The past is past. The story today is Trump cruelty. Focus.

It is pathetic how quick folks are to forget the comprehensive Immigration Bill that was tough, thorough and bipartisan. Led by none other than Tom Cotton. The orange mango blew the whole thing up stating this fascist BS was better for his campaign. 🤷‍♂️😡

We failed. Biden had way more faith that the American people weren’t racist bigots full of hate. 49% of voters chose the man who incited January 6th. The American people failed in spectacular fashion. The American people put Trump back in the White House.

Sadly true. People unable to acknowledge just how out of control the border was in early 2024 need to get their heads examined. Biden did nothing until the GOP made it a campaign issue. And Kamala said she wouldn’t really do anything different.

It’s not messaging. It’s the issue itself. My new political party utterly blew it on the issue of immigration. And it put the fascist back in the White House. Dems must learn from this and not make this mistake again.👇

Did you mean "Dem Party Leadership" when you said "Dem base?" Because that word does not mean what you think it means.

The Dem base hate Jeffries and Schumer, and have been calling for their removal. What "Dem base" have you been imagining exists?

I like BlueSky much better than that sewage dump, Twitter, because there are fewer racists and Nazis here. But there are a lot of people here who seem to be raring for a fight every minute of every day. Are people list addicted to drama?

Two problems with this: one, this leads to the same situation as the Senate where small, rural states have disproportionate power (and thus makes the Court *more* reliably Republican); and two, if we want to get back to a world of precedents, constantly scrambling panels is counterproductive.

I have been suggesting that each state government pick a member of the supreme court (so have as many as there are states) that are a each case draws 7 of them (or 9 or whatever number) at random to over see the case.

Could maybe have some sort of final review mechanism to the full court, with some sort of in built presumption But the current structure seems completely unsustainable in any case

The problem there is you kind of need consistency to make sure final decisions stay final. But that's another potential approach, I agree. My thought is that a regular cadence would keep it from seeming like a generational opportunity.

That blunts but doesn't fully remove the partisan problem and might cause excitement at particular Presidential elections if balances tip Seems it'd be preferable if the court gently reflects election preferences over time but there's not a 100% guarantee of a particular panel.

Agreed. One only has so many characters. My own preference would be to up it to 13 active justices and let Presidents appoint one every two years regardless of retirements/deaths, but have most cases decided by a panel of the juniormost 13. So you get a regular cadence that tracks elections.

Packing isn't the only way to reform the Court. I'm fond of redefining their job duties to just ride circuits at the latter of age 65 or 10 years service, thereby opening a new seat on the active bench. They're still SCOTUS justices, they still keep it for life/good behavior, but their tasks change.

Pack the court and Republicans pack the court after. What is needed is reforms that disarm the Supreme Court as a partisan body. The suggestion to just make a ton of lower courts Supreme Court justices and have panels picked at random seems good. Now you might have to pack the court to get there...

The need for packing the Supreme Court as part of post-Trump recovery has seldom been clearer.

There seems to be an assumption that we either won't have another Democratic president, the Democrats are too ineffectual to use this power in a way they won't like, or they'll just find a way to rule against the Democratic POTUS if/when that happens.

This is the inconvenient truth. People still have the power to take back government. But it takes work, time, and commitment. Picking a political brand every four years is a meaningless level of engagement.

There is not a single system that is immune to being corrupted or taken over by tyranny. None. In the end, it boils down to the people with power being wiling to uphold the law. We have both foreign and domestic individuals who have spent decades planting puppets in positions of influence.

How about a 10 or 15 year term limit to federal judges and a 17 to 21 year for SCOTUS

Five or six terms in the House, with two or three in the Senate, both sound sane & balanced. Also, if everyone in these elected offices, knows that there’s a timer running on them, they will be incentivized to focus on substantive achievements, rather than performative shows and feathering their bed

Nobody said what the term limit would be. It could be something like 10 or 12 years in the House, and 12 or 18 years in the Senate. That would still allow a popular legislator up to 30 yrs in federal office. The problem is people like Grassley who's in his 90s and wants to run for another 6-yr term

The trouble with term limits is everyone generally wants those other federally elected officials in other states to have term limits, but they really like their own federally elected officials. The US doesn't have a Party system like Parliament. Ours is Celebrity Politics, where glamour rules.

1) get rid of the Electoral College 2) increase SCOTUS to 13 seats 3) institute term limits for all federal judges 4) institute term limits for all federally elected officials 5) buff up our Constitution to prevent future attacks 6) No Citizen United 7) federally funded elections, spending limits

All gas. No brakes. America wakes. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

While the outcome should be clear from the plain text of the Constitution, the central project of this court and Administration, together, is to nullify the reconstruction amendments

The fact that there’s barely a president is in fact a major national crisis, given who this (further) empowers www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/the-...

Q: “You said you would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2nd.” Trump: “I didn’t say that. You said that. I didn’t say that. This is ABC fake news.” Trump on Dec. 3: “Whatever they have, we’d certainly release. No problem.”

Donald Trump is the biggest fucking crybaby in all of human history.👇 www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

The more governors and city mayors requiring this from federal agents in their state or city/town, the weaker Trump's grasp on America gets. Stay the path, don't give an inch.

Demand? DHS laughs. If you want to change it, get your local law NOPD involved. Order them to arrest ICE if they don’t follow local laws.

Took the words right out of my mouth. If strongly worded letters did anything, they would have had their effect 6 years ago.

I’m entirely uninterested in leaders who list out our problems. I’m expecting them to start taking action to protect their constituents and communities.

One problem, as stated right in that video, was that unmasking and providing ID was a “request”, not a law. That’s why nothing will change and nothing will happen in New Orleans. Another problem is that many police officers would choose to operate like ICE, if they could and keep their jobs.

Exactly. “We are expressing deep concern…” Do something or GTFO.

I'm so sick of watching all of these officials make nothing statements while these judges use harsh words in a harsh tone and then nothing else happens. Arrest these people for breaking the law. Thats it. Thats the solution.

He said Mexican immigrants were rapists. He said Haitian immigrants were eating cats & dogs. He said immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country.” Let’s be clear: Trump & his ilk are the ones poisoning our nation’s blood. Let’s extract the poison & throw his ass out.

that is what you call the "final curtain"

US President Donald Trump, 79, is looking tired & worn out. Dozes off in assemblies, even when they are talking about him. Just got his treasured 'peace award' from the Gangsters who organise world wide soccer. What's that all about. Pretty big suck-up going on there.

You don't know the Dem base very well. They want the exact OPPOSITE, and have been wanting it since after 1/6/21.

Are these idiots trying to sabotage the pro-Palestine movement? Because this is how you sabotage the pro-Palestine movement.

I see a lot of videos on my IG feed of Israeli Arabs, Muslims, Jews doing outreach on US college campuses and, man, it's going to take some time to undo the propaganda

Adding alt text bc this is too important. Never in my entire life did I think I’d see anyone with the word “Democratic” in their political party affiliation ever try to normalize David Duke. But then came the palimelons.

Imagine running so afoul of normal moral values that you find yourself complimenting the grand wizard of the KKK. Reach out to your family for help because your brain is full of worms.

Man every few months we get an example of horseshoe theory via twitter/social media, and at some point we're gonna have to consider dropping the "theory" part.

Horseshoe theory once again. Free Phallustine: "The literal head of the KKK is not so bad, he hates Jews as much as we do!"

He was "Grand Wizard", which I think is a higher rank, but your point still stands. That movement is and always has been about hating Jews.

It's been a circle for quite some time.