Daniel A. Horwitz

No, that would be irresponsible. You can gamble on your child support, too.

Is…he advocating for segregation here?

I can’t tell you how many times I have said this: Tennessee is saturated with incompetent government officials who wield vast authority while being constitutionally illiterate. It’s a miracle that shit like this doesn’t happen even more often.

In fall 2022, ahead of the midterm elections, Garland opted to freeze both the classified documents and election investigations because of what some officials believed was his overly cautious reading of a DOJ policy not to take any public action close to an election. Trump was not even on the ballot and had not yet declared his presidential candidacy for 2024. But Garland nonetheless imposed the freeze.

The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision

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Minnesota cop who fabricated a sex-trafficking ring won't be held accountable The officer made up information and lied multiple times under oath but the government says she has federal immunity.

This case underscores how SCOTUS made it impossible to hold immigration cops accountable for the abuses you see in all those videos.

A federal task force cop manufactured evidence to put an innocent woman behind bars for two years. Because of SCOTUS-conferred immunity, the case never got to a jury.

I thought they went by “Congressmen”?

It seems overwhelmingly obvious at this point that he has dementia? What are we doing here?

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk.

I had it exactly backward.

The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.

In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, a TN sheriff had a 61-yr-old man arrested for posting a meme on Facebook, which the sheriff absurdly construed as a threat. It was pretty clearly bullshit but I dug into the case using FB & public records and now it looks even worse. My latest @theintercept.com:

Lots more detail in here about this outrageous arrest. The guy has been in jail for weeks now for posting a quote by President Trump.

FWIW, this is basically how Tennessee’s appellate court system works. And when Court of Appeals panels disagree on a point, the Tennessee Supreme Court usually grants review to resolve the split. It’s not the only way to run an appellate court system, but it’s fine.

Hate the likely 9-digit waste involved here, but whatever ballroom comes from this needs to be demolished in 2029 and strapped to ordnance that is shot over the street nearest the Trump library. I don’t make the rules.

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

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Bunch of missed calls from unknown lenders

Text from unknown lender

So I got qualified for a line of credit, which I did not realize was a public event. Within minutes, I have been spammed incessantly by seemingly every lender in the country. They’ve been going all day. This seems like it should not be a thing?

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

How can blue states fight back against Trump? With fiscal disobedience | Eric Reinhart By holding back federal tax revenues, Democratic governors can turn a one-sided assault into a constitutional showdown

This is a deeply unserious proposal that would unravel—rather than repair—American democracy. And it’s only because it’s unserious that people can cheer it knowing it will never happen. There are a million meaningful things states can do to resist. This isn’t one. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I spoke on a First Amendment panel at a law school earlier this week. One thing I emphasized is that there is widespread and astonishing ignorance of basic First Amendment law by a huge number of local officials who have arrest and citation authority, many of whom don’t know what obscenity is.

Or before it started. Crappy journalism either way. An unserious attempt to cover a serious event.

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Quotes from Johnny Garrett and Tim Burchett

Quote from Robby Starbuck

Somehow these three quotes from three separate dipshits who didn’t attend (two of whom don’t live in Nashville) made it into the article about the event.

To start, there were not “hundreds.” There were easily thousands, and no one who was there would have any doubt about that fact.

What…is this article? A comically bad write up.

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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

🚨 Driving drunk with your kids in the car and thinking that is okay because you are an ICE agent answers all the unasked questions.

Just as long as Scrub Daddy gets its due

weratedogs v 1/5 BORDER PATROC ICE AGENTS KILL DOG DURING UNLAWFUL SEARCH, REFUSE TO RENDER AID, AND LEAVE WITHOUT IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES

weratedogs This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. Unsurprisingly, they did not care enough to help the family as they tried to save him. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place. Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop 14/10 CBP Office of Professional Responsibility: 202-344-1808 JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov El Paso Border Patrol Sector: 915-834-8400 fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso): 915-541-1400 veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov

When you’ve pissed off WeRateDogs so much they’re calling you “fucking losers” on Main you have absolutely lost all merit in the court of public opinion

Next year it’s going to be their law school application personal statements.

Four years to adjudicate a motion to dismiss!

I’m old enough to remember when their biggest fucking grievance was a made-up complaint that Obama did this.

In devastating blow to Nashville’s drug trade, police arrest city’s only low-level weedman with exact change.