I love this very much!

Republicans are saying that these cuts will be reinvested into Medicaid for people who "deserve" it.

If that were true, the budget would stay the same. But that's not what's happening. Why?

Because down the hall, they are trying to finance tax breaks for billionaires.

this antivax stuff is genuinely bewildering. like what do you mean you don’t know if vaccines are safe? why exactly do you think child mortality rates have plummeted since the beginning of the 20th century? why is it that you are not worried about getting polio or smallpox anymore?

The American Dream is that this is a place where anyone, even a black dude named Hakeem, can wind up as House Minority Leader and be a bland seat-filling accommodationist.

amen.

Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”

A lot of the worst dark / annoying UI patterns arise from growth teams engaging in goodharting. In SaaS, this often happens by impacting one metric at the expense of another, eg commonly an increase in trial conversion rate will also increase churn. You won’t see the churn part though …

ICE just took a woman from military housing.

While her husband is on active duty, at sea.

Because of the Executive's unpredictable and inconsistent use of this power, and because of due process and jurisdiction considerations, this Court also issues the following order with respect to individuals in custody within the Western District of Texas pursuant to the TdA Proclamation: IT IS FINALLY ORDERED Respondents Angel Garite, Mary De-Anda-Ybarra, Todd Lyons, Kristi Noem, and Pam Bondi, or any agency within the Executive Branch of the United States, or their agents, employees, assigns, and all those acting in concert with them, SHALL NOT REMOVE FROM THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS OR THE UNITED STATES OF

AMERICA any non-citizen detained in, or held, in federal immigration custody in the Western District of Texas who were, are, or will be subject to the March 2025 "Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of the United States by Tren de Aragua", Pres. Proc. No. 10903, 90 FR 13033. Respondents SHALL provide a twenty-one (21) day notice to individuals detained in the Western District of Texas pursuant to the AEA and the TdA Proclamation. Such notice must include the individual's right to seek judicial review, and inform individuals they may consult an attorney, at their own expense, regarding their detention and the Government's intent to remove them. Such notice must be given and written in a language the individual understands. IT IS SO ORDERED. 간 SIGNED this 25 day of April 2025. THE HONORABLE DAVID BRIONES SENIOR UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

BUT THERE'S MORE: After declaring that both the wife and husband are not in Tren de Aragua and must be released, Judge Briones SPONTANEOUSLY (without being asked) issued an injunction blocking the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport anyone in the Western District of Texas without 21 days notice!

Man I’m just so fucking proud of all the people who didn’t give up and aren’t going to give up

10. As part of the notice procedure, the alien is informed that he or she can make a telephone call to whomever he or she desires, including legal representatives. ICE ensures that telephones are made available for the aliens and that the aliens have access to the telephone lines. 11. Although there may be fact-specific exceptional cases, in a general case, after an alien is served with Form AEA 21-B, the alien is given a reasonable amount of time, and no less than 12 hours, including the ability to make a telephone call, to indicate or express an intent to file a habeas petition. If the alien does not express any such intention, then ICE may proceed with the removal, though such removal may not actually occur for many more hours or days, giving the alien additional time to express an intent. If the alien does express an intent to file a habeas petition, the alien is given a reasonable amount of time, and no less than 24 hours, to actually file that petition. If the alien does not file such a petition within 24 hours, then ICE may proceed with the removal, though such removal may not actually occur for many more hours or days, giving the alien additional time to file the petition. Further, because aliens subject to the AEA are often detained for several days before removal, they frequently have much more time to express an intent to file a habeas petition or to actually file such a petition. Moreover, these timeframes are consistent with, if not more generous than, the timeframes used for expedited removal procedures under Title 8.

NEW! DHS expands on its defiant middle finger to the Supreme Court's ruling that anyone subject to the Alien Enemies Act must get "reasonable time" to be able to "actually seek habeas relief."

They say they're only giving 12 HOURS for people to raise an objection, and 24 HOURS total to sue. Period!

Holy crap. Here are 91 pages of letters that 14 House Democrats just sent to the nine law firms that have paid off Trump to not attack them.

Lots of Qs aimed at sorting out if they violated federal bribery/anti-fraud/racketeering laws. min.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Our cover this week.

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

The SCOTUS order is like 4 pages, total. The opinion of the court is *3 paragraphs.* This isn’t something you just miss or overlook.

It’s a brazen, completely inexcusable misrepresentation of the Supreme Court’s order.

Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

Miriam Jordan By Miriam Jordan Miriam Jordan is a national immigration correspondent. April 22, 2025, 5:04 a.m. ET In late January, Ricardo Prada Vásquez, a Venezuelan immigrant working in a delivery job in Detroit, picked up an order at a McDonald’s. He was heading to the address when he erroneously turned onto the Ambassador Bridge, which leads to Canada. It is a common mistake even for those who live in the Michigan border city. But for Mr. Prada, 32, it proved fateful. The U.S. authorities took Mr. Prada into custody when he attempted to re-enter the country; he was put in detention and ordered deported. On March 15, he told a friend in Chicago that he was among a number of detainees housed in Texas who expected to be repatriated to Venezuela. That evening, the Trump administration flew three planes carrying Venezuelan migrants from the Texas facility to El Salvador, where they have been ever since, locked up in a maximum-security prison and denied contact with the outside world. But Mr. Prada has not been heard from or seen. He is not on the list of 238 people who were deported to El Salvador that day. He does not appear in the photos and videos released by the authorities of shackled men with shaved heads.

NEW from @nytimes.com: A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on March 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to CECOT that day and no one spotted him among those men. He's just... gone.

One of my favorite quotes from this guy: abc7.com/amp/costco-s...

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative.

A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

NYT actually published this sentence, which asks us to take baseless moral panic bullshit seriously as a reasonable position.

Supporters of the Holocaust considered Jews to be subhuman saboteurs of German society, too. So fucking what??

Health Insurance for Millions Is Now on the Chopping Block Republicans’ very quiet, very serious effort to go after Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion.

GOP leaders are now saying they want to protect Medicaid for "the truly vulnerable"

That's actually code for a big cut -- and taking out a piece of the ACA with it

My latest at @thebulwark.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/health-ins...

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

So these deliberations seem to have included Alito wanting to include a written dissent and the majority saying “we’re going to put out the order now and you can file your dissent later on”.

(ORDER LIST: 604 U.S.) SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2025 24A1007 ORDER IN PENDING CASE A.A.R.P., ET AL. V. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF U.S., ET AL. There is before the Court an application on behalf of a putative class of detainees seeking an injunction against their removal under the Alien Enemies Act. The matter is currently pending before the Fifth Circuit. Upon action by the Fifth Circuit, the Solicitor General is invited to file a response to the application before this Court as soon as possible. The Government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court. See 28 U. S. C. §1651(a). Justice Thomas and Justice Alito dissent from the Court's order. Statement from Justice Alito to follow.

BREAKING: Supreme Court temporarily blocks removal of Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article) An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

I read this as: Harvard was planning to capitulate, then the Trump Administration accidentally sent the letter they meant to save until after Harvard capitulated on the first round of demands. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTEREST AND IDENTITY OF AMICI .......................................................................1 II. ARGUMENT ..................................................................................................................2 A. The Court may hold the Government in contempt. ...............................................2 B. The USMS cannot lawfully disobey the Court’s orders. .......................................7 C. Even if the USMS were to follow an unlawful directive to disobey the Court’s orders, the Court still would have other options for holding the Government accountable......................................................................................9 1. The Court can sanction the Government by disqualifying counsel.............9 2. The Court can impose adverse litigation outcomes to sanction parties that disobey court orders..............................................................11 3. The Court may be able to execute contempt orders by appointing non-marshals. .........................................................................................13 a. The Court may be able to use the All Writs Act to appoint non-USMS personnel to enforce judicial orders. .........................13 b. The Court may be able to enforce contempt orders by invoking its inherent authority to appoint court officers...............18 4. The Court should take into account certain other considerations before appointing non-USMS officials to execute contempt orders. ........20 III. CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................21

Two weeks ago the named partners from Keker, Van Next, and Peters wrote a NYT oped about why law firms should never cave to Trump. Now they're also seeking to file an amicus in the JGG (Venezuelans renditioned to El Salvador) case saying "fuck yeah, you can hold the gov't in contempt for this"

You guys Elon Musk appointed the head of the IRS and President Trump didn’t even know about it.