Kyle Varner, MD

The aging, latent police reporter in me can't help put pause to remark on the unforced error of the SAC in Salt Lake's FBI field office making the unforced error of announcing they have recovered a “footwear impression.” A shout-out to toss or destroy those shoes, ASAP. That's a detail you keep.

Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.

Bukele government has ordered the arrest of journalists from @elfaro.net @elfaroenglish.bsky.social shortly after the news site posted video interviews with a gangster detailing deals he made with Bukele

You know "MAGA" is a white supremacist slogan because when a wealthy white billionaire says America isn't great they make him POTUS, but when anyone else says America can do better they tell him to leave the country I'm here by choice & invite y'all to support my voice www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

Breaking: The Supreme Court announces that publication of Justice Alito’s dissent in the deportation case will be delayed as it is translated from its original German.

I used to select Dem primary candidates based on policy. Now I will aggressively try to destroy any Dem who says "we need to look forward not backward" and fervently support anyone who says "I will see these motherfuckers prosecuted and jailed if it's the last thing I do."

“As long as the stasi can get you across the border before you can wrangle a lawyer you’re fucked” is a hell of an argument

I am of the opinion that only a severe economic crisis can save American democracy. I therefore am quite grateful to POTUS for his efforts to produce an economic catastrophy today. It is exactly what we need at this moment.

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.

"Expand the court" has gone from radical solution to the most exceptionally moderate option on the table.

Trump's use of Nazi "reich" terminology to frame his campaign isn't an accident -- it's a Trial Balloon. As usual, he's floating offensive and outrageous idea to push extreme ideas and test public reaction. More at FrameLab with @georgelakoff.bsky.social LINK: www.theframelab.org/unified-reic...

Learning to play polo in Argentina. Just arrived, today is my first stick and ball session!

Trump’s attorneys for upcoming NY criminal trial: “Exhibit C reflects the flippant and dismissive approach that Rosenberg took in response to the subpoena.” DA Bragg: You subpoenaed the wrong Jeremy Rosenberg ($15 = witness travel expenses)(via Frank G. Runyeon, Law360)

We should make him fight Musk with a set of rusty hammers to the death over who is the Real Contemporary Nelson Mandela.

I mean, all I am saying is that self-described libertarianism seems increasingly dominated by people who think that calling out bigoted trash is more socially destructive and morally blameworthy than BEING bigoted trash.

Most of the things Trump does are dumb if you’re trying to win in court but sensible if you want to be a fascist dictator beloved of violent brownshirts.

Is the Biden Administration secretly flying thousands of migrants into the USA? This is Cesar, who I sponsored via the program in question. His arrival was so secret that a film crew came with me to the airport when I picked him up.

I want to thank McAdams for opening my eyes to the kind of vile depravity that lurks within the libertarian movement.

I'm listening to @kenwhite.bsky.social podcast again. I really love this podcast because it help me, a layperson, understand legal news. I quite like it.

Question: what are the realistic odds of a conviction in the Manhattan case, and a realistic range of possible penalties? I want to read some dispassionate experts who are giving their realistic opinions. Anybody have a link?

I would like to see some analysis of demographic trends in swing states, because I think this is a very necessary piece of context to add to the polls. The 2024 electorate looks different than the 2020 electorate and in places where elections will be close this will have a large impact.

Hilariously, the Republican heckling is making Biden look cognitively nimble.

Suppose Trump wins in November, then decides to run for a third term in 2028. Suppose he has at least one house of Congress in his pocket. What mechanism exists to enforce against the election of someone for a third term?

Somehow it never occurred to me that a major campaign issue for one of the national parties of the United States in 2024 would be general opposition to a triumph of modern medicine that saves something like 4 million lives worldwide every year and dramatically reduces childhood mortality.

Boebert’s ex is all “BOY, you been showin your hog on the tikkity-tok? That’s some bullshit, all that digital stuff. Back in my day we did it like men, live, at the bowling alley.”

Why is Trump ahead in polls? Trump has never won more votes than his opponent. He tried to stage a coup, stole classified documents, got indicted ninety-some times. Meanwhile unemployment is at a record low and stock market at record high. WTF is going on?

If frozen embryos are people, then they should be counted in the census, and congressional seats allotted on that basis, right? We can start creating lots of frozen embryos and storing them strategically to create EC advantages in future elections.

In response to the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision that embryos are children, Congressional Republicans have introduced legislation to make it easier to deport them and the Libertarian Party has lobbied for a bill making it legal to marry them.

The media has spent so long both-sidesing that if you describe the Republicans' stated goals and policies in strictly factual terms you sound like you're running a smear campaign.