Christopher Lepkowski

A First Amendment lawsuit challenges FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson's vendetta against NewsGuard Andrew Ferguson has targeted the news rating company with onerous record demands and a merger condition aimed at cutting off its revenue.

Among Trump FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson's other encroachments on the First Amendment, don't neglect his regulatory vendetta against NewsGuard, a private media-rating service that Ferguson blames for having given negative ratings to some conservative outlets [Jacob Sullum]

Aside from having no backbone or leadership when it comes to bigotry, he’s a terrible choice for the moment in many other ways, too!

The more we talk about his failings, the better, IMO—we can find better candidates.

An entire global economy hard at work “de-risking” AI’s premature investor-speculators—

No customers of interest left except big-money bag-holders like world governments. 💀

This administration has a mix of “normal” MAGA lawyers

and mentally ill “lawyers” who believe literal demons have been in control the deep state

I think the ones in the former camp still have some vague sense that “one day I could get in trouble for this”

Ah—I think this person already doesn’t have any integrity and that’s why they *won’t* have trouble getting hired by Maga law firms later.

And at lunch, they’ll regale how “they wanted me to do X! and even I was like well *that’s* a little bit much” and everyone will laugh

The author goes on to say that it’s quite possible all of this stuff is going to unravel later because it is so blatant that it can’t stand up in court—they even suggest that—if we had the guts—every single one of the corrupt decisions could be easily reversed in coming years

I dunno that any of us can see into these people‘s heads, but the impression I got is that they wanted her to do stuff that would be impossible to explain with a straight face later

(Like, normally even a corrupt official hopes to preserve a little plausible deniability/doubt)

The linked piece clarifies this lady was corrupt too, just not *quite* as corrupt as they wanted?

So but reads like she’s just grumpily getting out of their way so they can go fully hog wild

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause

What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

This framing is infuriating. Must *everything* adjust to the Overton window that ill-willed “libertarians” have put their backs into moving to the right for 40 years?

Sometimes places and people reveal themselves to be ignorant and unethical, and it’s OK for the rest of us to put them at our backs.

I just think he’s really the absolute wrong guy for the moment

Yes! I’ll wait an extra week or more to snag an early/office opening time slot. Always.

Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.

NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

Yeah, this—it’s not working great here in LA, the LAPD chief flatly said he won’t enforce any restrictions on ICE, birds of a feather I guess

It feels like he could simply fart loudly in response, and we’d be delivered a take about his “unique approach to communication”

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Thank you for this timely reminder

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Justice Brett Kavanaugh

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

I thought we gathered here for a better view of the shitshow

I've seen videos of the indiscriminate use of tear gas on a large crowd that was clearly peaceful and filled with Portlanders of all ages, and well off the macadam facility. We banned tear gas for a reason. I join Councilor Green in calling for enforcement of our laws.

And let’s not forget how hot America is right now! Everybody is saying so!

It’s nearly the same amount of “hot” as your favorite disco from New York City in 1981–it might even be “spicy”! Also, probably sexy. Yeah

holy shit!!
BLENDER IS THE INDUSTRY STANDARD NOW BOY, MAYA WHO

(Personally, this is also why I really hope Gavin Newsom won’t be an upcoming presidential candidate—

the guy is not a servant of the people, and you can *feel* he’s not

I think we really need a proper public servant in the WH to restore public faith in the government when this is all over)

And not to take anything away from Mamdani—but it’s not even complicated!

It’s the “sewer socialism” playbook!

It’s just being Leslie Knope, publicly! Like literally being a “public servant”—that’s it!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewer_s...

The chief of the LAPD is intentionally misrepresenting his assignment

The goal is not to issue citations for misdemeanors, but to deter a masked, violent group from committing crimes against locals while cloaked in anonymity

Can you rein this rogue chief in?

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The chief of the LAPD is intentionally misrepresenting his assignment

The goal is not to issue citations for misdemeanors, but to deter a masked, violent group from committing crimes against locals while cloaked in anonymity

Can you rein this rogue chief in?

bsky.app/profile/iwil...

I think he is doing the robbing already

Like this 200 million corresponds with the 200 million he sued for in October.

Now his eyes have gotten bigger?

I figure later when people say, “wait, *you’re* keeping that?”

he’ll be like “yeah, because I’m owed”

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He’s willfully misunderstanding the point

It’s not to “issue a bunch of misdemeanors”

it’s to ensure they can’t do crimes cloaked in anonymity