i work with words for a living, so I am biased, but I really think we've got to bring back words. really useful if you imbue them with meaning and arrange them properly!
Also “used slurs to talk about Jewish and gay people and mused about Hitler’s politics.”
'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.
"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
They say 'the machines of the future' will be as smart as people... OK, but WHICH people? Because it kinda matters quite a bit.
Must-read Substack for civil rights lawyers or those who aspire to be — Today in Civil Rights History, by DOJ alum and civil rights expert Barbara Bosserman.
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Honored to be joining this Council!
Honored to be joining the Advisory Council of @cdt.org
It will be Claude for me
A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault.
LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith”
In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted
DOJ keeps lying and losing:
"He’s always been that little liar. I mean no one—no one—likes him.”
“I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire.”
@nlanard.bsky.social reports on Florida Rep. Cory Mills, perhaps the most hated man in Congress, and his many, many scandals. bit.ly/46kf7fP
From Elie Honig at Stay Tuned with Preet. Here is the kind of material that is still being withheld from the Epstein files, in violation of the federal statute:
Fulton Co elections expert: “In all 5 areas identified by ... the [search warrant] affidavit, there are a multitude of false or misleading statements or omissions. ... Once ... corrected, the affidavit loses any basis in reality.”
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On Presidents' Day 2026, a 77-year-old federal judge in Philadelphia issued a ruling that blocks the Trump administration's efforts to take down or otherwise excise information from Independence National Historical Park relating to George Washington's ownership of slaves. In an opinion that repeatedly compared the Trump administration's actions to George Orwell's work, U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe focused Monday on a key point on this day devoted to the memory of America's presidents: The truth matters.
It was a powerfully direct opinion: “The President's House is a component of Independence National Historical Park that commemorates the site of the first official presidential residence and the people who lived there, including people enslaved by President George Washington. On January 22, 2026, the National Park Service ("NPS") removed panels, displays, and video exhibits that referenced slavery and information about the individuals enslaved at the President's House.” The City of Philadelphia sued over the January removals, and Rufe, a George W. Bush appointee who has served on the federal bench since 2002, granted the city's request for a preliminary injunction on Presidents' Day.
Today at Law Dork: Judge Cynthia Rufe’s Presidents' Day lesson from Philadelphia. www.lawdork.com/p/a-presiden...
Yes! Judge “Rufe, a George W. Bush appointee, compares the federal government's argument that it can unilaterally control the exhibits in national parks to the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984”
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Yeah sure Storm the Capital, Change Laws of the Constitution, force Americans to get and pay for unobtainable requirements to vote..to weed out the (avg) of 4 illegal immigrant votes per Election
Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
It's one thing to get a "no true bill."
It's quite another to get *shut out* in the grand jury.
It’s pretty simple what should happen with AI, creators and creatives whose work is taken by AI models should get to choose how it’s used, when it’s used and get compensated for the use. Period. Here’s how -
Bad Bunny > Puppy Bowl > TP USA/Kid Rock
UPDATE - Trump nominee Jeremy Carl finally gets a hearing next week in Senate Foreign Relations Committee… another White Nationalist, anti-Semitic, transphobic, xenophobic, misogynist — who has deleted thousands of tweets.
@SenatorHagerty is on the committee. Will he back him?
Trump’s pardons show his affinity for white-collar criminals, especially those who line MAGA pockets.
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In between all the fascism, it's also a MASSIVE crime wave.
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
I played soccer. I coach soccer. I love soccer. Considering how we are treating the world, the world should walk away from the World Cup matches played in the United States.
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
