Chris Seaman

Our baby has been alive for two deadly, illegal campaigns by the U.S. to remove a foreign leader. She’s 7 weeks old.

This is one of my pettier impulses but I want the record to reflect just how often this motherfucker said that Kamala Harris was the pro-war candidate in 2024.

With the outstanding teamwork with Brendan Benedict and Michael Altebrando, @evanbernick.bsky.social & I proudly filed this originalist amicus brief defending birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara:
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Historians’ Amicus Brief in Trump v. Barbara Two historians and professors of legal history represented by Kendall Brill & Kelly LLP have filed a brief supporting a challenge to President Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citi...

« The historians’ brief — authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur — centers on the pre–Civil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship. » www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Indivisible Charlottesville logo (our name under a light blue outline of the state of VA with a red star where Charlottesville is + "Democracy in Action") WELCOME & ORIENTATION

THIS Saturday, February 28, Noon - 2:00 PM, at the
Rivanna Area Queer Center (RAQC). Everyone welcome - both new and returning members! Come explore new ways to join your neighbors in antifascist, pro-democracy work.

NEW POLL on Dem. structural reforms: U.S. adults support 18-yr term limits for Supreme Court justices by a 50-point margin (GOP is +34 in favor), favor statehood for Puerto Rico and limits on pardons by POTUS, and are split on DC statehood, packing the Court:

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-thirds...

so in conclusion, the state of the union is actually very bad because a man who tried to end democracy is using the government to personally enrich himself and his buddies while executing citizens and noncitizens alike

COUNT I PATENT INFRINGEMENT (35 U.S.C. § 271) 23. Plaintiff hereby re-alleges and incorporates by reference the allegations set forth in the preceding paragraphs. 24. Plaintiff is the owner of the Asserted Patent. Plaintiff’s Asserted Patent is valid and enforceable. 25. Plaintiff ’ s exclusive rights include the rights to issue licenses, to reproduce, to distribute copies of, to display, and to authorize the creation of derivative works based on the Asserted Patent.

Tell me you don't understand patent law without telling me....

Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s “misplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.

Breaking MS NOW:

Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available.

Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

Ilya Shapiro quitting for being reinstated after investigation for tweeting that KBJ was a lesser black woman was the academic free speech Outrage of the Decade for some people who had absolutely nothing to say about Emily Suski being un-hired as dean for signing a Scotus amicus brief.

Weird!

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

The DOJ can't sustain the cases that they bring against protestors -- mostly because the cases are built on lies. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Interestingly tho, Roberts's section on the so-called major questions doctrine is only joined by Gorsuch and Barrett

The liberal justices are like, yeah we agree these tariffs are obviously illegal, but your made-up major questions nonsense is still nonsense fyi
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Every time a judge or justice decides to try and make a big mic-drop point by citing to one of Antonin Scalia's books, they should be required to donate $1000 to their local legal aid organization

3 things that can all be true about SCOTUS overruling Trump’s tariffs: (1) right decision legally, (2) right decision economically, (3) not a coincidence that SCOTUS only checks Trump when he threatens multinational corporate interests

Basically Trump's allowed to wreck democracy, but not capitalism.

I’m not CBS.

Epstein Class Clowns One key revelation in the wide correspondence of the late pedophile: the rich and powerful just aren't all that bright.

I wrote about the Epstein files and how they illustrate the fact that the oligarchs are not exactly rigorous thinkers. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Paranoid Campaign Ad of the Week THE TERRORISTS ARE ON YOUR STREET!

The ad was so bad even a Reason columnist mocked it! reason.com/2017/05/03/p...

Virginia Republican releases ‘fearmongering’ ad showing terrorists robbing the suburbs First they took Mosul, and next thing you know ISIS was targeting unsuspecting families in the Virginia suburbs. A new ad from Bryce Reeves, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in the st…

Bryce Reeves is a 🤡. I remember when he ran a ridiculous ad during a 2017 GOP primary where a group of vaguely Middle Eastern looking terrorists for some reason were depicted robbing a suburban home — and then blamed Obama (who killed bin Laden!). www.nydailynews.com/2017/05/03/v...

Can’t find the ad on YouTube anymore but here’s a screen clip. It was truly bonkers.

Virginia Republican releases ‘fearmongering’ ad showing terrorists robbing the suburbs First they took Mosul, and next thing you know ISIS was targeting unsuspecting families in the Virginia suburbs. A new ad from Bryce Reeves, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in the st…

I haven’t forgotten this ridiculous ad he ran in during a 2017 primary where masked terrorists for some reason decide to rob a suburban home - and then blames Obama for it. www.nydailynews.com/2017/05/03/v...

Bryce Reeves is a clown and everybody knows it.

This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like A shocking move by RFK Jr.’s team has the industry spooked—for good reason.

Today as always, @citizencohn.bsky.social is a must read. Here he is on the massive danger to public health of the latest anti-vax actions by Trump’s and RFK’s FDA.

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

ICE raid at apartment complex causes elementary students to run from their bus stop in NJ Thursday Students were seen running away from their bus stop on Thursday morning as ICE agents conducted an operation at an apartment in Lindenwold, NJ.

America 2026. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...

*So* excited “Local Rulemaking” — coauthored with the truly wonderful @zclopton.bsky.social — is now out in the Duke Law Journal . . .

(Ever wonder how local rules get made? So did we . . . )

BREAKING: Kristi Noem blanket reveal

Agreed. I’d be genuinely surprised if the SC of VA decided to find redistricting unconstitutional *after* a yes vote in the referendum. (I don’t think the courthouse notice or GA rules issues have any merit.).

Essentially 3 ways Virginia redistricting lawsuit could end:

1. Referendum is voted down and whole case is moot

2. Referendum is approved and court agrees with Dems (or just says it’s too late)

3. Referendum is approved, but court agrees with GOP and strikes it down

🚨🚨🚨Virginia Supreme Court lays out schedule for redistricting case

Allows the April 21 referendum to go forward with early voting starting March 6

BUT seems to leave open possibility of final ruling after referendum

This goes back to very limited relief lower court granted

In victory for Democrats, Virginia Supreme Court says redistricting vote can go forward Voters will get to decide on a proposed “10-1” map that could deliver four more Democratic seats in Congress.

🚨 BREAKING: In a big win for voters, the Virginia Supreme Court said the state could hold a special election on Democratic lawmakers’ redistricting plan aimed at countering Trump’s GOP gerrymanders nationwide.

Virginians will get the chance to vote on the measure on April 21.