A few years back: "...Point 13 from Justice Witherspoon's monograph on John Locke's fragment contends..." Today: "First they came for the Cracker Barrel logo. Then, for our Bibles. Are you paying attention yet?"

A simple logo featuring his name? Or a HIDDEN CODE INDICATING HIS TRUE ALLEGIANCE?

Every time I listen to it I am blown away. It never fails.

LFG Pritzker

Imagine being in a political movement where these are the two options

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A simple logo featuring his name? Or a HIDDEN CODE INDICATING HIS TRUE ALLEGIANCE?

This guy slowly transformed from con law egghead to catturd3 before our eyes. The whole subculture is a conveyor belt to lobotomyville.

As @tracinski.bsky.social and others noted a while back, it's not that Trump's appointments are unqualified—it's that they're *anti*-qualified. They're the antithesis of what their respective offices are about. Like this is someone to appoint if you wanted the *opposite* of a fraud watcher.

By "affordable housing" Mamdani clearly meant "establish a caliphate." You may hate it, but this is top tier analysis from the ol' ball coach.

Ahead of New York City's mayoral election, Tibita Kaneene, the political director of @cnliberalism.org's NYC chapter, lauds Zohran Mamdani as a champion of multiracial and multiethnic democracy, and suggests market-friendly liberals can be cautiously optimistic about a Mamdani victory.

*hired Candace Owens

"This is the groundwork for a regime of ideological censorship aimed at suppressing organized opposition to and protest against this administration—and enshrining a shrinking MAGA minority's views as dogma that is officially shielded from criticism." 🔥 @tracinski.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net

Excellent 🧵

No, there is no third term loophole. Please read this from @gowder.io

Terrific, deeply informed conversation on the president's removal powers, with all sorts of fascinating historical details and reading recommendations. Highly recommend! From @andycraig.bsky.social and @narosenblum.bsky.social

The panel on the philosophical roots of illiberalism from @ismapolicy.bsky.social's LibCon2025 is up—and it's really informative and insightful. Give it a read. @andycraig.bsky.social, @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social, @lkatfield.bsky.social, @tomgpalmer.bsky.social

I’d like to hear more about this intriguing theory, actually.

"Authoritarianism is an instinct, a yearning for control, for hierarchy. ... It manifests in different costumes, but it always tells the same story: trust the strongman, fear the outsider, silence the dissenter." from @joshuaeakle.com's superb pro-liberalism manifesto in @theunpopulist.net 🗽🗽🗽

I’d like to hear more about this intriguing theory, actually.

Short 🧵 on @noupside.bsky.social's fantastic analysis distinguishing between government *pressure* and government *coercion.*

"Authoritarianism is an instinct, a yearning for control, for hierarchy. ... It manifests in different costumes, but it always tells the same story: trust the strongman, fear the outsider, silence the dissenter." from @joshuaeakle.com's superb pro-liberalism manifesto in @theunpopulist.net 🗽🗽🗽

🧵 on @lutzfernandez.bsky.social’s excellent piece. Despite the staying power of the Epstein story among the MAGA right, it’s not about the victims, and it’s certainly not about protecting women and children. It’s about finding anything they can use against the elite liberals they hate.

Defend your hearth and home from pastors, children, and U.S. citizens.

Sometimes I can't find the words to truly express my disgust.

The right’s Whatabout Industrial Complex desperately tries to justify the Trump administration’s relentless censorship binge by claiming that Biden did the same thing. But, as @noupside.bsky.social explains, this is based on ideologically-driven revisionist history.

Worse. A heist ends quickly, with the thieves grabbing what they can carry and leaving. Trump doesn't plan on leaving. This is just him starting the plundering, which he hopes his dynasty will carry on for decades.

This presidency is a heist.

Much of northern Maine is so unpopulated that townships don’t even have names, just numbers.

The George Santos pardon is almost cartoonishly partisan. Immediately upon granting it, Trump justified it by whatabouting a Democratic officeholder's alleged stolen valor, and then pointed to Santos' impeccable Republican voting record. Transparently Schmittian stuff.

This was such a pleasure to do — and the write up with links that @bernybelvedere.bsky.social and @andycraig.bsky.social have provided is such a treat!

Fascinating historical and constitutional (and wonky) discussion between @andycraig.bsky.social and @narosenblum.bsky.social on the president’s removal power. This is the level of quality you can expect from Andy’s new project at @theunpopulist.net: The Reconstruction Agenda.

Infinitely pathetic that Vance, Walsh, and countless other reactionary dirtbags like this guy have treated distancing themselves from those chats as some sort of egregious repudiation of who they are.

"Donald Trump will not be in power forever, and neither will his enablers and co-conspirators. In the aftermath of such a dramatic constitutional collapse, there must be accountability, but there must also be rebuilding." My new project at @theunpopulist.net:

Still disturbed by this. Aside from the crass, sniggering vulgarity, it is her JOB to answer fair questions, and this was absolutely a fair question.

United States’ Century of Self-Inflicted Humiliation

Right-wing politics in 2025

🚨🚨 Announcing a new project: The Reconstruction Agenda, spearheaded by @andycraig.bsky.social for @theunpopulist.net. We are so happy to debut it today, as our collective repudation of Trump's authoritarian madness is ringing out from the No Kings protests around the country. Read this.

The left's rhetoric is out of control and inciting political violence. The right's rhetoric is unifying the country through heartfelt appeals to our common bonds as Americans.

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Yeah man, it's super unclear whether he is more like Mamdani or Candace Owens 👍

The left's rhetoric is out of control and inciting political violence. The right's rhetoric is unifying the country through heartfelt appeals to our common bonds as Americans.

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In my latest piece for The Unpopulist, I wrote about the convolutions of the Epstein story and how the throughline is MAGA using children to achieve their political ends. For MAGA, what's supposed to be about the children is never about the children.

Yeah man, it's super unclear whether he is more like Mamdani or Candace Owens 👍

"[The American right] wants to destroy the world around them. There's not one single principle or transcendent value. There's just the will to dominance." - Tom Palmer, #LibCon2025

As @lutzfernandez.bsky.social writes here, the MAGA obsession with the Epstein files was never about justice for his victims, it was only about their revenge fantasies about liberal elites, and now that's been laid bare:

"It's a mistake to think that MAGA's obsession with Epstein stems from concern about child sex abuse. ... For them, this saga is about exposing elites, particularly Democrats—not about delivering justice to victims." 🔥🔥 from @lutzfernandez.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net on the Epstein madness.

They say “I love Hitler” is just a normal “boys will be boys” thing to say and then freak out when they’re called Nazis lol

Among unelected Republican operatives, it’s probably a close race between Mike Davis and Leonard Leo over who has most shaped the federal judiciary from top to bottom