Not your attorney

Even if you share my civil libertarian skepticism of this particular law, Mike is correct. It's fundamentally unfair and anti-democratic for the Supreme Court to fault the Congress of 1968 for failing to foresee Second Amendment principles that SCOTUS would make up out of whole cloth decades later.

“Constitution destroyed in plane crash” feels like a VEEP joke that they scrapped for going too far.

How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even whe...

Here's story we did, laying it out:

Derek Chauvin had a body-cam not only when he killed George Floyd, but also when he knelt on necks of others, including a 14-year-old. The boy's mother begged, "“Please, please do not kill my son!”

Supervisors ignored it all

www.propublica.org/article/how-...

Hey, cool. @lastweektonight.com just did a segment using reporting I did w/ @farooqumar.bsky.social

Oliver was talking about body cams--and how law enforcement agencies have often undermined their potential

The same body-cams Dems are centering that ICE reforms on

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP4_...

It's genuinely insane that many of the newspaper columnists who cheered us into the war in Iraq are still employed at big legacy outlets cheering us into a new war with Iran.

The Birthrate Is Plunging. Why Some Say That’s a Good Thing.

imagine creating THE most hostile economic, social, and political environment in 60 years and expect people to procreate

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

This is what "anti-wokeness" was all about, making it publicly acceptable to be an aspiring genocidaire bsky.app/profile/mehd...

I don’t know who this is about but the thing is, I don’t need to! It’s a general rule that applies to everyone!

Threads is better for recs, but I'll try here:

I'm trying to upskill during my unemployment. I'd like to become better versed in AI policy (in addition to trying to hone some actual lawyering skills). Does anyone have recs for courses I could take/things I could read?

a reminder that Graham Platner is the grandson of the designer of the "Windows on the World" restaurant at the WTC, has considerable family money, and his main business is selling oysters to his mom's two restaurants. These people are fucking marks.

Not Josh “Bombing Iran Is Good” Gottheimer trading millions in defense stocks

Amid the turmoil, Sam Beyda, a 24-year-old who has never previously worked in public health, has assumed a prominent role at the agency, according to current and former officials. While at the CDC, O'Neill was often absent, those officials said, and he deputized Beyda to run much of the agency's day-to-day operations for him, people familiar with the matter said. Beyda, a 2023 graduate of Columbia University, is based in Washington, D.C., but frequently travels to the CDC's Atlanta headquarters. An internal document in November listed Beyda as leading five of 16 new strategic initiatives, including updating the CDC's agencywide response to outbreaks and crises, downsizing animal research and enhancing surveillance of novel pathogens. Some longtime CDC staffers have credited Beyda with being a quick study and making an effort to ask questions and learn on the ioh Ona coninr novear And ofniol enid Pando

But others say Beyda isn't qualified for a senior role that is often filled by someone with a master's in public health or years of experience in the federal government. Beyda executed January's widespread grant cuts to state and local health departments that the CDC then quickly rescinded, people familiar with the matter said. The administration moved forward about two weeks later with roughly $600 million in grant cuts to four states led by Democrats, a move now held up in court. Beyda was also deeply involved in a chaotic wave of firings at the CDC during the October government shutdown, according to people familiar with the matter, which saw more than a thousand employees laid off only for hundreds to later be reinstated. Beyda is one of at least a dozen political appointees at the agency, representing a larger number than in previous administrations, according to two current employees. The new political appointees wield significant power over the CDC's

Letting a 24 year old lead hundreds of millions of grants cuts at CDC…

Additionally, if anyone wants to supervise me pro hac vice (only barred in NY), I am happy to be a pro bono anything. I will do research!

Threads is better for recs, but I'll try here:

I'm trying to upskill during my unemployment. I'd like to become better versed in AI policy (in addition to trying to hone some actual lawyering skills). Does anyone have recs for courses I could take/things I could read?

Open-Hearted in Minneapolis In the winter here, it’s not unusual to see a car on the side of I-35. Minneapolis is the first place I’ve ever lived that, when I described a rece...

"Here we are in Minneapolis donating food, donating games and books and art supplies to kids who can’t go outside, donating coats, donating meals, and donating whistles. We are learning how to make a functional community when it’s our own government disrupting our lives."

Holy shit

Assumption baked into this is that the dramatic changes that have occurred at CBS since Ellison/Weiss takeover is generally finished, as opposed to something that is still ongoing and will keep moving the network in the direction it's been going

Institutional rot usually doesn't happen in a day

Buddy, we've been under terrorist attack since the inauguration.

Judge blocks Trump admin from rescinding health grants to Democratic-led states The ruling temporarily blocks the Trump Administration from cutting $600 million in public health grants that had already been allocated to four Democratic-led states.

Unbelievable that we still talk about withholding HIV funding as a form of political maneuvering rather than an act of social murder, as if the 80’s + 90’s never happened and we didn’t lose an entire generation to this already.

This is disgusting. Rationalizing the bombing of a school that reportedly killed 108 girls.

But since she asked,

"Currently, 161 public schools operate on military installations across the United States."

www.militaryonesource.mil/education-em...

On the one hand, the presidency is a fundamentally broken institution.

On the other hand, Congress is a fundamentally broken institution.

On the third hand, the Supreme Court is a fundamentally broken institution.

While Trump launches a blatantly illegal war , Democrats in the Senate are STILL confirming the criminal president’s nominees.

Guys he's not starting a war to distract from the Epstein files. He's starting a war because he wants to start a war. Killing people in other countries makes him horny. If it also distracts from the Epstein files, great, but he doesn't really give a shit either way.

I’m glad that she says that even if Trump had gotten the okay from Congress, there’s still no justification for this war. I haven’t seen enough folks make that point. There’s literally no reason that’s legit for Trump to be doing this.

Well, it was either world war three or letting black people have jobs, so I see why people just went with the world war

Yes we're in history's stupidest war and I got jokes because it's a coping mechanism don't worry I still feel the existential dread

Love it when an Onion article has been relevant my entire adult life

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

This is an unjust, illegal war. It violates our treaties and our laws. Presidential impunity must end.