Larry Bud Melman

🚨 LA: “Fake ICE agents targeting the schools”

It was only a matter of time.

How is anyone supposed to tell the difference? And now @MarshaBlackburn Jack Johnson & Speaker Sexton are codifying masked Secret Police vigilantes into law?

Aaaaaaand it didn’t even work.

SCOTUS did what now

Fox News brings on Rebekah Koffler to talk about the military parade, but she seems to be heavily intoxicated so they cut away with quickness

At this point, Judge Xinis should order the immediate return under threat of contempt and let the Supreme Court tell the Administration otherwise.

The Trump administration is committing crimes against humanity right before our eyes.

They are disappearing people who are in this country legally and sending them to El Salvadoran prison camps to be tortured.

Every official involved deserves nothing less than to be tried at The Hague.

SignalGate is not only a national security scandal, it is a scandal about breaking the law. As a former SEC enforcement attorney, I take the law seriously.

Clearly, Oversight Republicans don’t. Watch more from @newsnation.bsky.social

Jadzia Dax and Kor hugging: "Curzon, my beloved old friend." "I'm Jadzia now." "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"

It's also the day for my favorite meme!

If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

Medicare is so weird sometimes. My mom ran out of skilled nursing days. So, we appealed. That appeal was denied. We started to do the 2nd level appeal, but it turns out the 2nd level appeal is handled by a different contractor. Neither appeal is handled by the government.

“Scott? Hello? Look at me. You and I are talking.”

You can tell Scott Jennings knows how un-American this dismissal of due process is by how red-faced and petulant he gets when Abby Phillip is simply trying to have an adult conversation with him about what our laws actually say.

Gonna have to update the punishment theory section of my Crim Law casebook.

Reacher is equal opportunity competence porn, everyone is allowed some extrajudicial murder

Neagley kills someone this season while making a world class dad joke (“call me an ambulance” “okay, you’re an ambulance”)

Reacher: what if a man was Large and Woke and Supported Women’s Wrongs

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income.

A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income.

Who agrees it’s time to scrap the cap?

Trump’s tariffs are currently being used essentially as coercive tools of foreign policy. But they have the potential to do more. The first stage involves ratcheting up tariff duties (and bringing back some tariffs which had wholly disappeared from the scene) in order to compel multinational corporations to relocate their factories and businesses to America. This brings jobs and production back to America, while also ensuring that the wages are not undercut. As incomes rise and spending power increases, taxes can be slashed, because tariff revenue and exports will replace them. Trump has floated the abolition of Wilson’s income tax, but tariffs will not be able to bring in enough revenue to replace it. That means a major part of the Administrative State built by FDR and expanded by LBJ will need to be liquidated. DOGE cuts must be almost absolute before a true American economic revival becomes possible. But revival is at least now conceivable. Trump has put the pieces in place for the tear-down of the US government’s worst excesses, and the rebuilding of the America once envisioned by Clay and McKinley. Tariffs are the key to unlocking this great American future.

it's nice of the New Right to explicitly write out what i've been talking about (for months now) is their plan

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.

I can’t compete with this

Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks…

“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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While this is still up.

Our cultural default will be to sneer at Rachel Cohen, dismiss her as privileged, question her tone, scorn her ability to make a difference, conclude that by working at BigLaw she’s part of the problem. Among other things, that’s a self-indulgence you can’t afford during fascism.

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either floating a SS payment shutdown is the world’s worst ever attempt to bluff a judge or they already broke SS

Paul Weiss and Columbia are taking exactly the wrong actions in acceding to Trump, and they are among the entities most well-positioned to fight back.

These are legacy-shaming decisions by the leadership of both, and those far less powerful will now, and surely in short order, pay the price.

we believe we are special and we simply are not

Maybe it’s just confirmation bias, but really feels like there is one of these every day.

This is why I’m leery of any social media profile that references “the resistance.” All hat, no cattle.

The OGs in WWII did not advertise. They quietly figured out where they could help, and then went and did the work.

There’s a Dilbert cartoon where Dogbert is acting as Dilbert’s criminal defense attorney and he tells Dilbert “I made a deal, if you plead guilty and take the death penalty they’ll give me a Walkman, but I think I can get you a Walkman too,” but I can’t find it so I can’t post more about Paul Weiss.

This is a judge who is very slowly and very carefully making an impeccable record for appeal - one that shows that the government has been given every conceivable opportunity to make its case.

And that's all I have to say about that.

Tweet from USDOT Sec. Sean Duffy: ". @GovKathyHochul — the federal government and @POTUS are putting New York on notice. Your refusal to end cordon pricing and your open disrespect towards the federal government is unacceptable. Just as your high tolls and no free road option are a slap in the face to hard working Americans, your refusal to approve two vital pipelines that will lower fuel costs by 50% are against the public’s best interests. Your unlawful pricing scheme charges working-class citizens to use roads their federal tax dollars already paid to build. We will provide New York with a 30-day extension as discussions continue. Know that the billions of dollars the federal government sends to New York are not a blank check. Continued noncompliance will not be taken lightly."

Secretary Duffy now has a whole extra month to read Streetsblog's coverage of how congestion pricing is benefiting New Yorkers -- and working better than predicted. 🧵

this is where the analogy to Brexit is really useful. A similar attitude that the US is completely self-sufficient and needs nothing from anyone. Too bad a lot of innocent people are gonna find out the hard way that this isn’t true.

Guys Win: Andrew Tate, Rape Politics, and the Authoritarian Right Misogyny is a preeminent feature of authoritarian politics.

At the risk of being a parody of myself I think the roots to the "new" misogyny lie in the theology of slavery and the rationalization of mass rape for centuries by people who thought of themselves as the most devout people in the country www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and...