the price of populism

Breaking on MS NOW: Rep. Eric Swalwell is suing Bill Pulte, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, accusing him of violating privacy laws.

Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club." They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.

Man, gotta love some Wall Street guy who decides It’s Time To Care About Poverty and uses vibe math to recalculate the poverty line, as… $136,500 Extreme “it’s one banana, Michael” energy

Israel Strikes Beirut, Breaking a Ceasefire—Again trib.al/QUbaAje

I wouldn't say Cassidy has a humiliation fetish; it's more of a humiliation occupation.

Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?

So, to recap, Ukraine and Europe understand that America has effectively endorsed a 28-point plan to force Kyiv to capitulate, set a Thursday deadline to accept it, and threatened to cut off all aid. Now Marco Rubio says it's all wrong, that's not the plan, there's no deadline and no threat.

The man President Trump wanted to be attorney general was allegedly paying for sex with a 17-year old girl who was working at a McDonald’s, saving up for braces, and partly living at a homeless shelter. trib.al/37tLsLC

If the Republican position is "Republicans should get away with committing crimes in public office" and the Democrat position is "Republicans should get away with committing crimes in public office" then the result will be that Republicans keep getting away with committing crimes in public office

something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked

As a retiring but still sitting member of the House, MTG has the opportunity to read into the public record documents that otherwise could not be released... and would be protected by the constitution's speech or debate clause from prosecution.

"One side is led by fascists. It’s like saying the Civil War, the problem with the Civil War was polarization ...It’s nonsensical. It’s just fascism enabling." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

wonder if the Washington Post has any strong words about the President being buddy buddy with the man who ordered to have one of their reporters dismembered

President Zelenskyy came to the White House, looking for help from his longstanding ally. He was ambushed, humiliated and berated for not being grateful enough. Prince Bone Saw bin 9/11 came to the White House, for the first time since he ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. He was revered.

The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years. canceledpeople.org

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.

There have been a lot of disgusting and surreal moments in the Oval Office over the last 10 months that disgrace the United States, but Trump publicly dismissing the brutal assassination of a Washington Post journalist as insignificant and blowing smoke up the ass of a despotic butcher is up there

If the Biden administration had sent federal agents to do a law enforcement operation 10X milder in a white suburban neighborhood in order to apprehend a serial pedophile and violent domestic abuser who happened to be a white Christian pastor, the MAGA crew would have reduced the country to rubble.

Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein once tried to warn people about President Donald Trump, calling him "evil beyond belief" and "nuts," according to newly released documents from the case.

Once again I must ask, how much use of military force makes for no ceasefire, rather than a “strained” or “tested” ceasefire?

It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct. Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah. Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh. Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count. But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.

Since the ceasefire took effect one month ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 242 Palestinians and injured 622.

actually, I want to see Schumer demand that Durbin step aside as Democratic Party Whip --- it was literally Durbin's job to keep Dems in line with the (supposed) position of the Party leadership -- and for him to be among the traitors should mean immediate expulsion from the Senate Dem leadership

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

There is only one logical interpretation: The Trump Regime-in preparation for a post-Trump state-- with Hegseth in charge of the military is moving oath-fidelity Constitutionalists out of the way, and restructure the military for post/anti-Constitutional moves. Is there another explanation?

Despite liberal hysteria, Charlie Kirk’s message was one of faith, family, and respectful debate. Here’s why so many of his followers have replaced him one-for-one with Nick Fuentes.

In Israel, Leaking Evidence of Rape Is a Bigger Scandal Than Raping a Palestinian According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape, writes @minnahfarshad.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/israel-pal...

When you say something is a distraction, you are not-very-implicitly scolding anyone who makes a big deal out of it: You’re a sucker! You fell for the trick! When the putative distraction is some egregious breach of political norms or actual laws, you are helping normalize and minimize the breach.

The Pentagon believes “they do not need to positively identify individuals on the vessel to do the strikes” and that is partly why the administration has not sought to detain or prosecute the survivors of the strikes, “because they could not satisfy the evidentiary burden.” trib.al/Bw7cKdf

It’s funny to think that the masked ICE Agents terrorizing communities are the same folks that spent two years saying they couldn’t breathe with a mask on.

Remember when the New York Times was so concerned about antisemitism that we were getting three push alerts a day because a Black woman misformated a footnote 28 years ago?

Dutch liberals, together with the Dutch center-right, fight back www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...

Excited for 2028 when some state SoS kicks Trump off the ballot, Federal district and appellate judges uphold it and then SCOTUS issues an unsigned 6-3 shadow docket rulling staying the lower court ruling, allowing Trump to stay on the ballot and schedules arguments for the case for February 2029.

Sorry... is this a thing? Having one party to a ceasefire turn it off and on like a f*cking light switch?

Pausing a "ceasefire" to get a seven or so dozen killings in just to remind everyone how they do things.

“Trump’s administration arrested Sami Hamdi following a social media campaign from far-right, Islamophobic figures.” New reporting from Zeteo on the latest example of this administration cracking down on speech on behalf of Israel. Against a British Muslim journalist on a valid visa:

This is, of course, correct. But I fully expect most Democrats will see it as a cue to take cover, grovel in abject submission or just stop talking for fear of receiving their own federal indictment. Very few fighters left, when that's all we need at the moment.

To me, the popularism project, in all its many guises, betrays itself in one simple way, over & over: perhaps the most popular policy on offer, across party & demographic lines, is taxing the fuck out of the rich. How many of these autopsies recommend foregrounding that policy?

Democrats should run a TV ad in Mike Johnson's district, thanking his constituents for taking the hit on the SNAP shutdown and other government services they use all so Mike could keep the Epstein Files from coming out? "America's Richest Pedophiles Appreciate YOUR Sacrifice!"

Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in local economic activity. Without SNAP, that will mean a loss of $15 billion to the US economy just in November alone.

Forty-one aid organizations accuse Israel of 'arbitrarily' rejecting aid shipments into famine-struck Gaza.

👀 The #EpsteinBallroom

Pretty much sums up the right’s political relationship with Jews

If you took part in a No Kings protest but didn't receive your paycheck, please contact Ted Cruz's office because he has it on good authority that there's an evil rich Jew who is funding all of this.

AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

Hear me out: we need to create space for the conservatives on the Supreme Court to realize that Trump v. US was a huge mistake and to take steps to rein it in Creating this permission structure would have to be a serious enterprise among legal elites for it to work www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Instead of "This is inappropriate!" Democrats - especially those who might run for president - should say right now "Anyone who participates in this should know: You are committing a crime, and in the next administration you will be prosecuted." That will change the frame of the story.