Plessy AND dred scott.

New idea, mug with all the cases holding that rules are claims processing and not jurisdictional rules.

a real testament to stefanik’s total lack of dignity that she is doing this AFTER trump totally threw her under the bus, backed up, and ran her over just to be sure

Luka is almost certainly going to finish fourth in MVP voting, in a historically great field, and All-NBA first team for the sixth time. But rage on about the least important award on the board.

There are some great WH reporters but a lot of the First Draft of History part of the job is now rephrasing what Trump posted on Truth Social.

Note that this post effectively admits that Trump and his entire admin have been lying for the last 7 weeks about Iran having been close to a nuclear bomb, with Trump reverting to the position he took just weeks before the war began that Iran's nuclear material had been effectively "obliterated."

I miss having a functional SEC. I really do.

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xi... 7:46 AM • 4/16/26 • 58K Views

“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.”

~ Pope Leo

Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.

Make It Myself

xkcd.com/3233/

finally, my masterpiece, now on Bluesky

US prosecutors make surprise visit to Federal Reserve office Prosecutors from U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office made a surprise visit on Tuesday to the Federal Reserve's headquarters renovation ​project, as the Trump administration continues its pressure cam...

Prosecutors are not investigators. They’re not supposed to be witnesses. Any time prosecutors show up at a “crime scene” it’s a stunt, not an investigation.

www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Kernan on an impressive Getting Owned run

You all know that the hard left is about to get INSANE on here because they are going to start having to deny that Magyar is any better than Orban in order to avoid admitting that you can vote out authoritarianism, and they’re going to get so much more extreme, uncooperative, & unhelpful globally

Pope Leo is weak on crime is one of the craziest sentences I’ve ever read.

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i think people have forgotten that vance is quite possibly the least experienced person to *ever* serve as vice president of the united states

Vance’s actual position on the war is clear: Whatever helps me become president is what I believe in.

The Seattle Mariners' statue reveal for Ichiro Suzuki had, well, one of the more inauspicious mishaps imaginable.

Unless I am mistaken, these would be the same funds that Biden promised to release as part of a deal to get prisoners freed and then the U.S. never kept up its side of the bargain. It looks like Trump is belatedly honoring a Biden deal that Trump and his allies denounced just a few years ago.

LMAOOO

I thought this was a joke at first but it’s real.

One of the wackiest things going right now is reporters getting exclusive Trump interviews - huge scoops, you've got to run with them! - that age like avocados in the microwave

funniest part if wurman’s post is “me”

vance is so personally off putting that even foreign electorates want nothing to do with him

Recorded this week’s Serious Trouble acknowledging @jadler1969.bsky.social’s critique of our coverage of aesthetic standing. It’s a thing but I still refuse to treat it seriously. Because why is ”I like to look a the pretty building” standing but “I like government to follow the rule of law” not?

“At least seven prominent law professors.”

As I suggested on Monday, this is just like Justice Gorsuch’s “battle of law reviews.” It’s not about the frickin’ scoreboard:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/219-drunks...

The Pakistani Prime Minister who was the intermediary for the ceasefire tweeted yesterday that it included Lebanon

i am calling it now: the midterm convention is an all-time bad idea. forcing vulnerable incumbents to publicly hug the unpopular president?

Well this is going to be awkward.

To respond to a few people saying "Lebanon should get rid of Hezbollah" - this is far too complicated a topic for here, but Lebanon has no state capacity to get rid of anyone and that is not some kind of weird accident but was imposed on it by great powers. It is like wishing for a unicorn.

IRANIAN NAVY: “.. You must receive permission from Iranian Sepah navy for passing through the strait. If any vessel tries to transit without permission, will be destroyed.”

@wsj.com
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$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.

@nytimes.com
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