Frog and Toad sat on the porch, feeling sad together.

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Raskin: "It doesn't give me a lot of comfort that Todd Blanche is now the acting AG. This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas."

that downturn in the stock market sure didn't help Pam Bondi

"The Secretary of Defense is a disgraced major that was kicked out of the DC National Guard."

Though Schwartz pleaded guilty to a $39M tax fraud scheme, prosecutors weren’t able to trace how funds moved through his 200+ accounts. Trump’s pardon then wiped away Schwartz’s sentence — and likely any IRS effort to claw back the stolen taxes. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social

Two words. Cognitive decline.

Guy concerned about children of immigrants being “sleeper agents”: We should make life as difficult as possible for immigrants so they hate our government.

As the timing of this term's SCOTUS decision that could gut Section 2 of the VRA comes into clearer focus, I'm going to point back to this paper. In it, Mike and I show that a huge number of policies blocked by preclearance were districting ones -- and these were largely local, not state, plans:

Everyone needs to just keep repeating this, over and over. The politics of a case is NOT JUST ABOUT THAT CASE. There is a meta-game here too. This case is surely going to be used as cover for gutting the VRA. And too many pundits are going to fall for it.

When the birthright citizenship decision comes out, people will say it could never have gone any other way, that the law was obvious. But the mere fact that SCOTUS took on the case is evidence enough that we are living in a time of democratic precarity.

BREAKING: President Trump has issued an unlawful executive order attempting to severely restrict mail-in voting. The Constitution is clear: Only the states or Congress can change election laws.

Because of course it will

Slept in my Husker Du shirt and woke up to a New Day Rising.

New from me: The Senate offered a bipartisan solution to the growing airport crisis. Mike Johnson rejected it, empowering Trump to selectively grab more legislative powers by illegally paying TSA agents. This is an actual constitutional crisis folks. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mike-johns...

Right-NIMBYism is the generally correct belief that you can keep your city exclusive by blocking new housing. Left-NIMBYism is the mistaken idea that you can keep your city affordable and attainable by blocking new housing.

once again, I'm worried about The Tiger.

1/2 This memo identifies absolutely no source of legal authority for paying TSA. It does not point to an appropriation that is available for this purpose, nor does it point to any legal authority to transfer some other appropriation to TSA. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I feel ya Toad...I feel ya.

He's actually describing ICE in parts of this. He really doesn't care about fixing any real problems.

This is what authoritarian control and lack of political accountability look like. When government employees cannot report bad behavior, bad behavior proliferates, and all of society suffers.

I can confirm...it's literally 50 degree colder in Lubbock today than it was yesterday. From here it's possible.

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

making American healthy again, I see.

New sticker on my laptop. Appropriate as the course content for my grad seminar on parties is still not approved by the admin as it might discuss things like race, gender, identity, inequality... As one does when studying American political parties.

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Good boys/girls!

Today's New Yorker cartoon, by Ivan Ehlers

This is both bad policy and bad politics by the GOP. Yet, amazingly, I assume they'll pay little price for this.

This never happened when Biden was president. #TSA

I hope it arrives late

I strongly encourage every American to visit the Gettysburg battlefield site, look down from Little Round Top, and decide for yourself whether Lee was a “brilliant military tactician.”

ICE officers getting paid for standing around doing nothing while TSA employees work without pay is a pretty succinct summation of where we're at right now

Craig Ferguson had a show in Minneapolis last night and presumably is still in town, enjoying a Sunday morning snooze on our fluffiest hotel pilllows, so here is Michael Bland on Ferguson’s TV show pounding the hell out of the drums with Paul Westerberg on Feb. 28, 2005 m.youtube.com/watch?v=8of9...

Remember when people were fired for *reposting* accurate quotes from Charlie Kirk after he was killed.

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

Just a reminder that in January of this year, Trump and Hegseth decommissioned EVERY US mine sweeper. Yep. Every. Last. One. Evidently they could never imagine a scenario in which the US needed minesweepers. In Trump's America, we are governed by idiots.

Trump: "The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money."

24 hours later -- not a peep out of any House Republican leaders or any Republicans in Congress or the Tennessee GOP at all about this. I go no responses from anyone I reached out to. Guess they're all fine with comments like this!

It makes me very happy that this exists.

Potatoes >Yachts!

Leadership by example. Retail politics at its best. Fixing potholes and stopping Erika Kirk from getting paid is my kind of politics

Suck it, Edina! Go Spuds!

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more. They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

If this is our shield, I feel very unsafe.

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

Moment of silence for Kristi Noem’s career

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