Daniel Freed

The timeline says it all.

I am genuinely sorry you had to endure that wanton destruction during your grad years. It does not represent the intellectual milieu cultivated there over many decades.

Keep up your great work, Paul. I know you won’t be deterred by this savage, extra-constitutional maneuver (viewpoint discrimination, for example). And you help encourage others to find the way out of this mess.

This is a great observation. And our de-sensitized, disengaged culture seems particularly vulnerable to the abdication of responsibility.

Yeah, agree. This arenas — Senate procedure and custom — are Schumer’s forte. And probably one of the reasons he was re elected minority leader unanimously. It would not surprise me if he outplayed the junior Thune, who’s become more of a lackey than I expected.

These data are critical and yet ... they are moving quickly to quash any objective reporting with muzzled, adulatory propaganda.

It's like ghosting the entire data set. The fabrications will create yet more havoc and decline.

They doctored the previous (correct) figures with an absurd fabrication the next day. This one’s probably worse.

Pitchbot FTW.

It does track with their escalation of projection and propaganda-speak any time they're underwater on big issues. Let's hope something better comes out of this.

I am definitely OK with this. It may even rise to a culinary exhibit.

170. DOJ's (Ridiculous) Misconduct Complaint Against Chief Judge Boasberg DOJ's complaint that Chief Judge Boasberg engaged in "misconduct" would be laughably stupid if it didn't reflect such a transparently obvious and dangerous attempt to delegitimize the federal courts.

Me on the factually misleading and analytically ridiculous misconduct complaint DOJ has filed against Chief Judge Boasberg—and the dangerousness of DOJ so openly trying to undermine public confidence in the only institution that has been even partially effective at checking the Trump administration:

Thanks for this. This actually seems feasible if they win, and they prioritize aggressively. Somebody who knows con law more than I could perhaps introduce a kind of procedural gimmick -- much like the House GOP reduction of time to a single day -- to try and toll the SOL.

It may not be bad to float the idea. What is the SOL on this case? And would they have leverage to follow through on this before midterms? Is this feasible as a class action suit outside of Congressional jurisdiction?

Yes, I agree with your sentiment. But do not underestimate the tactics they will use to defend his misconduct. They could raise a frivolous argument that the communication is protected by speech and debate clause. There should be no legal obstruction to the move to impeach (then more).

As I stated elsewhere:

Running for Congress on a platform that includes his impeachment should be a baseline standard now.

Running for Congress on a platform that includes his impeachment should be a baseline standard now.

Thanks for this. At least we know.

She also perjured herself more than once in front of a jury, I believe. This doesn’t inspire confidence. I’d like to know more about her appeal to the SC.

He’s grotesquely unfit. It is (morbidly) illuminating to hear Kennedy family members speak out about him. Or his former law school roommate, Sheldon Whitehouse, who said at his confirmation hearing, “you scare people.” [SW voted against].

Yes. I read about this around five months ago, re: original post. This one reads so flagrantly evident, it never left my mind.

Ms. VdL smiles very well under duress.

That's a fascinating analogy. I've never lived over there, but have been to Galway once. It sounds about right. I did also live in Belgium a long time ago, and at earlier punk shows I'd notice a distinct strain of territorial / nativist subculture. And there's an accompanying, coded wardrobe.

Oh, that is great. Yes, I look forward to this. Thanks much—

That seems logical, yes. But in this age it seems rare. Thanks for the open access — will check it later. A concept that speaks to its time, but seems most aren’t listening.

Do they hide the vibrant resistance from him? Seems impossible not to see it. We’re seeing it here. It’s great.

I have not seen “denizenship” but it’s very refreshing. Though it does challenge the notion of birthright citizenship, but constructively so.

That’s pretty hilarious. I want to say NYC (or areas) is holding pretty firm, but that’s obv not representative nor national. I’m not down there now.

Scotland is pro-immigration now? I didn’t know that.

Maybe Scotland is trending in reverse. That’s appealing. There seem to be so many oppressive trends at the moment, it’s hard to keep track without suffocating.

Yeah, I don’t know if this current resurgence would transport to Scotland so easily. I was thinking more of German-speaking, more conservative leaning regions. But I do think it’s popping up more in other cultures too, in various forms. I just get a bit of the creeps now when I see it.