Imagine Having the Audacity
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In a feat of impeccable timing, the wonderful editors at the Lewis & Clark Law Review have finished their work on my article, "Is Originalism Bullshit?" The final version is now online at SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
February 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
In a feat of impeccable timing, the wonderful editors at the Lewis & Clark Law Review have finished their work on my article, "Is Originalism Bullshit?" The final version is now online at SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I would welcome news agencies utilizing their backbone and telling Admin to go find other other stooges to help legitimize and sane-wash their bullshit. If no one but BREITBART or OAN wanna be there, then it’ll be on Admin to convince the country it isn’t just bullshitting everyone.
Consider the possibility that the Trump White House WANTS this fight. Wants journalists to act like opponents instead of observers. If the entire press pool skipped a Trump photo op in solidarity with The AP, wouldn't the White House welcome Breitbart and One America News to take their places?
And, are you or your colleagues boycotting covering the WH as a protest?
February 15, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I would welcome news agencies utilizing their backbone and telling Admin to go find other other stooges to help legitimize and sane-wash their bullshit. If no one but BREITBART or OAN wanna be there, then it’ll be on Admin to convince the country it isn’t just bullshitting everyone.
This is so maddening. It’s not a privilege to be *shat on!*
I’m not gonna claim to be the premiere lawyer on BlueSky—but in questioning an opponent, one thing to watch for is not to toss so many softballs that they’ll nail out of the park nonstop with self-serving bullshit answers. Too many agencies approach this stuff like it’s a privilege to be bullshat…
February 15, 2025 at 4:53 AM
This is so maddening. It’s not a privilege to be *shat on!*
H.R.1161 - To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland”
— Surely, this will bring down the cost of eggs
— Surely, this will bring down the cost of eggs
www.congress.gov
February 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
H.R.1161 - To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland”
— Surely, this will bring down the cost of eggs
— Surely, this will bring down the cost of eggs
Imagine being proud of scaring and bullying a captive audience of schoolchildren.
N.J. teachers wear ‘Gulf of America’ shirts to school. Controversy ensues.
One teacher took to social media to say the t-shirts were extremely offensive.
www.nj.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Imagine being proud of scaring and bullying a captive audience of schoolchildren.
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SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series
The documentary was produced by a filmmaker tied to Russian propaganda efforts.
www.motherjones.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze.
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
February 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze.
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
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Credit where due: I believe @brianbeutler.bsky.social was the first to argue that Dems must deny Trump/GOP any votes on anything until the criminality stops:
www.offmessage.net/p/dont-prop-...
www.offmessage.net/p/dont-prop-...
Don't Prop Up The Corrupt Trump Regime
The moral hazard of median-voter pandering and limp Democratic resistance.
www.offmessage.net
February 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Credit where due: I believe @brianbeutler.bsky.social was the first to argue that Dems must deny Trump/GOP any votes on anything until the criminality stops:
www.offmessage.net/p/dont-prop-...
www.offmessage.net/p/dont-prop-...
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Normal U.S. Attorneys do not write like this. This is servile and buffoonish, light-years outside how federal prosecutors normally act. Ed Martin has gone Full Renfield. He’s a confessed lackey with vast federal prosecutorial power.
Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin says he will open an inquiry following a criminal “referral” of certain individuals by Elon Musk.
“If people are discovered to have broken the law or even acted simply unethically, we will chase them to the end of the Earth to hold them accountable,” Martin writes.
“If people are discovered to have broken the law or even acted simply unethically, we will chase them to the end of the Earth to hold them accountable,” Martin writes.
February 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Normal U.S. Attorneys do not write like this. This is servile and buffoonish, light-years outside how federal prosecutors normally act. Ed Martin has gone Full Renfield. He’s a confessed lackey with vast federal prosecutorial power.
February 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Ah—THEY’VE been irresponsive
Per Politico's Meredith Lee Hill: Speaker Johnson just now said Dem leader Jeffries “seemed to be trying to set up some sort of a government shutdown”
“We have been negotiating in good faith, trying to get a topline number. But so far as I know, they’ve been unresponsive the past two days or so."
“We have been negotiating in good faith, trying to get a topline number. But so far as I know, they’ve been unresponsive the past two days or so."
February 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Ah—THEY’VE been irresponsive
BREAKING: Lucy assures public, she will NOT pull the football away at the last second. This is huge.
February 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
BREAKING: Lucy assures public, she will NOT pull the football away at the last second. This is huge.
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You can’t pardon crazy shit like this—then believably claim you represent “law and order.”
Judge Amy Berman Jackson has formally dismissed the case of Jan. 6 defendant DJ Rodriguez, who drove a taser into the neck of MPD officer Michael Fanone and had been sentenced to 12 years in prison
"Michael Fanone's heroism will never be moot," she says.
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"Michael Fanone's heroism will never be moot," she says.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
February 7, 2025 at 4:53 AM
You can’t pardon crazy shit like this—then believably claim you represent “law and order.”
FECA is sloppy, and has all kinds of problems. One problem is that it’s silent on removal. It *does* provide for expired term holdovers to be replaced via Pres nom. and Sen confirm. It *does not* provide for unilateral removal by Pres., without replacement.
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
February 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
FECA is sloppy, and has all kinds of problems. One problem is that it’s silent on removal. It *does* provide for expired term holdovers to be replaced via Pres nom. and Sen confirm. It *does not* provide for unilateral removal by Pres., without replacement.
That’s a relief!
“If Elon Musk comes across a conflict of interest with the contracts and the funding that DOGE is overseeing, then Elon will excuse himself from those contracts.”
February 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
That’s a relief!
There’s a word for folks who believe in that kinda thing
I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts
A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
There’s a word for folks who believe in that kinda thing
Someone will have to remind him how many millions he received from CBS, ABC, all the social media platforms, oh—and THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD.
February 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Someone will have to remind him how many millions he received from CBS, ABC, all the social media platforms, oh—and THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD.
“No soldiers by the U.S. would be needed!"
That means Trump:
1) Was bullshitting all along and only folded when pressed by SA, Egypt, Jordan and other countries (and OPEC); OR
2) Is bullshitting with this statement, and plans on providing the entire US arsenal to Israel to “just clean out” Gaza.
That means Trump:
1) Was bullshitting all along and only folded when pressed by SA, Egypt, Jordan and other countries (and OPEC); OR
2) Is bullshitting with this statement, and plans on providing the entire US arsenal to Israel to “just clean out” Gaza.
Trump says no US soldiers needed in Gaza, US would take over after war
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Israel would turn the Gaza Strip over to the United States after the fighting ends and that no U.S. soldiers would be needed there.
www.reuters.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“No soldiers by the U.S. would be needed!"
That means Trump:
1) Was bullshitting all along and only folded when pressed by SA, Egypt, Jordan and other countries (and OPEC); OR
2) Is bullshitting with this statement, and plans on providing the entire US arsenal to Israel to “just clean out” Gaza.
That means Trump:
1) Was bullshitting all along and only folded when pressed by SA, Egypt, Jordan and other countries (and OPEC); OR
2) Is bullshitting with this statement, and plans on providing the entire US arsenal to Israel to “just clean out” Gaza.
Trump to rename “Mount Everest” to “Mount Rushmore II”
I’m sure this really happened. We don’t give a shit if you put Trump on Rushmore - I personally think it’s pathetically hilarious that MAGA cares so much about this. If only you cared as much about your constituents. Tattoo his face on your forehead, we couldn’t care less.
February 6, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Trump to rename “Mount Everest” to “Mount Rushmore II”
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Van Hollen: "He just said that it will be US policy to forcibly displace 2 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. That is ethnic cleansing by another name. He said the US would then own the Gaza Strip and we would develop it and other countries would take these Palestinians."
February 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Van Hollen: "He just said that it will be US policy to forcibly displace 2 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. That is ethnic cleansing by another name. He said the US would then own the Gaza Strip and we would develop it and other countries would take these Palestinians."
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“Beattie repeatedly said Black lawmakers, policymakers, and groups need to ‘learn’ their place and take ‘a knee to MAGA.’”
“‘Shithole countries’ was the high-point of Trumps presidency,’ he wrote in 2020.”
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...
“‘Shithole countries’ was the high-point of Trumps presidency,’ he wrote in 2020.”
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...
Trump appoints speechwriter fired for attending conference with White nationalists to top State Department role | CNN Politics
Darren Beattie, a former Donald Trump speechwriter who was fired in 2018 after CNN revealed he spoke at a conference attended by White nationalists, has been elevated to a top job at the State Departm...
amp.cnn.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
“Beattie repeatedly said Black lawmakers, policymakers, and groups need to ‘learn’ their place and take ‘a knee to MAGA.’”
“‘Shithole countries’ was the high-point of Trumps presidency,’ he wrote in 2020.”
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...
“‘Shithole countries’ was the high-point of Trumps presidency,’ he wrote in 2020.”
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...
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We are at the point of the fascist autocoup where the interim US Attorney is replying to an anonymous pro-Nazi account who wants to see someone punished for simply sharing the names of Elon Musk's lackeys who have gotten access to extremely sensitive government data systems.
February 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
We are at the point of the fascist autocoup where the interim US Attorney is replying to an anonymous pro-Nazi account who wants to see someone punished for simply sharing the names of Elon Musk's lackeys who have gotten access to extremely sensitive government data systems.