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Upon review of the unopposed Motions, and consistent with the Court’s authority to enforce its own orders and control the dissemination of discovery materials generated in this case, the Court agrees with the parties’ uniform view. Release of Volume II outside the Department of Justice would plainly offend the Court’s Dismissal Order [ECF No. 672] and the Rule 16 Protective Order [ECF No. 27], both of which remain in force; it would cause irreparable damage to former defendants from disclosure of non-public discovery material implicating still-contested grand jury and privilege concerns; and it would contravene basic notions of fairness and justice in the process, where no adjudication of guilt has been reached following initiation of criminal charges. The Court reasons as follows.

NEW: Judge Aileen Cannon permanently forbids the Department of Justice from releasing Volume II of Jack Smith's report on his prosecution of Trump. Also bars DOJ from sharing "any information or conclusions" from the volume. A sweeping, perpetual gag order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared with those remaining on a chronological feed, whereas switching the feed setting in the opposite direction, from algorithmic to chronological, had no effect.

Nature research paper: The political effects of X’s feed algorithm

go.nature.com/4c4pAje

If you’re still taking in content on X, don’t worry, the conclusions of this research paper about how X’s algorithm influences people’s political alignment are only about everyone else who still uses it, not you, since you personally are immune to the effects of propaganda

"Deadwood" and the community of spirits On rewatching David Milch's masterpiece in the age of the oligarch

As promised, forewarned, I have written about my most recent rewatch of DEADWOOD.

I think it is one of the most profound, sophisticated, and relevant works of art in recent American history.

To the 8 of you hoopleheads who will actually find this interesting, I hope you enjoy.

Third American death linked to ICE crackdown uncovered by Newsweek While the 23-year-old's death was reported in March 2025, it was not made clear that a federal agent fired the fatal shot.

For a whole year, DHS hid that they murdered Ruben, a young man in Texas, after a traffic stop.

Just like they did with Silverio, Renee, Keith, Alex, and Linda, they lied and avoided accountability. How many more people have to be executed before my colleagues realize that reforms are not enough?

The call has been made! NYC Public Schools will have a full snow day tomorrow.

black and white portrait of Edward Horety in a long fur coat. He is bald, with a full white beard. Gorey wears rings on most fingers and it looking at the camera over the top of his half-moon spectacles.

A black and white, heavily cross-hatched Gorey drawing of a man hunched over a table, writing with a long pen. An ornate victrola is perched on the table in front of him.

Gorey drawing of a small crowd in formal wear at a reception or party. Several of them, some but not all clearly men, wear black tie. One bearded man has a large fut coat. A woman near the center wears a diaphanous cape that looks like something out of a Klimt painting, or a peacock.

The cover of the Gashlycrumb Tinies. Death, holding an umbrella, shades a group of unfortunate children.

Writer and illustrator Edward Gorey was born #OTD in 1925. Not in a mouldering old room down the drafty halls of an Edwardian manor on a bleak and windswept moor, but right here in CHICAGO, of all places!

this kid was spirited away to a "short-term residency program" owned by Bethany Christian Services, an evangelical adoption agency connected to Betsy DeVos

this is the stupidest thing and it absolutely undid me

My coworker just suggested we "set a trap" for the guy who keeps stealing lunches from the break room fridge. Brother you are Tom and Jerry brained. We are going to HR.

Huckabee fucked up bad enough that Indonesia is complaining

in the wise words of Demi Lovato

On Feb. 20, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear

More lawless slaughter at sea by the Trump administration under the specious guise of counterterrorism.

Fake counterterrorism. Make believe armed conflict. Real killing.

skeets is out. blobs is in. spread the word.

Once all eligible warrant officers submit their bids, Army officials will determine both the amount of the bonus payment and who will receive it by calculating the auction’s “market-clearing” rate, a concept used widely in economics and finance. In that process, the “winning” bid is the bonus amount that would spread all of the program’s funding for the year among the most soldiers who agreed to accept a payment that size or smaller with their bids (all soldiers who win in the auction will receive the winning bonus, even if their bid was lower). Those who bid too high get nothing.

What does being good at this nihilistic polymart game have to do with actual performance and potential as warrant officer???

Notably (a) this is meaningless in terms of the budget and (b) Republicans don't care about the budget anyway.

The sole purpose is to torment highly-skilled career officers because the Trump admin is filled with no-skills dilettantes who resent everyone with expertise and commitment to their work.

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. PLUS: 10,000 drivers call on Uber to repay stolen wages, a man is arrested at a public hearing about a data center and more.

Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.

"Lawlessness from the court" is gonna roll around in my head for a bit

Judge who allowed FBI to search Washington Post reporter’s home rips into Justice Department | CNN Politics A federal judge ripped into the Justice Department on Friday for failing to inform him of the applicability of a law intended to protect journalists from government searches and seizures when it asked...

BREAKING: Judge who allowed FBI to search Washington Post reporter’s home rips into Justice Department for not informing him of the law that explicitly bars raids of reporters

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Former Senator Kyrsten Sinema Exploited Campaign for Personal Spending Spree, CLC Alleges On February 19, 2025, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that former Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema violated federal campaign finance law...

Campaign money cannot be used for personal expenses. And Sinema cannot credibly argue that luxury hotels, meal expenses, and extensive air travel are connected to her candidacy or officeholder duties, given that she is no longer a candidate or officeholder. campaignlegal.org/update/forme...

Trump’s Epic Loss on Tariffs Is Even Worse for Him than You Think The Supreme Court’s stunning invalidation of most of the president’s tariffs is another sign that Trumpist populist nationalism is in crisis.

The Supreme Court's remarkable ruling against tariffs is another sign that Trumpist nationalism is in crisis. Tariffs and deportations are key pillars of Trumpism. Both are major fiascos. Both have caused his approval to crater.

Trumpism is failing.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2068...

YouTube video by Olympics Alysa Liu wins the Olympic gold medal for the United States

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

In October 2024, the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they’d received partially prefilled absentee ballot applications from Musk’s America PAC. trib.al/n6hAZOC

ROBERTS, C. J., announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II–A–1, and II–B, in which SOTOMAYOR, KAGAN, GORSUCH, BARRETT, and JACKSON, JJ., joined, and an opinion with respect to Parts II–A–2 and III, in which GORSUCH and BARRETT, JJ., joined. GORSUCH, J., and BARRETT, J., filed concurring opinions. KAGAN, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment, in which SOTOMAYOR and JACKSON, JJ., joined. JACKSON, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. THOMAS, J., filed a dissenting opinion. KAVANAUGH, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which THOMAS and ALITO, JJ., joined.

Why we had to wait so long for the fucking tariffs opinion.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

a Free Press headline, Why Is No One Having Sex? https://www.thefp.com/p/why-is-no-one-having-sex

The Free Press is discovering new levels of Telling On Yourself that scientists previously thought could not exist

Tesla denied having fatal crash data until a hacker found it The data was key evidence in the death of a pedestrian in 2019.

Not mentioned in the linked article, but important: this was the case in which Tesla tried to cover up and tried to delete the data from the crashed Tesla, for years, until an enterprising hacker* found it.

*I hate that word, and he didn't break into anything. But it's in all the news articles.

The extent to which Justice Kavanaugh has become the most reliable third vote for the Trump administration says quite a lot about both him and the other three candidates.

i need a shitty cellphone video of Trump throwing a tantrum so bad