ICYMI last night, DHS is currently being fined every day for contempt of court until it coughs up the cell phone records of officers involved in immigration stops in L.A. last year that looked like racial profiling rather than reasonable cause. short thread -->

Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 17h ago

Fed. judge holds DHS in civil contempt of court for refusing "intentionally and not in good faith" to provide plaintiffs with phone images they intend to use to prove DHS was racially profiling people arrested in Los Angeles without reasonable suspicion. Order from July 28, unsealed today.

'Sometimes a character would say they were going to do something, but then the film would show them doing something else. An odd thing for the director to miss.'

Eric 👨🏻‍💻@eman41.bsky.social · 22h ago

This passage makes me want to just log off and throw my phone in the river. The discourse on this has officially reached its end

New visitor I am definitely going to force to be my friend, a Lazuli bunting

Reportedly she's leaving her position to spend more time with her wine glasses

CrazySaguaro 🌵 🐻 ⬇️@crazysaguaro.com · 2d ago

I was wondering if Juicebox passed this by the king before trying to exonerate herself. I guess not. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Owen Barcala@obarcala.bsky.social · 5d ago

Lmao, the only reason to make this MTD 20 pages is to blame everyone else for Jeanine's bad decisions

Lmao, the only reason to make this MTD 20 pages is to blame everyone else for Jeanine's bad decisions

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d ago

Juicebox Jeanine files a 20-page Motion to Dismiss the case against Davey Hearn that ... claims to have been helpless before DOI told them how Trump's incompetence ruined the pool. Not sure when I've seen this Olympic class ass-covering before. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

The Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj

Now that the Emily Wilson backlash has died down, I can finally ask my most important question from the Odyssey—what they hell were they eating at Circe's house? It looked like tapeworm stew

It sounds like you're just feeding agencies to Trump

Dan Weiner@danw329.bsky.social · 6d ago

BREAKING: Today Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is introducing legislation that would create a powerful new federal enforcement agency to fight political corruption.

Got my car serviced 2 weeks ago and they recommended replacing the serpentine belt, now the engine won't turn over. I hope I'm not crazy to think that's connected somehow.

Super normal stuff: Citing "extraordinary" misconduct, the other six members of the Louisiana Supreme Court have forced the Chief Justice to recuse himself from a case (after he refused to do so on his own).

The case was dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction, not on the merits Might not want to spike the ball yet, especially since he had a default judgment entered against him for $250k before he finally got smart and defended it

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · last wk.

“PSA: Now that my case is settled, you are free to refer to @FBIDirectorKash as a ‘chud,’ a ‘googly-eyed Kremlin bitch,’ and a ‘traitor’ without fear of legal repercussions!” trib.al/e8IVBnp

Your first lesson for lawyers, most of the people in charge won't know how to use basic technology necessary for their jobs

David Ziff@djsziff.bsky.social · last wk.

"Dear Applicant, With deep regret, I write to inform you that Washington’s July 2026 administration of the NextGen bar exam has been cancelled. We will not continue tomorrow. . . . We do not have sufficient confidence that the technology issues have been resolved . . . . We sincerely apologize."

What's that saying about having a face for an opinion column?

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.

Breaking News: Ross Douthat, The New York Times opinion columnist, is joining CBS News’s “60 Minutes” in one of the first major hires since Bari Weiss’s takeover.

They're going to subject to a confidentiality order, so don't get your hopes up about seeing them any time soon

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last wk.

BREAKING: Trump's trust is ordered to turn over financial documents "from the date of January 1, 2023, to the present" responsive to a subpoena issued in Trump's defamation case against the BBC. The first production is due in 10 days.

Huh

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · last wk.

JUST IN: Kalshi has won a federal court ruling to block a Minnesota law from taking effect that would have banned prediction markets in the state. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It's pointless to get upset with classicists criticizing The Odyssey. They've been training for decades to complain that the original version of things is better than the modern take, it's practically the point of classicism.

Totally empathize with Wilson because if my weird niche hobby suddenly became world news you'd never heard the end of it from me

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.

‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The $50k discourse is revealing that not as many people have read Thinking, Fast & Slow as should have. There are a lot of weird brain heuristics that you don't even notice until they are pointed out to you.

Kushner, a multiple felon, pleaded guilty to, among other things, hiring a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, videotaping the encounter, and sending the tape to his own sister to bully her into not testifying in front of a grand jury investigating him. Thank you, Mamdani, and good riddance.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2w ago

One less pervert in NYC. I’ll help him pack.

Our office refrigerator has had a big tray of tiramisu in it all week, and someone keeps eating about 2 square inches of it each day, and I keep marveling at someone having the strength of will to do that

While I was watching the movie I kept thinking to myself, 'How many times are they going to say something about Zeus's law? Enough!' When Odysseus is talking to Penelope at the end it hit me—the law of hospitality was fundamental to civilization, and Odysseus thinks he's responsible for ending it

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2w ago

more serious Odyssey opinion: leaning into the religious significance of the Trojan horse strategy (and the hospitality as central to civilization theme) was a good choice by Nolan and friends artistically and politically. strongest condemnation of our present era I'd expect from a mass market film

One of my partners used "gobbledygook" in a brief yesterday and looked up where that word came from. Reportedly, it was first used in a memo by a guy named Maury Maverick instructing his employees to write shorter memos, which is so good I might start passing it around to associates.

Why does it look like it was filmed in the 80s?

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is the video Musk is quote-tweeting when he says he'll deliver a feature length version of The Odyssey, just in case you were curious how dogshit it is

Now that I'm reading this on something other than my phone, there are like ten pages I could quote-post word for word. It is an absolute Festivus-level airing of grievances. I highly recommend reading pages 71-80 for anyone who feels like they've been taking crazy pills when they think about SCOTUS

Owen Barcala@obarcala.bsky.social · 2w ago

"When six justices walk away from those they are supposed to protect, state constitutions hold the line. That is not defiance. That is the design." The Supreme Court's credibility is starting to run dry with state courts.

"When six justices walk away from those they are supposed to protect, state constitutions hold the line. That is not defiance. That is the design." The Supreme Court's credibility is starting to run dry with state courts.

Niko Bowie@nikobowie.bsky.social · 2w ago

This state supreme court opinion pulls no punches: “This court does not anchor Hawaiʻi’s due process rights to the federal floor. Especially one that keeps sinking. . . . State constitutionalism makes it easy to consider Roberts Court jurisprudence ‘white noise.’”

Can't believe Nolan left out the part where Odysseus gets Circe to change his men back by promising they can bone afterward. Coward.

Part of what makes the shadow docket so infuriating is SCOTUS trying to straddle the fence between these being "interim" rulings that don't need to be explained, but still "orders" that need to be followed. Can't be both. They need to pick a lane instead of doing this motte and bailey act.

Alex Aronson@alexaronson.bsky.social · 3w ago

Amy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.