This is the meritocracy they demanded, and yet

When you get visited by three Puerto Rican ghosts

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Yeah no. Don’t set random fires in my neighborhood. People live here actually

But a lot of people who have spent many years in other kinds of activism - activism that is generally far less effective than our networks have been - seem horrified that Minnesota moms and college students stumbled on a new model. They are rushing to assert themselves as the “true” organizers.

Perhaps disqualifying, in fact

decentralized just means "petty autocracy, but obscured"

the maga theory of how you establish an authoritarian state

I read an excellent pamphlet several years ago about how the best kind of security is just to not trust people who act like wreckers, provocateurs, or who otherwise act like abusers. If they're feds, then you weeded them out. If they're just wreckers, you did yourself a favor.

Celebrity crush Elizabeth Prelogar 😍

The justices sound pretty irritated with Solicitor General Sauer; Chief Justice Roberts even told him to stop interrupting KBJ when he kept talking over her questions. He is ... not an effective oral advocate, especially in comparison to his predecessor Elizabeth Prelogar.

PEOPLE ON HERE: fragile Americans want Europeans to coddle them when their country is threatening the world order REALITY: Americans want Europe to kick our asses so that things actually change instead of just posturing about how their leaders aren't currently insane

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

that's right. we need to reinvent liberal internationalism. we're ten years behind the curve on the authoritarian internationale here

the problem with "Dems need more than one message" is that Dems HAVE more than one message but any time one of their messages isn't a message you personally want to hear, everyone explodes into a million tiny pieces AND ALSO pretends that was the only message being communicated

powell's gonna look the red justices dead in the eye and raise interest rates 25 basis points every time one of them asks a dumb question

Reading estimates of 2000-12000 dead in Iran as govt cracks down. Insane FREE IRAN. Down with the regime

Never forget the most ironclad rule of politics: Every abuse you justify against another will be weaponized against you in time. To cheer abuse, violence, or the suspension of others’ rights is to cheer the abuse, violence, and suspension of your own.

With Trump going full authoritarian on Venezuela-Greenland, ICE, and the Fed, the response has to be serious. Four Republican senators (Tillis, McConnell, Murkowski, Collins?) could announce they’ll caucus for now with the Dems to give them control of the Senate to check Trump.

French General Nicolas Richoux: “If the United States attacks Greenland, we should fight the Americans and turn them into the villains of history.”

The “if she had complied, she’d still be alive” line that we’re hearing from ICE defenders is the mantra of apologists for security forces in dictatorships through the ages.

I know votes on legislative packages often involve cross-cutting considerations, and members of Congress will have to weigh those. But if I were a member of Congress, I don’t believe I could vote for any appropriation bill that funded DHS without requiring changes in ICE and CBP practices.

PHILLY, DA Larry Krasner warns ICE agents after Minneapolis shooting.👏👏👏 I will arrest "you( You will go to jail)

3. Bill Day

Another image that sums up the protest.

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

i think people are wildly overestimating the level of strategic thinking behind what just happened in venezuela

I think it's safe to assume any time you spent trying to figure out why they do X is more time than they spent figuring out if they should do X

Call me crazy but I think the woman who actually won the election has a lot more respect from the people compared to the one who had to fake the results to stay in office

Not going to pretend to bring in a legitimate leader. At least not today

it can only good happen

"Fighting" is good and all, but Talarico's tone makes him sound a lot *less* like Republicans. I kinda like it

"there's a new serif in town"

Fingers: [play a complicated passage pretty easily] Brain: hey how are we doing that Me: no brain, I beg of you, don’t— Brain: too late, we’re overthinking things now Fingers: yeah so we can’t play this passage anymore

The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!

No, although I am of course more of a defender of the role of the courts, and the Court, in like ordinary peacetime constitutional government than most The People's commitment to govern themselves through a Constitution that is law entails the use of constitutional courts!

I’m actually terrified to do this, but here goes. One request. You do not comment until you read the entire thread. And you are respectful when you do. If not I will either restrict you or block you depending on how hateful you are. Great, glad we’re on the same page, let’s begin. 1/

I'm anti-Venezuela war, and I will demonstrate about it I am not anti-war, and I will do everything I can to avoid anything that would indicate solidarity with a broadly anti-war group Most Americans almost certainly agree with me on this.

The explicit approach of the gerrymander is to make more majority Latino districts. If Texas wants to bet that Latinos will be reliable Relublican voters in 2026, be my guest!

The far-left has no interest in public opinion. It's all a "scene," subculture. Getting yourself arrested is mostly for clout. And the incentives encourage people to out-radicalize each other until you land in cookoo land

I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.

You're not going to get decent home espresso unless you want to pick up a new hobby. If your job provides all the upfront capital for a good machine and a couple hours of training, anyone can make a good latte.

I think that, in some non-trivial way, my gender is “autism.”

Posted by Mike Pence’s former Chief of Staff.

also, what an image. the president demolishing a portion of a humble people’s house to make room for his royalist monstrosity

Guys wait is Trump really going to personally show up in the tariff oral arguments to stare down the judges like in that scene from the godfather

Really think the biggest win today aside from just numbers is negatively polarizing the regime of 12-year-olds into fully adopting #YESKINGS as their official stance.

I think she actually does make a good argument, but it's ultimately an argument for not doing so much work on the emergency docket! The lower courts are doing fine.

I’d argue there are unusual (not unique) things about America: despite it all the country is unusually tolerant of immigrants, unusually intolerant of authoritarianism, unusually committed to democracy. that’s not because we’re magic but because these ideas have been instilled in us so deeply

“The surest way to screw up the world’s best technical school is to let feds tell them how to run it,” Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie wrote on X. “Congrats to my alma mater for turning down a bribe to let the executive branch dictate what happens on its campus.”