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Marching bands are the coolest thing ever in the history of humanity.

This is a super smart take on Bruen. SCOTUS has essentially declared that because a state declined to enact a particular gun regulation in the past, it’s constitutionally barred from enacting that regulation today. Impossible to square with the 10th Amendment.

Photographer @mostafabassim1 photographed this boy walking home alone with a snack being "randomly" approached by DHS. "After he was unable to produce documentation proving his citizenship, agents informed him that he was under arrest." He said, "Can I just go home?" Answer: No.

Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader

This admin refuses to do anything to lower your health care costs, but found $75 billion for ICE… so agents can break down the doors of American citizens’ homes and drag them, barely clothed, through the snow. That’s not an exaggeration. That happened this weekend in Minnesota.

Apparently based on a true story involving a truck not a helicopter. Which just makes it funnier. Sitcom genius.

Just watched the turkey drop episode of WKRP. And henceforth will watch it every Thanksgiving eve eve. 🦃

Trump Administration Announces Steps to Dismantle Education Department

Sounds like a distraction from the day’s news to me—but serious nonetheless www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

Are you telling me that we *already* have two "missing tape" stories *this week* when all of Watergate only had one?!

Is that before or after we get his healthcare plan?

It would be much easier to codify Bivens and allow everyone -- not just Republican senators -- to sue federal officials for alleged rights violations

Justice Jackson says the supermajority once again does not "understand the assignment" in emergency applications. The crux: the government has not shown it will suffer irreparable harm in the time in would take for the issue to be fully resolved by the courts in due order.

Good morning.

Last night was a referendum on Trump's corruption, cruelty, and chaos.

But it's also not a coincidence these big wins came at the exact moment when Democrats are using our power to stand for something and be strong.

A huge risk to not learn that lesson.

So many predicted close races, which is understandable. But turnout favored the anti-kings…. And blew the predictions up. 2026, and 2028….. stand back and stand by

Tonight’s elections are a repudiation of Trump’s corruption and disastrous economic agenda. We need to fight harder, push farther, and not give in. We cannot let this moment pass. Let’s protect health care, stand up for working people, hold the line, and take back our government.

Cucumber basil smash. Too much cuke flavor, tho

We are at a place in time when Bill Nye, the Science Guy has to speak behind bulletproof glass.
This is exactly who we are.

Mood

Will be on @11thhourmsnbc.bsky.social shortly talking about this and more SCOTUS nonsense.

Mike Johnson — man of deep faith, we are told — wants pastors to be shot in the head with pepper balls.

The conflict here is that the justices aren’t using the emergency docket as a temporary tool, they’re making “precedent” and expecting lower court judges to apply it without explanation. This is why we’re seeing so much frustration from lower court judges.

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More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

@wapplehouse The Taco Bell drive thru at 1 am will have a $200k Mercedes S65 waiting right behind a '96 Cavalier that's never had the oil changed followed by a moped ridden by three people. All craving the same thing: to Live Más. Truly the last great melting pot of class in this country.

No truer words have ever been spoken.

Judge William Young's ruling against Rubio and Noem is a lesson for all in the Trump era Young lays bare the unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts — and issues a challenge to America. Also: More court pushback.

NEW: Judge William Young's ruling against Rubio and Noem is a lesson for all in the Trump era.

Young lays bare the unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts — and issues a challenge to America.

Today, at Law Dork:

Thanks to Trump, 1 in 4 nursing homes could close.

Community clinics are on the brink of shutting their doors.

Hospitals, already filled to the brim with patients, are bracing for huge cuts.

Promising research that offers the last hope for kids with cancer is shutting down.

The Supreme Court devalues democracy. Thirty-seven state constitutions block public funds from supporting religious entities. Richard Schragger, Micah Schwartzman & Nelson Tebbe, Reestablishing Religion, 92 U. Chi. L. Rev. 199, 211 (2025) . The Court aims to federally-repeal these state constitutional provisions. The Court's beliefs meddle with local and state governments. Forcing states to send public funds to religious entities federalizes public policy. By unprincipled fiat. See also New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) (zero to superpower). Taxpayer funds now flow to religious institutions. So, the government collects money from nonbelievers (under the threat of jail), and uses some of it to support religion. And since not all religions will receive public funds, the government forces minority faiths to support other faiths, or else. The Court twists text, history, purpose, precedent, and public meaning to offend the First Amendment's character-of- government structure and the Constitution's separate sovereignty structure. As it steamrolls both, the Court says nothing about church- state separation and federalism principles. The Court's nevermind stance to the structural features of the Constitution "has unfolded with little engagement with, and occasional

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact.
www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

Goddamn. You can’t even have principles and make ice cream because people are too afraid of Trump

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

Nancy Mace tweet: Time to bring back the death penalty superimposed on an image of Mr. Burns tenting his fingers as he talks to a crowd

Smithers whispers in Mr. Burns's ear

Mr. Burns pushes Smithers away

Nancy Mace tweet: We truly belive if Tyler Robinson had ever sat down across from Charlie, the great debater, the man of faith and grace he was Tyler wouldn't have pulled the trigger superimposed on an image of a chastened Mr. Burns speaking to the crowd about a different subject