Rural counties believing that spinning off the economic engine of the state will result in *lower* taxes does deserve more than smirks, it deserves a better civics education

Here's my Lindsey Graham obit. While most people are focused on his late career villian arc, I will never get over his sneering, hysterical defense of an alleged attempted rapist. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

“ This legislation is illegal unless it is written to satisfy the secret thing.” “May we know what it is?” “No.”

Yes, Texas trial court procedure SHOULD be nuked from orbit (just like the SCOTUS shadow docket). Thanks for hammering the point home, man.

stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.

Circular and vacuous. Ignore this.

If federal law enforcement officers are permitted to shoot people, cite vague concerns for "public safety," and get away with it, we're headed for a really dark place.

Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

”abolish ICE“ means (1) abolishing a particular agency and (2) salting the earth so that nothing that does what it does can ever emerge again—no matter what it‘s called or who is in charge of it.

This fuckweasel (Wurman) has a named chair at a top 30 law school lmfao.

I dunno man. If I were a law student of Prof. Wurman's at UMinn Law... I'd be asking for my money back. What happened wasn't "sue and settle." It was "sue an agency you control & have them provide you a massive economic win as a 'settlement.'" If I can figure that out, so can Wurman

I guess I just don’t understand how stupid you have to be not to see the world’s richest man embracing boilerplate white nationalism because it allows him to present himself as a victim bsky.app/profile/bren...

this is “pete hegseth wants an all-white military”

A bridge to fascism. Just stop.

One of the people JFK celebrated in his Profiles in Courage book was Republican Senator Edmund G Ross, who cast the deciding vote to acquit Andrew Johnson in his impeachment trial.

Folks, there are two SEPARATE processes happening in South Carolina. I keep reading that the GOP will be down a seat to replace Alito (should he retire), but that is not the case because of this:

Watching these morons deal with their own mortality is more than enough to push one into the arms of the ancient Stoics. Or the modern Buddhists. Either or.

Omg

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP.

I think one of my "favorite" Lindsey Graham moments was how he said in 2016 (see video) and 2018 that if there was a SCOTUS vacancy during the final year of Trump's term that the next president should pick the replacement. (Then in 2020, ignored himself and voted to rush Barrett onto the court)

Omg

Get ready for the parade of politicians and media figures telling us a lying fascist warmonger was a wonderful human being.

"Okay, your first mistake here is not letting the fire die out before putting the meat on the grill, but I honestly think your main issue is that you put a bear in charge of making the food."

To me, one of the major shifts in US society and politics was that for decades we had successfully marginalized these voices to the fringe. We must do so again. You do not, under any circumstances, have to amplify these voices.

Lyman stone is a christofascist freak and it is insane that people pay attention to any of the nonsense he says

Clarence Thomas will not rest until every man, woman, and child in America owns a howitzer

The fact that his technique is genuinely on point just kinda makes everything else feel slightly more insane

To the relief of Democrats in Maine (and elsewhere), Platner formally exited this afternoon, instead of waiting until Monday.

An excellent little rant about the myriad structural reasons why health care care produces florid market failures.

This is the same "we have to confirm him because they say this about all our nominees" Republican defense of Kavanaugh, except that of course "they" didn't say it about Alito, Roberts, Gorsuch, Coney Barrett, etc. etc.

> no radio ads DAWG

And this guy -- Justice Thomas, not Brad -- had the gall to ask me inches from my face if my law school knew I was a fraud.

NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

The two parties are not the same.

Every conservative pundit’s working overtime to try to make Platner’s sexual assault the face of the New Democratic Party and Donny can’t help but go “well hold on a minute, maybe she made it up”. What an incredible political specimen.

My take? Fuck all these guys. They had a chance to make a graceful exit and refused, now they should never work a respectable campaign again.

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

“He went down countless online rabbit holes, becoming so consumed by the videos and the theories that his wife, Usha, told him she was worried about him.”

For better or worse, Bluesky has attracted a disproportionate amount of earnest people, and that is actually a helpful quality to evaluate the character of public figures

The judiciary has been polluted under Trump and must be packed at the soonest opportunity to neutralize the impact of this poison.

There's a non-zero chance that Trump announces American withdrawal from NATO if FIFA decides to reverse course on that red card again

FIFA Shadow Docket

From the Telemundo broadcast just now by the commentary team during a slow-mo replay of the goal and a shot of Haaland with his hair down: "This is a perfect goal. The ball didn't touch anything." In exaggerated, gravely, dramatic voice: "TERMINATOR"

I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off

🦇 This is how blue states and Democrats can *actually* *perform* alliance with trans people. More of this. Much much more of this please.

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

400 masked cowardly Patriot Front bros walking through D.C. once, then fleeing ain’t shit, peeps. They are a tiny fetid drop in the American bucket. Remember Minneapolis at -20F. We are bigger, braver, and stronger. By a mile.