That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Why stop there? How about an Oscar, a Tony, and Miss America?

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

"At least 15 government oversight websites were down—and with them, access to watchdog reports and required hotline and whistleblower links—as of Wednesday evening. That's not due to the federal shutdown that began at midnight; it's a deliberate move by the White House." @almsnatalie.bsky.social

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”

Paying out $700,000 so a kid can’t read a book titled, “This Book is Gay“ is not a great ROI on censorship, imo.

“To carry out her vision, McMahon has brought on at least 20 political appointees from ultraconservative think tanks and advocacy groups eager to de-emphasize public schools, which have educated students for roughly 200 years.”

The subtle implication that Trump v. U.S. has always been law and that a president's official acts weren't considered prosecutable when Smith started is disgustingly dishonest.

Um, he's antifa. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Ferris firebomb the 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

For one, the federal government cannot constitutionally commandeer state officials to do its bidding.

But more importantly, the president does not see his political opposition as legitimate but rather as a target for a carceral and militaristic state. It is deeply undemocratic and authoritarian.

The uncensored version of this book revealed Jeffrey Epstein's long relationship with Melania, his introduction of Melania to Trump, and Trump (and then Epstein) having intercourse with Melania in the back of a limo. bsky.app/profile/ronf...

This is so dark

The Wall Street Journal reports Trump reassigned federal law enforcement dedicated to stop child sex trafficking to spreading mulch in DC. I wonder why?

Someone saying "Let's do the fucking news" is the ultimate sign that person has never, ever worked in a real newsroom (the fantasyland of the NYT Opinion section doesn't count)

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

Mountainhead (2025, w/d by Jesse Armstrong)

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?