Today from me in the @nydailynews.com -- @latinojustice.bsky.social is proud to represent Long Island Audit at the New York State of Appeals in the first case to test the scope of the Right to Record Acts.
And now the US will have to try and convince the Gulf States it spent decades trying to bring onside that it has their interests and security at heart and wasn't just using them as a buffer for Israel while the Israelis laugh on their own TV stations and tell Trump "One more run; Doha can take it!"
Everyone's laughing at the British expats complaining about how they moved to Dubai because they were told it was a delightful little capitalist utopia in a geopolitical prophylactic, and sure, hilarious. But one question: Where on earth did they get that idea from? Who told them that?
for what it cost for our allies to shoot down three of our own planes by accident in a murderous illegal war we could have funded the NEH at 150% of its historic peak funding for a year
"A guard said 'Happy James Earl Ray Day" on Dr. [Martin Luther] King’s holiday. Another asked whether Black people even celebrate Father’s Day — because 'they don’t know their fathers.' I was raised in Detroit, baptized in Black history. Entering a Texas prison was a cultural collision."
My latest, a collaboration between @propublica.org + @nytimes.com, is on the cover of today's New York Times Magazine.
The gift link leads you to the excellent audio version of the story by Julia Whalen:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/m...
My evidence professor, day one:
At Yale, the first thing they read in Evidence is Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Here, the first thing we read is Rule 403.
look if a Democrat wants me to be really fired up about voting for them, they will promulgate the Crimes Against Humanity Reparations Act which gives US citizenship to everyone targeted by the Trump administration.
One thing to understand is that jackasses like me graduated from law school basically believing that, while nothing like <all this> was realistic in our lifetimes, if it did happen, then our Supreme Court with all its flaws would respond roughly like this judge did, maybe 9-0.
The kidnappings are real. Murdering Caribbean fishermen is real. The concentration camps are real. The comms and marketing blurs the line between real and fake to get us to lump the horrors in with the film-flam.
Stacy Bradley voted for President Trump because of his border policies, and she likes that he has restored “law and order.” But she is unsettled by one aspect of his immigration agenda. Last month, the federal government bought a warehouse next to her cheerleading gym in Surprise, Ariz., which the administration plans to convert into a detention center for up to 1,500 immigrants. Ms. Bradley, the co-owner of Woodlands Elite Cheer, said she worried that a detainee could escape, or that protests could break out. The children who train at her gym are as young as 3 and could see “people in shackles” next door, she said.
“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”
The self-ownage cycle of republics: Given enough time, a republic will inevitably own itself so hard that it reverts back to the conditions that its founders were explicitly trying to escape.
From Tarquin and Lucretia to Tiberius and Mallonia took 500 years. The US pulled it off in half the time!
BREAKING: Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been convicted of insurrection for declaring martial law in December 2024, and has been sentenced to life in prison.
Ken Paxton just unilaterally gutted part of the Sandra Bland Act, one provision of which required independent investigations of county jail deaths. Paxton ruled investigations needn't happen if a prisoner dies in a hospital, ambulance, etc., off jail grounds, so many cases now won't be investigated.
The irony, of course, is that the noblest legacy of Western Civilization is the pluralist liberalism that the pseudointellectuals yanking their marionette strings are so keen on destroying. Rawls and Hayek are heirs to that tradition; Patrick Deneen and Curtis Yarvin want to raze it.
Few things grind my gears quite as much as these fucking illiterates invoking “Western Civilization,” of which they are obviously and comically ignorant, as a euphemism for white supremacy.
RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson
There are going to be a lot of tributes to his activism, so I'm choosing to remember how much he crushed hosting SNL
"While this censorship might seem brazenly anti-constitutional to most Americans, it has been the reality faced by incarcerated individuals for decades. In the name of 'security,' prison officials have punished and even killed people for possessing literature they deemed suspect." @theintercept.com
What’s funny is that in 2031, when the government seizes Elon’s servers and reporters are granted access to all the documentation of censorship and surveillance, the report will be called The “X” files.
A photo from Ms. Blakinger’s prior reporting of vile food served in prison. Sagging bread with a red smear on it.
Ah yes, why did we ever doubt the prisons’ commitment to fresh and healthy food.
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
Correct. Recognizing that this is the correct strategic choice on February 10 does not mean you’re giving up introducing a bill to abolish ice next term.
Vote for establishment democrats if you want a trained, vetted, and qualified secret police force.
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
If you ever have any doubt about this, try going to a "Mexican" restaurant in London.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but there was a time when it was illegal for Puerto Ricans to speak Spanish or wave the bandera. People were jailed and killed for it. So seeing the Puerto Rican flag at the Super Bowl isn’t just pride, it’s history, survival, & resistance. #Pinks #Momsky
Tommie Smith and John Carlos saluting Black Power from the podium of the 1968 Olympics.
Dear Olympians, if you are fortunate enough to win something over the next two weeks, you can either be famous for a day and forgotten or make your mark on history forever.
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Every American needs to watch this:
