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Nothing screams “The Aristocrats!” like having one frivolous DOJ prosecution interrupted by a DOJ lawyer informing the court that a grand jury declined to return an indictment in a wholly separate, even more frivolous prosecution.

My natural inclination is to be very skeptical of defamation suits. This one seems to have merit, but damages would be very hard to prove. This probably is the rare suit that could pass the anti-SLAPP hurdle though, so Jennings is in for a bad time.

Happy Black Cat Day to Bear, the spoiled little goofball.

This whole idea that impeachment means *not* doing whatever else that might also be useful simply isn't true. You can do those things, too, and in terms of hearings/investigations those all work better, on their own terms for what they're supposed to accomplish, with impeachment than without it.

this is the one that gets me every time

Here's the thing: Any legislation that's worth passing will be vetoed by an insanely angry Trump, and you won't have 290 votes to override it You know what you CAN do with just 218 votes? Impeach

The US government poured all its resources into fabricating evidence that day laborer Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a criminal (all because he embarrassed the despot) even as it now rolls out the red carpet for an actual criminal who happens to be an ally of Trump

Your daily reminder that progressive Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny is an American citizen and MAGA lunatic Nicki Minaj is not.

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

Alaska. The Comeys. California. East Potomac Golf Course. All of today's key court developments in one place. Catch up here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-day-ev...

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

There can never be another "water under the bridge" administration ever again, and part of that is going to involve shaming everyone on board with this one - voters included - as the disgusting pig racists they are

NEW: As expected, on a 2-1 vote, the Ninth Circuit dismisses DOJ's appeal in the US v. California case over DOJ's claims relating to "likely noncitizen" voting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The right can't seem to see the distance between "I just see trans people as people" and "I will force everyone to become trans whether they want to or not, so help me God"

Also, Musk admitted that Starship’s Raptor engines can only reliably produce 230 tons of thrust - much less than the promised 280. This means Starship’s maximum cargo capacity could be as low as 48 tons to LEO (which is what the last flight demonstrated). 22 tanker flights might be optimistic.

Do not sleep on his Babylon 5 run.

Tech companies want people to think this is all new, but there's precedent for handling disrupting innovation: @jamellebouie.net compares AI to railroads @faineg.com to drones @nuclearanthro.bsky.social to biotech David Robinson to power plants and airports Many compare to nukes I add cybersecurity

After Minneapolis, everyone knew: they could be stopped. More than that, regular people could stop them. You didn’t have to wait for any kind of savior. You could walk out the door and do it yourself.

I do think when historians look back the period the exact moment where it flipped and started going the other way won’t be anything any politician did but my Minneapolis neighbors weathering the worst of the regime in the streets, rallying together, fighting back, and winning

Walter Koenig was not only great as Chekhov in Star Trek, but was arguably better in the role of villainous telepathic cop Alfred Bester in Babylon 5. He got the chance to stretch his range by playing a dark, but surprisingly multifaceted character that was light years away from his Star Trek role.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

As I've said, this is either an impeachable offense that Democrats act on or it's a new precedent.

Today: 🇧🇷🇷🇸 Soon: 🇮🇱🇺🇸

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who spared a thought for my country today, who amplified information about the coup d’état attempt, and worried about Brazil’s democratic future—the world’s democratic future. We won! Women won! The Amazon won! Young people won! Democracy won! Hope won!

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

El-Sayed: This is like the 3rd campaign stop where Donald Trump can't help but mention somebody's ass. When I get to DC, I'm just gonna make sure that I never let him see mine…

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

hell yeah. Bovino says that he and the Trump administration leaving Mpls was "surrender". I will never stop hating this pissy violence toddler, and will never forget him gleefully handing out tear gas to his goons like so many party favors. Surrendered, you did. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Lula is not a great leader, and he has his own corruption problems, but this is pretty close to accurate…

These racist, festering lesions don’t get to dictate what it means to be an American.

So I'm more positive on AI than a lot of people here and... I do not understand using this example at all? This... does not seem like a useful way to use AI. I can easily come up with 3 words to describe my kids and would never trust AI to do so accurately.

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.