james slater

I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].

Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

So denaturalize and deport Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, both of whom are public charges and security risks who undermine domestic tranquility and routinely promote radical foreign ideologies incompatible with America's pluralistic, scholarly, and secular traditions.

New York Groove subscriber Zohran Mamdani has converted the president to socialism

The DOJ Subpoenaed Patient Info From a Gender-Affirming Care Clinic. It Fought Back. A Washington judge quashed the Trump administration's attempt to subpoena patient information from the telehealth practice QueerDoc—but the fight may not be over.

What do we say when the government comes asking for data it's not entitled to? Fuck you, make me.

www.autonomynews.co/doj-subpoena...

Transformative work of the day, that's some pig edition

I’m starting to piece things together

I’ve connected the dots

Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Impeachment is the moderate position

lesson of jay jones (likely) win is that democrats must [redacted]

jay jones has a winning message for 2026: [REMOVED FOR VIOLATION OF TOS]

Sure does

Trying to think if there’s anything this administration could do that publications like TFP wouldn’t treat this way.

Once you’re creating Overton space for extrajudicial executions, I’m not sure there’s much left.

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Blue graphic with white and yellow text: "Jails and prisons ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined. Incarceration shouldn't strip us of our right to read." Red and yellow tinted photos of a jail cell and a stack of books in the bottom right.

It's Prison Banned Books Week — a week dedicated to shining a light on the widespread denial of incarcerated people's freedom to read.

We all have a First Amendment right to read and receive information, in and out of prison. Censorship has no place in a democracy.

Allegation: In pre-dawn hours, naked, partially deaf man hears banging outside his home. Thinking it’s his adult son returning home, he opens the back door a crack and heads back to his bedroom. Yikes! It’s Levy County, Fla. officers (looking for the son, who isn’t there). Without a word, an officer follows the man into the house and confronts him at gunpoint, allowing him to put on pants but then tasing him without warning. Officers: We didn’t have a warrant, and there was no exigency. But the man consented to our entry when he opened the door. Eleventh Circuit: No qualified immunity. To a jury this must go.

Stoked to see our 4A win in @shortcircuitij.bsky.social's newsletter.

I’ve got an idea for a deal

Trump’s DOJ Plans to Indict Jim Comey For the Crime of Making Trump Upset In the president’s mind, the primary purpose of government is punishing his enemies.

I don't give a shit about Comey, but I give several shits about the president actually and personally using the carceral state as a vehicle for his petty grievances against individuals he doesn't like. You shouldn't risk jailtime if the president finds you irksome
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

News › World News › Donald Trump Disappointed Christians say 'God is delaying the Rapture' until Epstein Files are released After the rapture failed to happen on Tuesday, many Christians are blaming it on the fact Donald Trump hasn't released a trove of documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein

Shhh let them cook

The silver lining here is that, as long as she’s in charge, you could literally cripple the office by having a sale on Chardonnay.

Wow, and he completely ignores your Isaac Babel quote, which incidentally is a favorite of mine.

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

A twitter post explaining how you can “save PNGs to birds” by converting a drawing of a bird into a spectrogram then playing it to a starling who sung it back, reproducing the PNG.

Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system

I find this especially true in PLRA cases. We took over a case before trial where the AG filed three successive motions under Heck to try to bar my client from testifying to his version of events. Each denied. He was so used to having things go his way that he couldn't understand why he kept losing.

ozzy osbourne dies
everyone: "enjoy hell (complimentary)"
hulk hogan dies
everyone: "enjoy hell (derogatory)"

Trump's top federal prosecutor in L.A. struggles to secure indictments in protest cases U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli has aggressively pushed for indictments in the high-profile prosecutions of people arrested during demonstrations against federal immigration actions in Southern California, le...

I cannot overemphasize how rare it is for both a) a grand jury to return no true bill and b) a reporter to get around grand jury secrecy rules to confirm it

Are you still at CAIR? I'm local counsel for an org on a defamation case in NDGA which also includes local and national CAIR.

Right. We recently tripped up a libel-plaintiff in SDFL, whose counsel thought we could only get costs, like under Rule 68. Oops.

The burden-shifting provision doesn't apply but courts in the Eleventh will still apply the fee-shifting provision.

I regret to inform you about Touhy.