Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Calling No Kings a 'hate America rally' when having no kings was a precondition for having a United States of America

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

Chat is it good when a lawyer for DOJ says this

The existence of even one Catholic convert dismantles the central lie of religion, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it. See I can make bullshit, nonsense arguments too, Heritage Foundation.

“But at oral argument today, Justice Sam Alito brought up an important, additional way that he thought Bost could be harmed by Illinois’s law, which Bost carelessly left out of his complaint: People could vote for Democrats.”

Can’t wait for Alito to explain why you have a right to pray at midfield on public school property but should be shot in the head with “less” lethal ammo when you do it in front of an immigration detention facility

The title says it all: The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids 🤬

Hard to see Republican governors in the South salivating at invading blue states in the North and not think that these neo-Confederates have been jonesing for re-run of the Civil War ever since

related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it

this is, of course, not new “Jews run the world” and “trans women will attack you in the ladies room” and “that Black 10-year-old is a scary grown man” are all examples of the same deceptive reframing of where power lies so people can justify doing whatever they want it’s evil every time

"Fuck ICE" is a patriotic sentiment. Perhaps the most patriotic in this moment.

also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)

'this is a long answer not bc the question is hard but bc you're so wrong in so many ways and I'm gonna go through all of them' is a hilarious way to open a court opinion

and for the MAGA motherfuckers on the Supreme Court, there is no greater harm than Trump being *prevented from harming people exactly when he wants to so we get these outrageous decisions like, Well surely the govt will suffer more if it can't arbitrarily make people vulnerable to deportation ASAP

"Something’s not quite clicking... And yet, despite that, Democrats are still winning the public debate. Imagine how big these polling gaps would be if Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries had a comms strategy that had folks fired up."

It's not unlike saying that if Black people were told to produce their papers in the pre-Civil War era and those papers demonstrated that they were free citizens, they were promptly released.

Kavanaugh's explanation of why racial profiling is Actually OK was obviously a crock of shit the day it was written but also, in light of the new lawsuit by a US citizen arrested by ICE twice in 2 weeks, and the horrible Chicago raids, the shitpot is aging poorly ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

I hope this catches on and becomes his legacy

what does an "unconstitutional DEI principle" mean in the context of a tunnel project? what, a black person is going to use it?

“The long overdue changes being made to our military were still too fast and too frightening and too insulting for some straight white men in our country [who] had always taken a very curious pride in our military being (in their minds) the last bastion of white male excellence.”

Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva hasn't been sworn in, so she has to roam Congress with an escort I saw her this morning going through security along visitors — something lawmakers don't need to do when walking into the Capitol More on her limbo status here: www.notus.org/congress/ade...

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

Is this not straight-forwardly a declaration of civil war?

BREAKING: Judge William Young finds that Noem, Rubio, DHS, and State "deliberately" sought to restrict non-citizens' First Amendment rights. "'No law' means 'no law.' The First Amendment does not draw President Trump’s invidious distinction ...." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

you know what probably isn't great for military readiness? turning a blind eye to violent hazing, sexual assault and bigotry, while purging leaders on the basis of race and gender.

I regret to inform you that the new Supreme Court term is opening with a bang next week Tuesday's oral argument in Chiles v. Salazar will feature right-wing activists claiming the First Amendment gives state-licensed therapists a right to traumatize queer kids ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/conve...

Stephen Miller is a school shooter who took control of a country instead

This is exactly why I argue in The Originalism Trap for a different model of constitutional interpretation. We've seen repeatedly that even the most straightforward text can get robbed of meaning, thus robbing us of justice. So we also need to think about how to read that text and what to do with it

it’s like that saying about when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail when you’re a fascist, everything looks like Antifa

we do need this one on T-shirts actually

There is no argument against birthright citizenship other than “I am incredibly racist and don’t like it” It is clearly and simply spelled out in the 14th amendment - if you are born here, you are an American citizen.

Nextar has now also folded and will start airing Kimmel again. Remember this next time they tell you we are powerless in the face of rising fascism. Companies capitulating to Trump need to feel heat. Keep it going. apnews.com/article/jimm...

In that case, the trial court was like, alright we had some hearings, examined some witnesses, plaintiffs had a mountain of convincing evidence showing federal agents are violating their rights in these specific ways And then here comes Brett Kavanaugh like oh federal agents don't do that actually

I was having a similar thought yesterday as I was reviewing the Supreme Court's racial profiling shadow docket order, which--like so many of the Court's orders, as @sifill.bsky.social has pointed out--just substitutes their own nonsense for all the diligent, real fact-finding the trial court did

Today a member of the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government said Comey "should be charged with treason" and I'm now realizing the subcommittee name doesn't actually say if they're for or against the weaponization ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/comey-indictment-making-trump-upset/

new youtube on trump’s genuinely remarkable declaration that he hates his opponents

here we are in this absolute fucking clown car we call a nation, where it's left to an emphatically mid comic to take on the role of speaking truth to power with gravitas on the airwaves, while the literal, actual president delivered the garbled word salad of a violent maniac at the United Nations

anyone who tells you there are non-criminal reasons for accepting $50,000 in a pita pocket is probably: 1) a member of the Trump administration 2) a Supreme Court justice 3) effectively both ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

In her dissent today, Kagan is like, could you please be even a bit less eager to help build a lawless dictatorship, because this is absurd “Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars.” ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

It really shouldn’t be that hard.

“The complaint Trump filed on Monday […] is 85 pages long and reads more like an anthology of his Truth Social posts, with slightly better punctuation.”