You don't have to be a lawyer to appreciate the amazing deconstruction that @stevevladeck.bsky.social does with Supreme Court actions. He's at the top of my list currently of people to subscribe to.

Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."

This is bad. Really bad. File Habeus in El Salvador…or worse Texas or Louisiana.

How do you file a Habeus writ in El Salvador???

Montpelier Vermont…thousands protesting in the rain including our Republican Lt Governor!

I’m old enough to remember when Secretary Hegseth tried to publicly mock Judge Reyes—suggesting that she didn’t know what she was doing when it comes to protecting our national security.

It was … two days ago.

US blocks Canadian access to cross-border library, sparking outcry US officials claim move was to curb drug trafficking while Quebec town says it ‘weakens collaboration’ among nations

This may be the pettiest yet. So I guess we get no more nice things ever.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Vichy government didn’t collaborate this much

these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess that’s just too hard

The Vichy government collaborated less.

This is like that time I ordered kiziks, AllBirds and Vivaia slip on sneakers from poshmark and paraded around the living room to figure out which ones I liked best. Kind of.

Wait until you buy the same lipstick 3 times before you find 2 of them in the drawer in the kids bathroom 🤦🏻‍♀️

The Revolution will be AI-icized

Happy President’s Day 2025

Why didn’t they just use transference and all become sex addicts like he did?

Statement from the American Bar Association

Hundreds protest Trump administration outside Vermont Statehouse At the largest political rally Vermont has seen since President Donald Trump was inaugurated last month, the crowd erupted into spontaneous chants in support of transgender people, immigrants and othe...

“I’m a reporter, but I’m an American. And my country is in trouble,” retired Burlington Free Press reporter Sam Hemingway said on the granite steps outside the Vermont Statehouse. “I fear for its future, and I can’t stay home."

Nothing screams Holy Land like a casino!

Older daughter is a 19 year old Engineering major. I realized if she’d been a boy she could be at Treasury right now transferring some rainy day funds into my retirement account and wiping our Plus Loan. But then I remembered, I also didn’t raise an asshole.

“When”

Supporters cheer for Vermont asylum-seeker who was not detained at 'last-minute' ICE appointment Steven Tendo lives in Colchester and wants asylum after experiencing “numerous arrests and torture” in his home country of Uganda. While his request for asylum was denied in 2019, he is currently suin...

A 40-year-old Ugandan man and Colchester resident who wants asylum in the U.S. will be allowed to stay at least until the summer. That’s after Steven Tendo reported to a “last-minute” meeting Tuesday at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in St. Albans.

Vermont has joined with Massachusetts, New Jersey and multiple other states seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the unconstitutional ban of birthright citizens. Game on.

Today at Chimney Point on Lake Champlain. It carries the blood and bones of Patriots who persevered through two
Wars, homesteads burned and families lost. It’s still here. We are still here.

If you’re still a
Washington Post subscriber, please answer the survey in your in box. There’s plenty of space for commentary and explanation. Hopefully this gives reporters and editors ammo if they get a meeting with Bezos.

All right which one of you pranked the NYT op-ed editors by submitting those whack essays about raw milk and We Need an 80s roid hero (or
Cuomo) to make us all feel no more bad in LA?

Funny he forgot to mention the
Prison labor out there fighting the fires.

Top 2024 NonFiction

Comanches: Expert traders, diplomats AND warriors.

Peabodys: Artist, educator and social reformer: women built America too.

600k: Found abolitionist manuscript. Best title ever.

TJ: Our national embodiment of moral gymnastics.

Heartland: Perseverance of working class women.

Top 2024 fiction

Party Line: the Spinster who runs the switchboard runs the world

My Govt: Poignant and irreverent debut about finding yourself in 1980s NY

Margo: What’s a 19 year old single mom to do: OnlyFans

Homegoing: Ghanaian sisters and their descendants

Frozen: Midwife, mom, muckraker.

Bless their hearts.