Matt Ford

Apparently she’s in the only room in America without a cell phone

I’ve never switched to C-SPAN 3 faster in my life

CNBC Sport: Paramount may unwind WBD's sports strategy if merger goes through WBD's sports strategy it has deployed since it lost NBA rights may not make sense if it's acquired by Paramount.

Interesting read (albeit a paywalled one) on how the Paramount/WBD merger and the imminent NFL rights renegotiations are going to upend sports broadcasting:

AI Woke JFK would put up Jordan numbers in The Villages

We’ve got to spread baseball to more countries. I want to see Transylvania vs. Mongolia in the next WBC.

“There are no merits” is amazing.

Does the Speech or Debate Clause extend to breaking people’s arms in hearings?

No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.

Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.

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And it’s your fault

The autopen investigation continued after Mr. Martin was removed from the prosecutor’s office and replaced by Ms. Pirro, but it suffered from several crucial problems, according to the people familiar with the inquiry, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss deliberations that are supposed to remain secret. Investigators were never quite clear what crime, if any, had been committed by the Biden administration’s use of the autopen.

that would be a crucial problem, yes www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...

NEW: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) says Gov Jared Polis (D) offering clemency to Tina Peters "would be a grave miscarriage of justice and dangerous for free and fair elections."

Trump DOJ Pushes to Sideline State Bar Ethics Investigations The Justice Department has proposed a regulation seeking to authorize Attorney General Pam Bondi’s intervention to suspend state bar ethics investigations into current and former DOJ lawyers.

JUST IN: Trump DOJ proposes surprise rule aiming to let Attorney General Pam Bondi suspend state bar investigations into alleged misconduct by DOJ lawyers. Very unclear if there'd be legal authority for the AG to intervene in this manner.
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I got a flu shot last fall and then absolutely bodied by the worst flu of my life for two weeks over the holidays. An ER doc said the same thing.

I feel like we typically see these sorts of completely outraged opinions from federal judges a couple times a year across the whole country, maybe a little more often in last few years. Now, in cases stemming from Trump's immigration crackdown, judges are ringing the alarm bell several times a week.

Wow. Dan Crenshaw appears to have lost to Steve Toth, a conservative Texas House rep

Wilson from Home Improvement

Barron learning about the Iran War plans

Trump orders oil tanker insurance support, says Navy could escort ships in Gulf President Donald Trump ​said on Tuesday he had ordered the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation to provide political risk insurance and financial ‌guarantees for maritime trade travellin...

They’re doing Medicare for All for oil tankers.

Because she was working with a federal task force, she was considered a federal officer, and thus protected by SCOTUS rulings making it all but impossible to sue federal cops, even for egregious abuse.

Now consider what this means for Trump's immigration thugs.

Democrats had two years to fix this.

The peace president makes the case for forever wars

A shortage of large passenger charter planes due to DHS paying 10x the usual rates to ferry kidnapped migrants is threatening NCAA Tournament travel plans

Vance was against the strikes unless they worked. Got it.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 25A914 NICOLE MALLIOTAKIS, ET AL. v. MICHAEL WILLIAMS, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY No. 25A915 PETER KOSINSKI, ET AL. v. MICHAEL WILLIAMS, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [March 2, 2026] The applications for stay presented to JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR and by her referred to the Court are granted. The January 21, 2026 order entered by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, Index No. 164002/2025, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the New York state courts and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari in this Court, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the issuance of the mandate of this Court.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting from grant of stay. The Court's 101-word unexplained order can be summarized in just 7: "Rules for thee, but not for me." Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts have limited jurisdiction. Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts should not interfere with state-court litigation. Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts should not meddle with state election laws ahead of an elec-tion. Today, the Court says: except for this one, except for this one, and except for this one. Ignoring every limit on federal courts' authority, the Court takes the unprecedented step of staying a state trial court's decision in a re-districting dispute on matters of state law without giving the State's highest court a chance to act. Because that order violates basic principles of jurisdiction, federalism, and equity, I respectfully dissent.

BREAKING: SCOTUS blocks New York state court redistricting order, over the strong dissent of the Democratic appointees.

All it took was a few weeks of sub-freezing temperatures and enough snowcrete to incapacitate a T-34

Filing my next SCOTUS amicus brief through the personal injury guy in my hometown who managed to snag the 888-8888 number when I was a kid

Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

WHOA: WSJ reporting that DOJ is dropping its appeals of the four law firm executive order rulings as soon as today. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

US not veering into a new, endless war, Pentagon says The Pentagon played down concerns on Monday that the U.S. attack on Iran risked plunging the United States into a new, open-ended conflict in the Middle ​East, even as officials declined to offer a timeline and cautioned they expected more U.S. casualties.

US not veering into a new, endless war, Pentagon says reut.rs/4ct4fAd

I think so, along with Gabbard. I don’t recognize the other two.

J.D. Vance in the Situation Room with a big VP seal behind him.

Incredibly funny photo, constitutionally speaking. Maybe he’s getting briefed on how to break a tie in the Senate.

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.