Matt Ford

I watched Battlefield Earth this weekend. Pretty bad as expected, but I hadn’t expected it to be (for lack of better terminology) overtly racist towards humans?

Incredible. Kalshi is not paying out "Khamenei out of power by [date]" contracts because he died.

To the extent that Trump is more interventionist this term, it’s because he’s surrounded by advisors and Cabinet members who encourage his worst impulses instead of trying to redirect them. The impulses didn’t change.

NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Mine is A View To A Kill but 90 percent of that might be Duran Duran and Bay Area nostalgia.

The Iraq War AUMF vote destroyed multiple political careers and, via Hillary Clinton, helped decide at least two presidential elections. Congress’s big takeaway from that experience was to stop holding votes on wars.

The judges in WV have seen enough.

They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out.

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a man in a suit is sitting in a chair with a book in front of him and the website sharktankgifts.com is visible Alt: Mark Cuban taking notes

Watching Hegseth’s war on Anthropic while thinking about X and Palantir in three years

They’re requested all the time, but never granted. With a 6-3 majority behind the ruling, there aren’t even enough dissenting justices to force it if they wanted. (And I would be stunned if they did.)

SCOTUS does have a mechanism for this but they haven’t used it since 1965. None of the current justices have even served with a justice who’s used it.

A notable new comment from California AG Rob Bonta: He says "I'm in conversation with my AG colleagues about Paramount/Warner Bros," meaning he is talking with other state attorneys general about possibly suing to block the deal

Brad Pitt might be the best example of the flip side of this thinking.

i dont know if its always been like this but among the elites theres just no sense of responsibility to be good stewards of the society thats given them everything

I’ve been biting my tongue for months because I didn’t want to ruin people’s fun. The Prime Directive still applies for most of these guys.

I speak football to family, basketball to friends, baseball to God, and hockey to my horse.

Hockey is a beautiful sport played by a lot of guys who are barely sentient.

As noted, Rosen asserted in his email that "[t]he lawyers in my civil division didn't deserve" the supposedly inaccurate January 28 order. Putting aside the fact that the January 28 order was not inaccurate, Rosen failed to mention that this Court said the following in the show-cause order that preceded the January 28 order: The Court expresses its appreciation to attorney Ana Voss and her colleagues [in the civil division], who have struggled mightily to ensure that respondents comply with court orders despite the fact that respondents have failed to provide them with adequate resources. ECF No. 7 at 2 n.1. The judges of this District have been extraordinarily patient with the government attorneys, recognizing that they have been put in an impossible position by Rosen and his superiors in the Department of Justice (leading many of those attorneys- including, unfortunately, Ana Voss- to resign). What those attorneys "didn't deserve" was the Administration sending 3000 ICE agents to Minnesota to detain people without making any provision for handling the hundreds of lawsuits that were sure to follow.

If anything is "beyond the pale," it is ICE's continued violation of the orders of this Court. Increasingly, this Court has had to resort to using the threat of civil contempt to force ICE to comply with orders. The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt -again and again and again - to force the United States government to comply with court orders. -5- CASE 0:26-cv-00107-PJS-DLM Doc. 12 Filed 02/26/26 Page 6 of 6 This Court will continue to do whatever is required to protect the rule of law, including, if necessary, moving to the use of criminal contempt. One way or another, ICE will comply with this Court's orders. Dated: February 26, 2026 (s/ Patrick J. Schiltz Patrick J. Schiltz, Chief Judge United States District Court

BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz in Minnesota threatens criminal contempt, if necessary, to address ICE noncompliance in an order calling out U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen's response to Schiltz's earlier questions about noncompliance with court orders.

"ICE will comply with this Court's orders."

Bad news, folks: Trump obtained the Staff of Disenfranchisement from the Crypt of Ben Tillman. Now he can cast Election Control as a free action once he reaches level 20.

Antonio Tejero Molina, 93, Dies; Spanish Colonel Led Failed Coup

Hey look a guy who led a failed coup died in obscurity after 15 years in prison, I didn't know that was possible www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/w...

Barrett wrote in her Skrmetti concurrence that there wasn’t a history of de jure discrimination against trans Americans, and the GOP has relentlessly sought to prove her wrong.

The other great bit here is that Saruman is metaphysically wrong. He’s a Maiar! He’s met the gods! He knows Iluvatar is real! Saruman’s hubris and lust for power is so overwhelming that he’s willing to defy God, who ontologically exists.

One of Tolkien’s best tricks IMO was that the wizards were arguably a net negative for Middle-Earth. The Valar sent five demigods to help and three of them peaced out, one switched sides, and the last one needed God’s direct intervention along the way.

The Goodell Doctrine.

it's fascinating to watch Costco lap every one of these clowns because they have the only CEO in America who still thinks his job is to run a company that does business and not be the main character of life forging his personal legacy with one eye on the group chat to see if they're impressed yet

It's weird to write up a publicity stunt story about a fictional mascot like it's a real news story? Like not "proctor and gamble and ad agency x are launching a new campaign for the venerable brand to boost flagging consumer sales" but just writing the story like Mr clean is a real guy?

Seriously what the hell

I’m still mad about Yamamoto losing an immaculate inning on the ninth pitch last year on this called ball. ABS forever.

Watching today’s Pirates/Red Sox spring training game and the umpire just had five straight calls overturned by ABS. I can’t wait for Opening Day.

The first interesting bit of news about the SOTU in years.

Very sorry for your loss, Rick.