Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

To "Yes, And" this, its p clear that Rs get to treat news media significantly more like shit than Ds do & they happily take it. A big part of what drives this is that Rs have their own media ecosystem that both pressues legacy news media & is a feeder for it. Ds need to build a parallel landscape.

I think that what’s going on re: funding discourse is that the people who recognize Democratic politicians are bad at messaging don’t trust them on legislative strategy, and the people who see the logic/soundness of Democratic legislative strategy then aren’t as bothered by the bad messaging.

Unimpressed by this essay arguing against sanctions. Smaller issues aside, it needs to engage more with the demonstrated failure of economic rapprochement in order to make an effective point on this. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

This is one of those things that in another administration couldve been a months long scandal if the media wanted it to be. call it AgentGate. What did Bondi know and when did she know it? Weeks of opinion pieces etc etc.

The share of Americans who disapprove of ICE tactics in polls: 60+ percent New York Times: “it’s really too complicated to say whether Americans approve of ICE killing Renee Good or not”

He was later asked by a reporter why he said the military is "off the table" for Greenland and replied "we'll see what happens" before adding "The military is not on the table" because he doesn't "think it will be necessary."

fwiw this is the kind of stuff that is going to get us through, not playing rambo

Bernie’s messaging under Trump II barely distinguishes itself from Chuck Schumer’s.

I’m skeptical of this approach because it still grants the conservative premise that immigration is a problem the government must get tougher on, something that never works for left parties in other countries.

Why did Randy Barnett even bother to warn against the horrors of common good constitutionalism if he was just going to allow the flimsiest of originalist pretexts to justify a sweeping fascist transformation anyway?

There is a vast elite conspiracy to infiltrate and manipulate mainstream news organizations and the reason Nuzzi kept failing upwards into better and better gigs is because she was part of it

It’s actually remarkable that Newsom is worse at pretending to have beliefs than even many Republicans. He’s been doing this for years, you’d think he would have learned a thing or two.

Witnesses in Iran comparing (in private coms to diaspora analysts) the violence now against past protest suppression. Said in past used batons, even armed units fired cautiously. This time sustained and constant fire at full volume against crowds, including with machine guns.

hesitant to step in on this but I think people pushing for armed resistance really need to think about the goals of armed resistance and the mechanisms by which it could possibly achieve those goals.

“The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise - with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” - Abraham Lincoln, 1862

We're gonna need to indict and imprison any gulf aristos involved in this shit. And yes, if that means using force or the threat of it on Qatar, that means that. This is a plot to destroy the most essential authority of the United States Congress--the power of the purse.

What's happening in Iran is eclipsing the Tiananmen Square crackdown in casualties already.

coming around to this "primary everyone" perspective

Third Way staking out a position which will very shortly be to the right of the nation's official Dumbest Guy You Know podcaster is so funny. A continental plate drifting a few mm a year could outmaneuver these losers

Follow this link to quickly send your electeds a letter urging them to action against the regime in Iran.

Reading estimates of 2000-12000 dead in Iran as govt cracks down. Insane FREE IRAN. Down with the regime

Deniably put together a unit that includes a supermajority of people who have given contributions to democrats based on FEC records, you’re hearing it more and more.

If the only people who sign up to be police continue to be right-wingers with no loyalty to the civilian governments they serve, I don’t see a way around instituting something like a draft to get normal people in there.

Okonkwo ascendant; things fall apart for Forest

This is exactly how I wish everyone would think about the criminal justice system

I would encourage others to do their own reading on the history here, because this claim is on shaky ground. Historians don't seem to agree whether the US was responsible for regime change in 1953 Iran.

We need our own machinery. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...

Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

Lol

I think this points at a serious issue in media: portrayal of something ostensibly for the sake of criticism can spill over into functionally venerating it. “Antihero” stories supposedly offer a negative example of how to behave—but they also enjoy the viewership of those who like the antihero.

I don’t think it’s widely appreciated the level of misery that drives people to regularly protest under a regime that regularly kills them for doing so.

“”State forces are firing directly at gatherings and protests without regard for whether those targeted are children or adults. The crackdowns are brutal: teargas and military-grade weapons are being used, and detainees are severely beaten before being transferred to undisclosed locations.””

Saying personhood is "realized through participation in the community's social life" is exactly Vermeule's position

leftists stop getting mesmerized by "steven miller but with more Theory" challenge level Nightmare+

There is more than just a tension between liberalism and traditional European modes of thinking. Sometimes we forget as much though because Liberalism thrashed a lot of those modes into submission

not to be snide, but eeeeeverybody hates gesellschaft until it's time to actually live in gemeinschaft

The author here persuasively asserts a tension between liberalism and traditional African modes of thinking. I remain unconvinced, however, to prefer a world where liberalism yields to traditional thought rather than the other way around. aeon.co/essays/decol...

And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration. Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.

The conditions in Central Islip were so inhumane that even the Trump administration has admitted they were wrong. That says a great deal about how bad things really were.

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

Honestly how they actually did it is not far off from this

The author makes some important points here, but also some very wrong ones, most notably the tiring canard that Democrats “abandoned the working class.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Political parties are a coordination mechanism. They are not your Emotional Support Dog. If you don't like the direction of the Party, get in there and turn the ship around.

Interesting anecdote for those who like to insist class/economic conditions explains all.

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...