This is a terrific illustration -- for elected officials but also for media figures -- of the incredible power of simply refusing to take a bullshit dodge for an answer. Keep asking the question, over and over again, and make the weasels squirm.

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

Ana Navarro: Let’s remember that lCE has kiIIed before, just kiIIed again today. A lot of times has lied about it, has explained it in a way that does not fit the video that we see and, testimony from people on the ground. Over 52 people have died in lCE custody.

20-year-old me will forever be shocked that Bill Kristol is now to the left of like 80% of the Democratic leadership on ICE.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Joan Sebastian Guerrero Ruben Ray Martinez Alex Pretti Renee Good Dozens of other innocent lives. These deaths aren’t mistakes. They’re the result of choices. Policy choices. Funding choices. Choices to not hold this Administration accountable. It’s time to SHUT. IT. DOWN!

stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.

Just an astounding level of bigotry that many of us had assumed had been relegated to fringe corners and ancient history now brought back as the mainstream planks of the modern MAGA GOP.

once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

The reason why ICE agents continue to shoot people is because nothing ever happens to them when they do. They essentially have been granted full immunity for whatever they choose to do to people by a lawless regime of thugs.

the country we know dies within these camps. anything short of their total destruction and the prosecution of their architects will doom us.

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

If the argument here is "Brad Lander is too safe as a Jew in diaspora to tell Israeli Jews how to keep safe," that sits uncomfortably with the argument that a Jewish state is necessary to keep Jews safe.

When someone tells you it has always been this bad, the correct response is to point out that the Voting Rights Act passed with 98 votes in the Senate in 2006 and its main sponsor was a Republican who worked with the ACLU to build a comprehensive record in defense of its most “controversial” parts

Republicans in Tennessee have taken control over the Memphis airport, taken its control over its schools, taken its control over its police, sicced the military on Memphians, taken its representative in Congress, and taken its state lawmakers’ committee seats. This is the result.

Advocates say the move, a part of the mayor’s affordability agenda, will save New Yorkers up to $162.5 million annually.

The wild expansion of the Scam Economy, and the way the Trump administration is making it infinitely worse, is a potent political issue that Democrats should really take up. EVERYBODY HATES THIS KIND OF THING. Wouldn't it be good to be the party fighting it?

Don’t look away from Memphis. Don’t look away from Houston. Don’t look away at the nationwide ICE surge. The trump administration is counting on you losing interest and falling for its tweak in tactics. zeteo.com/p/trumps-vio...

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

God DAMN lmao. Feminism most vindicated social movement in history?

Just the most evil shit ever. An entire administration of monsters.

Maine could be legends.

A lot of the best takes on Platner have come from women pushed out of politics in the wake of men’s violence. Sometimes they were victims, sometimes they were in solidarity with victims. Often, the perpetrators were staffers who will never face the scrutiny candidates do. It’s a systemic issue.

SAD PEOPLE IN TRUMP HATS EVERYWHEREEEEE

Work's done! Time to get on bluesky and catch up with the Schism Enthusiast @clairewillett.bsky.social

Heritage we can all celebrate

Hong Xiquan, studying for the imperial exam for the third time:

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction (& Still Can): a Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2026

Here's the argument: MAGA can't accept a sealed border, an end to TPS/asylum, and the closing of other legal pathways as success. Their movement isn’t really about securing the border. It’s about ethnically cleansing the country. My exchange with Raul Pinto on this: newrepublic.com/article/2125...

Things like this are always a nice reminder that the other side has unhinged panic posters too

The richest man in the world is again publicly telling his hundreds of millions of followers that he supports the vigilante murder of his political enemies followed by the killings of immigrants, all to the crickets of any mainstream media attention.

French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

i think it’s cool as fuck that @bradlander.bsky.social is using his platform to demonstrate how this is a normal thing that shouldn’t be at all difficult & doing so in such a correct way

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Lander is just running for Congress and he wasn't trying to make a video about a positive vision of masculinity but guys if you want to see a positive vision of what it means to be a man here you go.

incredibly funny that we’re trying so hard to surrender and keep failing

If you showed this to American leaders in 1926, they’d assume an Iranian army had sailed up the Potomac and captured Washington.

It is impossibly hard to get an indictment for stalking when the stalker is an abusive ex. It makes my blood boil that the DOJ indicted Minnesotans for observing ICE as a form of stalking. These laws do not protect us. But they can be weaponized against us.

I think Will's mistake is that nothing about this is new at all. One of the major issues of the 1980 Presidential election was the idea that Jimmy Carter was refusing to retrieve US POWs who were still trapped in Vietnam even tho it turned out there were literally 0 of them in reality.

If there's one thing US institutions are good at, it's abdicating responsibility for structural problems by framing them as individual failings. Think blaming: -"Bad apple" cops for the broken carceral system -"welfare queens" for the threadbare safety net -"angry feminists" for fertility declines

They must have signed the Persian original as proposed by Iran and unprofessionally translated, with minimal changes and no evaluation by professional State or Treasury staff. Baaically an Iranian diktat. Extraordinary.

They’re calling it the decade’s most relevant political cartoon

I wrote about Marty Embry’s viral MAGA hat experiment, and why his both sides conclusions are wrong. when you put on a maga hat, you’re telling a lot of people you hate them. They’re allowed to believe you. That’s not intolerance. It’s self preservation. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/fascism-is...

People can be so beautiful

We are experiencing a radical deconstruction of our republic, and the only answer to radical problems are radical solutions. Expand SCOTUS to 27. Pick up the “good behavior” clause and weaponize it. Affirm the ERA. Normalize Constitutional amendments. Expand the House by population density.