can someone obsessed with this stuff explain if/how losing the graham/mcconnell seats impacts the calculations for replacing justice alito?!

The Post killing its Books section (one of the best around) is so fucking bleak

Nathan J Robinson criticizing Ezra Klein’s coverage of Epstein while he’s still shilling his book with Chomsky.

So ... do we have insight into why the "defendants [DOJ, representing the Trump admin] were 'not prepared' to address the merits today"?

a principle they never forget when the victims are palestinian!

Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11mo ago

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

imo dems should simply say "we're not voting for any of this, trump is not a reliable negotiation partner, if the GOP wants to pass the budget they should just change the senate rules, which is within their power." but if they are gonna deal, this approach is miles better than ACA subsidies imo

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Democrats can demand a rollback of the Supreme Court ICE racial profiling case. It’s a trivial legislative fix. It poses virtually no political risk for them. It protects 68 million people from open government persecution. It protects basic constitutional values. No government funding without this.

Just to be clear, the competing theory is that someone else forged his signature, long before he was a political figure, and before Epstein was a pariah, in a book signed by dozens of Trump’s rich friends?

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 11mo ago

lol fuck off

Protestors chant FREE DC FREE PALESTINE TRUMP IS THE HITLER OF OUR TIME To Trump, Vance, and Hegseth

ICE supporter tries to assault an ICE protester with pepper spray, maces herself instead, and then demands an ambulance. 🤦‍♂️

There needs to be a congressional investigation into ICE and its practices. The agency needs to be completely dissolved and its agents and officers need to be prosecuted for any and all crimes committed.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12mo ago

What's so clear here -- and so terrifying -- is that these cops view themselves as Trump's goons and know that Trump will let them get away with anything. www.thehandbasket.co/p/federal-ag...

Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps. A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:

Swept Away: What Cities Really Take When They Sweep Homeless Encampments

People say having their possessions — from birth certificates to loved ones’ ashes — taken in “sweeps” traumatizes them, exacerbates health issues and undermines efforts to find housing and get or kee...

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Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Press needs to stop repeating govt euphemism of “clearing homeless camps.” I’ve witnessed it in other cities: massive destruction of personal property. Not just bedrolls & tents; family photos, Bibles, meds. Times I’ve seen it people weren’t even given option to move their things.

incredible that smart, committed people are still doing “the norms will save us” in the midst of an authoritarian assault on our entire way of life, during which thus far the norms have not even been a speed bump

Yet another helpful explainer to counter the ignorant disinformation spouted by the unqualified extremist who is currently destroying the HHS

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 12mo ago

The Germans finally figured out how to stop committing a Holocaust

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 12mo ago

BREAKING: Germany will not authorize exports of military equipment that could be used in Gaza “until further notice," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says. This decision comes after the Israeli Cabinet announced plans to take over Gaza City.

from a spiteful perspective, cfpb workers have already won

NEW: I spoke with a woman named Andrea about her experience being detained by ICE after calling the cops for help during a domestic violence incident. She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.

Here’s the online post by Ben Schrader, ex Chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s office in NASHVILLE — who ABC says resigned because their decision to charge Kilmar Abrego Garcia is politically motivated. Hope @chrislhayes.bsky.social or someone interviews him!

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

YouGov poll | 6/5 “If you had to choose, who would you side with more between the following?”

ok Mr. Hall Monitor, they are the billionaires so are we supposed to be talking about them or not

Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · last yr.

PSA: Do not let the Musk & Trump feud distract you from the fact that both want to rob us of basic healthcare, civil rights, & economic security—all while lining the pockets of billionaires. This childish feud is a distraction. Stay focused on ensuring we stop this horrific bill from becoming law.

If you’re struggling today, take a moment to remember that the worst people you know, the racists, the transphobes and incels, are currently losing their minds on twitter as their overlords fight. Let that comfort you 🙏🏽

it’s we’re-supposedly-not-shutting-down-the-cfpb-but-everyone-has-to-clear-their-office week and i just boxed up the last 8.5 years of my professional life. i will miss fighting for consumers in this particular way but look forward to sharing my next thing soon.

Alex Jones, who spent years ranting about shadowy government mass surveillance technology, is now stanning for Palantir

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

NEW from @propublica.org: Records show that Chris Young is simultaneously working as a political adviser to Elon Musk while helping DOGE gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which regulates Musk's businesses. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Musk Adviser May Make as Much as $1 Million a Year While Helping to Dismantle Agency that Regulates Tesla and X

Records show that Chris Young is simultaneously working as a political adviser to Musk while serving in the Department of Government Efficiency, helping to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...

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60% of Americans have a chronic condition. Among people over 65, it's 95%. Saying most of our health care spending goes to chronic conditions is just another way of saying it goes to health care.

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · last yr.

Dr Oz says being healthy is a patriotic duty Worse, he says they spend 70% of Medicare & Medicaid funds on chronic illness & aren’t “getting their money’s worth” This is the quiet part said out loud. They don’t want to cure chronic illness, they want us to take the blame. They don’t want to pay.

You do not need to be a lawyer to read this sentence: "No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." (In FDR's words, the Constitution is a layman's document - it's not (just) for the lawyers!)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree? TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution? TRUMP: I don't know

Ironically, this is Big Pharma's wet dream. Rather than a preventative vaccine that costs a few dollars a dose twice a lifetime, they can sell expensive new in-patent drugs for hundreds a dose that you need to keep taking.

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

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.

for the people in the driver's seat of the right wing cultural movement, an end to "DEI" always meant doing things like sending free money to a white lady who called a child the n word. sorry if you thought it was about a slightly annoying HR webinar you once had to watch or whatever.

NEW: Sources says several federal prosecutors have resigned after Trump's new U.S. Atty in Los Angeles offered a misdemeanor plea deal to a sheriff's deputy -- after a jury had already convicted him of a felony: www.latimes.com/california/s...

L.A. federal prosecutors resign over plea deal for convicted sheriff's deputy, sources say

Multiple federal prosecutors in Los Angeles submitted resignations after U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli offered a plea agreement to an L.A. County sheriff's deputy who had already been convicted of using ...

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