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Noticing a pattern here.

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Tillis voted to confirm Bove and Hegseth. He has no moral authority and shouldn’t be taken seriously.

Leisure suits?

No, but it was there for many days and no one noticed, probably (in part) because it was covered with algae. It has been cleaned up quite a bit. Also, it’s pretty shallow, not that I have firsthand knowledge.

I’m a regular visitor. Last year a couple asked if swimming was allowed. Taken aback, I informed them that a body had been found in there a few years earlier. So, no.

I am deadly serious that he should be criminally investigated by a future administration for what he did in the J.G.G. case.

Yes, Roger Marshall is a medical doctor. In fact ladies, he’s on OB/GYN.

Donald Trump has immunity for all of the crimes he committed while president. Barack Obama does not.

by Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, and Clarence Thomas

Divine is 35 years old. He has no real legal experience, just GOP appointments: clerked Pryor, then Thomas, then worked for Hawley, then Missouri SG's office. His trivial time actually in court was entirely partisan showboating.

Shame on you, @senangusking.bsky.social.

This “small business” just received a $1.26 billion contract even though they’ve no relevant background.

1/ The Epstein files don’t have an incentive to lie for a coverup.

A convicted sex trafficker in search of a pardon does.

The dead giveaway: DOJ can simply release all the Epstein files, but refuses.

Also, what's with the wiggle words in Blanche's statement?

What an important point by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social back in February and ever more relevant.

"Pam Bondi was Florida's attorney general 2011-2109 ... So questions should be asked about why she didn't take up the [Epstein] case -- or launch a probe -- when she was attorney general in Florida."

One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.

Holy shit, indeed.

Jon Karl doesn’t just ask a smart question, he repeatedly refuses to take dodges for an answer and just keeps demanding a direct response and doesn’t let it go.

I think I vaguely remember this. It was called … journasomething?

Page One in Miami:

The mocking of immigrant detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz” harkens back to “the worst parts of our history.”

@miamiherald.com
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Infographic titled “One Court, Two Standards” compares how the Supreme Court used emergency powers to rule on lower-court injunctions against the Biden and Trump administrations. Two panels show: • Biden Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 21 cases. All 21 cases are represented by red squares, indicating that 0% of injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS. • Trump Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 86 cases. 66 green squares and 20 red squares show that 77% of injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS. Key takeaway box below reads: “Using its ‘shadow docket,’ the Supreme Court granted emergency relief to lift 77% of lower-court injunctions against the Trump administration. It lifted 0% of those against the Biden administration.” Sources and notes below include: CourtListener data through July 7, 2025; analysis by Adam Bonica.

The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House.

When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.

For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.

As set forth in the attached Report, the Government of El Salvador responded to the UN inquiry opened by the four families asking about the disappearance of their family members: 1 The attached exhibit has redacted personal identifying information for the four men discussed in the WGEID report. Petitioners can file an unredacted version of the exhibit under seal at the Court's request, with the exception of one of the cases for particular privacy reasons related to that individual. 1 Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Document 160 Filed 07/07/25 Page 2 of 4 The Salvadoran State emphatically states that its authorities have not arrested, detained, or transferred the persons referred to in the communications of the Working Group. The actions of the State of El Salvador have been limited to the implementation of a bilateral cooperation mechanism with another State, through which it has facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure for the custody of persons detained within the scope of the justice system and law enforcement of that other State. In this context, the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the competent foreign authorities, by virtue of international agreements signed and in accordance with the principles of sovereignty and international cooperation in criminal matters. In this regard, the actions attributable to the Salvadoran State are limited to its sovereignty and territorial jurisdiction, and therefore it cannot be held responsible for the failure to observe the principle of non-refoulement with respect to the persons mentioned. Ex. 1 at 6, 9 (emphasis added).

BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.

Donald Trump gives people permission to be their worst selves. His politics are not just representative, they are generative. His words seep into people’s souls and slowly corrode whatever potential for human decency ever resided there.

He ran for Seattle city council in 2018.

Mahmood Mamdani · The Asian Question: On Leaving Uganda President Yoweri Museveni was careful not to refer to Asians as citizens; he explained that they were ‘investors’,...

A thing that makes that Times story especially odious is that Zohran Mamdani's father was LITERALLY expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's fascist effort to scapegoat Asian Ugandans as not really African www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tom Paine: in monarchies the king is the law, but in the free societies the law is king.

Wishing everyone an exuberant and free Fourth of July. Together we fight for a more perfect union.

Who's Afraid of Zohran Mamdani? And what it means to be an immigrant on July 4th

New, from me:
The Times published a piece accusing a man born in Africa as claiming to be African-American in a failed college admission.

They viewed this story to be newsworthy enough to grant anonymity to a eugenicist working with hacked personal data.
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There's a lot to despise in this Republican megabill, but I don't think enough attention has been paid to how it supercharges ICE, hastening the MAGA march toward a police state.

Chief Justice Roberts warns against heated political words about judges

He does this little dance every time he gives criminal President more power.

On paper, the US is importing fewer pieces of electronics from China. But this is an illusion. In fact the sales are simply being rerouted. China is the winner. Again.

State by state: The ~46 million Americans whose healthcare is threatened by the GOP's budget bill (updated) SEE IMPORTANT UPDATES BELOW. With all the understandable focus on Congressional Republicans efforts to effectively end Medicaid coverage for nearly 21 million Americans enrolled via ACA expansion, the...

🚨🚨🚨 w/CBO's new projection of *another* ~900K losing coverage under the *Senate* version of the #MAGAMurderBill AND Thune confirming they're looking at DROPPING FMAP across the board after all (triggering millions more), it's clear they're going after ALL 46 MILLION:

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Senate rulekeeper deals blows to revised ‘Big, beautiful bill’ A Medicaid carveout for Alaska was among the “Byrd bath” casualties.

Lisa Murkowski and John Thune deserve this. Trying to exempt Alaska from odious parts of this bill to buy her vote is overruled by parliamentarian. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...