To forever be associated with legalizing a blatant, un-American quashing of civil rights. Must feel pretty good.

It's important to recognize that Christian Nationalism has nothing to do with the doctrines or teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is an effort to use religion as a shield surrounding a political belief that actually has nothing to do with the religion (a process described by JC Herder in 1789).

Dude, you break it, you own it.

"The president’s nakedly partisan appeal to U.S. military officers was a violation of every standard of American civil-military relations, and exactly what George Washington feared could happen with an unscrupulous commander in chief." —Tom Nichols (gift link)

Judd has an update to this: Argentine media is now reporting that the US billionaire, Rob Citrone, came to Bessent seeking the Trump bailout. Bessent delivered for his pal, and US taxpayers are gonna pay the price. Read it here => popular.info/p/update-hed...

Russell Vought's sadistic threat to kill projects in blue states will blow back on GOP. One getting defunded is reportedly a huge hydrogen project in the northwest that would also serve Montana. Its GOP governor has hailed it as a big job creator. Oops. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2012...

I tested Sora's AI video "guardrails" and I'm honestly shocked how much OpenAI allows. Really, really bad www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell www.instagram.com/bydrewharwell/

This excellent story must have hit a nerve, because it's been in our Top 5 for 10 days straight. Or perhaps people are just hungry to read something—anything—that's not only about the sabotaging of our constitutional republic.

Absolutely right. What this world needs is less selfishness and more heroes like Jane Goodall. Via @vox.com @climatedesk.org @motherjones.com

Who is that masked man? Probably not ICE.

Okay, so, thanks to the Trump abomination, rich couple can now pass along $30M to their children tax-free. They also can use trusts called GRATs to pass along, in some cases, billions. Maybe not the best thing for society, or even their own family wellbeing.

We used to joke at @motherjones.com that our official slogan should be: "It's worse than you think." Okay, well now it actually is. That's one reason you should be a good egg and kick down some dough to support Mojo and other indies like @propublica.org etc. It's even tax-deductible! (For now.)

I keep thinking about it, constantly asking myself: how? Why? How did we get here? Michael Mechanic, a senior editor at Mother Jones, explains in just two words how Trump won. The comments are also worth reading. youtu.be/VUxeRLXaCIk?...

John Koskinen's prediction: The 2026 tax season is going to be a complete mess.

Are we great yet?

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

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Q: How did the White House decide it was appropriate for Jared Kushner to be working on matters that involve Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia -- 3 countries combined that have given him more than $2.5b LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate

MUST READ “‘Career funnel,’ a phrase coined by sociologists … describes the mechanism behind the crowding of elite college graduates into 3 high-paying fields,” despite desire - and prior intention - to serve the public interest. Evan Mandery for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Damn.

It’s a bad look.

Doing this interview was really eye-opening for me.

Unprecedentedly illegal & unconstitutional crimes happening in front of us daily. Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, &, well, here we are:

A cancer on the body politic.

THIS IS THE LEADERSHIP THAT OUR COUNTRY NEEDS‼️

We pay federal taxes to enable this kind of support, and when a corrupt govt makes such funding partisan, it may be time for a massive tax strike by "giver" states like NY and CA.

Trump's FCC yesterday voted to kill a program that provided free Wi-Fi to rural school kids at no cost to taxpayers, falsely claiming the program was "illegal" and was being used to "censor Conservative ideology."

As I was saying.

Kavanaugh sent it out into the *real* world, not the world that exists in his upscale neighborhood, seemingly unaware that there might be a difference between the two.

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

Hmm. Anyone see Mountainhead?

See, THIS should be the Democrats big shutdown demand: That the president and his top officials must swear, under penalty of imprisonment, that all funds allocated by Congress will be distributed as intended.

Encore!

The Trump admin may try to use a shutdown as cover to do the terrible things it always planned on. Killing climate science, by the way, is no antidote to "wokeness." Rather, it's a gift to the oil oligarchs and a massive betrayal of the American people, whose lives and communities are at risk.

This is how the Trump administration roots out waste and fraud: By defunding the people who identify actual waste and fraud.

NEW CASE: We just sued DHS to stop the immigration raids on construction sites. Our client, Leo García Venegas, has been arrested twice just for working in construction while Latino—despite being a US citizen with a Real ID. Here’s a short video explaining the case: youtu.be/rYSfX9Wxs3M

Ronald Reagan–appointed U.S. District Judge William Young: “ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence… To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.”

Does Pete Hegseth's public dismay about fat military commanders extend to the commander in chief? Seems like a slippery slope.

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "The president is an idiot. He doesn't actually understand how the military works."

If Hegseth was spanked as a child, it clearly didn't do him any good.

Jon Stewart on the media's inability to analyze shootings beyond a simplistic left-right political paradigm

No need for these "stupid" rules of engagement," says Hegseth. Like, you know, making sure you are aiming at the right target, and not targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure. www.trngcmd.marines.mil/Portals/207/...

Arlo Guthrie did it better. youtu.be/-NzFJxX8yoY?...

Private equity landlords are struggling? Kindly pass me the world's smallest violin.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

Your tax dollars at work...

Where are all the generations of Harvard alumni? Are you really gonna let this happen? What's the point of having power in society if you're too chickenshit to tell this administration where they can stick it?