Vince Outlaw
@vinceoutlaw.com
City Times Media multimedia journalist living in San Diego, reporting on civics, sports, and general student life. Former enterprise architect, Jazz 88.3 show producer and host, and digital marketeer. Democracy, basketball, technology, music, travel.
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Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel.
"Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."
Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel.
"Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."
December 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel.
"Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."
Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel.
"Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."
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If Chuck Redd is your new favorite jazz percussionist now, as he is mine, you might enjoy hearing him host a show and play Winter Wonderland on vibes - back when The Kennedy Center was still The Kennedy Center. www.youtube.com/live/ntH8isI...
All-Star Christmas Day Jazz Jam - Millennium Stage (December 25, 2022)
YouTube video by The Kennedy Center
www.youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If Chuck Redd is your new favorite jazz percussionist now, as he is mine, you might enjoy hearing him host a show and play Winter Wonderland on vibes - back when The Kennedy Center was still The Kennedy Center. www.youtube.com/live/ntH8isI...
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Christ he's so deeply unwell
Trump: We track Santa. We want to make sure that Santa is being good. We want to make sure that he's not infiltrated, that we're not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa. Santa loves Oklahoma like I do. You know, Oklahoma was very good to me in the election
December 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Christ he's so deeply unwell
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This is a lot of words to say that DOJ is in violation of the statutory deadline and will take even longer to produce records that were due last week.
December 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This is a lot of words to say that DOJ is in violation of the statutory deadline and will take even longer to produce records that were due last week.
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
THIS.
December 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
THIS.
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Best alt text ever. Accurate.
December 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Best alt text ever. Accurate.
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We condemn the scandalous US visa ban on former EU Commisioner Breton and digital activists. Protecting democracy isn’t censorship. ✋🏼
Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech.
Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼
Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech.
Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼
December 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We condemn the scandalous US visa ban on former EU Commisioner Breton and digital activists. Protecting democracy isn’t censorship. ✋🏼
Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech.
Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼
Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech.
Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼
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Our new, one-of-a-kind guide for litigators, Countering Originalism, equips lawyers with the strategies, arguments, and citations they need to address the originalist arguments they encounter in their cases. bit.ly/4iQ1v0B
Countering Originalism
This guide offers lawyers strategies, arguments, and citations to address originalist claims they encounter in litigation.
www.brennancenter.org
December 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Our new, one-of-a-kind guide for litigators, Countering Originalism, equips lawyers with the strategies, arguments, and citations they need to address the originalist arguments they encounter in their cases. bit.ly/4iQ1v0B
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Soon we’re all going to be penalized for speaking unkind words about the führer and liberals — the resistance will be labeled as “Enemies of the State” and become National Security Threats. They’re going to take away our voices if we don’t stop them.
December 24, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Soon we’re all going to be penalized for speaking unkind words about the führer and liberals — the resistance will be labeled as “Enemies of the State” and become National Security Threats. They’re going to take away our voices if we don’t stop them.
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It's important to have goals. I for one think we should applaud Lindsey Halligan for her resolve!
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/lindsey-ha...
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Lindsey Halligan Resolves To Embarrass Herself At SCOTUS In 2026
After failing to re-indict Comey and James, DOJ says it will appeal her disqualification.
www.lawandchaospod.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It's important to have goals. I for one think we should applaud Lindsey Halligan for her resolve!
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/lindsey-ha...
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/lindsey-ha...
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It's pretty fucking fearless to go back and do your goddamn oversight visit where they last framed you for assault.
‼️💥 Today, we are outside Delaney Hall in support of Congresswoman
@replamonica.bsky.social
and Congressman
@menendez.house.gov
as they conduct an Oversight visit following the devastating loss of Jean Wilson Brutus, a community member detained at Delaney Hall earlier this month.
@replamonica.bsky.social
and Congressman
@menendez.house.gov
as they conduct an Oversight visit following the devastating loss of Jean Wilson Brutus, a community member detained at Delaney Hall earlier this month.
December 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's pretty fucking fearless to go back and do your goddamn oversight visit where they last framed you for assault.
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Justice Kavanaugh does not want to be known as Justice Kavanaugh Stop
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Justice Kavanaugh does not want to be known as Justice Kavanaugh Stop
WAY ENLIGHTENING, @lizdye.bsky.social. Showing the dispicableness of their Project, "all their work dismantling the social safety net and the regulatory state served only to concentrate power in a demented demagogue and his chattering coterie of clout farmers." www.publicnotice.co/p/heritage-f...
Heritage Foundation killed by MAGA
Antisemitism in the GOP? The devil you say!
www.publicnotice.co
December 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
WAY ENLIGHTENING, @lizdye.bsky.social. Showing the dispicableness of their Project, "all their work dismantling the social safety net and the regulatory state served only to concentrate power in a demented demagogue and his chattering coterie of clout farmers." www.publicnotice.co/p/heritage-f...
THIS would be a class I'd take or a project I would help with.
If I were still teaching US History, I would gather images of the oval office over time and ask students to analyze what the decorations, including the choice of portraits, busts, etc, tells us about how a particular president understands the history of the US. 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A 3-D Look Inside Trump’s Revamped Oval Office (Gift Article)
Take a 3-D tour of the president’s office, where he covered more than a third of wall space with gold.
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
THIS would be a class I'd take or a project I would help with.
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🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump’s military takeover of Chicago will not go forward after the Supreme Court Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling halting his attempt to send hundreds of National Guard troops to the city. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Supreme Court Upholds Block to Trump’s Chicago Military Takeover
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump’s military takeover of Chicago will not go forward after the Supreme Court Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling halting his attempt to send hundreds of National Guard troops to the city. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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CBS News has capitulated but Democracy Docket never will. I created it without any corporate backers or private equity investors. It's only accountable to its members who help support its 22-person team. Become one now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
December 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
CBS News has capitulated but Democracy Docket never will. I created it without any corporate backers or private equity investors. It's only accountable to its members who help support its 22-person team. Become one now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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‘How the South Won the Civil War’ 💯🎯
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
‘How the South Won the Civil War’ 💯🎯
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Yep.
December 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Yep.
"He knows the system from the inside. With a fortune exceeding $175 million, he understands how wealth is protected—and how fragile public trust has become. His plea—tax me more—is not moral grandstanding. It’s a pragmatic warning." adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/mitt-romne...
Mitt Romney Is Right: Tax the Rich Before the Pitchforks Come Out
The One Percent’s Problem Isn’t Envy. It’s Math.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
"He knows the system from the inside. With a fortune exceeding $175 million, he understands how wealth is protected—and how fragile public trust has become. His plea—tax me more—is not moral grandstanding. It’s a pragmatic warning." adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/mitt-romne...
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They’re scrambling. Written for a party of one.
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
They’re scrambling. Written for a party of one.
San Diego County’s biggest apartment complex of the year is opening. It’s not where you think www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/12/23/s...
San Diego County’s biggest apartment complex of the year is opening. It’s not where you think
San Marcos’ 222 North City complex has 458 apartments.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
San Diego County’s biggest apartment complex of the year is opening. It’s not where you think www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/12/23/s...