Just saying it right out loud: "We are unable to govern as competent adults. So in order to convince people to help us when we need it, we will make racist middle-school jokes about them until they bend to our will. We are making American great again. Also, we're definitely here on merit."

For those Venezuelans out there, some of whom have now been working and living legally in the United States for over 4 years, I am sorry. This shouldn't be happening to you. Venezuela is still not safe for you. Yet you have been abandoned by your former allies. You deserve better.

Also: it makes zero sense to do a "deal" on any spending when Trump has already proven he will impound appropriated money at any time for any reason and SCOTUS has said repeatedly that him doing so is fine

Middle schoolers walked out www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/l...

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

My guess is this was coordinated across the entire executive branch, like a Hands Across the Hatch Act Violation event or something

hi, federal judge expert here! this is not funny. conservative, Reagan-appointed district judges only use epistolary framing devices in their opinions when they are in extreme distress.

Stunning how far we’ve fallen already.

So exhausting..

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

You could give this man an existential crisis by showing him the bottom half of a muppet

It is always key to remember that none of this would be possible without the Supreme Court and congressional leadership acceding to virtually all that Trump wants, as I have written. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-is-s...

Sinclair will resume airing ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ on its ABC affiliates, ending blackout in dozens of cities

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

imagine telling taylor goddamn swift, with a straight face, that she should perform for free because the exposure is valuable

They’re literally giving prosecutors the names of people and organizations, and telling them to go find crimes. It’s clear from the NYT that the directive came from Trump. This is a direct consequence of Roberts explicitly immunizing weaponization of DOJ in Trump v. US.

Remember that the Trump Administration demands you idolize these agents and not condemn them. But they’re Gestapo trash.

But Brett Kavanaugh assured us this couldn’t possibly happen, which is why racial profiling is very cool and very legal.

Does anyone have Brett Kavanaugh's email? I have something to send him.

Another win for "Fuck you. Make me."

Breaking: Trump's US envoy to Syria (also one of his few personal friends) apparently wholly unaware of what "Islam" means. This is stunning and in any normal world would be career ending for any diplomat in the Middle East.

RELEASE THE HOMAN TAPES!!!

Add me to those saying it’s crucial to acknowledge anti-authoritarian successes. Harvard and NYT are fighting in court instead of folding. Pritzker and other IL leaders kept Nat. Guard troops out of Chicago. Grand juries reject frivolous charges; many lower court judges uphold the law. And more

I know everything is stupid, but a day later and I'm still impressed at the gleeful public willingness to scream out "WE DON'T CARE IF OUR SIDE IS CRIMINALLY CORRUPT!"

If they were all documented, it's hard to imagine how this isn't another example of ICE using workplace as a proxy for determining who to bully and harass. I'm just glad Brett Kavanaugh thinks this is all above board.

PHOTO: Republicans searching unsuccessfully for the balls to stand up to Trump.

Ok, you chose not to charge him. Any public servants in this situation would lose his/her security clearance, at a minimum.

we need more instrumental only bands out here

The idea that the alleged killer in the Kirk case was a right winger is really not borne out by the evidence submitted in the indictment yesterday and people should stop saying that.

Trump: Jimmy Kimmel is next Trump admin: We will definitely exploit this murder to censor our critics Carr: ABC must fire Jimmy Kimmel ABC, minutes later: We have suspended Jimmy Kimmel Anti-cancel culture crusader: I sure wish this clear business decision didn’t look so much like censorship!

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

The project of “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship” (Exec. Order No. 14,149) sure does involve a lot of speech chilling and federal censorship

Just a reminder: they were never actually against cancel culture. They were against the cancellation of people they agree with or like. They’ve always been enthusiastically in favor cancelling people they don’t like. If you took them at their word you’re a useful idiot.

Removing information about slavery at Harper’s Ferry is like removing information about hydroelectric power at the Hoover Dam. “John Brown went to Harper’s Ferry because he was so infected by the woke mind virus that he had a pathological hatred of states rights.”

You “regret” mistakes. This was not a mistake. They deliberately shackled these people and distributed video of them being humiliated. They detained them for days after. What they regret is that, this time, their gleeful anti-immigrant violence wrought negative consequences for the administration.

The extreme, opportunistic, completely disingenuous reaction to Kirk's murder also makes clear that if there's an Oklahoma City or 9/11-level attack in the next few years, this administration will absolutely exploit it to try to end our democracy and permanently entrench itself in power.

It should be way bigger news that Trump effectively killed any attempt by foreign countries to build new factories in the United States with this idiotic ICE move. Just incalculable long term damage. Trump just killed his "build America" push www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

lol come the fuck on, really?!?!? sorry for just throwing government sponsored mass murder out there like a restaurant recommendation…big ol whoopsie-doodle on my part

These pathetic two-bit authoritarian hacks can't even trump up charges competently.

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service.

Any criticism of Patel and Bongino’s failure to solve crimes must also acknowledge past FBI director Chris Wray’s failure to podcast and sell supplements.

This doesn't seem to be an idle threat. Landau is responding to people reporting posts on X with an image suggesting that they'll put permanent black marks in peoples' files or even seek to strip visas from people who "made light" of Kirk's assassination. Another betrayal of the First Amendment.

Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.

Assassinating bad people is still wrong. You don't have to lie and say they were a good person for it to be murder. Come the fuck on.

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

A lot of people mad at Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statement, but I understand him to be saying that the pen (or tongue) is mightier than the sword. That’s not a bad message right now, and you don’t have to like or agree with Kirk’s actual views to embrace that principle