A three-judge panel earlier found a similar Louisiana law was unconstitutional. But a majority of the Fifth Circuit’s 17 active judges voted to rehear that case, and heard arguments in both matters in January. In February, the full US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said it was too early to weigh challenges to the Louisiana measure. The Fifth Circuit’s decision “is an egregious example of motivated analysis,” says Elizabeth Sepper, a law professor at UT Austin who focuses on religion and law. “The court wants to give a win to Texas so it concludes that it can ignore controlling Supreme Court precedent—a case that banned Ten Commandment displays in public schools,” she writes in an email. “If the decision stands, the writing seems to be on the wall for Louisiana’s law.” The judges, she added, “seem dedicated to favoring conservative Christian causes, all other religious people and efforts be damned.”

I said what I said

I had never heard of that affliction! Hopefully it doesn't cause you severe mental or physical reaction! Can one even avoid looking at those types of images!

While the Constitution says that the President can be impeached for various "high crimes and misdemeanors", it did explicitly state two specific crimes that are grounds for impeachment, and one of them is "Bribery." The remedy for this scenario was anticipated and does exist. So that being said...

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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 👇🏾)

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This is a good moment in @donmoyn.bsky.social's dive into the tech broligarchs: They keep talking about the "west" in order to feel like world-historical sages but they're just echoing warmed over white nationalist inanitites at this point:

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

FAA Chief Dumps Millions in Airline Stock Months After His Ethics Agreement Deadline Bryan Bedford held a multimillion-dollar stake in an airline company his agency oversees.

Not enough people are talking about this.

The head of the FAA, the person whose job is to oversee the airline industry, failed to divest his MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR stake in an airline company his agency regulates.

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

What happened to the combined $63 million that Paramount, Meta, X, and ABC paid to the ‘Trump Presidential Library’ fund after surrendering? It just kinda disappeared. newrepublic.com/article/2092...

"Each of the foregoing statements and implications is false. They are so demonstrably and obviously false, or easily refuted, that it was at best reckless to publish them."

Yes, that is how you demonstrate actual malice. Great job, dudes.

FBI Director Promises To Pound 'The Atlantic' Like A Six Pack On A Tuesday MAGA trollsuit lawyer prepares for another round.

As we all await Kash Patel's eleventy trillion dollar lawsuit against The Atlantic, let's spend a little time with his wonderweasel lawyer Jesse Binnall

www.lawandchaospod.com/p/fbi-direct...

This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

1) They keep calling it “AI governance.” But the reality is procurement. A billion dollar contract can move faster than a law. And once the platform is installed, your rights become a feature request. Not a guarantee. Not a limit. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

In a nutshell. 😊

WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

LIVE SOON: Inside the SCOTUS' Shadow Docket, with Steve Vladeck Starting Apr 20 at 11:30 AM EDT

I'll be joining @chriscillizza.bsky.social at 11:30 ET for a Substack Live conversation about #SCOTUS, and especially Saturday's @nytimes.com reporting on the leaked memos from the Clean Power Plan cases.

Join us then here:

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This is the reason the stock market is completely disconnected from the real economy.

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

Nah that's the easy part. The tough part is choosing the order in which you will drink them!😉😆😜

Did you do a white, rose, and red? All white? All red?

Congratulations on such a momentous occasion!

Not a dime of taxpayer money or govt contracts should go to Palantir.

Consecutive nerd popes is one of the best things to have happened in contemporary religion

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”

In a sane administration, the FBI Director doesn’t go on the morning news to prove he’s not a drunk, the Defense Secretary doesn’t quote Tarantino to prove he’s a man of God, and the President doesn’t take multiple cognitive exams to prove he’s not insane.

Ukrainians rekt Shaheds

Pilot (age 56) in front and gunner (age 38) in open, rear cockpit. Team has flown ~300 combat missions and shot down nearly half of the unit’s 120 confirmed drone kills in the past year.

Gunner is armed with either a shotgun (likely Ukrainian Fort-500M) or assault rifle.

Every damn time!

The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks.

The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.

It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.