Claims about there being a public interest in the memos, for example, don't make their publication any less prejudicial to the administration of justice. Judges don't run for reelection, and they're supposed to operate without outside political pressure, so the argument that "the public needs to know" is at its minimum. If the public interest really requires

If they’re “_supposed_ to operate without outside political pressure” then it seems to me that the public has an extra big interest in knowing that they’re not!

This is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read (w alt text)

I’m sorry, but this is plainly unhinged. First, @adamliptak.bsky.social’s work is obviously not legal in nature. Second, worshipping the Court like it isn’t a government institution— a legitimate subject of news coverage— is beyond absurd. Third, the chilling effect on the 1A would be devastating.

I think a lot about how illustration rates have been stagnant since basically the form was invented, and the great gatsby was inspired by JC Leyendeckers legendary mansion parties

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

We need a matriarchy run by lesbians with clipboards and earpieces who do not take any shit.

Tim Cook's legacy will be enshittifying Apple's software, abusing their market dominance, and then playing apologist to fascism.

Under his leadership they burned billions on a car that never drove, and the only major attempt at a new product during his tenure (the Apple Vision Pro) was a total dud.

looking forward to blaming the Depression on the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew

We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.

The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I wonder where it could possibly have gone? It’s a real quandary.

if Ds control congress, they could pass a bill to send people checks, funded by taxing billionaires. let trump veto it if he wants.

include a provision in the bill that trump's name can't be on the checks.

Older NYers would run you out of town for saying "metro".

It’s the reason we don’t have universal healthcare imo. Some white folks would rather die than see Black people get anything at all

Pa. court recognizes ‘reproductive autonomy’ as a right, strikes down ban on public funding for abortion In a 4-3 ruling, the Commonwealth Court found that abortion access is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Constitution.

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING NEWS🚨

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania strikes down a law restricting Medicaid from funding abortion, and in doing so recognizes a "reproductive autonomy" as a fundamental right in the state constitution. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

CERTIORARI -- SUMMARY DISPOSITION 24-1099 SMITH, KYLE, ET AL. V. SCOTT, ROCHELLE, ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for further consideration in light of Zorn v. Linton, 607 U. S. ___ (2026) (per curiam). Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would deny the petition for a writ of certiorari.

By a 6–3 vote, and with no opinion, the Supreme Court throws out a lower court decision denying qualified immunity who killed an unarmed, mentally ill man by using "bodyweight force" to restrain him. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

“Politicies?”

Disappointingly, the actual malice section of Patel’s complaint does not contain a subhead entitled “Actual malice standard is now what some would call a legal lay up”

Kash Patel files eye-popping $250 million suit against The Atlantic

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

3 years into this stuff and still no normal person could answer the question “what’s your favourite piece of AI art?”

If you write and also edit, that is a necessary mortification. Because you can only get so far trying to edit your own work.

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

BBC Investigation: “Some analysts say it bears the hallmarks of illegal insider trading.”

my bike can go 21 km in like 40 minutes and I can kick that lil nerd on my way past

I have no time for most people making comedy bits on instagram, but I love her stuff.

"Endgame" hitting less than a year before COVID already feels like a "Beatles break up to start the 70s" kind of shift; catnip to future documentarians

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

Explosive & really outrageous revelations in here about a billionaire's private surveillance network completely run amok.

If we can't stop Dolan from spying on us at MSG, let's at least cancel his sweetheart tax break. (1/2)

What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

Grenell instructed me to “get rid of” the center’s permanent art collection. New art to adorn the building’s walls after its renovation, I was taken aback. If the donors of the works didn’t pay for their removal, he said, we could auction or give them away.
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

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