Hazen Hammel

Deputy attorney generals can write all the memos they want, but law enforcement will still be questioned about home invasions

A DOJ memo used to be worth very little in federal court, but given the way things have been going lately for DOJ, it's now worth less than used toilet paper

If ever something screamed out for the Princess Bride "you keep using that word" gif, it's this

a "no knock warrant" is a warrant where the judge gives law enforcement permission to bust in without announcing themselves either because the person they want a warrant to arrest is particularly dangerous or to preserve evidence

naked maybe

barefoot no

No this is different. ICE believes it doesn't need warrants AT ALL

This is a type of judicial warrant which judges will sign if law enforcement asks for them, because (up until recently, I guess) judges will believe any bullshit law enforcement gives them

What always disappointed me (as a lawyer) was that when I finally got my clients in front of a jury of their peers, people you would think have some sympathy for them, they were always like "you sued for that? I've put up with much worse!"

The Dow is now WAY below 50,000. Release all the Epstein files, Pam.

"Billionaires are why we have tech and jobs!" Wrong. Publicly-funded R&D is. Stop worshipping billionaires for what teachers, scientists, and taxpayers made possible.

Truth 😏👇

Congress, in 1973: explain your use of military force AND BE SPECIFIC

Trump: SHIT IF I KNOW

the obvious next step is a resolution telling him to stop

followed by some amendments to make sure this doesn't happen again

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To be fair to AI-generated MAGA guy

(even if he doesn't have feelings to hurt)

this is the same old cold war we've had with Iran since 1979

So technically it's not a "new" war

It's more of a microwaved Hot Pocket war

kind of like ultraprocessed authoritarian violence

So Saudi Arabia and Israel and Russia no longer exist? Jeez what happened?

War with Iran gives the US no tangible benefits whatsoever, but helps Iran's rivals in the region fighting Iranian proxies: Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the other Sunni Arab oil emirates

Our "allies" are whoever bribes our President

(but perhaps that doesn't fit your definition of "allies")

Being that Trump is the same “National Security Genius” who surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban, I can only imagine what the future holds for our war with Iran.

Before today, there have only been three F15s shot down since their introduction in 1976. Now there are six.

Democratic Party fear-mongering does not actually scare people

(though it should)

You see this every time journalists interview some MAGA idiot who says "I didn't think they would arrest ME" or "I didn't think he would bankrupt ME" or "I didn't think he would cut MY benefits" ...

I don't think Kuwait's status is at all ambiguous

Land of Enchantments "Road Runner". I caught the "Rail Runner" in the background.

This is primary season. Arguments between center and left wings of the party are entirely appropriate at this time.

Now is the right time for that, and this is the place.

Only Nazis and Stalinists insist on total obedience at all times ...

Private charities have to provide services to detainees that CoreCivic failed to provide

CoreCivic's neglect has killed people never convicted of any crime, for the sake of profit

CoreCivic deserves the corporate death penalty

The kind of fucktards who don't coordinate with our allies in the region

I'm joking/not joking that some White House "staff" (using the term loosely to include the President's son in law and random billionaires) represent the House of Saud or the Likud Party or Vladimir Putin

anyone but the American people

It's just too confusing to call Mossad a "faction" of the US government, however realistic that might be

Nobel Peace Prize, my ass

we deflect from work by fighting with spouses, children and coworkers

you take on substack

The Jacobin universe

Are you familiar with "the ritual death of apple blossoms"?

We get a couple weeks like this in February. The trees get all happy and start blooming.

Then we get a March blizzard with a hard frost straight from the North Pole and BAM

no fruit for you this year!

Trump The lives of courageous American heroes) may be lost. That often happens in war Lord Farqaad Some of you may die. But it's a sacrifice lam willing to make.

Trump looking very unhealthy at a briefing on his Iran attacks

IT COULD HAPPEN TODAY

No. Really. I mean, look at him. My grandfather looked better *after* he died.

Campbell v. Clinton - Wikipedia

I should add that when a US lawyer says "it's a political, not a legal question" that means courts will refuse to decide the issue: it has to be resolved by a vote of elected representatives, and any lawsuit filed will be dismissed.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbel...