Gregory Foster

Oral Argument Transcripts are Now on CourtListener! With our new Transcripts feature for Oral Arguments, you can search and monitor anything said in a circuit court case.

Awesome major rollout for transparency: Oral argument transcripts are now on @free.law's Court Listener: " you can search and monitor anything said in a circuit court case." free.law/2025/07/31/o...

The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI Inside the chaotic review process of the Epstein and Maxwell files at the Bureau

EXCLUSIVE: Not only does an Excel spreadsheet of Trump mentions in the Epstein files exist, but so do training videos explaining how to flag the files for Trump mentions. Plus, the number of people who had access is larger than previously known. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...

A compelling example of the power of Ridicule to respond to racist trolls.

Vibe coding giveth, vibe coding taketh away 🤖👀

‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics "We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...

"...the focus on politics, economics, and law are all destined to fail because they are based around humans. They’re designed to guide humans, but we’ve left out the foundation of our existence, which is nature, clean air, pure water, rich soil, food, and sunlight."
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...

AI Isn’t Responsible for Slop. We Are Doing It to Ourselves | TechPolicy.Press Our inability or unwillingness to have our attitudes and beliefs challenged isn’t just an aesthetic problem, it is a political one, writes José Marichal.

"Everyone's blaming AI for the internet turning into 'slop.' The problem isn't the tool, it's the economic incentives we've built around it. I wrote about why we're doing this to ourselves."

www.techpolicy.press/ai-isnt-resp...

I keep referring people back to this because it keeps coming up.

People ask me how long things this regime does will be allowed or tolerated and I keep asking “by whom”? Dad is not getting home later. The most charitable view of SCOTUS is that they have decided to be hands-off….

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Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott doesn't want to release any emails containing communications with Elon Musk and his companies for arguable reasons...but took the requestor's money anyway.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...

"...compared to the rest of the bill, there’s only the most modest of modest increases to the number of immigration judges in the country—a rise from 700 to 800...makes clear that the Trump administration, DHS, and DOJ have no intention of normal due process."

Theory: the "gig economy" prevents the development of class consciousness by taking what was once the urban proletariat mass and putting them in competition with one another as their own "small business owners," in effect turning them into petit bourgeoisie.

Meanwhile, a visitation from the interstellar beyond...

Talerico, Castro, Beto FTW

they ask politicians like Mamdani if they are communists but they never ask anyone if they are a fascist and that's all you really need to know

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Blood on the hands:

"...current steep funding cuts [at USAID] could result in more than 14 051 750 (uncertainty interval 8 475 990–19 662 191) additional all-age deaths, including 4 537 157 (3 124 796–5 910 791) in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030."

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.

Per @npr.org, the Department of Homeland Security, in partnership with the White House U.S. DOGE Service, has built a searchable national citizenship register with data from the Social Security Administration & immigration records— without public notice & comment.
Infrastructure for a police state.

Sober analysis in the wake of the Supreme Court abstention of duty.

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

This seems problematic.

OMB's Russell Vought, the Christian 'nation-ist' driving Project 2025 and DOGE WASHINGTON (RNS) — The director of the US budget has declared that Christians should be 'stewards of a blessing that has been God-given: to live in this land, this particular land.'

NEW from me: A deep dive into OMB Director Russell Vought — specifically, how his plan to reshape the government is rooted in a specific ideology: Christian nationalism.

Also, his favorite religious quote from an early president may be, uh…not true. religionnews.com/2025/06/23/r...

Australian int'l student at Columbia University deported for their speech acts.

Back at the Capitol in Olympia, WA
#NoKings

Chicago congresswoman @repdeliaramirez hands Kristi Noem a letter of resignation and encourages her to use it 👀

In Trump's AmeriKKKa...

Excellent long read on where we go from here as we assert the United States is no home for kings.

"No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, love. No one can define/measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren’t designed to produce them, if we don’t...point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.”
— Donella Meadows

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

We've just updated the @wired.com guide to protecting your privacy while attending protests with the latest best practices. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced Tuesday that she signed an executive order seeking greater transparency from federal immigration officials. She said the city will submit regular Freedom of Information Act requests to find out who ICE is detaining and on what grounds.