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Khaman Maluach is living an incredible, and heartbreaking story, as his home country faces visa revocations from the U.S. state department: www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards. Me, via “One First”:

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CATO: “New nonpublic data from ICE indicates the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind… 93% had no violent convictions… 65% no criminal record at all…” @MarshaBlackburn www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

submitted 4 days ago • 401 comments

“We have to wear masks because people are beating us up and you know people are beating us up because we have to wear masks.” Always the circle for these people.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Nippon Steel finalizes its deal to own 100% of US Steel. Which is exactly what both Trump and previously Biden claimed they opposed. One difference: Trump will now personally have veto power over various production/staffing decisions. www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/b...

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

The strong need to stand against the strong if the weak are to have any chance. We can’t stand by and watch immigrants dragged away by masked men. This is a risky ask, obviously, but I don’t know how we get to the other side of this without the resistance of the privileged.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Are we the baddies?

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

So in one 24 hour period these people made up a whole story with no basis in fact to make the guy on the right look like a guy on the left and then used AI people at a parade to make the president not look weak. The Information Age, indeed.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Uh, Chicago is in the Heartland, and we’re proud of it.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Fell behind on Andor, so am catching up. Watched Episode 9 this evening. You know. The wild one where they arrest a Senator after manufacturing a fake crisis that required the military to put down protestors. So unrealistic.

submitted 13 days ago • 31 comments

They’re being so “small government conservative”

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Are we the baddies?

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Is it weird that this makes me want to travel to DC to protest? I’m advised to go to the No Kings rally in Chicago, but this is tempting.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

We had a full rainbow day yesterday. Not sure if I’ve ever seen that.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Los Angeles (in Stephen Miller’s mind)

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This seems very bad

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

To state the obvious: you shouldn’t trust the Substack app to save the draft you’ve been working on for hours. Please, don’t ask me how I know.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The final peony blooms of the season. If I'd known it was this easy to make my wife happy, I might have planted her favorite flowers years ago.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This has to be AI, right?

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

They lied about “woke cancel culture” being a violation of the First Amendment so they could actually violate the First Amendment.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

We all recognize that this man has never read the Constitution, right?

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

This is very true, and it’s especially poignant for people who (should) do thinking work like lawyers. Law school did a bad job explaining what “thinking like a lawyer” is, but I promise it’s a real thing, and we need it. Sometimes you just have to do the work.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This is some crazy

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

maybe if the tech nerds had ever had a humanities class they'd understand that the way people interact with technology in Star Trek (speaking with computers, hand motions in the air,) are largely because those are ways to tell a story to viewers and/or look neato, not because they're actually useful

submitted 33 days ago • 23 comments

Bluesky puts a lot of weird stuff in my timeline and is not very good at getting rid of that stuff when I tap “less like this,” but this one’s weird. Either it knows I speak Italian, which is freaky, or it doesn’t and gives me Italian language stuff anyway, which is awful user experience.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

So, the budget bill that passed the House would likely cripple access to law school, medical school, and other unfunded graduate school opportunities by eliminating Grad Plus loans. Students would be forced to use high-interest private loans that lack public service repayment.

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

They think the Constitution says things it just doesn’t say but have no idea what it actually says. Honestly, do we think Donald Trump has ever read the Constitution??

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

My god. They’re just so unqualified.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

And how do they incentivize Americans to buy more expensive American dolls unless the price of Chinese dolls go up for consumers??

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Show us your writing process in a gif

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

It’s amazing how much better this country is than Stephen Miller and his ilk believe. Our capacity to serve is limited by few things more than our bigotry. We never lose when we do more.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of...

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

Philip K Dick would never write an apocalypse this unbelievable

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Wait until the Mormon Trumpers realize what the Book of Mormon says about characters like him. It’s not subtle.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

How my wife responds when I explain why I bought more tomato seedlings

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Justice Jackson pushes back on Team Trump: English common law isn't relevant because the U.S. doesn't have a king. "The fact that courts back in the English Chancery couldn't enjoin the king, I think is not analogous or indicative of our system. The executive is supposed to be bound by the law."

submitted 41 days ago • 23 comments

I thought Rogue One might have been the best Star Wars project, but after rewatching it after an Andor binge, I felt such a drop off. Maybe Rogue One was really good but Andor was genuinely great. Maybe movies just can’t keep up with the storytelling power of a TV series.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Rich people famously don’t care about money.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

There's literally no difference between a public national monument approved by Congress and a $400 million jet the president keeps

submitted 43 days ago • 207 comments