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...
Another entry on my list of startups at which I would not want to work without having retained my own criminal-defense counsel:
NEW: We obtained the government’s settlement agreement with Michael Flynn.
As previously reported, DOJ agreed to pay $1.25 million to settle Flynn’s claims that he was wrongfully prosecuted.
But docs suggest a separate settlement could be in the works: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/u.s....
A short bedtime tale by the 4yo:
"Once upon a time there was a little boy who really wanted a unicorn. But every day, no unicorn came to his house. He would shout, "UNICORN!", but no unicorn came to his house. He wished EXTRA SUPER HARD but still no unicorn came to his house!
Only tigers."
cc: All Dem POTUS aspirants.
Also cc: all centrist DC pundits who have already pre-written their "no accountability, we must all come together" drivel pre-set to publish in November 2028.
Photo of Resignation letter from Dr. Martin Peterson
First Plato—now Dr. Peterson—out the door at Texas A&M!
Who’s next?
Here is Dr. Peterson’s letter of resignation, which he just shared with the faculty.
MELANIA: You want me. Out of nowheres. To remind every one. Of my best friend, and child sex monster. Jeffrey Epstein?? (squints evilly)
NATHAN FIELDER: (voice over) The First Lady loved my idea.
Trump, on Easter Sunday: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”
Infrastructure week.
One day, "It" will happen, by which I mean sudden and unexpected news that you want to celebrate. In such cases, you will want the right outfit. 🧵
WATCH: Cherise Doyley, a mother of three, was in labor at a Florida hospital when a nurse brought her a tablet. On the screen were a judge and several lawyers, doctors and hospital staff.
Doyley wanted to have a vaginal birth. They wanted to force her to undergo a C-section.
This executive order about mail-in ballots is obviously and nakedly unlawful and I expect that every part of it that actually does anything will be promptly blocked by federal courts.
Fun fact: If you ever find yourself thinking, "wow there sure are a lot of federal court rulings today," the odds are decent that the day is March 31 or September 30
www.uscourts.gov/data-news/re...
1/2 This memo identifies absolutely no source of legal authority for paying TSA. It does not point to an appropriation that is available for this purpose, nor does it point to any legal authority to transfer some other appropriation to TSA. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
The Department of Justice denaturalized 2 more citizens for fraud: www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
Watch this space carefully. @brennancenter.org research is a good starting place: "The only situation in which citizenship can be revoked without the citizen’s consent is if it is unlawfully procured."
Uh. “Ms. Dhillon on Wednesday afternoon posted a picture on social media of her signing one of the letters with her fountain pen, a Pelikan Souverän with an 18-karat gold, extra-fine nib.”
Ok, what’s going on at Interior?
Fetterman is doing tremendous damage to the reputation of the Big Oaf community. Big Oafs did not ask for this kind of toxic representation. Now we must lumber back into the shadows, hiding under bridges wearing our most somber JNCO jean shorts, drowning in both our sorrows & voluminous denim
SCOOP— Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.
It is really cool to have PTA and Coogler’s first Oscars back to back.
I am a mild Celtics fan who doesn’t really care about the Celtics-Lakers antipathy. I am primarily a Rockets fan. 🚀
😳☠️
BAM!!
worst day of the year. hour stolen from night time given to the smug idiot breakfast eaters. the rise and shine clowns
"Have we seen a rise in positive tests? Yes. Have we seen an overwhelming run on our hospitals because of hospitalizations? No," Mullin said, despite health care and hospital leaders across the state stressing for weeks that intensive care units in Oklahoma are operating at, near or sometimes over capacity and some hospitals are constructing overflow tents.
Markwayne Mullin once prompted me to include the most fact-checking hyperlinks in any single sentence I've ever published
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
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Something something FIFA Peace Prize
