No running, they said.

I just got out of ‘14th,’ Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix documentary out in December, premiering today at the New York Film Festival. I won’t review it here, but its undisputed star is @sifill.bsky.social, whom the director introduced as “the Meryl Streep of our film.” And that’s not an overstatement.

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d ago

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

Many abolitionists have been calling precisely for this: To bring the barbarity of state-sanctioned killings as close to the public as possible. Let everyone see and experience how our government, with our own tax dollars, puts a human being to death.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is shameful. It speaks to a character that enjoys turning power into violence. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Early bird gets the pond.

Fun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute.

Steve Mullis@stevemullis.net · 6d ago

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

“Attending a live CLE webinar from the beach. Is that lawyerly?” A meta CLE course on ethics, taught by Cristian Farías.

The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.

Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)

“Snap back to reality, oops, there goes gravity” Supreme Court term about to start

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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New personal policy: If a publication I write for doesn’t have free gift links for me to share with people, I’ll make one of those annoying “Reporter Reads” videos off a teleprompter and put it up freely. Fair is fair! Upside: You get a load of my imperfect accent and perfectly symmetrical mug.

Yes, I did go in.

Before people make up lies about the common law, aliens in England had the right to not be detained indefinitely and could challenge their imprisonment.

Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS *grants* Tennessee's request to vacate the stay of execution the Sixth Circuit had entered in the case of Christa Pike, clearing the way for her execution: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Someone called me a “lawtino” unironically, and I need to sit with that for a moment. It’s Hispanic Heritage Month, so I may just allow it.

A friend suggested I join and post more on TikTok for #journalism—I have 30 followers—but on deeper reflection, this may not be sustainable.

Good bot.

This is an astonishing self-own by the Internal Revenue Service that will keep scores of hardworking, tax-paying, non-refund-seeking immigrants from paying billions in federal taxes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/b...

Trump Administration Prepares to Ask Tax Filers if They Are U.S. Citizens (Gift Article)

The new question, included on a draft version of the primary tax form, comes as part of an anti-immigrant turn at an agency that long prioritized tax administration.

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Question (4) is breathtaking: “Please tell us all the ways you want us to rule for you, independent of the actual legal issues in the case.”

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: The Supreme Court, over the objections of the 3 liberal justices, grants a stay in the D.V.D. litigation, authorizing the Trump admin to resume third country removals without any notice to people being sent to countries they've never been to. The Court also agrees to hear the case in December.

One big takeaway from this hearing is that Barack Obama and Joe Biden did a world of good to the D.C. Circuit when they appointed former trial judges to it. And with good reason, Judges Robert Wilkins, Michelle Childs, and Florence Pan have all been lighting into the Justice Department quite a bit.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2w ago

NOW: DC Circuit en banc aguments over Judge Boasberg’s contempt proceedings have now begun at the DC Circuit. Brett Shumate is now arguing for DOJ. www.youtube.com/live/4A1BwFh...

Every so often, I’m reminded that Gannett was specifically recruiting for and hired a “conservative opinion editor”—I imagine to commission pieces such as this one. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Gas prices are brutal. Giving Democrats Congress would be worse | Opinion

Republicans have let conservatives down on gas prices and the SAVE Act. But staying home in midterm elections would put their biggest wins at risk.

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Judges won't save us, but I imagine any media organization or broadcast network that derives part of is revenue from political and government ad spending has standing to sue over the propaganda ads the White House is running on friendly networks in the lead-up to the election. Maybe.

10-year-old: My beautiful tan is going to go away with this weather. Me: Tell me about it.

I ran into Mahmoud Khalil in the greenroom.

“I simply do not believe that Nolan simply and accidentally drowned. . . . And nobody saw anything? And no one knows anything,” the mother of a Black teen-ager who died this summer on a boating trip in Mississippi said. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Nolan Wells’s Family Still Wants Answers

A Mississippi grand jury declined to bring charges in connection with the death of a Black teen-ager during a boating trip, but it’s still unclear exactly how he died.

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The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Blanche on AI: "The answer is not to just all of the sudden try to regulate this"

Read @courtwatch.bsky.social review the stories that don't get told as corporate media (in this case, McClatchy) lays off all the legal journalists. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

The Rabbit Hole: Covering What McClatchy Will Miss

With the private equity-owned newspaper chain laying off 90 reporters, we look at the court stories they’ll miss.

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I can't stop, won't stop writing about Nolan Wells.

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2w ago

“I simply do not believe that Nolan simply and accidentally drowned. . . . And nobody saw anything? And no one knows anything,” the mother of a Black teen-ager who died this summer on a boating trip in Mississippi said. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...