Sam Bagenstos

And see: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Really important.

USPSTF Meeting Pushed Back for Third Time in a Row Meeting will be 'rescheduled in the coming months,' according to HHS

The meeting of the United States Preventative Services Task Force has been canceled again—another attack on public health by RFK Jr.

This is an independent group that reviews scientific research for things like cancer screenings. Their recommendations must be covered by insurance.

MAHA!

Excellent thread.

the kind of thing that gets played at a war crimes trial

Most telling part of this rant: That the war will go on until "we decide it is over," not until the aims of the war are achieved - because there are no stated aims; and Trump prefers having none, so any result will allow him to try to claim a "win."

This cartoonishly childish Hegseth persona is an insult to the American military, the American people, the Iranian people, and just about everybody affected by this war. It is absolutely incredible, in the literal sense, that this man is at the hinge of the chain of command in this spiraling war.

The Iranian ambassador was not, for the record, on American soil.

I’ve never seen an admin more full of juvenile man-children openly projecting their juvenile man-childness every time they open their mouths and try to come across as “tough.” (And yes, I know Waltz’s background: still juvenile.)

Trump Has Been Sued 198 Times for Withholding Funding. It Hasn’t Stopped Him. (Gift Article) Immigration demands for highway dollars, D.E.I. rules for homeless grants: how Trump has tried to wield spending to get his way.

An important piece showing that losses in court haven’t stopped Trump from seizing Congress’s spending power and targeting dissenters and “blue states.”

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'm older than you!

Wow this is something.

Rubio not getting a sarcastic running joke by *George HW Bush* of all people and taking it completely straight is a nice demonstration of the decline in the Republican party in all that time.

At least he came by it honestly as a Cold War CIA Director and Ambassador to China. And he was being preppy-facetious.

"Angelina Farella, a Texas-based pediatrician and self-described 'frontline viral doctor,' has baselessly claimed that mRNA vaccines can cause 'some kind of unusual hepatitis in children,' labeled the RSV vaccine an 'utter failure' and repeatedly made calls on social media to '#stoptheshots.'"

RFK Jr.’s New Vaccine Committee Appointee Has Called to ‘#StopTheShots’ Angelina Farella, a Texas-based pediatrician, has also called the RSV vaccine an “utter failure.”

Trump's folks desperately want us to think they've moved away from their anti-vax policies, but they keep making appointments like this. www.notus.org/health-scien...

As predicted Trump's Medicaid cuts are already starting to have a terrible effect on disabled people and their families.

Trump campaign peace promises loom large over wartime presidency The "anti-war" candidate has bombed seven countries and launched a new regime-change war in Iran.

No president in the modern era has launched more military strikes against as many different countries as Trump, including more individual strikes in 2025 than Biden ordered in all four years. @zacharybasu www.axios.com/2026/03/02/t...

“A squirter”

Are you fucking kidding me

We are so far away from “from these honored dead we take increased devotion” etc etc

All I feel is derision from the top US defense official

honestly, this goes in the war crimes prosecution file, a pretty clear declaration that the mission is not guided by rules rooted in the law of armed conflict

It's striking that they haven't even tried:

Republicans Wage War As Politics ...and politics as war.

What @brianbeutler.bsky.social said.

open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

I don't believe you're misremembering anything.

He's kind of the OG Chalabi.

Yes! I will go to my deathbed trying to get people to stop conflating nonjusticiable with legal.

Trump’s 2016 criticism of the Iraq war was the US didn’t do enough war crimes. He argued that the US should’ve stolen oil and killed insurgents’ innocent family members.

That’s what some prominent media figures presented to the public as isolationist, anti-intervention, anti-war, “Donald the Dove.”

Feeble Criticism of War With Iran Echoes the Lead-Up to War With Iraq We need to take a firm stand against this reckless and pointless war, not fixate on whether or not it was done the "right way."

This piece by @joestieb.bsky.social is outstanding. www.liberalcurrents.com/feeble-criti...

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

No, Trump Didn’t Make Historic Progress on Drug Prices Go ahead and guess which president did.

Great @citizencohn.bsky.social piece showing Trump’s drug pricing policies are all smoke and mirrors.

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

This was a terrific conference.

Group photo of people of different genders, races and ethnicities smiling at the camera

A man in a suit sitting on a desk amid speech

A panel of three women and a man all laughing

A man and a woman smiling to the camera

It was an honor to be @ohiostatelaw.bsky.social for a symposium honoring the work of the legendary Ruth Colker alongside many friends & mentors @katmacfarlane.bsky.social @sbagen.bsky.social @jasmineeharris.bsky.social
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Jamelia Morgan, LaToya Baldwin Clark, Liz Emens & others