NEW: DOJ rushes to SCOTUS in effort to enforce new U.S. Postal Service mail ballot restrictions. Despite multiple procedural reasons why the matter should not be before the justices yet, Solicitor General John Sauer went to the Supreme Court on Thursday. Today, at Law Dork:

DOJ rushes to SCOTUS in effort to enforce new U.S. Postal Service mail ballot restrictions

Despite multiple procedural reasons why the matter should not be before the justices yet, Solicitor General John Sauer went to the Supreme Court on Thursday.

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As big as it gets: The Missouri Supreme Court has blocked the Missouri GOP’s gerrymander, and ordered that a citizen-led veto referendum be placed on the ballot. The SoS had blocked it. This would likely reverse the expected GOP pick-up of a Kansas City seat, and set up a huge November vote.

Missouri Supreme Court blocks gerrymandered congressional map, orders referendum vote • Missouri Independent

Missourians will vote on the gerrymandered congressional map muscled through the Legislature in 2025, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled.

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“…the amended complaint has been expanded to include claims from people who don’t own the face-mounted gadgets but say they were recorded without their ‘informed consent’ when someone around them used the spectacles’ AI features — only for that data to possibly then be used for AI training…”

Meta Hit With Sweeping New Claims That Its AI Glasses Violated the Consent of "Millions" of Bystanders in Searing Lawsuit

A class action lawsuit against Meta was amended yesterday to include a new class of "bystanders," who claim Meta violated their privacy.

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My dad's cat Bridget infiltrates William Blake's 1794 painting The Ancient Of Days. A painting by my dad.

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Worth noting that this law specifically prohibits not just boycotts of Israel within the Green Line but also boycotts of Israeli Jewish settlements in illegally-occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Golan Heights. These 33 Dems, all of whom call themselves two-staters, voted for it anyway.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 8h ago

Here are the 33 Democrats who voted with Republicans to block federal funding to American colleges if they engage in boycotts against Israel — a foreign country that's committed genocide and killed Americans using American tax dollars:

Also! This is the first sentence of the report! NYT has always been bad at giving credit for who broke news — a standard practice literally everywhere else in journalism going back decades — but I genuinely think it is getting worse.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 10h ago

The NYT lost the Pulitzer for their transphobic podcast series with Azeen Ghorayshi to Pablo Torre and his reporting on the Clippers. They're salty about it so of course they're not going to properly credit him.

I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem

‘"The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships," Piff [the study author] said.’

Mark Crail@markcrail.bsky.social · 4h ago

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Neither for the first nor the last time: Vance is an absolute piece of shit, yet it delights me that he hasn't a clue how ghastly and utterly uncharismatic he is.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

JD Vance on the 25th anniversary of 9/11: "As you guys can probably guess, I'm really looking forward to hanging out with Joe Biden. I'm sure we'll have many many intense intellectual conversations. We'll have a great time."

The Trump administration has just filed its 37th #SCOTUS emergency application, this one seeking to put back into effect the USPS’s new rule re: mail-in ballots—even though (1) the First Circuit hasn’t denied a stay yet; & (2) Judge Talwani may shortly convert her TRO into a preliminary injunction.

The Netherlands' central bank has moved billions of dollars worth of gold, about 86 tons, from New York and Ottawa to London, CNN reports . The bank said the transfer was meant to "prepare for crises" amid global political instability.

The Netherlands no longer trusts the United States, no longer trusts that the US won't invade Canada, and they've assessed that the geopolitical risk is real.

it's not 9/11 yet, but I do like sharing pictures of obscene 9/11 merchandise every year

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 3y ago

My only contribution to 9/11 discourse is, and will always be, posting 9/11 Santa Merchandise.

just ran across this cartoon from the year of our lord two thousand and nine, and, welp.

LAST CHANCE to win a trip to Farm Aid 2026! Meet Nathaniel Rateliff backstage, watch Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, Margo Price & More from the photo pit PLUS take home a Turnpike Troubadours-signed Fender guitar!

If she's the new press secretary ...

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6h ago

Guys, Maria Bariromo has fallen! I repeat, Maria Bariromo has fallen. Fox News announces that she is out, effective immediately. “We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 ½ years and wish her all the best on her next chapter.” No other explanation given.

😎 Great Article 😎. Why you should boycott HP and should tell others why; people trying to justify watching/playing/reading it SHOULD be made to feel uncomfortable. "A kid’s book, a magic wand, even the idea of joy itself can be a tool used to club a kid back into the closet. Act accordingly." 🩷

Defector@defector.com · yesterday

It's time to grow up: defector.com/its-time-to-...

Director Alex Gibney says Musk also had access to and potentially collected intimate data on tens of millions of Americans for later political use. 2/

“If you wanted to corrupt those midterm elections and you wanted to use AI, all you needed to do was get detailed information on US citizens. And what DOGE did looked like just what you would do.” 4/4

“When I say I’m an agnostic, I only mean that the evidence isn’t in. There isn’t compelling evidence that God exists—at least your kind of god—and there isn’t compelling evidence that he doesn’t.” ― Carl Sagan, Contact

If the media is going to insist that politicians denounce their supporters who make extremist statements, I have a suggestion for someone a bit more important than a Twitch streamer.

Denouncing Extremists

One of the media's favorite activities is demanding that Democratic politicians denounce individuals on their side who have made extreme statements. This is a pattern that stretches back to the 1992 ...

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Wayne Thiebaud, Dog and Shadow, 2007

She's the most milquetoast middle of the road Dem and she can't even communicate with her constituents through social media without a neverending torrent of abuse. And it's all intentional. The point is to grind her down and force her out.

As the Defector essay points out, there's nothing virtuous about not having gotten into Potter. One of the writers I cared most about was Asimov, and he was a real POS. Another was Gaiman - as bad or worse.

Paraleipsis alert!

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 7h ago

like something right out of Veep

don't forget Lake Como... another monied mouth breather who needed to keep his fucking mouth. SHUT.

Majestic Twelve@majestic12.bsky.social · yesterday

Motherfucker, what? You fled to France, maybe you meant “oui” because there sure as hell is no “we”.

Why is Rahm Emanuel, the Stephen Miller of centrism, talking about running for president? He knows he will not be president. Nor will he rally centrists, Buttigieg’s gig. He’ll mobilize leftists against him. What’s his angle? I genuinely can’t figure it out.

never. underestimate how sexy an intelligent funny man is.