@alanneff
Law, current events, and/or humor. Lapsed litigator. Tiresome empiricist. Not terminally online, but asymptotically approaching it. BLUESKY user #: 1,492,816. He/him. My recent writing can be found here: https://www.justsecurity.org/author/alanneff/
This should be shocking: Always defending Putin. It is the prime directive of the Trump Administration. Even when he is actively aiding our enemies in ways that will put our military and embassy personnel and allies at risk. Does anyone doubt where his loyalties actually lie?
Kristi Noem Reassigned To Scarecrow Role At USDA
Kristi Noem Reassigned To Scarecrow Role At USDA https://theonion.com/kristi-noem-reassigned-to-scarecrow-role-at-usda/
I'd think it notably disquieting for the AUSA (who's been in that office for 17 years, according to his LinkedIn page) that the judge included this 'graph in his order to show cause:
👊 I used to run marathons (all in Chicago, the flattest marathon surface I could find) and got both a durable blast of self-esteem and, eventually, a new hip. After my third marathon, where I succeeded in "running" every step of the way (no walking), I left the course and didn't run for 10 years.
Endorphin release makes me insufferable, but so does everything else.
I would be exhausted - EXHAUSTED - from moving so many deck chairs so often on the Titanic, but Mike Johnson appears to be more fit than I.
Is another consequence of Trump's Liberation Day liberating companies from profitability?
The dustbin of history is going to be awfully crowded with this administration's policy and operational debris.
We installed geothermal at our family's farm in 2013. It supplies all our heating and cooling (in lieu of oil heat). We added a solar array in 2017, which supplies 80-90% of our electricity, including our geothermal power. All that technology is well-developed by this point. We're glad we did both.
From @pkrugman.bsky.social today.
Source: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/renewable-...
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Because they're as shallow as a sidewalk puddle?
Also, the Congressional Rs are terrified of Trump ginning up his stochastic-terrorism machine against them.
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
"United States' Kyle Connor (81), seen here alongside Zach Werenski (8), Jack Hughes (86) and Clayton Keller (91), appears to not have attended with Team USA to the White House. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)AP"
"Kyle Connor, Jake Guentzel, Brock Nelson, Jackson LaCombe and Jake Oettinger.
They are the US Men's hockey players who decided to skip visit to the Trump's White House. www.nj.com/sports/2026/...
Someone ought to tell MI6 that Pam Bondi and Donald Trump say the Epstein files are a hoax.
You can miss me with those love poems glazing Chief Justice Roberts for standing up to Trump after letting him steal from Americans for an entire year
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/you-do-not...
A whiteboard leaned against a shelf with many trinkets. On the whiteboard, it says “When you look at a blank page, think of who you love”
In his acceptance speech for award for best screenplay, Ryan Coogler said “when you look at a blank page, think of who you love” and I dunno, that really moved me so I wrote it down and sat it on my desk to look at while I work
My city. 👍👍
A trope deserving immediate retirement: "Trump is not on the ballot this fall." A by-product of his relentless branding initiative is that, IMO, he is *always* on the ballot. Evidence: his ubiquity seems to be helping Ds in elections right now who campaign explicitly on opposing him.
“I’m just saying … bsky.app/profile/ronf...
The world’s richest man, who’s using his every resource to unravel multicultural democracy across the world, has a website designed to advance this agenda and folks who make their living promoting multicultural democracy insist it’s the only place to be.
announcing major, disruptive policies, then reversing, changing, and breeding an environment of unpredictability and confusion
makes me think of Death of Stalin, and the trains. Closed, open, closed again, wild swings in basic operations based on the caprice and infighting of the party leadership
Law Dork home page right now. Supreme Court, on a 6-3 vote, blocks Trump's IEEPA tariffs Chief Justice John Roberts found that there actually are structural limits on the president's powers. Latest Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons "It's a really dangerous policy," an ACLU... FEB 19 • CHRIS GEIDNER A Presidents' Day lesson from Philadelphia "Each person who visits the President's... FEB 16 • CHRIS GEIDNER Exclusive: Senior DHS officials double down on arresting and detaining refugees in new... Hours after DOJ filed the new memo in... FEB 18 • CHRIS GEIDNER The Trump admin argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an... Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims t... 8 FEB 15 • CHRIS GEIDNER SCOTUS changed the rules for bringing cases to the court because John Roberts won't... Roberts and Alito are the only two justices... FEB 17 • CHRIS GEIDNER Exclusive: DHS based its newest refugee attack on a Trump proclamation that... New documents filed in a key refugee cas... FEB 13 • CHRIS GEIDNER
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I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
Reporter here. Most local / regional papers charge an initial 99 cents for a digital subscription. Try it for a year. Aim to be an engaged and informed member of the public. Democracy is counting on you.
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?
Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards
My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.
