based on what we know of the Supreme Court's qualified immunity orders, the likely explanation is "judges appointed by Democrats sided with victims of police brutality over violent cops"

Sotomayor has written about the "asymmetry" of these orders

(so have I 👇🏾)

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/zorn-...

I don’t know how QI works, but how can standards be known—and thus establish liability—if we aren’t holding people accountable and establishing standards? Is QI just an infinite “no liability” loop, except for conduct we knew was bad before QI entered the chat?

QI is a Möbius strip

The Trump administration demands American press propagandize his Iran war We are two weeks into President Donald Trump’s ill-conceived war of choice against Iran, and the president is already suggesting his administration should shut down news outlets for producing critical...

Last month, Trump threatened unidentified media outlets with treason charges. This month, he’ll be speaking at the White House Correspondents Dinner, with Brendan Carr and Pete Hegseth in the audience. www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

Alex excels at avoiding consequences in ways that mere mortals could only dream of. Great work from Anna, as always.

Monday Was Supposed To Be A Court Date Shaneiqua Pugh was doing what every hotline, every advocate, every court order is designed to help a woman do. She was leaving. She survived the attempt. Her children did not.

Monday Was Supposed To Be A Court Date
open.substack.com/pub/goldieta...

Link to the ruling. I am not sure I’ve seen a judicial opinion with this many tweet screenshots in it before storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In Utah IVF is insanely popular, in HD42 in 2024 it was actually a pretty big deal with now GOP incumbent Okerlund saying he’s a “fan of IVF”, Cox even said he’d veto anti-IVF legislation, GOP Rep MacPherson in HD26 said he pro-IVF

Where are they now?

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.

'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

In accounting there is an acronym: PFA

pulled from...

off the clock is how I tend to percieve

almost anything

so

you are not alone

Glasses wearer, technically inclined to give an inch

but, not this time

still seeking someone in my neiborhood who can take a good picture of my broken glasses, to encourage the vendor to honour their warranty

very underspeak
Well done. UncleSmut would totally get it, and maybe less than 10ish other people

true but die laughing

Good grief

why is this a little tiny a sidebar

LOOK UP

plus, I'm inclined to answer unknown callers as long as I feel like it maybe important, in rotating, not english

mushi-mushi

As far as I've noticed (from looking at Japan, repeatedly), to put it shortly, open up.

Younger people are mobile, and therefore, are the solution to any number of things

I do not give any two shits about whiteness, and I most cerainly am not going to start now

also not what pseudonomis "Russell" ever said

I hate to say, and I am not a lawyer
Go for it (please do not trust this)
that's what us not-lawyers have been doing, all along

That Wawa gave me so many co-workers and lifetime connections

and therefore, friends, at that point was wizard

I will possibly respect and like Paul Cosby, until I leave the planet

best friend whose fam was next door was Swinton O'Neil Scott, see Simpsons

I can run down a further list

Somewhat later

don't ask me about my other best friend's neighbours

OMG, Bill Cosby's brother

Russell: he took the window with him

That strikes me as a more difficult case, for one advocate representing one petitioner, so

Just talking about this today: 10-12, only sober person, therfore defaulted to "you said you cannot feel your body, and wonder whether you are dead," here's how we can figure that out, "put your hands on [various spots, likely warm-hot]", so you are probably alive, and this borkbrain thing will pass

I used to like or tolerate him, on proximity, but

my mum's only brother walks the walk
lifetime teacher, former body-on-the-line for civil rights, gained his PhD at 50

at Antiouch/Antioch, shot my brother & me w/ shaving creame in our sleeping bags, to encourage us to stop arguing & shut up

1/

Fair point

an alternate way to show what one is unwilling to link, is use both alt text, and highlight the BIG RED BAR indicating that the trash citation is fubar, and why anyone who'd critisise it, whou'd like to quote w/out endorsing

Reviewing things I've said

"Prevent, treat, cure, support, [or] comfort" is possibly T-shirt monitisable thing, but no one goes into the things between the quotation marks, unless they're serious

Part of how I clawed my way into neuro began in comparative anatomy, in 6th, random-totally assigned to the experimental group "let them design their own thing"

(study: before the jail study coached us to institute ethically-demanded safety wheels, so no adults involved; my case, no harm-no foul)

interregnum
otherwise: fucking hiccup, if one is an optimist
bad now, better later: backbone of struggle, yes, maybe? but why it falls to Black women continually, is beyond me
Shouldn't more folk have chipped in, by now

Because, if
one of us is chained, none of us are free

legacy family, allied