Criminal defense, civil rights, and occasionally civil, trial lawyer. Former Emptywheel legal writer, husband, father and generally cranky observateur. Lifetime F1 fan.
Trump gave a Christian nationalist nutjob a meat axe to “edit” the Smithsonian. Every single thing he changes will have to be reversed.😱
Judd LegumDavid Barton is a fake historian who wrote a book on Thomas Jefferson that was so inaccurate his publisher was forced to pull it from the shelves. Now Barton, and his son Tim, are advising Trump on his anti-Smithsonian crusade.
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The Enduring Cult of the Vietnam ‘Missing in Action’How a propaganda goof by Richard Nixon’s administration midwifed an urban legend that scarred American foreign policy and domestic politics for a generation.www.thenation.commtswAll the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.
This seems less than optimal.
Timnit Gebru"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Dear @mcuban.bsky.social Please go fuck yourself.
Mark CubanThe big conglomerates are too big to care. They are ripping off your employer in ways your ceo is clueless about. If you want to see changes in HC pricing and coverage to more people at affordable costs, tell your employer to stop dealing with the big conglomerates and tell HR you are ok
This boat is quite litigious.
Big Cases BotNew filing: "Grace Ocean Petition for Exoneration (is boat liabile for wrecking baltimore bridge?)" Doc #883: ORDER granting 882 Consent Motion to Modify the Court's May 29, 2026, Settlement Order; the date for the… [full entry below 👇] Download PDF | View Full Case #CL68396058
So as the NYTimes is blocked from AI scraping, Meta will now be getting news from Newsmax. What could possibly go wrong?
Bill GrueskinAYFKM “Meta will be able to draw upon Newsmax's significant current reporting as well as archived content to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices.” ir.newsmax.com/news/news-de...
This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”
Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their livesOne Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.www.wxyz.com
ICE literally went into a national forest and arrested people who were swimming, etc. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/n...
ICE agents target NC’s Pisgah National Forest and make multiple arrests, feds sayImmigration and Customs Enforcement extends its reach to western North Carolina’s wilderness areas and makes 13 arrests in Pisgah National Forest, feds say.www.charlotteobserver.com
CBS News ran a claim that "thousands of 9/11 victims' families" want Mamdani banned. The petition organizer told a journalist she has no actual list and the 300 figure was just an estimate. CBS News has since corrected its coverage
Bari Weiss’ CBS News retracts ‘brazen lie’ after false smear of progressive Dem: reportBari Weiss’ CBS News New York was forced to remove a line from its coverage of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani after journalist Judd Legum identified what he called a “brazen lie” about the progressive Democratic mayor, Legum reported Tuesday.CBS News’ report centered around a petition launched b...bit.ly
They're really worried about that senate seat.
Marc Elias🚨BREAKING: A North Carolina Senate committee greenlit new voter suppression measures Tuesday, moving forward a bill that would make it easier to purge voters from the rolls and impose stricter requirements for registering to vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
