started about 10 minutes after I got this case."

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook. MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops! ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund NPR and PBS because of their "left-wing propaganda" and "radical leftist gender ideology." October 7: The news industry's main trade group gives Blackburn its "Support Journalism Champion Award." Just shameless.

Chicago federal court chief judge says she has not requested National Guard for courthouse

🚨NEW: Republicans have a 2016-esque lead over Dems on the corruption issue Some Dems are finally telling hard truths about their party's problem & the problem of legalized corruption Sirota's essay for The Bulwark as we launch our new book MASTER PLAN👇 www.thebulwark.com/p/anti-corru...

The filing also debunks DHS claims that Illinois cops aren't responding to unrest in two ways. First, by describing how many cops responded to Brighton Park after CBP shot someone (and describing the 27 cops who got gassed).

"We have no king," Illinois says, updating the court on all the authoritarian things Trump has said since Monday. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

When you’re losing Ryan Zinke…

NEW: PFNA can be found in drinking water systems that serve about 26 million people. The EPA’s toxicity report on the forever chemical has sat in limbo for months, raising concerns that the Trump administration might change it or not release it at all.

🚨BREAKING: A right-wing group with a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinterpret a federal law designed to expand voting access as a mandate for aggressive voter removals. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Grassley should channel Senators' outrage at their phone records' being read into new statutory limits on call-information monitoring [Matthew Cavedon]

“A more robust and effective damages regime obviously would not prevent unconstitutional conduct by government officers. But it sure would be an easy way to reduce its frequency—and it would also be a remarkably easy statute to write.” Me in today’s bonus issue of “One First”: