Bat 🦇 Patrick 🎃

Langdell Hall at Harvard Law: Not Under Man but Under God and Law. He is a man, not a king. And the Constitution is our law.

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

October 27 - Jiro turns 101! Happy birthday, Chef! www.imdb.com/title/tt1772...

Judge Furman rules that Maureen Comey's firing violated separation of powers. Orders backpay. Govt's arguments violate 2 centuries of SCOTUS rulings & would "unsettle the equilibrium established by this Nation's constitutional system." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JUST IN: Maurene Comey's firing by DOJ was illegal and she must be orders retroactively reinstated w back pay, a judge rules. "To accept Defendants’ argument would be to unsettle the very equilibrium established by this Nation’s constitutional system" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Vivek Ramaswamy, Ken Paxton, Mike Collins, Roger Marshall, on and on - everywhere you look the most despicable humans financed by a handful of billionaires and elevated by Trump want you to give them even more political power to serve their interests at your expense.

A Scaramucci is ten days (july 21-31). Zacharia was appointed on Oct 9 and lasted till October 16. So a Zacharia is seven days, or 7/10ths of a Scaramucci.

Adios Malibu Katie. Now we know a Zacharia = half a Scaramucci.

Trump’s WH Press Secretary Katie Zacharia reportedly didn’t pass the bar exam

The goal of sane people must be to defund Elon Musk and get him as far away from politics as possible. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/defund-musk

It’s not about policy anymore. It’s about saving America from fascist madmen whose derangement will kill us all.

Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.

Excellent piece by @jamellebouie.net

oh my god

"It’s not naive... to believe in our national sense of honor; and to expect our leaders to behave with dignity, integrity, civility, and humility." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Watching people die by violence “damages the spectator irreversibly,” @gcaw.bsky.social writes. “To see this process is to be diminished.”

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Ask yourself why ICE says it needs tens of millions of voter records to "combat fraud" when the actual number of proven cases is ~513 since 2016, compared to more than 685 million votes cast. Literally fewer than 1 in a million instances. ~200 involved vote by mail. Non-issue. Fight back!

Susan Collins says she supports women. We saw otherwise. | Opinion

Rape as a tool of political violence was the natural escalation point to allowing an adjudicated rapist to become President. I think I'll just start shrieking at the top of my lungs at anyone who tells me I'm overreacting from this point forward. No words, just the feral sound of unbridled rage.

Susan Collins claims that @propublica.org’s reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records. 📽️ Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyi...

Trump: 'I feel badly' for Cornell rape suspects #RawStory

Trump says ‘I feel badly’ for accused Cornell gang rapists because his nemesis is investigating them

The ACLU's Jeffrey Stein called the ruling a "huge step in the right direction." “The public deserves to know how our government is justifying the cold-blooded murder of hundreds of civilians." 🔽

1/ The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights just released its report on campus antisemitism and Title VI. I testified at the hearing. The report is unanimous, bipartisan, & debunks the main legal theories behind recent attacks on universities for allegedly tolerating antisemitism. 🧵

Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet

Susan Collins usual tricks are no longer working - at least in Maine press. You absolutely love to see this.

"A university's obligation to the physical safety of its students is not one commitment among several, to be weighed against reputation or litigation exposure. It is antecedent to everything else the institution does." -- I wish our "professional " media had the guts of this student paper. 

Instead of spending nearly $270 BILLION on mass deportations ($2,358 PER taxpayer), we could fund: Medicaid for 12 million people. Healthcare for 5 million veterans. Free early education for 6.7 million children. Money for cruelty vs. money for community.

💥Ok I see other platforms are blocking this. I met Alex Gibney moons ago at ABCNY (the Association of the Bar for the City of New York). He’s the real deal. Here’s the trailer for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk. Let’s Streisand Effect this: www.firstshowing.net/2026/must-se... 👋🎥

In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.

People say Bluesky is a bubble, but mostly it's because the entire rest of the internet is an absolute sewer

Run through the tape. Every vote matters. The margin matters.

TIDE TURN: James Comey seashells arraignment delayed until January 2027, and the judge isn't even setting a trial date yet, saying motions for vindictive/selective prosecution etc. "now are ripe for decision."

It seems like discovery is necessary to determine the truth of this disputed factual issue. 🤷‍♂️ There can be no justice without both transparency and accountability.

She's more offended about being called out for bribery than she is about casting the deciding vote that helped gut voting rights and bodily autonomy. Maine will take out this trash in six weeks.

This is gonna make a superb @jamestalarico.bsky.social ad.

I work in submarines, and this is why the industry was aghast that OceanGate did what it did, against all engineering and logic. Classed, certified commercial submersibles have a 50+ year perfect safety record. We know why - it's this.

Crush the arts (Kennedy Center), destroy the civil service (DOGE), control elections (gestures broadly), dismantle the press (gestures more broadly), decimate science (NIH), and demolish education (DeptEd). The authoritarian playbook.

In response to my @talkingpointsmemo.com story, the Florida Democratic Party issues statement calling on Florida GOP leaders — Ron DeSantis, Byron Donalds, and Ashley Moody — to take a stand against Marshall Rawson. "We don't need to send a Nazi to Tallahassee." floridadems.org/2026/09/flor...

Screw. This. Government.

Former Senator Kyl of Arizona has died of a neurological disorder.

For the love of all that is American, can the ex officio member get an injunction against the demolition of the Kennedy Center, now? Talk about irreparable harm. This gang of scofflaws cannot be allowed to destroy a national jewel. Again.

NEW: Will the Apple Watch’s new always-listening features be illegal in states that require all parties’ consent for recording? Attorneys in CA, MA, PA and WA aren’t convinced that Apple’s privacy protections will sufficiently shield users from legal problems. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...