Staci D. Kramer

This state does whatever they can to make it difficult for regular people to vote, let alone those who have circumstances making it tough on them.

>>In many workplaces, Aune said, accusing a colleague or superior can be professionally perilous. In a statehouse…it can also become partisan ammunition, a reputational weapon or a reason for allies to quietly step away.

“So many women are afraid that they will get marked with a scarlet letter.”<<

Statement from TX Democrats over hundreds of voters being turned away in Dallas and Williamson Counties

Statement from TX Democrats over hundreds of voters being turned away in Dallas and Williamson Counties

INBOX: The @texasdemocrats.bsky.social are raising the alarm over hundreds of voters being turned away from voting locations in Dallas and Williamson Counties (where voters on Election Day must vote at assigned precincts)

My AFP team is working around the clock, in 26 languages, to debunk misinformation about the war in the Middle East.

Read fact-checks in:

English: factcheck.afp.com/list/Iran-0

Arabic: factcheckarabic.afp.com/list/ayran-0

French: factuel.afp.com/list/Iran-0

Spanish: factual.afp.com/list/Iran-0

I don’t know how else to convince legacy publications that the idea that there’s too many trans kids is both wrong and inherently harmful to trans people’s existence without being labeled an activist. So here we are.

Missouri bill targets ‘date rape’ drugs after lawmaker suspects she was drugged • Missouri Independent State Rep. Elizabeth Fuchs says she and other lawmakers experienced possible drink-spiking in Jefferson City.

State Rep. Elizabeth Fuchs says she and other lawmakers believed they were drugged in Jefferson City last year during the legislative session. She wants tougher penalties for the drugs often linked to sexual assault. #moleg #mogov

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

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a cute black and white pit bull lying on a couch, looking up sweetly with a roku remote between her legs, paws dangling off the couch edge

"Hey babe, have you seen the remote?"

"No. Have you checked under Dru?"

Dru:

Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!

@evhemphill.bsky.social ⬇️

Update, 1:25 p.m. March 3: In a move that melds the unprofessionalism of the Justice Department under Attorney General Pam Bondi with the rule-by-shifting-Truth-social-decrees attitude of President Donald Trump, the two DOJ lawyers on the law firm executive order cases filed a motion on Tuesday to withdraw their Monday motion to dismiss the law firm order case appeals. Yes, now DOJ wants to continue the appeals. The motion provided no reasoning for the reversal, with Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward and Deputy Associate Attorney General Abhishek Kambli simply stating that “it is the prerogative of Defendant-Appellants to pursue this appeal.“ Per the motion, the lawyers for the law firms “oppose the government’s unexplained request to withdraw yesterday’s voluntary dismissal, to which all parties had agreed.“ They also noted that, regardless, this should not provide DOJ with yet another excuse for delay in the case, specifically referencing DOJ’s forthcoming Friday deadline for filing its combined brief in the appeals.

UPDATE: The latest at Law Dork on the law firm EO cases: www.lawdork.com/p/doj-to-dro...

>>"Plaintiffs-Appellees oppose the government's unexplained request to withdraw yesterday's voluntary dismissal, to which all parties had agreed. Under no circumstances should the government's unexplained about-face provide a basis for an extension of its brief."<<

Fascinating development re Epstein-Barr virus ⬇️

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might could be (imagine that in a drawl)

The repeated sleight of hand on jurisdiction, standing, the Question Presented, the facts found by district courts, the pacing of its decisions, the decidedly NOT BALLS & STRIKES moves that mock the integrity of the legal process itself is what has wrecked the legitimacy of the Court’s majority.

DOJ is dropping its appeals of losses in the law firm order cases. What does it mean? And: The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday over a federal law banning firearm possession by users of illegal drugs.

I have updated my report at Law Dork on DOJ dropping the law firm EO appeals.

If you've read about DOJ dropping those cases, but the story said nothing about DOJ's appeal of Mark Zaid's case against his security clearance revocation, you don't have the whole story.

Read Law Dork —>

As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it

I don’t trust people who call it the Department of War and then try to sell services to it.

But no self respecting journalist should.

"...his gutting of the global espionage unit, known as CI-12, also came days before Trump launched Operation Epic Fury, a series of bombing strikes on Iran that killed the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei." - @carolleonnig.bsky.social reports

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

“Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts should not meddle with state election laws ahead of an election. Today, the Court says: except for this one, except for this one, and except for this one.”

Smart move, @bsky.app!

taking that post down before they put me in venmo jail again. but heyyyyyy we prevented an eviction and paid three family's rents!

“…nursing homes would reject Gabriel, according to Baugh. His medical needs are too complex. ‘He would need to go to a long-term acute nursing hospital, which would be terrible for him. I don’t even know if there are any openings. There’s maybe one or two across the state.’”

Why is Bluesky having at least three of the internet fights that got battled to death back in my messageboard days in the early 2000s? Much like exposed thongs, those fights should be left in the era where we found them!