Charles Koppelman
@ckopp.bsky.social
Filmmaker with a feature documentary coming out about the Tom and Erika Girardi scandal. Another in the works about California wildfires and the photojournalists who cover them. California born and raised.
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This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
January 12, 2026 at 6:47 PM
This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
So basically it’s a shakedown. All pretense removed: “The President is speaking about exerting maximum leverage with the remaining elements in Venezuela and ensuring they cooperate with the United States by halting illegal migration, stopping drug flows, revitalizing oil infrastructure…” (Reuters)
January 7, 2026 at 2:29 AM
So basically it’s a shakedown. All pretense removed: “The President is speaking about exerting maximum leverage with the remaining elements in Venezuela and ensuring they cooperate with the United States by halting illegal migration, stopping drug flows, revitalizing oil infrastructure…” (Reuters)
Trivia fact: PBS Frontline did the same number on Lowell. Different film subject (hint: he owned a Las Vegas casino) but for a similar reason.
seems like an appropriate week to watch this for the first time
December 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Trivia fact: PBS Frontline did the same number on Lowell. Different film subject (hint: he owned a Las Vegas casino) but for a similar reason.
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Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Yes please.
Need someone with talent (not AI) to sub in Bari Weiss’s face on Gina Gershon in this clip
Christopher Plummer as 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace from "The Insider" (1999)
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December 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Yes please.
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“And that’s the way Bari Weiss says it is…”
December 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“And that’s the way Bari Weiss says it is…”
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Trying to imagine what it’d be like for an experienced 60 Minutes producer or reporter, who’d spent many weeks preparing a detailed investigation of a notorious El Salvador prison, to be getting input from Bari Weiss or one of acolytes, just hours before airtime.
December 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Trying to imagine what it’d be like for an experienced 60 Minutes producer or reporter, who’d spent many weeks preparing a detailed investigation of a notorious El Salvador prison, to be getting input from Bari Weiss or one of acolytes, just hours before airtime.
According to Pew that leaves out 38% of Americans.
JD Vance gets the biggest applause of his speech so far when he says "by the grace of God we always will be a Christian nation"
December 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
According to Pew that leaves out 38% of Americans.
The new lettering doesn’t match.
What a surprise! They had the letters T-R-U-M-P ready to go before the vote! Trump Administration Live Updates: Kennedy Center Adds Trump’s Name to Facade www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Kennedy Center Adds Trump’s Name to Facade
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The new lettering doesn’t match.
Trump "has an alcoholic's personality…” What does that even mean?
December 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Trump "has an alcoholic's personality…” What does that even mean?
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This, for the love of all that is holy
Compliant and credulous media will be the death of the republic
Compliant and credulous media will be the death of the republic
There's no rule of journalism that says you have to show a president telling lie after lie – uncorrected – many times a day. That's a decision that corporate media are making for purposes other than delivering the truth to the public.
December 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This, for the love of all that is holy
Compliant and credulous media will be the death of the republic
Compliant and credulous media will be the death of the republic
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It's because she doesn't know how to be the head of CBS News. Just no clue what a person in this role does. Similar to how Pete Hegseth and Sean Duffy don't know how to be cabinet secretaries.
A hallmark of this movement is people being out of their depth. It says, "expertise is unnecessary."
A hallmark of this movement is people being out of their depth. It says, "expertise is unnecessary."
I’m sorry but why is the head of cbs news on tv herself
December 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
It's because she doesn't know how to be the head of CBS News. Just no clue what a person in this role does. Similar to how Pete Hegseth and Sean Duffy don't know how to be cabinet secretaries.
A hallmark of this movement is people being out of their depth. It says, "expertise is unnecessary."
A hallmark of this movement is people being out of their depth. It says, "expertise is unnecessary."
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In case you ever needed proof that the Heritage Foundation is not a conservative organization, here we have them cheering on the Federal Government threatening to strip all funding from a state that does not make political decisions the President likes. Any true conservative would be howling.
December 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
In case you ever needed proof that the Heritage Foundation is not a conservative organization, here we have them cheering on the Federal Government threatening to strip all funding from a state that does not make political decisions the President likes. Any true conservative would be howling.
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Once again, LLMs can’t believe reality is real.
December 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Once again, LLMs can’t believe reality is real.
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“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders
“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”
www.miamiherald.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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This is why Trump's National Security Strategy is a fantasy.
"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."
Chinese Hospital Ship Visits Jamaica as US Gunboats Ply Caribbean
A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission ...
www.bloomberg.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This is why Trump's National Security Strategy is a fantasy.
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“Te calmas o te calmo.”
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
“Te calmas o te calmo.”
If Nepal, Bangladesh, and Madagascar can do this maybe we have can?
And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If Nepal, Bangladesh, and Madagascar can do this maybe we have can?
“Ms. Miller, who revealed on the debut episode of her podcast that Mr. Miller eats only mayonnaise. Literally.” Wait, what, no tuna fish with that? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
‘In Triage Every Day’: A Beleaguered Speaker Says He’s Overwhelmed
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
“Ms. Miller, who revealed on the debut episode of her podcast that Mr. Miller eats only mayonnaise. Literally.” Wait, what, no tuna fish with that? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
And she seems to have the same vocal coach as Sheryl Sandberg.
here is the full clip, which they haven't posted here yet. i am grateful they summarized it b/c ... oof. the clip is worse than the summary. it takes her almost 4 minutes to get through this. x.com/DropSiteNews...
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:14 AM
And she seems to have the same vocal coach as Sheryl Sandberg.
Chutkan Rules.
JUST IN: Judge Chutkan orders expedited processing of a FOIA request for files related to DOJ's handling of the Epstein files. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Chutkan Rules.
From Margaret Sullivan’s xlnt newsletter today: “‘The article and headline don’t arise in a vacuum, they arise on the front page of the New York Times…’ The commenter, who writes under various versions of the handle ‘Popehat,’ is the criminal defense attorney Ken White.” @kenwhite.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
From Margaret Sullivan’s xlnt newsletter today: “‘The article and headline don’t arise in a vacuum, they arise on the front page of the New York Times…’ The commenter, who writes under various versions of the handle ‘Popehat,’ is the criminal defense attorney Ken White.” @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Going great for the DOJ, I see
A federal judge ORDERS the disclosure of James Comey's grand jury minutes to the defense, citing a "disturbing pattern pattern of profound investigative missteps" and casting doubt on Lindsey Halligan's declaration about the gap in the record.
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Going great for the DOJ, I see
But where’s Marty?
Scanning the crowd at that Pope Leo film thing at the Vatican. Spike Lee and Cate Blanchett sure, but front row seat for Dario Argento 💥...
November 16, 2025 at 4:08 AM
But where’s Marty?
Why does it look like a spermatozoa, I ask.
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Why does it look like a spermatozoa, I ask.