Kathleen Lu

I would have given this like a <10% chance of happening (I'm not in the right loops to know about it). Good news.

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

Fun Dardanelles Fact:

any vessel can perform mine-clearing operations once.

I hate this so much because there is no, and has never been any, demand to impose sharia law in this country.

On the other hand, we do have religious extremists currently stealing our freedom and those guys should stop.

There is no hope for the large conglomerates, but I really hope all the people who listened to the bullshit about how the continued flow of fossil fuels into this country was way more dependable than *checks notes* the sun rising every day take note.

Exhibit A for "Meritocracy has always been a lie"

Premodern agriculture was so inefficient people were like 6 inches shorter and so unpleasant that young men would volunteer for premodern wars where they had a 50% chance of shitting themselves to death or having their balls cut off

NEWS — Trump coercing staff to wear the same black pair of shoes that he wears.

“Everybody’s afraid not to wear them,” a staffer said, as some reportedly ditch their own footwear to comply with Trump’s wishes.

We’re officially in the dumbest timeline.

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

Flashback to the 2024 Republican National Convention 👇🏽

Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.

A federal judge is never late, Frodo Baggins...

This is a massive milestone we've been pushing for years and years.

"A what-flict?"*
- someone at DOJ, maybe.

*use of quotations for emphasis only, should not be taken as real quote.

The budget for her ad was more than for the entire NEA.

Background information here:

So first of all, the DOJ's standards are....extremely fallen, I cannot imagine this happening much earlier in time.

Second, the word "intentionally" has very specific meaning and this lawyer thirty years into practice knows what it means, and the judge is being very clear about that.

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

Including people who work at orgs dedicated to filing lawsuits seems like a bad risk call, imnsho

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Nathan Cavanaugh Deposition in ACLS-AHA-MLA Lawsuit About the NEH, Part 1 of 6 YouTube video by American Historical Association

Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public.

Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...

This is to say: if you're an attorney who's hesitated to take on habeas cases because you think you lack the knowledge, or you're worried about whether you'll really help, I PROMISE you can make a difference. I'm just a dipshit with a 7-year-old laptop and a bad attitude. If I can do it, so can you.

Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. are acquiring a drone company that is seeking to meet Pentagon demand after Trump banned the use of Chinese drones.

We’re barely a week into Trump’s war and already his family has found a way to cash in.

Everything is for sale.

Here’s @theverge.com with the link to the brief IN THE ARTICLE! Good job.

he’s gonna give a speech in front of an AI generated banner that says, “ŃMIMMS1ØN ACĞŒMPLISSHEP”

I can't compete with this.

Important ruling on immigration operations in Minnesota

Judge Tostrud (Trump appointee):

"Plaintiffs have made a clear showing that Defendants have adopted a POLICY authorizing federal immigration officers to conduct investigatory stops based on ethnicity or race without reasonable suspicion."
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RIP a guy who could have stayed a stooge but found courage.

Full disclosure: I met with the minority staffers and helped strategize and explained the history.

Ilan is taking his historical fiction on the road. It’s amazing what sloppy and methodless historical scholarship can do for one’s career.

Same