There's a more than a few out there that get the reference. Enjoy. #Survivor #Survivor50

There shouldn’t be a Department of Homeland Security. It’s a grab bag of various agencies under a dangerously murky heading which can and now has been co-opted for a fascist transition. Abolish ICE and redistribute the other agencies.

Rep. Jamie Raskin on the J6 pipe bomber: "There are only two real differences between the pipe bomber and the rioters. First, Mr. Cole was thankfully unsuccessful in his efforts…Second, it's not yet been determined whether Mr. Cole got a pardon from Donald Trump."

Should we draft nonvoters in swing states first if WWIII breaks out?

Danish and Greenland ministers just left the White House. It did not go well. I have a long discussion here of Trump's attempt to get Greenland and why it could lead to World War III. (Gifted.) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I don't know if a starter making only $115 is worth taking up a roster spot.

A broader thought experiment: What if a person was appointed by an ineligible person and confirmed by Congress despite having notice that the appointer was ineligible? Would that appointed person, therefore, be exercising authority unlawfully?

What if a person was appointed by an ineligible person and confirmed by Congress despite having notice that the appointer was ineligible? Would that appointed person, therefore, be exercising authority unlawfully?

Frost: For so long, the right wing has held up patriotism as a vibe, as an aesthetic. But patriotism is more than bald eagles and flags and beer. Patriotism is about loving the people who live in the damn country — every single one of them.

Mass pardons are coming. There will be no accountability without treating those as null and void. And that means a future administration taking an official position that Trump is not the legitimate president right now because he is disqualified by the 14th Amendment. The two things are inextricable.

“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” said TJ Sabula, the UAW worker who heckled President Trump and who Trump flipped off and cursed at. “And today I think I did that.” Gift link: wapo.st/4sG38CD

Sigh. We could have had class, love, and dignity at the top. Meanwhile, Trump is flipping off a heckler.

MVP Kamala Harris making space for and hugging Miss Geneva Reed-Veal, Sandra Bland's mother.

anyone NOT clear that this guy needs to be prosecuted under the full extent of the LAW? he's the ENABLER for all these MURDERS taking place under the unqualified racist idiots

The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.

Assuming there will be no election gives cowardly and lazy people a reasonable sounding excuse to do nothing. "I don't want to be political" means you don't care. I'm sure there are some people who think you're cool and edgy for it.

I wonder if anyone will revisit their charitable interpretations of Elon’s definitely-not-a-Nazi-salute

Hey, @democracydocket.com , @fsfp.bsky.social: do you have an up-to-date list of insurrectionists running for office (at any level)? Add this clown. He's disqualified under 14.3, like Couy Griffin.

He is ineligible to run under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The pardon covered only criminal liability.

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Anyone withnessing the chaos and barbarism of the untrained thugs masquerading as law officers for the last nine months understands ICE is raw human trash gathered into a lawless street gang. That's all. This isn't policing. It isn't legal enforcement. It's just incompetent, undisciplined terror.

There better be more than one guy speaking up and getting removed. bsky.app/profile/bria...

SOTU will be on February 24.

Never thought I'd see this one.

The Minneapolis ICE murder video is not the fucking Zapruder film. Not an ambiguous mystery wrapped inside a riddle. The coldblooded homicide is so obvious it's what Netflix execs dream of: a plot you can easily follow while folding laundry.

According to the MPD, the ICE observer that was shot is a 37 year old white woman.

“To ICE: get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite.” — Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey

This is why I posted the video when I did. Sorry there's not more warning on the post, but I was in the streets. Multiple media sources had the video for a while, and the right-wing propaganda machine was already sending their lies out. I saw it with my own eyes.

NEW: MAYOR FREY: “They are already trying to spin this as an act of self defense. I’ve seen the video myself and I want to tell everybody directly; that is bullshit.”

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." — George Orwell. The footage is already out there. ICE executed a woman in broad daylight.

JFC, this ICE statement on their MN murder is so over-the-top you know it's a lie.

from what i’m seeing, it appears corporate press is treating trump’s takeover of greenland as an inevitability rather than the fever dream of a dictator

Massie: "Release all of the Epstein files by tomorrow or I will switch parties." Who else can make some demands?

Here on January 6, Insurrection Day, I would like to remind you that SCOTUS did not vacate the lower court's finding that Trump is ineligible to hold office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. His actions may be challenged as ultra vires and the de facto officer doctrine might not save him.

So tomorrow is Insurrection Day. I wonder how many people actually understand that Trump v. Anderson was a narrow holding. Anyone want to discuss the vulnerable de facto officer doctrine? Who would have thought someone so orange lacks color? @williambaude.bsky.social

We will #NeverForgetJ6

This is the exercise of the Article II protective power to defend federal officers exercising an arrest warrant.

I have little doubt the text on the page he's reading from says "Jew Dishes."

Three weeks ago President Trump, "They took away our oil rights, they threw our companies out, we want it back"

Trump and his cronies can try to dress this up, but it is an illegal act of war to replace Maduro and grab Venezuela's oil for his billionaire buddies. Full statement below:

News: Gang of Eight in Congress were only notified about Trump's Venezuela operation after it began, source familiar tells me. That means the heads of the Intelligence Committees in Senate and House were *not* consulted. Just crazy.

Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.

Impeach.

Where Jack Smith says Trump engaged in insurrection without using the word insurrection:

Jack Smith in just-released House Committee interview … about Trump: “The attack that happened at the Capitol … does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit” youtu.be/1NOVLkzycPI?...

Five years ago today:

Great question from @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, the Miami Herald reporter whose investigative series on Jeffrey Epstein led to his indictment in 2019.