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Comey's MTD notes that Trump has made more explicit threats than 8647 (tho leaves out Milley and Mike Pence). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Comey's MTD makes an interesting historical argument. I guess this is for Sammy Alito's benefit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Important corollary: people are LESS likely to support authoritarian leaders if people around them don't. This is where "social proof" comes in. Be vocal and visible to social circles and neighbors about your resistance against authoritarians AND your support of pro-democracy candidates and causes

The ongoing Musk nazi tweets just have me wondering if corporate boards are even a thing anymore

A Modest Proposal: Since Stephen Miller insists Haitians must be deported to Haiti, which is not habitable, why should we have to wait for Katie and Elon to self-deport to the moon until it is habitable?

We know this, in part, bc the states sued (as well as some people who lost grants).

This case illustrates why we must not allow Meta to normalise its pervert glasses.

1. American taxpayers are spending $2 BILLION every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.

An extremely well-deserved victory lap from Bishop: The “index crossed into TACO territory on Wednesday and shot through its three key precedents on Thursday,” with pivot said to begin “after President Trump’s ‘mindset started to change on Thursday evening’”

BREAKING: A statement from the Office of the Attending Physician says Mitch McConnell "is not yet medically cleared to leave the rehab facility and return to the office." A photo from McConnell's office:

STATES RUN ELECTIONS

The sigh I let out when Jay sent me this notice. I looked them up. Because I like punishing myself.

Update: Kagan denied this request for a stay.

The Justice Department is requesting that the NAACP's Clean Air Act citizen enforcement against an xAI data center be dismissed for national security reasons. @energylawprof.bsky.social explains how this novel strategy exemplifies how security claims are reshaping energy permitting.

In Cisco, #SCOTUS not only (unpersuasively) eviscerated the Alien Tort Statute, but it effectively neutered a 22-year-old precedent for no other reason than that the Republican appointees disagree w/ it. Today’s “One First” goes deep into the ruling—and why stare decisis is really *is* for suckers:

There's a lot of people newly paying attention to Zelenskyy's eye on Iran. I think if Ukraine can DEFINITIVE show Trump is knowingly lying abt RU and China helping Iran it would corner him somewhat. That may be why Ukraine struck a ship in the Caspian (Israel previously struck a port there).

extremely lucky to still make a living writing on the internet. we have many supporters/subscribers and i'm mostly an optimistic person. then i see something like this and i want to scream forever into a pillow. AI account ripping off our reporting about AI ripping off authors, goes viral, no link

What do you want to bet this position will end up doing something exceedingly corrupt to help Jared Kushner? www.justice.gov/legal-career...

WSJ has now covered the Caspian strike. As I've noted, Israel already struck Iran in the Caspian, and obviously Iran has been involved in Ukraine from the start. www.wsj.com/world/two-wa...

“.. Despite all this government backing, Oracle’s stock price has been on a wild round trip to nowhere .. “.. S&P Global Ratings downgraded the .. debt to one level above junk, and the threat of a Moody’s Ratings cut looms.” @markgongloff.bsky.social $ORCL $PSKY www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

“The Ellisons Aren’t Having the Best Year” @opinion.bloomberg.com

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“Complaint fails to state a viable defamation claim against Defendants. First, Director Patel does not plausibly allege that Defendants published any challenged statement from the Article with ‘actual malice” The Atlantic asks court to dismiss Kash Patel’s lawsuit

Statement from Abbe Lowell and Marilyn Bednarski, my emphasis:

“My brother is just a vessel. It’s like they have to have a body to put in jail. And unfortunately, that happens to be my brother.” Much more here from Ana Bell, brother of Prairieland defendant Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada, who spoke with me not long after the anniversary of her brother’s arrest:

One could write a Masters thesis on the differential response this video has gotten on all the different social media platforms. On Xitter, unsurprisingly, it is disgusting.

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The perspective you need on the proposed Trump Saudi nuclear deal from a man with deep knowledge and a special perspective on it, @jonatomic.bsky.social. Must read. newrepublic.com/article/2133...

“More than 150 medics have arrived at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany in recent days. “The hospital is the primary location for treating troops injured in combat in the Middle East.” www.wsj.com/world/middle...

"Kiss My Ass:" Trump Looses the Nukes to Placate Crown Prince Bonesaw emptywheel.net/2026/07/23/k...

More Concerns about the Investigative Misconduct by Harmeet Dhillon's Team emptywheel.net/2026/07/23/m...

"Kiss My Ass:" Trump Looses Nukes to Placate Crown Prince Bonesaw (Updated, with Trump's attempted TACO) emptywheel.net/2026/07/23/k...

I remind, again, that the lady in charge of protecting against such violations of civil rights is, herself, a Sikh immigrant.

THREAD: Join me on a trip down memory lane given the news that Trump has inked a nuclear deal with the Saudis (in the middle of a war he started to end nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.) Who remembers The Middle East Marshall Plan from Trump 1.0? 1/ www.wsj.com/world/middle...

BREAKING: Jim Jordan has referred Jack Smith to the DOJ for a perjury investigation. They say he lied when he said the toll records he got didn't include text message content. Which is true. The text messages Smith got came from the Archives. www.cbsnews.com/news/house-c...

The TYSON callsign
 ICE tried to hide these airplanes
 Not invisible

NEW: The Senate DEFEATS the war powers resolution the House just passed. Fetterman voted with republicans. Collins votes with dems. Murkowski and Rand Paul didn't vote. www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-...

1956 Republican National platform.

I'd vote for Van Hollen to be Senate Majority Leader. Just my two cents :)

The DC Circuit won't reinstate Trump's effort to create a brand new deportation process at the border that's untethered to anything in the Immigration and Nationality Act and directly contradicts extensive other provisions of the law. Good.

For nearly an hour during the hearing, Judge Arun Subramanian grilled DOJ attorneys over their handling of the subpoenas and accompanying docs. DOJ admitted that it made statements that were “not correct” in its filings to the magistrate judge, but claimed the errors were “inadvertent.”

YAYYYYYYY

JUST IN: A day after the 2nd Circuit upheld the detention of Columbia activist Mohsen Mahdawi, the 4th Circuit goes the other way, upholding the *release* of Georgetown research Badar Khan Suri. 2-1 ruling. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

And here's another one: Judge Ellison says the 5th circuit stay has no bearing on him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

So far, it appears the district judges in CA5 are operating as though this stay ruling does not bind them. Here's the latest from Judge Saldana, who acknowledges it but says the lack of analysis means there's nothing to follow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

there was a recent bug in the Bluesky app that caused some people's chat permission settings to switch to "No one" we already fixed the bug, but folks may want to double-check their settings to make sure they are set the way they want. go here: bsky.app/messages/set... look for these settings:

A federal magistrate judge has ruled that Trump must turn over detailed financial information in connection with his defamation lawsuit against the BBC. The decision opened the door for the BBC to explore the finances of more than 400 companies owned by a Trump family trust.

BREAKING: For the second time in as many months, the House just voted to curb Trump's authority in Iran. The measure cleared 214-208, with four Republicans joining all Democrats in support.