In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

Rode an elevator with Peyton Manning. He was on his way to play golf with the President. Unfortunately that one.

We are watching TOMBSTONE. Dick Van Dyke and Wyatt Earp were alive at the same time.

Honestly, this is love. This is life.

never seen a better clapback to "just playing devil's advocate," this made me screech

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

🎼It's Beaux-Arts under scaffolding 🎵

hey, just checking in on this one again

Pam Bondi Thought That Went Pretty Well

hey, just checking in on this one again

Congratulations to Paramount on their new Warner Bros, probably

I'm not sure what this is talking about. The Clerk site clearly has the Roll Call vote with the 218-213 totals. The only related item that was without objection was the subsequent motion to reconsider.

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

Eventually, nobody wants to buy a shitty product.

Might as well just say "Yep"

RULE VOTE FAILS, 217-214. Three Republicans- Thomas Massie, Kevin Kiley, and Don Bacon - buck the party to allow floor consideration of measures to end Trump's tariffs. The first such measure, likely on Canada tariffs, could come up as soon as tomorrow

I wouldn't.

So do we think the House is actually going to hold this rule vote in the next hour?

Seems premature. www.vox.com/politics/478...

Voters: We want them to go further. NYT: Voters unhappy with Democratic proposals to reform ICE 😜

I do find headlines that use "this century" annoying. They are misleading and making out-sized claims. What they mean is "in the past 25 years." www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Hell yeah. Sharp as a tack, jittery as a mouse.

Because they're so unexpectedly good?

This @michellegoldberg.bsky.social piece is a must read on how angry the Democratic electorate is and how badly some moderates are still misreading it (gift link)

The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein

*whisper* NJ-11 is a good preview of the next six months for Ds because, despite the fact that voters are goldfish-brained weirdos with largely unmappable overlapping political viewpoints, their motivation usually comes down to this classic comic:

The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said

You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to Libertarians.

The Patriots can still win if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing.

What can you do with a history degree?

the set design and choreography was so beautiful that it was irrelevant that I’m a dummy who can’t understand Spanish

That Dunkin ad was when I realized we are living in hell

I need the de-aging actor stuff to stop.

What a nailbiter.

It was impossible to look away from that Ilia skate.

that wasn’t perfect from Ilia and it’s still so ridiculous it’s gotta be gold for the US, surely

We obsess about first places and golds and whatnot, but legitimately, one of my favorite things at the Olympics is how much a bronze can mean.

That Italian guy had a hell of a skate.

Merrick Garland's cowardice and ineptitude remains astounding.

Pardon?