Exactly one year ago today:

Ballroom for slow dancing to Vera Lynn:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpO...

Harmeet Dhillon Is Not Wasting Any Time She arrived at the Department of Justice with radical changes in mind. One year later, she has completely reshaped the Civil Rights Division.

I'm a little late to it (I was off earlier this week entertaining my toddler during his spring break) but: This is an absolute must-read profile of Harmeet Dhillon by @qjurecic.bsky.social

Well reported and insightful.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This sucks. Joel's a mensch. Someone should snap him up for some smart analysis from the middle of America

Fascinating. This is, at least, the second gathering of state election officials this year that Heather Honey was scheduled to address but bailed. She was supposed to address secretaries of state back in January: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Lemme tell you about this guy Bob I know. The guy found a dead raccoon one day, decided to cut off its penis to "study" it later. Did that in front of his kids. The shit decades of cocaine abuse does to your brain, y'know?

Anyway, he says vaccines aren't safe.

Handbook on Affordability - Landing Page TOC

We talk about how partisan we are these days, but just scanning these CATO recommendations and it's a lot of stuff Dems on the left want (AND some stuff they'd hate!). The polarization is entirely on culture/social issues, while economically I think elites are heterodox

www.cato.org/handbook-aff...

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

As long as Boston shoots as badly as Orlando did, the Sixers cant be beat!

Andre Drummond hits a dagger corner three and this place is going NUTS. "Fun" and "Sixers basketball" haven't coincided much in recent years, but this is fun.

lol the obligatory “we want Boston” chant that nobody means

SIXERS WIN

VJ Edgecomb jumps like he’s in NBA Jam

Adem Bona is like that one kid who hit puberty first. He’s bigger, faster, far less coordinated

love the big guy

Praying for a normal Sixers game in my lifetime.

Not the greatest close to the third, but the Sixers head to the fourth up 79-74. They're 12 minutes away from punching their ticket to the playoffs. Have to keep the Magic off the free throw line.

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

DOJ Antitrust Chief Assefi and Dhillon, Department’s Civil Rights Head, Consider Leaving for Private Practice; Dhillon’s Departure Hinges on Whether She Gets No. 3 Post - The Capitol Forum Omeed Assefi, the department’s acting antitrust head, is considering leaving for private practice, sources familiar with the matter said...

Harmeet Dhillon is reportedly thinking about leaving DOJ for the private sector, according to insider publication Capitol Forum.
She's actively trying to get a promotion to Associate AG or even AG from AAG for Civil Rights

thecapitolforum.com/doj-antitrus...

Lawsuit seeks federal voting commission records on ties to election deniers The lawsuit follows recent reporting by Democracy Docket that raised urgent concerns about growing partisan activity inside the commission.

📄NEW: A new lawsuit seeks to force the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to turn over records on its contacts with election deniers.

This follows reporting by Democracy Docket that uncovered growing partisan activity inside the agency.

expressio unius est exclusio alterius!

"These people are asleep at the switch in terms of very prominent confirmations," Tillis said of Jeannine Pirro's office.

He also called the investigation "bogus, ill-timed, ill-informed." This follows his comparison of the investigators to the Three Stooges.

Tillis could make or break a future AG nomination with his vote on the judiciary committee. I just asked him if there are any nominees he would oppose outright.

Tillis replied "any nominee that said anything the least bit excusing the behavior on January the 6th is dead on arrival."

1/2

Seconding “Can ANYONE take over MAGA?” as the existential question hanging over the GOP every day right now.

Trump arguably came out of nowhere, so there’s time. But right now? Wildly unclear if anyone could fill that slot — heck, it’s not clear if *Trump himself* fills it at the moment.

Again, this story isn’t going away!!!

PHA has spent $330 million to acquire apartments all over Philadelphia. Here’s where. Philadelphia Housing Authority has purchased 1,715 units for affordable housing in the last 18 months. Find out where and why.

The Philadelphia Housing Authority has been buying private sector housing all over the city with plans to turn them into mixed income properties. We mapped where their acquisitions have been located so far: www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Vance questions the pope on just war theory hours after Leo honored its founder The vice president responded to a post on the pope’s X account in which he wrote that God is "never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs.”

It's gonna be one hell of an addendum to JD's book if he has to add a chapter about his excommunication

www.ncronline.org/vance-questi...

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Fall of 1L!

Hopefully--though I'm not optimistic--this will set the signaling value of clerking for one of these GOP judges to zero for everyone outside the Right Wing Grift Machine.

Because that's what it signals: nothing. Because we know NOTHING abt a fall 1L's ability.

Also, I’m convinced people watch him like a train wreck or most reality TV, not as an inspiration. Let’s recognize how we’ve all been entertained by weirdos for a long time

Liberals today are actually conservative in the Burkean sense of that we hate all this new fangled rejection of the morality of the 20th century by Kids These Days and think it should be stopped rather than celebrated