Jeremy Schulman

I'm extremely confused about what you mean by "silencing"

The First Amendment exists to protect the speech of the people we disagree with—apparently including strangers who feel the need to publicly swear at me at 10:30 at night

Michael Mann Finally Goes Away | National Review The climate scientist tried to trample our free-speech rights, and failed.

oh, wow—that's an important win for press freedom that took... 13 years

Yeah, it's silly to equate this to what Porter did. Palmeri asked perfectly reasonable questions, and Kat politely and repeatedly declined to answer, and then politely ended the interview

This is such a funny NYTism... apparently they thought the "comic strip" was too obscure to name?

Also, people should recognize that the "Calvinball" line broke through in a way that judicial dissents almost never do

Either ACB is a reasonable grown up, or she isn't. I highly doubt Barrett is so insecure that Jackson's dissents have made Barrett less receptive to outreach from Kagan and Sotomayor, but if that is what happened, that's not Jackson's fault

The Debate Dividing the Supreme Court’s Liberal Justices

People—including Supreme Court justices—should do what they believe is right and effective, and it's fine when they disagree about what that is. We need justices who prioritize making rulings 30 percent better, as well as justices who publicly raise alarms about what the court is doing

There was a time when Hot Air was a generally useful and even insightful source of conservative news analysis. These days, they are running this incredible "Editor's Note"

Meanwhile on X, the conservative movement is locked in an existential debate between "It's antisemitic to criticize Likud" and "Well, maybe Nick Fuentes has a point."

Again, there was a four-year-old interregnum, including two years when Dems controlled Congress, when they could have reformed the Insurrection Act. Dems literally needed to convince 10 Senate Republicans that Joe Biden shouldn't be allowed to deploy the Marines to forcibly vaccinate you or whatever

I can't stop think about the outrage when the Dem leadership backed Sherrod Brown over Paul Hackett

I don't doubt he's sincere when he says his past internet activity was part of a journey that led him to a better place. But he's the one who thought that it was bad enough that he should try to delete it before running for office—presenting it as evidence of personal and political growth was Plan B

Democrats presumably would like to defeat Susan Collins, so the time for Platner to prove he can weather this scrutiny is *before* the primary

The complaints here are not all that different from Never Trumpers complaining that Democrats are responsible for Trump's rise because Obama had the temerity to run negative ads against Mitt Romney during a presidential election

Most of what Platner says in this clip is introspective and thoughtful, though—as Psaki points out—what he's describing here is 1) other politicians running against him in a democracy, 2) scrutiny of his past political writing, and 3) a tattoo that he immediately agreed needed to be covered up

I don't doubt that a dystopian era of sophisticated, AI-generated disinformation is coming at some point, but for now, the most effective social media hoaxes still seem decidedly low-tech

also the climate anxiety story idea is perfectly reasonable

Honestly, I voice a large number of bad ideas in editorial meetings (you all do, too, probably), and I would be annoyed if my colleagues anonymously anonymously leaked the worst ones

I think the general topic of Biden's fitness to serve as president and the specifics of the autopen use are perfectly reasonable things for congressional Republicans to investigate, but the theory that he was forced against his will to pardon Hunter seems like a stretch

I'm gonna read this report with an open mind, but they are going to have a hard time convincing me that the driving force behind the extremely corrupt pardons of Joe Biden's entire family was someone other than ... Joe Biden.

The thing is, this strategy is working about as well for the centrists as it does for the leftists -- ie, not at all

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

Opinion | In defense of the White House ballroom Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs

people are laughing at the NIMBY framing but when it's not holding state dinners the new construction will provide 200 units of housing, at least 80 percent of which are reserved for low-income families, seniors, and veterans. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Who is "us" and why would it keep that collection of people from "saying anything about the ongoing bribery and grifting"?

Donald Trump got mad at the TV, so now stuff costs more "ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED."

Donald Trump got mad at the TV, so now stuff costs more www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

If—and this is a huge "if"—it allows the unilateral presidential imposition of tariffs at all, IEEPA does so only in the context of an "unusual and extraordinary threat ... to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States."

Which of those is "Trump got his feelings hurt"?

The ICEmen were presumably looking for undocumented immigrants. Retes’s driver’s license, which he says the ICEmen never asked to see, identifies him as “Veteran Army.” His license plate includes “DV”: disabled veteran. While ICE’s warriors were trying and ultimately succeeding in smashing his driver’s-side window (the better to pepper spray him), they apparently did not notice his rear window’s “Iraq Combat Veteran” sticker.

How George Will describes the unlawful arrest of George Retes in the Bezos Post.

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Schulz and Mamdani going on an extended, acronym-laden housing policy deep-dive while laughing hysterically, versus Cuomo laughing at racist jokes about Mamdani cheering on a 9/11… giant mystery why the polls look like they do!

YouTube video by FLAGRANT Zohran Mamdani on Freezing Rent, Making NYC Affordable Again, & Who is Really Stopping Him

If you knew absolutely nothing about the NYC mayoral election, you could just compare this interview to Cuomo on Sid Rosenberg and have a pretty good understanding of what’s going on and why