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Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

Over a 20-year period, people were sentenced to prison more often, and for longer terms, in years when prosecutors were up for election, a Northwestern Law study finds. In other words, prosecutors were more eager to rob people’s freedom when they thought it would help them politically.

The baseline level of Dumb Guy Pretending To Be Even Dumber in our culture is incredibly high at the moment, but this is an all-time performance in that category. Hall of Fame work in any era.

This is one of the funniest threads I’ve read in ages. At no point does OP break, and the landlords, well, www.reddit.com/r/Landlord/c...

Well that depends. Do you think words have meanings? Like, when people say things, should we attach linguistic definitions to the words they use? Or do you think, like, you know, nothing really means anything, language is just kinda jazz and we should just kinda groove and zone out?

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

Californians: fun fact. The state comptroller basically operates a lost-and-found, where unclaimed property ends up. Sometimes this is just money that you are owed by somebody for something small that didn't end up in your hands. Anyway, it takes about one minute to search online: claimit.ca.gov

Casually threatening mass rapes

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

You say that Mr. Pope and yet you don’t subscribe to my newsletter. ewtnvatican.com/articles/pop...

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

The evidence of an illegal conspiracy is non-existent, but this is how the authoritarian dragnet targets those fighting against repression. Everyone should be learning about this case. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

DOJ Invokes McCarthy-Era Law to Strip Somalia-born Minnesotan of Citizenship talkingpointsmemo.com/news/denatur...

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

It is important for all Americans to reflect on this official statement. An agency that seizes people off the street at gunpoint, into overseas prisons, refers here to a *US citizen* as "this illegal alien". The rule of law protects all of us. It protects you. That was the genius of our Framers.

If you're a DOJ lawyer and your reaction to "okay, your job is to open a criminal investigation into the lady our boss sexually assaulted 30 years ago" is anything other than resigning on the spot, your choice to continue working there should haunt you for the rest of your life

The glamorous job of a DOJ attorney; trying to bankrupt undocumented immigrants with no savings, just to make their life even more of a hell. Congrats to every lawyer involved, now quit your job.

If you think that AI is useless, all it does it lie, or that it's a scam: please read this article from Firefox who just fixed more bugs in a month than they did in all of 2025 thanks to Mythos and Project Glasswing AI is not going anywhere and it's going to get MUCH worse So what do we do? 1/

Our unlawful campaign of murdering civilians is closing in on 200 individuals. And no one in Congress appears to care at all. Nor do most (perhaps all) of our allies. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

Fish on Deportation in the Deep State Eric S. Fish (University of California, Davis – School of Law) has posted Deportation in the Deep State (forthcoming, Stanford Law Review) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Since 1997, low-level immigration agents have conducted fast-paced deportation hearings.…

Criticizing Israel and its behavior and policies, even very sharply, isn’t bigoted. Reflexively responding to any mention of Jews, Judaism, Jewish history or culture, or the Jewish community with demands to denounce Israel is absolutely bigoted and also unhinged.

A delayed response to a @caseynewton.bsky.social segment from Hard Fork last week: Casey’s right, I think, that the AI bubble is more like railroads than crypto. But we should also be thinking about broadband in ‘00 and housing in ‘08. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/what-sort-...

AOC tells PabloReports that the reinstatement of the agent who shot Renee Good is a reminder of why Democrats should not give ICE and CBP a dime. AOC: Every single person that that man encounters is in just as grave danger as she was in.

How he ended up there is pretty unique, but what the real Mr. Woods went through is fairly par-for-the-course for people who have been falsely accused of a crime. When the system is wired to treat the defendant as guilty, protestations of innocence can seem insane.

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

This is such a great encapsulation of the horror of the Tonight Show. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

remember that atlantic article that pretended to be a first person account of a mother's loss of a child from measles? this is the real thing and it's brutal.

Obvious point: If you’re a real “institutionalist” you need to be ready to reform —sometimes to radically reform—failing or corrupt institutions. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

IMPORTANT: Under federal law, it's very hard, at times near-impossible, to sue federal law enforcement officers for civil rights violations. But legal theorists have said for decades that there is a possible way to sue under state law instead. This is a VERY big test case.

Just posted "Deportation in the Deep State" to SSRN, comments welcome! Abstract/summary below. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This war is horrible and Trump is a POS. That doesn't change the fact that the Iranian regime is a horrific violator of human rights. Just like you don't have to hand it to white nationalists, you also don't have to hand it to regimes which just recently murdered thousands of their own citizens.

just imagine being a Trump supporter reading these posts and thinking your supporting the right guy. i can't even comprehend it.

"Countries heavily reliant on US aid see a 10.5% increase in maternal mortality following a switch from a Democratic to a Republican administration—about 44.7 additional deaths per 100 000 live births." gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...

ethical people should not be using right wing propaganda websites owned by white supremacists

I wish that the United States pursued literally any worthwhile goal with the diligence and zeal that it has been trying to depot Abrego Garcia to somewhere other than Costa Rica.

Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim record www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

You may have noticed that when you ask an AI chatbot to evaluate ideas, it often starts with enthusiasm. And when you criticize its enthusiasm, it drops the enthusiasm. I asked Claude (Sonnet 4.6 extended) why it did this, and it had this reply—not news, but worth emphasizing.

This dead-eyed cretin is effectively illiterate, but if anyone ever pressed Donald Trump or Elon Musk like this in an interview, they would sound exactly the same

3 of the 9 justices on the Supreme Court disagree with this only in as much as they think he should also be allowed to impose the little fee.

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

Hoo-wee, this will be a hot opening: an appellate attorney at the Federal Defenders of San Diego! Renowned training, brilliant colleagues, beautiful location. All the jobs I post here are someone's dream, but this is an S-tier appellate position. www.fd.org/sites/defaul...