New in PN: Lincoln warned that if government policy 'upon vital questions affecting the whole people… is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of SCOTUS… the people will have ceased to be their own rulers.”

It's like Abe was addressing the Roberts Court publicnotice.co/p/abraham-linc…

Peak Trumper logic. I know that I am barred from engaging in political activity. But I was mad.

Simon Rosenberg Philip Gourevitch Michael Smith

What is Putin’s next Africa move? Thousands of Russian fighters and military equipment have been arriving in Libya the past few months. At least 1,800 of its military personnel have arrived in the country in the last two weeks alone
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Wait why does his hat say “NYDP”?

A judge is supposed to act in a way that enables all parties and lawyers appearing before the Court to believe they will be treated fairly. Alito and Thomas have brazenly destroyed this bedrock principle. cnn.com/2024/05/16/pol…

High levels of weedkiller found in more than half sperm samples, study finds theguardian.com/environment/ar…

It’s nuts that it has taken three and a half years for Alito’s insurrectionist Jolly Roger to be reported — especially since the article makes it clear that the neighbors who photographed it consider him a blight not just on their cul de sac but on the republic.

Crucially, Alito doesn’t deny the flag was flying upside down, doesn’t deny its meaning, doesn’t express any disapproval for it and doesn’t disavow it.

hell’s bells

New: Days after Jan. 6, just before Biden's inauguration, and while the Supreme Court was still contending with a 2020 election case, the Alito home flew a 'Stop the Steal' symbol: an upside-down American flag. nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/…

Sorry this is happening to you, Fox News

Midst all the mischief at the United States Supreme Court, it’s almost gone unnoticed how many of its key decisions are being manipulated with fake facts, outside the established traditions of American judicial fact-finding.

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'What radicalized you?'

this girl:

Where’s the IRS when you actually want it?

This is how elites are responding to college kids protesting. I genuinely can not imagine seeing this photo and feeling good about it. latimes.com/story/2024-05-…

North Carolina lawmakers just passed a House bill to ban masking -- even for the purpose of protecting health.

Exceptions made for Mardi Gras masquerade balls.
If I don't laugh, I'll cry.

Just in: Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended he do so: gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/…

Perry had been sentenced to 25 years for fatally shooting a man protesting police brutality in downtown Austin: texastribune.org/2023/05/10/dan… #txlege