Pamela Samuelson

Copyright, Internet Law, Privacy, EFF, EPIC, @auths_alliance, BCLT

[Leela Gray @LeelaJGray]

You can't solve problems you refuse to measure.

Yet this month, 900 ocean monitoring instruments are being physically pulled out of the water. A $368 million system. A decade to build. Designed to run 15 more years.

Gone.

This network tracked hurricane intensity, coastal flooding, marine heatwaves, and sea level rise. The data was free, public and used in over 500 scientific publications. Congress tried to stop it... twice. They got overruled anyway.

For a coastal community like FL-13 that just lived through Helene, this isn't abstract. This is the difference between an evacuation order that comes in time and one that doesn't.

Florida deserves a representative who fights for the science that protects us, not one who looks the other way while it gets dismantled.

#LeelaGrayforCongress #LeelaJGray

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[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

A late night prepping for Supreme Court opinions in the am. Here are the two that I am personally involved in:

-Watson (GOP challenge to mail-in voting)
-NRSC (GOP challenge to campaign finance)

Democracy Docket will have it covered. Subscribe now. https://t.co/0StGlWz45f

[Leslie Proll @LeslieProll]

Sotomayor dissent is 🔥

Decision “debases the democratic process by upending AL’s entire election in name of permitting AL to discriminate against Black Alabamians & corrodes rule of law by rewarding AL’s gamesmanship & outright defiance of court orders.” https://t.co/xwMsJtt66J

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Starting this month, more than 900 deep-sea ocean sensors will be pulled out of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans off the coast of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, North Carolina and Greenland. https://t.co/jmm86WQNcY

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

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🧵 LOSS: Last night, SCOTUS greenlit Alabama’s gerrymander for the 2026 midterms — a map it previously found to be racially discriminatory.

The majority’s reasoning was riddled with contradictions, and opened the door to weakening the last-standing pillar in the fight against discriminatory maps👇

[CNN @CNN]

The Trump administration has announced it will dismantle a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring system that provides critical data on the world’s oceans. The decision is sparking alarm among experts that US is taking eyes off the oceans at a dangerous time. https://t.co/VcifYxiYcR

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

According to Andrew Weissmann, Blanche using sleight of hand; they’re not killing the deal. Trump still gets $1.776 billion. He still gets a sweeping civil liability shield. They only removed the J6 slush fund piece. Same jackpot. Less scrutiny. Worse than before.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the court’s conservative majority for a ruling that “debases the democratic process” by allowing Alabama to use a congressional map that the justices had previously found intentionally discriminated against Black voters. https://t.co/ahoPNpCSNd

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Good.

From Punchbowl AM: "Senate Democrats are privately urging GOP leaders to pressure President Donald Trump to withdraw his appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence — and threatening to tank a bipartisan FISA deal if the president refuses."

[Brian Rosenwald @brianros1]

This is something that makes me angriest about these redistricting cases: judges with sterling conservative credentials have made voluminous findings of fact & the conservative justices have just ignored them.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

In the same way *courts* are criticizing DOJ and questioning whether the presumption of regularity still exists, you can't have SCOTUS doing 180s on three-year-old precedent! Especially when frowny face John Roberts claims they are not political actors!!

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Massie almost connected the dots.

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

BREAKING: By a 6-3 vote, #SCOTUS will allow Alabama to use its never-implemented 2023 districts in this year's elections. They're likely to result in a 6-1, R-D split and the loss of 1 of 2 majority Black AL districts. Doc: https://t.co/GQBJsMmeJe Earlier: https://t.co/0W2HPLC0yh

[Kristen Clarke @KristenClarkeJD]

BREAKING: Supeme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map that eliminates one of the state’s 2 majority Black districts.

Justice Sotomayor is right— ruling “disregards both democratic values and the rule of law.”

This is a shameful and treacherous moment in our democracy

[Chris “Law Dork” Geidner @chrisgeidner]

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

[Paul Jacobs @PaulJacobsMedia]

I truly wish @PBS would hire the team that @60Minutes has fired, including those-soon-to-leave Scott Pelley etc. and create their own version of this iconic program. Ratings would be huge.
Good will would be even larger.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Public high school required reading list from 1978

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

A message to all sane Republicans:

He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals.
You said nothing.

He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.

He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing.

He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing.

He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing.

He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing.

He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing.

He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.

His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing.

He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing.

His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing.

He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing.

He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing.

It’s time to start talking.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Dems should counter program Trump's 80th birthday celebration with performances by Springsteen, Taylor Swift, and Bad Bunny, have it emceed by Stephen Colbert, and name the event after Obama.