Prosecutorial misconduct is nearly the norm, it almost always goes undetected and un-investigated because most defendants lack the money to expose it. I believe the presumption of regularity has never been warranted, and I think they're all a bit crooked, and that's what makes the system "work".

Hard to tell which is worse. A DOJ that doesn't uphold the law because it is political or a DOJ that doesn't uphold the law because it doesn't want to look political.

Republicans: Democrats are scum of the earth that we need to expunge from life Democrats: Let’s play baseball together

It's hard for me to buy the narrative that most Americans are good people when we have to root for an economic collapse just to get people to abandon a cruel, lying, bigoted, misogynistic, fraudster, criminal, rapist.

It's easy for folks to feel sympathy for Comey, given how Trump has hounded him & even his daughter. But NO ONE is more responsible for Trump's election than he is, he broke DOJ rules to help Trump & he still denies it and would do it again. Thus, ALL his suffering is ENTIRELY deserved.

@normornstein.bsky.social? bsky.app/profile/jabb...

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

So many liberals with very high perches represent bad liberalism.

Sanders is, alas, the perfect example of a Democrat who believes "the people" will do the work for him and other Democrats who are afraid of their own power. Any Democrat who invokes the idea of people's uprising is scared.

People who oppose expanding scotus have to be run out of the Democratic Party

Apparently you can screw the American people and the United States as a country a million ways to Sunday but woe betide the president who is responsible for the price of gasoline going up a buck. Democracy schmocracy, as long as I can afford to drive my F150.

I wish I didn’t know as much about the end of Reconstruction as I do. If you understood what is being unleashed now, how it will touch every aspect of our civic life, and how difficult it will be to undo it, you wouldn’t be able to think about anything else.

Again, the point at which Democrats needed to burn it all down & stop the authoritarianism in its tracks was December 12, 2000, when the Wizards In Robes decided that people's votes didn't need to be counted. Everything since has been the inevitable outcome of that levee breaking.

just a reminder that biden wouldnt even get rid of the trump stooge fucking up the mail politicalwire.com/2026/05/11/p...

I still feel like we have talk a bit more about this "stock market is at record highs" thing while roughly 20% of the world's oil just disappeared.

The election of Donald Trump is going to go down as one of the most disastrous, calamitous own goals by a nation in the history of humanity. We’re really speedrunning through the consequences at this point.

I find it absolutely bizarre that people think in January 2029 all of this ends. What’s happened to our society cannot be undone. People have died. Many more will before then. These people don’t believe in the peaceful transfer of power as we know.. there was an insurrection. They won’t be leaving.

@ericlisann.bsky.social: Ugh. Did you see this recent pathetic “hindsight is 20/20” thread by Bradley Moss about the Biden/Garland DOJ? Truly amazing. Approaching Trumpian “Who could’ve known that Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz?” levels of cope & self-delusion. bsky.app/profile/brad...

Hard to see so many basic rights being dismantled and not view the Biden interregnum as a total failure. His presidency was premised on restoring institutions and stability, and so many of the wins achieved have already been undone by Trump (as well as 50+ years of progress).

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Gotta love how Abby Phillip says, “Everybody calm down.” Not, “SCOTT calm down.” bsky.app/profile/acyn...

After the insurrection, the low level thugs were the only ones to face consequences. The high-level organizers & funders walked free. One of them was Ginni Thomas. Another one was Donald Trump. Another one was Roger Stone. Another one was Steve Bannon. This all led to the downfall of USA.

Unfortunately the administration seems to have latched on to a key vulnerability in our constitutional order, which is that if you charge ahead and do the illegal thing, you often get most of the result you wanted even if you later lose in court.

There will be lots of chin-stroking columns about political violence and lowering the temperature that will studiously ignore we're still talking about the guy who had a lynch mob sack the Capitol and try to kill the vice president.

“Everybody needs to turn down the rhetoric.” -supporters of a guy who threatened to destroy an entire civilization of 90 million people

Are we really indulging the BS of a man who incited the worst violent political attack Washington has seen in modern memory, fostered hate and division, called for executing his opponents and sent thugs into our streets as he and his minions hypocritically condemn political violence?

There are a bunch of dead Iranian schoolgirls that would probably not be moved much by the war stories of a bunch of black-tie media partiers who came within 1000 feet of a presidential security breach that resulted in the cancellation of stand up comedy from the guy responsible for their murder.

Donald Trump called Somalis “animals.” He said Haitians eat dogs and cats. You fucking journalists had a party with him and now you want our sympathy. Fuck off.

Anyway. I’m glad nobody was hurt and I’m sure the journalists who attended the WHCD will not center themselves and their personal experiences and instead remain focused on holding the powerful accountable and informing the people about their government.

Really can't be stated often enough: outlets like the Atlantic that spend half their pages reaffirming the worst stereotypes about the left, elevating every dippy accusation toward the left, constantly putting the left in the worst possible light ... help the fascists. They just do.

watching the constant gop weaponization of govt and reconciling it with how democrats said they can't do good stuff because the unelected senate parliamentarian said no

Honestly, it’s exhausting to have such dumb, corrupt, incompetent, reckless and evil people currently running the country. What a sad expression of the failure of education and morality in a country that once could pride itself on advancing talented and capable people.

America is morally lost and a garbage country. I am certain, more than ever, if Trump's economy was booming, he would have massive support. The rape, bigotry, misogyny, cruelty and criminality do not matter to a majority of people. We shouldn't have to hope for a recession for people to reject him.

The Gerrymandering Fight Should Be A Dress Rehearsal For Court Packing open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

@ericlisann.bsky.social: Thought you might find this video interesting. There's been an amazing community on Substack devoted to crowdsourcing The Epstein Files. Two of the key figures in it have been @levparnas.bsky.social & @redpencilscript.bsky.social (Ellie Leonard). 1/ youtu.be/xv1hoIVXNmI?...

7. But liberals don’t want to believe that about America, even when they acknowledge that the country often falls short of its stated ideals. We tell ourselves that whatever tyranny we face is a temporary setback to the inevitability of America's true soul being revealed once and for all.

6. The law was never applied equally, forget universally. It has usually been just another tool for powerful political elites to maintain their preferred status quo.

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

@kim.senate.gov voted for Noem. bsky.app/profile/atru...

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

I really don't like this 25A medicalization talk. "Fail a mental fitness test"? That frames this as if it's some unproven possibility of a particular mental illness, which is totally irrelevant. I don't care what boxes he checks in the DSM-5. That he's unfit for office is not a medical diagnosis.

Trump cannot mass pardon people so that they are immune from crimes he directed them to commit. No one should accept his logic as valid and himself, as well as all those other people, should absolutely face federal charges.

I’ll never get over the complete insanity of an evil rapist convicted felon who has corruptly abused the pardon power to help his fellow criminals as well as January 6 terrorists calling other people “weak on crime” let alone the Pope.

It worked! You can say the same thing about so many shitty moves the last 10 years. Trump's crude lies about Hatian immigrants ... worked! Consolidating media under RW billionaires ... worked! Flooding state level races with crypto money ... worked! The anti-woke moral panic ... worked!

The only way to prevent that from working would have been some coordinated collective action—everyone (or at least a critical mass) walking out and refusing to use the service. We couldn't manage that, & so now, US political & journo elites are marinating in RW discourse & being pulled right.

The most frustrating & disheartening aspect of life these days is that the shitty things shitty people do ... work. They're rewarded. Over & over again, we are collectively reinforcing the lesson: you can do this shit. Try it. To take just one example: Elon buying Twitter. It worked.

The bad guys won. bsky.app/profile/ryan...

What will the congressional Democrats do with the power they are given? I would like that question to be at the forefront of our minds whenever we discuss Trump’s vulnerabilities.