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N628TS Landed in Teterboro, New Jersey, United States.

It’s not just me right? He looks like he should be wearing jodhpurs and standing next to a horse in a painting from 1762.

It appears there was a @katie.bzky.team sighting in the wild.

It’s almost as if…universities did not bring this on themselves with things like grade inflation & soaring prices: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

I think it's funny that VPs have a reputation of being sidelined which makes them look weak or useless, and Vance is the first VP since like, um, Cheney who has tried to push back against that perception, but it just makes him seem like the weakest and most useless of them all.

Unsubstantiated accusation, later cleared. She took her own life. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Oh my god what is happening? Did Stan Woodward’s ECF login get hacked?

holeeeeee shit Leon is going to have absolute kittens in the morning. I cannot fucking wait. @lizdye.bsky.social

It's like Donald Trump himself dictated this motion, and I don't think we can be sure he didn't. It's not a legal brief; it's a Truth Social post. (And I have to wonder: was there a proper meet and confer before it was filed?)

The Green Onion club was flabbergasted. Their society was quite secret, yet news of their special guest, a hip-hop artist named Rapscallion, had been leeked.

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties. And the deeply unserious media outlets that have bent the knee to them.

Happy week, everyone!

5%? That’s nothing. During WWI, there was tax of 77% on annual incomes over $1 million (which was like $23 million back then). They have it easy.

Uber but for ballroom

The stories about Peter in the book are second to none. I’m writing them for purposes of being excerpted by people like @aftermath.site or similar during the PR push.

I think we might be treated to another Bickerstaff interview where he explains the Pistons play a 'different' brand of hoops and the referees just need to adjust to that.

Bain just posterized Duren and sent him flying off the court DAMN

This is insane. Trump Administration Will Pay More Energy Firms to Cancel Wind Farms In exchange, the companies will invest in oil and gas projects, echoing an earlier deal with the French energy giant TotalEnergies. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/c...

Reading a story about the politically fraught sale of fighter jets to Peru and Vladimiro Montesinos is the first thing to come to mind.

“the best source of news”

N628TS Took off from Mountain View, California, United States.

Has the U.S. injected bleach yet into the Strait to reopen it?

we could build ballroom out of border wall b. wall room ballroom

The Bunker is so last year

An underappreciated aspect of DJT's current political standing is that most Americans are just not that interested in him anymore, and are changing the channel to sports or reality TV. After 16 months, he is actually boring now, and everyone knows it except for the establishment media

Michael Tracey is trash and deserves to be forgotten but I will concede that it is very easy to wear a new pair of pants without taking off the size label on the leg

fuck outta here. How about this deal? Tax a Bezos-class plutocrat that $400 million like you promised, and then we can talk

A play, in three acts

So, I have news stories on @kamalaharris.com on notifications and just got a notification about this story from *March, 2024.* To all the Ivy League profs denying that your students worked to elect Trump, weird how your students didn't hear what @kamalaharris.com said *in March, 2024.*

So, I have news stories on @kamalaharris.com on notifications and just got a notification about this story from March, 2024. To all the Ivy League profs on here denying that your students worked to get Trump elected, weird how your students didn't hear what @kamalaharris.com said *in March, 2024.*

You can write a trend piece about anything, anything you can imagine

this is the most bizarre policy initiative in American political history.

Republicans are completely out of touch with Americans who aren't Republicans.

In a comment response to a post I did about oral argument prep someone (one of you?) said this. I like it!

A column today in the student newspaper of the University of Southern Maine. Opinion: Apologies Are Not Enough Platner’s cycle of offending, apologizing, and repeating usmfreepress.org/1791/opinion...

It is Islamo-Communism to oppose the (now) taxpayer-funded ballroom.

One takeaway from the arguments in the Court's two argued Fourth Amendment cases this term—Case and Chatrie—is that the Justices are practical people in 4A cases. At least when it comes to the powers of police, what seems like a sensible balanced rule tends to go a long way.

One lesson from the arguments in the Court's two argued Fourth Amendment cases this term—Case and Chatrie—is that the Justices are practical people in 4A cases. At least when it comes to the powers of police, what seems like a sensible balanced rule tends to go a long way.

yes, our constitution's drafters were utterly unfamiliar with the common law concepts of trespass and nuisance

Sherrod Brown is an economic populist and he doesn't have a Nazi tattoo or blame rape survivors. And yet Platner's stans love Platner far more than Brown. Why is that? 🤔

Yeah, Tucker Carlson should stop being so mean to Trump.

"Academic freedom continues to decline globally, with a marked fall in the US, according to the 2026 update to the Academic Freedom Index." /1

Tom Kean, Jr. is still refusing to reveal the medical condition that's keeping him out of Congress. Dude, you occupy a position of public trust and you're not able to do your job. You owe it to your constituents who pay you to tell them why. But obviously you think you're above them.

FWIW, I get why the conlaw folks think the warrant case is the most important of the day, but in fact the glysophate case was also very important and I see a lot less coverage of it.

Someday Brittany Bernstein at National Review will write a halfway decent article, but that day is not today.

"I can’t really blame Republicans for exploiting the attack". Yes you can.

Trump is at post-insurrection levels of popularity, and probably heading down.

"yesterday his net approval rating hit a new second term low of -18.8. For historical context, that’s right around where his net approval was at the end of his first term, in the aftermath of January 6th."

Fun order in Paisner v. Tan, the claim by an Intel shareholder that giving the Commerce department a 10% stake violated the board's fiduciary duties. The SH named Howard Lutnick as a deft, and, well, a story in 4 screencaps:

Anyone who's ever been to the White House, whether on the East Wing tour (which now no longer exists) or the West Wing tour, knows the enormous security you have to go through to get into the White House. The White House is already secure & Republicans know that. They think you're stupid.

Why did I decide to watch the Pistons game?

I am at heart a moderate institutionalist, but find few things as grating as insipid, pious, formulaic denunciations of “politicial violence” in a country founded by it. Politics IS regulated violence. And when the regulatory systems break down, no intrinsically better than the freelance sort.

Here’s @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social on this kind of nonsense www.liberalcurrents.com/actually-col...

Meanwhile... ICE planning facility for children and families on Pfas-contaminated site High concentration of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in groundwater at former military facility in Louisiana www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Credible vows of accountability may serve to deter some in the administration from participating in its lawlessness.

Taxpayers are not going pay anything for the ballroom, except for hundreds of million of dollars.

Taxpayers are not going pay anything for the ballroom, except four hundred million dollars or so.

God, screw these guys. www.wtkr.com/news/politic...

“The press isn’t supposed to seek unity with politicians. It’s supposed to seek the truth.” Insights on the state of corporate media, the WHCA dinner charade and #FourthEstate failure by @markjacob.bsky.social

“The Year of the Molotov Cocktail: American Antigovernment Violence Hits a 30-Year High” electionlawblog.org?p=155689

"Starfleet Academy" is making me ugly cry again.

That Republicans are pushing for Trump's ballroom, which is unnecessary since the White House's East Room is a secure location, while Americans are struggling to make ends meet because of Republicans' policies, shows how completely out of touch with the American people Republicans have become.

Why are you such a horrible Democrat? It's bad tax policy. It's bad police policy. It's INEQUITABLE policy... And yet you crow about it like you're proud of this crappy idea? While meanwhile voting against the actual GOOD ideas?

I worry about this in wanting strict scrutiny for more stuff. But re: Chatrie, I feel like this case might result in a heightened particularity requirement. I mean, one's already there, but the Court might spell out a test to know if it's functionally being met like it should be.

Here are Lindsey Graham's office phone numbers.

Rating the New Proposed Florida Gerrymander https://politicalwire.com/2026/04/27/rating-the-new-proposed-florida-gerrymander/

Hey, @mirandayaver.bsky.social , look what I'm reading!

Tom Kean Says He’ll Return to Congress Soon https://politicalwire.com/2026/04/27/tom-kean-says-hell-return-to-congress-soon/

You know who we haven't heard from in a while? Nikki Haley. I guess she's waiting for just the right moment to jump up and say "Hey, remember me? I always hated Trump!"

Johnson Now Wants Changes to Homeland Security Bill https://politicalwire.com/2026/04/27/mike-johnson-now-wants-changes-to-homeland-security-bill/

King Charles Will Speak of ‘Reconciliation and Renewal’ https://politicalwire.com/2026/04/27/king-charles-will-speak-of-reconciliation-and-renewal/

CBS edited out Trump's rant about the lawsuit he brought for CBS editing its interview of Harris (he inflated the value of the absurd settlement from the reported $16 million to $38 million).

Hegseth Took Kid Rock on Apache Helicopter ‘Joy Ride’ https://politicalwire.com/2026/04/27/hegseth-took-kid-rock-on-apache-helicopter-joy-ride/

There’s a lovely line from a Wallace Shawn essay, which I am undoubtedly mangling, along the lines of: Morality is the radical proposition that other people are real. Which is still about the best one-sentence definition I’ve encountered.

There’s a lovely line from a Wallace Shawn essay, which I am undoubtedly mangling, along the lines or: Morality is the radical proposition that other people are real. Which is still about the best one-sentence definition I’ve encountered.

Madison folks, join us tomorrow night at Gib’s. Top-shelf cocktails. Middle-aged jazz.

Don’t blame the free speech crowd for Trump’s assaults on free expression, writes Cathy Young. Most of them, along with groups like @thefireorg.bsky.social, have been vocal in resisting his moves.

~Zero media outlets or journalists will ask how we can afford that or what about The Debt? If it were student loan debt relief by a Democrat, these questions would dominate the news cycle for 72 hours.

The AI questions are important & have no easy answers, but I, for one, find it very disheartening that this is the relative focus of the field given <gestures at everything>. None of this matters if we’re no longer a democracy bc the freedom/$ to teach/research won’t exist. It all feels very small.

1Ls have questions. Many, many questions.

Plumbing is going to be a hot major soon.

Reading “It Can’t Happen Here” because <gestures at world> and so far the main thing I’m struck by is how much more articulate Berzelius Windrip is.

From today's oral argument.

"Don't engage on social media" is actually a very good recommendation

Politicians of both parties stop proposing exempting entire classes of people from paying taxes we’re a society & taxes are the price of participation challenge bsky.app/profile/mcop...

So, any bets on how Chatrie is coming out after that mish mash of an argument this morning?

The next news conference will promote Trump's pool resurfacing project.

Narrator: It was in fact a vanity project and Trump making a monument to Trump.

Lindsey Graham is the type of long-term incumbent who loses in a wave election because he’s lost touch with his state.

Let’s check in on the Supreme People’s Assembly on the Potomac…

The Ballroom Is Not the Answer https://politicalwire.com/2026/04/27/the-ballroom-is-not-the-answer/

Democrats must continue to aggressively counter-gerrymander to respond to actions like this. Democracy depends on it.

I'm sorry to hear of Don Riegle's passing. He was a Republican who had it with his party during the Nixon years and became a Democrat. www.abc12.com/news/local/d...

Lindsey Graham wants to spend $400m of taxpayers' money to create "a secure facility" at the White House. The White House already *is* a secure facility! The East Room is secure. Lindsey Graham refused to spend money on health care subsidies for struggling South Carolinians.

Why even come back to a project if everyone is going to shit on you or imply a grift just because you tried something different. Show some respect to the folks who tried to pave the way.

I love crows because they hold long grudges, like me. Source: www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/s...

Lindsey Graham is holding a press conference to push for Trump's ballroom. Lindsey Graham refused to spend money for Obamacare subsidies. Lindsey Graham also wants to be able to sue for taxpayers' money for the investigation into his role in the 2020 election.

It isn’t so much that I’m cranky about being bumped from the #1 bestseller spot in Government, but getting bumped by Adrian Vermeule is suboptimal.

The @nytimes.com has a longstanding policy of not attending the White House Correspondents Association dinners. All media outlets should have adopted that policy long ago.