#movieswatchedtoday: I LOVE MARIA (BD) and SENRITSU KAIKI WORLD KOWASUGI! (streaming)

Ex-Mayor Adams wants NYC taxpayers to pay legal fees in 1993 sexual assault case He claims in court papers and testimony that the city’s law department is playing politics to avoid paying the tab.

I propose two alternatives to his legal team: (1) have "Felonious" Eric pay his own fees but in antisemitism-fighting bitcoin or (2) have the Albanian government pay the fees. Either way, this felon needs to leave NYC taxpayers alone.

When civil rights groups like SPLC are targeted and intimidated, we are all less safe. It's no surprise that a President who has offered clemency to Proud Boys and Oath Keepers would now go after nonprofits that monitor such dangerous extremist groups. www.theusconstitution.org/news/cac-rel...

Mamdani Allies Want Veto for Protest ‘Buffer Zone’ Bill A bill keeping demonstrators away from houses of worship is veto-proof, but critics want the mayor to reject a similar measure targeting educational facilities.

NY has robust, long-standing laws that already protect people leaving and entering houses of worship or educational facilities.

The so-called "buffer zone" bills recently passed by City Council are an attack on free speech + our right to protest. Mayor Mamdani: Veto 175-B and protect NYers' rights.

It is IMPOSSIBLE to overstate how offensive all that "51st state" stuff was for Canadians. It struck at the heart of their national identity. It was the equivalent of Mark Carney literally taking a crap on an American flag, then saying "Why are you guys mad? Put Canadian products back on the shelf!"

Heaven help us.

A.I. ‘Hallucinations’ Created Errors in Court Filing, Top Law Firm Says

"The firm provided a ledger of the errors, which spanned three pages and totaled around three dozen. A number of them involved the citation of seemingly imagined passages from real cases."

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/n...

(b) INSTRUCTIONS.— (1) COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY.— The Committee on Homeland Security shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction that increase the deficit by not more than $70,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2026 through 2035. (2) COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY.—The Committee on the Judiciary shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction that increase the deficit by not more than $70,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2026 through 2035.

After Minneapolis, Dems refused to fund DHS in 2026 without human rights reforms to ICE and Border Patrol.

Instead, Repubs plan to fund ICE and BP, unreformed, for 10 years. Using a special rule for a party-line, simple majority vote.

🚨The bill has dropped: www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/new...

Investigating the Good Guys DOJ claims the Southern Poverty Law Center was "paying off" the Ku Klux Klan. The group's track record and common sense suggest otherwise.

Understanding the federal government’s indictment of a civil rights icon, the Southern Poverty Law Center:
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Yes, Virginia. Oh yes.

#movieswatchedtoday: THE BRIDES OF DRACULA (BD), THE UGLY (1997) (streaming) and THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN & THE FOG (1980) (both 4K)

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

State strikes down Massapequa, Locust Valley school transgender bathroom policies State education commissioner Betty A. Rosa issued the ruling in response to an appeal on behalf of the parents of a transgender Massapequa student.

This is a great victory for trans students on Long Island.

This decision confirms what we've said from the beginning: these transphobic resolutions are in flagrant violation of New York's laws, which unequivocally prohibit discrimination based on gender identity.

Here’s the 5th Circuit’s opinion openly and directly defying an on-point Supreme Court precedent that prohibits the display of the 10 Commandments in public school classrooms.

Shameless defiance of SCOTUS, but we’ll see if the supermajority cares. txvalues.org/wp-content/u...

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.

Happy birthday, Antonio Bay.

#movieswatchedtoday: FEAR OVER THE CITY (streaming), THE BIG GUNDOWN, DAIMAJIN & MARIJUANA (all BD) and A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (4K)

The SRG is a notoriously violent unit of the NYPD with a documented pattern of brutalizing NYers who are exercising their right to protest. 
 
We can end the SRG’s militarized tactics, remove them from protests, and ensure they won’t be recreated, by passing the CURB Act.👇

#movieswatchedtoday: NINE DEMONS (aka NINE VENOMS), SHIN KAMEN RIDER, TITANE & DANTE’S INFERNO (1935) (all streaming)

Searing opinion from a federal judge on Long Island, who describes "police state"-like tactics by ICE to arrest peopleand draw up after-the-fact warrants.

He says DOJ is damaging its credibility with the courts by trying to shield ICE from scrutiny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Opinion | What Clarence Thomas doesn’t understand about democracy Paul Waldman: The Supreme Court justice’s insistence that rights come from God, not government, couldn’t be more wrong.

Clarence Thomas is wrong: rights don't come from God, they come from government. God doesn't give you due process, freedom of speech, or even freedom of religion; only government, and only democracy, does that.

My latest at MSNOW: www.ms.now/opinion/clar...

#movieswatchedtoday: THE TRIAL (1962) (4K) and finished season 2 of THE PITT (streaming)

#movieswatchedtoday: MEAN STREETS (4K)

A small cohort of ("prominent"?) law professors are trying to portray John Eastman as some kind of innocent victim of viewpoint discrimination, and his disbarment as some kind of assault on the First Amendment.

That's complete and utter bollocks. As usual, @gabrielmalor.bsky.social brings receipts:

Ask ‘em why they’re still using a photo from a movie they’re not showing.

Kash Patel’s Erratic Behavior Could Cost Him His Job The FBI director has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

This is a big one. Stellar reporting from Sarah Fitzpatrick. To call it a must-read is an understatement: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax

NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

Whew, you could write a whole grad student dissertation on this excerpt. One issue is the use of "elite." I'm sure Mamdani's parents are doing fine, but "Manhattan elite" is a realm of billionaires, not a filmmaker and a college professor. Their wealth and power is a rounding error to Jamie Dimon.

#movieswatchedtoday: GUILTY BYSTANDER, THE SOUL OF A MONSTER & THE MAN WITHOUT A BODY (all streaming), DEMONS OF THE MIND & BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY’S TOMB (both 4K), and LONE WOLF & CUB: WHITE HEAVEN IN HELL (BD)

❗️NEW: Governor Hochul announced an updated immigration proposal that would give police officers wide discretion to collude with ICE if they claim to have probable cause to detain someone.

This proposal makes a mockery of due process and will endanger countless immigrant New Yorkers.