Bill Belichick and Hulu's documentary to chronicle his first year at UNC has been canceled. Heh.

www.msn.com/en-us/sports...

Obviously not the main point here, but it's interesting how this is framed as content rather than policy.

"BREAKING" is typically what journalists or influencers say when they have a big story -- not what government officials say when they launch "undercover" operations

Another indication that these people are terminally online and increasingly disconnected from the real world.

Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.

NEW: Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban.

A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.

Today at Law Dork:

There is no budget "deal" to be made President Trump in has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

All year, we’ve seen this administration treat appropriations bills less as laws-to-follow and more like Lucy playing football with Charlie Brown. What should make this moment any different? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

Very good piece by @vermontgmg.bsky.social

NYT headline: "Bow to the Emperor: We asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency."

Pie chart showing over 50% of surveyed legal experts saying that Trump's second term has posed "much more threat" to the rule of law "than I expected."

Everything that's wrong with legal journalism in one New York Times headline and pie chart.

If all these "legal experts" are so shocked by the threats to the rule of law, maybe they're not the experts we should be asking in the first place.

All of this was foreseeable. Many forecast it.

Well done by @whitehouse.senate.gov

Bingo. As soon as I heard Homeland was claiming they were after "Tren de Aragua", I said, "Hold on, that's a landlord scam, who owns that building? Who might want all the tenants out?"
Racism in the service of crony capitalism.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

The same Wells Fargo that had to pay out $3 billion dollars in settlements for signing customers up for accounts and paid services without their permission.
In an industry where shitty behavior is the baseline, they really go above and beyond.

Yes, Wells Fargo was a horrible company long before Trump's fascism. I heard consumer advocate, Clark Howard, declare on his podcast that Wells Fargo is a criminal enterprise masquerading as a bank. Remember, banks are beholden to shareholders, credit unions are beholden to their members.

'No report': CPD addresses viral social media posts on 911 call about armed Venezuelan gang at Chicago building Chicago police have addressed viral posts on social media surrounding a 911 call claiming armed Venezuelan gang members were taking over a city building this week.

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

On that. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Sounds similar to the Aurora, CO slumlord who helped create the “Venezurlan gangs have taken over entire apartment complexes” talking point in 2024.

want to close your Wells Fargo account because you want to punish them for siccing ICE on a building of impoverished immigrants that Wells Fargo execs wanted to foreclose and sell?

here's how

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If this were really about crime, there’d be warrants, hearings, charges. Instead there’s silence, smoke, and smashed doors. A long drawn out foreclosure instantly turns into a corporate asset to Wells Fargo. A community disappears. And no one in power calls it what it is, state-sponsored theft.

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Imagine 300 federal agents descending on a single building at dawn… helicopters, flashbangs, families dragged out half-dressed. By sunrise, every unit’s empty. By sunset, the bank steps in. Wells Fargo gets receivership. Who ordered it and why? I am just asking questions.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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What if billionaire donors had a problem property-foreclosed,losing💰 & wanted it cleared overnight?Normally that takes months in court. But what if all it took now was right meme coin transfer?Who would put it past them?
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Ex-special counsel John Durham undercut case against James Comey in interview with prosecutors: Sources John Durham, who investigated the Russia probe, told prosecutors probing James Comey that had been unable to uncover evidence supporting charges against him, sources say.

So they have no case. Other prosecutors declined to charge him,bolstering idea that Comey was targeted & highlighting weakness experienced prosecutors saw in the case. Senior DOJ leaders voiced skepticism & no career prosecutor was willing to present it to a grand jury.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

How is it not news, according to the @nytimes.com, that an ICE agent in Chicago said "do something bitch" and deliberately SHOT a United States citizen? Can someone answer that question for me? @toddgregory.bsky.social @peterbakernyt.bsky.social @kenvogel.bsky.social @risenc.bsky.social

Alt text: A man in camouflage clothing and a face covering sits inside a gray Jeep, pointing a weapon out of the open driver-side window. The gun is aimed directly at the camera. The man wears gloves and a dark cap, and his eyes are visible above the mask. The vehicle’s door and side mirror are wet with raindrops.

ICE is a hostile occupying force that is a danger to everyone.

US immigration system: *literally has a way for cubans to become residents just by being here a year & a day with some other conditions, where approval says "CUBAN REFUGEE" as it's about conditions in Cuba, baked into the law*

Also US immigration system: we need a full trial on Cuban asylum cases

I am not a constitutional scholar but I am pretty sure “the president my personally levy taxes and choose what they fund” is not in fact what the founders intended

Dunno guys maybe states should stop paying federal taxes weird no one has come up with a plan for this obviously no one saw this coming it was impossible to predict

This case, however, is about hate crimes, not hate speech. Violent physical assaults are “not by any stretch of the imagination expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment.” Wisconsin v. Mitchell, 508 U.S. 476, 484 (1993). And it is well established that Congress may account for racially discriminatory motives when penalizing criminal conduct, as it did in the hate crimes laws at issue here. See id. at 487–88 (upholding a law that imposed enhanced penalties for crimes committed “because of” race). While Hudak was entitled to possess despicable Nazi symbols, the jury was entitled to consider that fact when deciding whether he assaulted J.D. and J.S. because of their race, color, and national origin. How much meaning to assign the Nazi memorabilia was ultimately a question of weight, not admissibility. But we see no abuse of discretion in the district court’s conclusion that Hudak “opened the door to it[],” regardless of whether it would initially have been admissible. Birchette, 908 F.3d at 61.

4th Cir. holds it was no prejudicial error for jury to consider evidence of Nazi memorabilia possessed by a man accused of racially motivated assaults on a Mexican-American man and a black man, particularly after defendant mentioned his collection on the stand.

www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/244...

"Mr. Defendant, what kind of collection do you--"

*interrupting* "I HAPPEN TO BE A COLLECTOR OF SPECIFICALLY NAZI AND CONFEDERATE HISTORY"

He's now been pardoned, but unbelievable that this happened at all in the first place: Tunisia sentenced a man to *death* last week for criticizing the president on Facebook.

We’re getting very used to this but the statement is unusually unhinged.