Hard to think of a better illustration of the full-on MAGA-ization of the DOJ than leadership dropping its defenses of Trump's cartoonishly unconstitutional executive orders targeting law firms, and then flip-flopping 24 hours later after Trump called them and ordered them to keep fighting instead
Yes, “low cultural impact” is the type of phrase that any halfway competent editor will be like, hang on, what do you mean by that
As far as concessions go, “the people for whom I am advocating are objectively unable to do the jobs I want them to have, and also have a nasty history of disqualifying themselves with their own rank bigotry” is an incredible thing to have to write
topp Read in app 00 Opinion Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That's a problem. The lack of evangelical Christians at America's most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust. Today at 6:15 a.m. EST
Evangelicals are 23 percent of U.S. adults and one of the most loyal Republican voting blocs, with 81 percent backing Donald Trump in 2024. Yet despite six of the nine Supreme Court justices being appointed by Republican presidents, there are no evangelicals on the Supreme Court. This is just one of the many elite institutions in which evangelicals are absent or underrepresented. Evangelicals have excelled in politics, producing figures such as Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana). They are also prominent in well-run and profitable businesses with relatively low cultural impact, such as food processing (Tyson Foods) and retail (Hobby Lobby). But they are all but absent from the leadership of prestigious universities, major foundations, Big Tech companies, leading financial firms and large media companies. One response to this situation might be: Who cares?
A free tip for the dunces manning the Washington Post opinion page these days, when the third paragraph of your draft “There Aren’t Enough Evangelical Leaders” essay is “Some might say, who cares?”, that’s a good sign you should scrap it and blog something else www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
UPDATE: when DEA Agent Coach Taylor came on the screen for the first time I laughed out loud
This person is blocking me?
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The honest answer is I am not totally sure, but that I think it is a tax question
Are you a CPA on this app who can answer what I think is a pretty simple question about How Something Works? (If I am wrong and it is NOT a simple question I am happy to pay for your time.)
The kids these days don’t even know about Rex Tillerson getting fired while he was sitting on the toilet
look I just didn’t want to talk ok
and if you say this they get huffy about it, like you're supposed to accept them lying to you as part of the gig bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
On Monday, the administration, in a court filing, asked an appeals court if it could walk away from its appeal of victories the firms had won against the White House. The move was a significant concession by the White House that it could not stand behind its orders. But on Tuesday morning, the Justice Department appeared to have abruptly changed its position, according to the people. In an email to the four firms contesting the orders, a department official apologized for the short notice and said it would file a motion to withdraw its
Feels to me like the last competent DOJ lawyers tried to make a Business Decision about how to use their limited resources, and then someone in the White House, probably Trump himself, threw a fit about the negative headline and demanded that the attacks continue www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
On January I, Kentucky State Police said they'd arrested a 35-year-old woman for fetal homicide after she allegedly told workers at a primary care clinic she'd used abortion pills and buried fetal remains in her yard. (How did police get involved? Those workers then called the cops.) Although abortion is banned in Kentucky, such laws apply to licensed medical providers-that is, they only prohibit clinicians from providing abortion care, and they exempt pregnant people from charges. At the moment, only one state, Nevada, explicitly criminalizes people self-managing their abortions, and only after 24 weeks. But law enforcement finds other ways to arrest people for abortions. Police charged the woman with fetal homicide, abuse of a corpse, and tampering with physical evidence. They pursued these charges even though Kentucky's fetal homicide law plainly forbids charging a pregnant person. The exceptions subchapter of this law, which is intended for use when someone harms a pregnant person who loses their pregnancy, states clear as day that "nothing in this chapter shall apply to any acts of a pregnant woman that caused the death of her unborn child." (Laws banning "abuse of a corpse" were meant to address grave robbing and necrophilia, not women burying their own fetal remains.)
In attempting to explain the wrongful charge, King said, unprompted, that she opposes abortion. "| sought this job with the intention of being a pro-life prosecutor but must do so within the boundaries allowed by the Kentucky State law I'm sworn to defend," King said in a January 7 statement. "I will prosecute the remaining lawful charges fully and fairly." But in a new interview with The Lexington Herald-Leader, King said the flub occurred because her office made a mistake. "When we looked at it for the grand jury, we took a more intense look at it, and we realized we were unable to prove it," she said. In her motion to dismiss, King wrote that the statute "unambiguously exempts" the woman from prosecution. If the law has what King now calls an unambiguous exception, that suggests that her office simply didn't read it before advising the cops on the case. King's office did not return my email or phone call requesting comment.
Kentucky prosecutor charges woman who had an abortion with a crime, even though the law makes clear that women who end their own pregnancies are exempt. Then, prosecutor hastily dismisses the charge and *all but admits* that they simply didn’t read the law first ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Okay, so, the firms that rolled over and showed Trump their bellies ended up humiliating themselves for nothing, and the firms that showed even a little bit of fight ended up winning. I think there is a lesson to be learned here!
I know many of you already know this because it’s obvious but you can absolutely take a survey of an opinion desk’s output over time and pretty accurately surmise the views—or at least the intentions—of the people who are in charge of deciding what gets published. I thought we were all adults here
Long shot of two whales jumping
The two of them surfacing RIGHT in front of the bow
WHALE NEWS: this mom and baby whale were jumping around some distance out from our boat and then went underwater for a while, and then they resurfaced, I would say, “alarmingly” close to us
Now we’re talking
okay well you didn’t have to admit it publicly like this
a NO VEHICLES ALLOWED ON BEACH sign
I’m about to become the single most annoying person on this beach for the next 10-15 minutes
Every night here for me is the same: I am going to drink one beer, eat enough raw fish to risk mercury poisoning, and then sleep for 10 hours
Hawaii is the ideal vacation spot as a 38-year-old because the beaches are beautiful, the weather is fantastic, and everything closes at 9pm
For Democratic candidates looking for winning arguments to make to voters in 2026, may I suggest “The Supreme Court you all hate is an abomination, and if elected I will vote to fix it”
It’s 2003 again
Even though I and everyone else knew it was probably going to happen, waking up to find out that this country’s leaders have started another needless war is making me so angry and sad
Joe Biden spent four years tiptoeing around the idea of Supreme Court reform, and only came out in favor of term limits a few days before he dropped out in 2024. Democrats cannot be doing this anymore! Your would-be constituents hate the Court! You don't have to be afraid to talk about it!
I want Democratic candidates for office to understand just how much voters do not like the Supreme Court, and are dying to elect representatives who are actually committed to doing something about it
If a "draft executive order" is "circulating" among "pro-Trump activists" who say they are "in coordination with the White House," I need to understand whether they are actually doing so before I consider a year-old PDF to be a "draft executive order" in any meaningful sense of the phrase
Tim, how many times must I ask you to please not spoil the blog post I am working on
Finally, actually using something out of that box of stuff from law school that you’ve kept in the attic
