And they remain mystified as to why it's so hard for them to find real lawyers who will work for him...
Eastman: disbarred
Giuliani: disbarred
Chesebro: disbarred
Clark: facing possible disbarment
Ellis: law license suspended
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Important thread on how Palantir’s manifesto is against the core features of democracy
It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.
9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.
Points 9, 18 and 19 go after accountability directly. Scrutiny of public figures gets reframed as a kind of cultural sickness driving talent away from public life. The problem becomes the people doing the scrutinising, not the people being scrutinised.
Also not every student wants to clerk so badly they would clerk for any justice!
On January 10, 2022, the Knicks played the San Antonio Spurs at the Garden. It was Pride night. Richards was there, attending with a friend. An 18-page report prepared by Eversole's Threat Management Group and reviewed by WIRED shows just how closely she was being monitored. 07:10:20 // CAM 0241 // scans her ticket to section 102, Row 8, Seat 5 07:11:14 // CAM 1434 // goes up terrace escalators on level 3 to level 6 concourse 07:12:52 // CAM AC10 // hugs usher Appendix A of the report has a screenshot of the embrace, with Richards circled in red. 08:08:58 // CAM 1093 // talking with F&B worker at the Draft Kings Bar 08:10:49 // CAM 0512 // pays for the drinks 08:31:19 // CAM 0485 // eating at a table It goes on and on. At 8:48 pm, camera 0489 spots another quick hug with an MSG “membership experience executive” (there's a grainy photo in the report's Appendix N). Two minutes and two seconds later, the same camera captures her heading into the women's bathroom. Her exit is noted after precisely two minutes and five seconds.
The owner of MSG and the Knicks compiled this kind of second-by-second surveillance of a trans woman while they were in the arena. They're doing this at all venues owned by James Dolan of perceived enemies. Crazy, crazy shit.
www.wired.com/story/madiso...
"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging
Just got out of a roundtable at #OAH2026 on Gilded Age corruption and now it's time to see what's in the news and
Pay attention folks. This is how it's done. Trump sues his own DOJ, run by his private attorney, for $10 billion. Normally that would go through the courts with the DOJ arguing AGAINST giving Trump $10 billion.
Instead, his DOJ will negotiate a settlement OUTSIDE of court. Literally inside dealing.
WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
One has gone bankrupt twice. Another was sued for allegedly framing an innocent woman. A third lasted only three weeks in a police officer job.
All were hired during ICE's unprecedented hiring spree, an AP investigation finds.
Like the 2022 @theonion.com amicus brief on parody and the First Amendment, further evidence that funny people can make serious points to the Supreme Court.
GIFT LINK:
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...
This just in: Minneapolis prosecutors have charged an ICE agent for assault based on pointing his gun at two people he was trying to pass on the shoulder, a clear no no. It's not the shooters of Good or Pretti, but it raises many of the same issues. I'll be posting a longer youtube shortly.
Here's your friendly Tax Day reminder that not only did Republicans give massive tax breaks to the rich last year, but Trump’s billionaire Cabinet also axed the IRS’s new free filing tool, so now Americans have to pay more to get their taxes done.
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The government is buying data to avoid constitutional or statutory protections using what’s known as the data broker loophole, and that data is now being fed to opaque and unaccountable AI systems. The implications of this cannot be understated.
Fascinating new paper estimating in dollars what it would take to properly fund indigent defense to constitutional standards.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I think this is correct. Congress gave Trump the personalist, violent paramilitary force he's always wanted, but without the statutory hurdles, internal accountability, resistance from the courts, and institutional pushback that would come with deploying the actual military.
The red line shows homicides between 2018 and 2025. The blue line, the number of local government employees. They are mirror images. The blue line trends w/ARPA, a $350B investment in local government. The red line trends down as 1 million teachers, counselors, and clinicians enter the workforce.
If you live here, and want more AI regulation, you should read this.
“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.” www.wired.com/story/govern...
Screenshot of tax filing software page describing “Trump” accounts
It was bad enough in 2020 when he signed HIS name to checks drawn from OUR MONEY, taxpayers.
Now we are just allowing this? The billionaires buying off support through official federal forms? The corruption of it all is sickening.
It’s obviously Lucifer bc the AI knows.
the Soros conspiracy coming from Elon in particular is just embarrassing. you’re worth like 80x what Soros is buddy, if you thought he was buying elections you could snap your fingers and fix it.
Dan Brown was actually an investigative journalist
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I’M old & jaded enough to have been around the block a few times on “weak on crime” rhetoric but dannnng did NOT have the POPE in the galaxy of vulnerable targets.
Wait til Trump hears his stance on capital punishment!
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Consequences just in next two years of a swing of the Senate:
*Control over nominations, including the Supreme Court. (Remember 2014 GOP wave --> no Merrick Garland --> overturned Roe).
*Leverage over the budget.
*Control over rules for impeachment trial (s).
