Russ

as an annoying lawyer side note the CIT is proof that Better Institutional Designs Are Possible: it's a specialized Article III court! imagine a specialist Art III court for any other area of law, and how much better it would be than generalists blundering through areas of law they don't understand

"It also marked Google CEO Sundar Pichai as an active target"

Sounds like someone on the AI team is a go-getter with ambitious career goals.

That's not a French idiom I'd previously run into; what am I going to do with all of these branded torches and pitchforks now?

Eat shit forever, Carla Cunningham.

"I'm at their backs" is an unconventionally menacing campaign slogan, but she could make it work.

Intrigued by 63's footwork here - not the way I usually see someone pulled, but the timing couldn't have worked any better.

Big same.

Executive branch has *way* too much discretion.

The mechanism for these revocations needs to live in Article III courts.

Now they're on the other foot.

Don't even think of asking which one that is.

Reminder: Greg Landsman is being primaried by @damon4congress.bsky.social

Nope.

Expecting the American people to become computers rather than human beings is a low-percentage strategy for actually getting things done.

Do you want to feel superior, or do you want to do what it takes to protect our neighbors?

This is a terrific article and worth a read for people outside the area who are interested in stuff that MN has been doing to resist ICE.

Gift link: racketmn.com/yes-that-man...

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Statement from Jasmine Crockett.

The Feds Targeted Charlotte. Now a Local Democrat Who Helped ICE Faces Voters. - Bolts North Carolina lawmaker Carla Cunningham voted to mandate compliance with ICE, and derided immigrants on the House floor. The Democrat faces an intense March primary.

JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal."

She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%!

Context:

I'm not exactly in the tank for Crockett, but this seems bad.

A teenager's 'I Voted' sticker design hits a nerve, and now everyone wants one When 14-year-old Hudson Rowan drew his spider-robot-humanoid character for an "I Voted" sticker competition, he didn't realize just how far the illustration would travel.

Frame it and hang it on the wall

I see outlets already getting stuff wrong, so: if you’re media trying to write about Bryan Betancur, I have way more information about his background than anyone else who can go on the record. DMs are open.

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A gray shorthair cat at the moment of release upside down, with its tongue out looking derpy

A new paper on falling cat science came out and I just have to draw people's attention to this image

Perhaps too much?

The kind of cursed you need to special order from an eldritch laboratory. Arrives in three to four months on a full moon.

She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Abolish ICE has a +11 approval — which means it is *32 points* more popular than Donald Trump

Ask yourself: does corporate media portray that accurately?

NEWS: The D.C. Council unanimously passed two bills aimed at shedding more light on federal agents patrolling in D.C.

One would release more body-camera footage from local police when federal agents use deadly force. Another would collect names of federal agents.

Just a box of nutters. Outrageous.

oh man you can tell he has been *saving* his thoughts about that poor dog