Hell, why have modern medicine in the military at all? Let's get back to vicious battlefield amputations. Anesthesia is woke.

This @goodauth.bsky.social piece shows lots of ambivalence in Republican views of Iran and Trump's foreign policy Most are not strong supporters of the war or how Trump's handling it; and a majority of GOP voters still want the U.S. to be less involved overseas goodauthority.org/news/republi...

This week in the USA * Revealed Def Sec looked to invest in defense corps. in run up to Iran invasion * Pres tried to intimidate justices by attending oral argument * in midst of war, Pres spent time defending a pro golfer DUi, fussing over a ballroom, & belittling a rock star

In all seriousness... what did that achieve? what was the point of putting the president on TV, if he had nothing new to say? "Suck it up, it hasn't taken as long as Vietnam" is not as heartening as the White House seems to think.

Gerald Ford vetoed naming a post office after himself.

An honor to talk to Dahlia Lithwick about the policy + legal history of US citizenship & migration. It is horrifying that my book drops as SCOTUS decides the constitutionality of the birthright citizenship stripping EO. What U don't know about this history can shape your support for present law. 1/

The Kushner brand is basically: I'm hear to offer peace deals and get money, and I'm all out of peace deals

I could not be happier by this. Daines has been a Trump enabler and used the steal election rhetoric in the lead up to the attack on Jan. 6. He intended to vote against certification, but the violence unleashed by his rhetoric gave him pause. A cynic who road the Trump wave who knew better. Adieu.

Hegseth Starts Proceedings Against Sen. Mark Kelly Over His Remarks www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

@omarchaudhuri.bsky.social You posted data on X a year ago that showed Premier League clubs by 2024 constituency results. Would you be willing to share the data indicating the stadium location of each club and the constituency in which it resides? I'd like to drill down a bit in terms of vote totals

There's a good reason for this law: It could be construed as a partisan favoritism or a possible campaign donation for someone who could still run for an office (JQ Adams, for example, later served in Congress). (1/2)

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

It’s time to dump some coffee in Boston Harbor ya’ll.

But that's not all! During Trump's presidency, he took credit for a vaccine to end the pandemic, and Democrats...urged everyone to take it! ...which so upset "conservatives" that they not only turned against that vaccine, but against vaccines in general.

The F.B.I. Is Using Polygraphs to Test Officials’ Loyalty www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

One of these is not like the others and it represents a dangerous new expansion in Trump's tariff adventures, meddling in internal criminal matters in other countries.

In my latest at @misofact.bsky.social I draw on political science findings to explain why Trump’s populist government passed a deeply unpopular and regressive set of policies. open.substack.com/pub/misofact...

The "unitary executive theory" is a fancy name for a strategy used by authoritarians worldwide, rebranded for the US. It’s a legal blueprint for a power grab, and my new article explains how it turns the law itself into a tool for undermining democracy:

This is a nightmare. Who the hell taught these jokers Intro to American Politics? Congress is supposed to be the powerful branch—not the Executive.

@leahlitman.bsky.social Reading Lawless now. It is totally inaccurate to call Ginsburg a moderate Justice. She anchored the left wing on the Court.

*Biden tries to forgive student loans* SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. *Trump revokes part of the constitution* SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

SCOTUS just stripped judges' power to stop unconstitutional orders nationwide in a move KBJ calls "an existential threat to the rule of law" The Court has chosen a side, and it isn't the rule of law. Lower courts can't protect the Constitution because the Supreme Court won't let them.

It’s true, as many have suggested, that if they can do this to Sen. Padilla, they can do it to others. I’d only add that they already have been doing this to others. A mass deportation regime, sooner rather than later, becomes contemptuous of civil liberties and basic decency.

"The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind."--Section 10 of New Hampshire's State Constitution.

False. They did predict the voters would be this stupid. They did NOT predict the utter lack of morality among so many of our political elites who put idolatry above their sacred oaths to defend the Constitution.

Not The Onion. A state government forcing partisan misinformation on students. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

This is awful. Academic polls are essential to the study of the political world.

We have completely deranged folks in charge of our government

New, from me: Elon Musk is the biggest loser in Wisconsin. His brazen effort to buy a state supreme court did not just fail - it undermined his image of political kingmaker. This is the clearest indicator that voters are angry with Trump/Musk agenda. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-bigges...

Booker is still going. Dems should join him and keep this up. Shut the Senate down. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

I know this is an obvious point to make, but the fact that the General Attorney is so openly committed to going after Trump's enemies and shielding his supporters, that the Justice Department is being mobilized so explicitly and aggressively as an instrument of the regime, is really bad.

If “writing an angry oped while not a full citizen” now qualifies as punishable activity, I would suggest Marco Rubio and this admin look at a group of uppity upstarts who did something called the Federalist Papers….

Remember: the incompetence of Trump’s appointments was—from his standpoint—a feature and not a bug. Why? B/c they were completely beholden to him due to the fact no one else would ever appoint them to these positions because they are so fundamentally unqualified. Predictably, we’re paying the price.

Oh, you are posting years old videos of Hegseth denouncing others for sloppy security practices? Joke's on you. He was drunk during most of those appearances.

Pete Hegseth in 2023 on Biden "handling classified documents... flippantly": "If at the very top there's no accountability," then we have "two tiers of justice."

What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!

This from the New York Times this morning. Beyond a doubt, the most responsible are the voters. He told us what he would do and a plurality still voted for him.

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

What an evil man.

Once again, Mr. Green (z”l)’s Unified Theory Of 🇺🇸 Politics remains unparalleled in its parsimonious explanatory power:

And now Bannon is doing the Nazi salute and getting applause at CPAC.

I ordered Mike Hukabee’s propaganda. And wow! Perhaps my favorite part is where Huckabee asserts that Trump is only the 4th president without president without political experience, and then FOUR other presidents are listed as having no political experience, one of which is Washington.

American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

One more thing about this piece of bullsophistry by Barnett and Wurman on birthright citizenship. To the framers of the 14th Amendment, people who had, by bad actions, failed of allegiance, obedience, and amity were not a hypothetical problem. *There were hundreds of thousands of them.* 1/