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NEW: “In the end, Abbott’s brief is not a serious legal document. It’s an entirely political one.“
Wherein I answer your burning questions about several niche areas of Texas state law—and tell you how I really feel about Greg Abbott’s no good, very bad brief.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-le...
Lots of this happening lately
… Ah I see NPR has the same quote; I imagine everybody does. Again, this seems at first blush to be carefully phrased to sound to MAGA folks like they’re doing something, without actually doing much.
i like bluesky. it’s good that bluesky shuns nazis and transphobes. not every platform needs to be for everyone.
but imho a social media analyst getting dogpiled on here for doing social media analysis is the kind of thing that turns a lot of (reasonable, non-bigoted) people off from this place
Bluesky has a growth problem
Bluesky has hit 38M monthly users, up 8M since March
Once adding 5M users per month, it’s now slowed to 1.6M. A 60% drop
But post volume is falling—more users, less activity
It risks becoming a ghost town with a loyal but shrinking core
#bluesky #fediverse
Bluesky’s growth momentum has slowed, but it is still growing.
This is doubly true: we can’t vote for our top prosecutor and we can’t vote for any of the senators who do.
Your friendly reminder that the District of Columbia is the only jurisdiction in the entire country in which there are no local prosecutors accountable to the people who actually live and pay taxes there.
(And that there should be.)
unbelievably funny thing to say about a guy who saw the original Broadway run of Evita six times
the drizz abides www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...
The mages of the great khan of the plains shelter them from our scrying
everyone is competing to prove their fealty to trump, which means that they start taking positions that require impossible actions of the other players. Cornyn demanding fbi help is costless to him. But it puts Patel in a tough position because the FBI can’t do that. Hence hedging
“Locate” and “apprehend” are different things
NEW: The FBI has agreed to cooperate with Texas state law enforcement to locate the 50 Democratic legislators who left the state, Sen. John Cornyn said
Texas GOP have been threatening the state legislators with "legal consequences" for breaking the quorum.
Senator Bill Cassidy’s vote secured the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy jr. He’s now issued a brief statement faintly calling Kennedy’s destruction of vaccine research “unfortunate”
