Sam Weinig

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Yeah. It’s totally awful and unthinkable a year ago. But I think Colbert does pretty a good job explaining that to the audience in the rest of the segment.

He does go on to explain it’s not the law, and the network is complying in advance because of veiled threats made by Carr.

somebody’s sweet plums are crowding my icebox

somebody’s cold plums are giving me chills

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

A stark moment in this morning's hearing in Minnesota when an attorney for the state is staying this:

In addition to being bad, this is all pretty stupid.

Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

NYTimes Spelling Bee game showing that the word “lawdork” is not in the word list

Crazy that Spelling Bee doesn’t allow this @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.

Mina Kimes talking about a pig looking into frame followed by Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.b... • 1h Jim Halpork over here. ... Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.s... • 1h Josh, can you talk about the decision to go for Halpork and not Hampert here? Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social Follow Would love to. I thought Hampert is a better visual joke (just changing one letter) but Halpork sounds closer to Halpert than Hampert does, to me! (I did almost go with Ham Halpert though!)

This is just what you like to see on here

DOJ is still violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.

She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

R.I.P. 2025 (2025 - 2025)

ME: (first day practicing Bug Law) May it please the Court—
BUG JUDGE: (sternly) Bug Court.

My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.

These congressmen want to give you the right to sue federal law enforcement for violating your rights The proposed bills aim to codify a 1971 Supreme Court ruling that allowed individuals to sue the feds for Fourth Amendment violations.

If the Democrats retake Congress this must be on the priority list of legislative initiatives.
Yes, Trump will veto it. But signing this bill must be a campaign issue for any 2028 Dem candidate.

reason.com/2025/12/17/t...

198. Progressive Judicial Institutionalism There's important daylight between those who are critical of the present degree of judicial power in the United States in general and those who are critical of the current Supreme Court, specifically.

"Pulling the Supreme Court back from the cliff is something progressives should view as far preferable to the alternative—where it may not just be the Court that gets pushed over the edge and into oblivion, but our entire constitutional (and democratic) order."

Me in today's issue of "One First":

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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I am really struggling to understand the motivation for any federally elected democrat to vote for Republican sponsored bills.

Utter garbage.

I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress

The main institutions of the Federal Government—White House, Supreme Court and Congress—are in complete shambles.

One of the reasons I think it’s also essential to not call the boat strikes “war crimes” but “crimes against humanity,” is that it emphasizes that Trump and Hegseth are acting extra-constitutionally and are not entitled to any shield from the courts. This systematic murder of civilians is illegal.

The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

What Good Is a Right Without a Remedy? Flagrant civil rights abuses are enabled by a legal scheme that makes it all but impossible to sue federal agents for constitutional violations and shields them with immunity should that barrier ever ...

Trump's secret police vandalize houses and cars, assault citizens, fire potential lethal weapons for the hell of it, and assault children, often as sexual predators... and claim impunity for all of this. CATO proposes the fix. In the meantime it's essential to document all these crimes rigorously.

Study: 14 million lives could be lost due to Trump aid cuts A new study looks at lives saved by USAID in the past and what the future without the agency will look like.

first and only line of his biography: he dismantled USAID, condemning millions to die www.npr.org/sections/goa...

a “Space Force”, if you will