In light of Judge Immergut's ruling, there's a lot of noise today coming from the President's advisers and supporters about courts not having the power to provide prospective relief against domestic uses of the military.

Via "One First," me on the rather significant early precedent to the contrary:

So Speaker Johnson gave the congress another week off. Paid of course, while they shut the govt down.

The GOP has made it clear they have no interest in compromise with Dems. So they will have to figure how to reopen their govt that they closed.

And they get another vacation

Just spoke with a staff member for L.A. City Councilmember Adrin Nazarian.The Councilmember is now officially in general support for the removal of Donald Trump’s name from the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

His staff says he will be deferring to @cd13.lacity.gov related to any potential action.

Bravo.

Thank you L.A. City Clerk for the never-before-seen CPRA records pertaining to Trump’s illegally installed name on the Walk of Fame in 2007.

And a shoutout to the late Earl Lestz, who had the guts to do the right thing as a member of The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce’s nominating committee.

Can you show the wager? My take? Either Mark Burnett or NBC paid the cash, but no way in hell Donald did.

It was illegally installed in 2007 against multiple Los Angeles Municipal Codes.

Are you a member of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce or Historic Trust? The fact that you know there’s a nominating committee separate from city approval shows your level of knowledge here.

Congressman Lieu’s speech here took place next to L.A. City-owned property which happens to honor Donald Trump—an honorific which was illegally-installed in 2007 against multiple L.A. municipal codes.

Congressman Lieu, will you join Rep. Friedman in calling for its removal by @lacity.bsky.social?

A reminder that Trump’s name was illegally installed on Hollywood Blvd. in 2007, it is city-owned property, and L.A. elected officials are too scared to act to remove it to a museum, as they have the power to do.

Not the energy this country needs. Stop honoring hate. Stop celebrating the worst.

You know when it's @elienyc.bsky.social it's going to be an extra-spicy interview!

Elie minces no words when he says that SCOTUS' anti-trans decision will "live in infamy."

Get his take on that case, as well as some other SCOTUS decisions that remain pending:

youtu.be/Kg_szbiSGbE?...

Correct me if I’m wrong. x.com/ringwiss/sta...

Four months later and we’re likely to see Congress do away with this. What world am I living in?

This is the most important thing I have written recently that you probably haven't read. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

I agree. So why won’t HRC change its corporate equality index to reflect political contributions which are easily trackable?

Your two indexes are incompatible. On one side, HRC ranks politicians from 1-100, but then gives the companies who bankroll politicians who received “0” w/ perfect scores.

@theonion.com they scooped you. theshovel.com.au/2025/06/13/t...

The Dept. of Justice has filed its first voter suppression lawsuit aimed at disenfranchising voters. This is a critical juncture for democracy.

Paige and I discuss the implications and how it echoes claims made by failed state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin. youtu.be/8XEW-Ga428M

What about your corporate fundraising partners you provide perfect equality index scores to even though they spend millions on anti-LGBTQ candidates, PACS, and laws?

Enough.

WIRED spoke with someone who applied for a job at Elon Musk’s so-called DOGE and discussed the five-step hiring process. www.wired.com/story/doge-a...

If you are watching DOJ target a Harvard researcher or Trump's political opponents and think its vindictive, politically motivated and improper, then you understand why courts must stop giving the Trump administration a "presumption of regularity." www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

"No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression." -- Abraham Lincoln

Crockett: I cannot wait until voters have an opportunity to say: You took food out of my mouth. You took a roof from over my head. You are responsible for making sure that I do not have health care. I'm going to make sure you don't have a job.

Then why do you continue to give perfect “equality index” scores to dozens of corporations funding anti-lgbtq politicians and PACs and laws?

Aren’t you supposed to be an advocacy org? Or do you only care about sponsor $ for your galas?

I'm trying to come up with a metaphor for how the Trump administration's gamesmanship (e.g., moving detainees around to try to defeat jurisdiction in specific districts) helps to drive home the dire consequences of a #SCOTUS ruling that would limit universal injunctions.

"Cheating at Battleship"?