Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

Could the Supreme Court still apply different rules to a Democratic president? Of course. You don't need to remind me of that. But a lightning-fast blitz that repurposes Trump's new powers for good stands the best chance of standing up in court. Democrats need to start thinking about this right now.

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions. Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

The best "defense" of SCOTUS' hypocrisy is that there's an asymmetry between how Democrats and Republicans wield executive power. Broadly—Dems want to give things (health care, asylum, foreign aid, loan relief, civil rights) while Republicans want to take things away. SCOTUS makes the latter easier.

I think the Supreme Court and its defenders try to deny this blatant bias toward Trump by highlighting distinctions between cases—oh, you don't understand, student loan forgiveness was illegal while impoundment is permissible because [reasons]. But the big picture tells an undeniably damning story.

When the Supreme Court struck down Biden's policies, it was tempting to think: "At least these limits on executive authority will bind Trump if he comes back into office." But no—the court's skepticism of executive power vanished on Jan. 20, 2025. This dynamic is obvious to anyone paying attention!

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

If we call Medicare-for-all “Trumpcare,” that would be a win for his ego and for anyone who cares about people. The only losers would be Republicans who care about conservative policy and there aren’t many of those left.

Reading this makes me treat anyone's economy degree as an astrology one

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

I think KBJ still isn’t getting the full credit she deserves for spotlighting the Supreme Court majority’s abuses. At a time when so many elected officials are failing so disastrously to meet the moment, she’s doing it.

For both legal reasons and for the sake of your immortal soul.

it makes me incandescently furious that roberts invented the idea of banning coercive conditions on funding to kill medicaid expansion and refuses to do a single thing about the fact that the trump administration's entire deal is "coercive conditions on funding"

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil. The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage. /1

I work with Veterans. If I told them that they "killed people and broke things for a living" they would (rightfully) tell me to go to hell. Those that have had to kill someone in the line of duty most often view it with sadness, regret, and one of the worst experiences of their lives.

I don’t know anything about Bad Bunny but I am very excited that him playing at the Super Bowl will give the worst people in the world brain aneurysms

The president of the United States seemingly can no longer discern between fantasy and reality. This is somehow less of a crisis for our legacy news media institutions than the previous president having a stutter and sometimes mixing some names up.

It’s wild that we’re labeling prosecutors who are doing the bare minimum required by the ethical standards of their jobs “heroes.” Times are wild and sad.

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

I'd love to bask in the schadenfreude of this sleazebag getting indicted by the guy he helped elect with blatant electioneering right before the 2016 election, but that wasn't a crime either and this is indisputably authoritarian persecution that needs to be opposed vigorously.

An easy way for people to understand the legal enterprise they are engaged in on the shadow docket is to fucking write an opinion that explains their legal reasoning.

Folks: SOMEONE was going to be the first to be frivolously indicted (ignoring @replamonica.bsky.social, as you all are). Better it be a rich white guy.

Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.

This is satisfying but also a super commonsense idea. Why speculate about what happened in the interrogation room? Why not just KNOW?

🚨SOURCES: Walters out as State Supt. FOX 25 learned Ryan Walters is expected to resign Friday to take another job. Gov Stitt is rumored to be eyeing former Rep. Mark McBride for the job. McBride tells me he hasn’t discussed it with the gov but would ‘probably’ accept the job… #oklahoma #oklaed

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich." A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

TWIST: this is what police have been doing for time immemorial. It is called: contempt of cop.

“We can return violence with violence. We can return hate with hate, and that’s the problem with political violence—is it metastasizes.” This is also the guy who seems to have a boner at the idea of executing the shooter. Forgive me if I doubt his sincerity about opposing political violence.

Blaming the WiFi is hilarious!!

He has three sons

Is it really a shift, or simply that we only ever gave lip service to “free market” ideology?

The president is boasting about how he has shut down boating and fishing in the Caribbean because everyone is afraid that he’ll murder them.

Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.

This you? Just two hours later?

It is truly horrifying what is being alleged against the Trump administration in the Ghana case. Here is from an affidavit filed in the case today: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"Don't mock or you'll be deported" is the mark of a weak, decadent nation, a petty and insecure failure unworthy of respect.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.

gotta say having a rock star from your town write a banging anthem for your team is truly S Tier stuff 🚨 @kickbacksoccer.bsky.social @kevincho.bsky.social

This is preferable to terrorizing black neighborhoods. But it also just confirms what we all knew: the whole operation is about projecting the image of safety for tourists, politicians, and white residents, not reducing crime. (Which terrorizing black neighborhoods also would not accomplish.)

worrying this much about the ‘swing voter’ is a gamble in that said voters (1) are relatively lacking in durable preferences to appeal to, (2) less likely to hear yr messaging at all, and (3) less likely to vote, let alone on specific issues beyond standard valence issues (e.g, inflation)

To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.

The last sentence of the article is a message from a Houston detective: “Stringer noted that real officers do not wear ski masks.”

Tonight we watched The Two Towers And I realized/it deeply resonated w me just how much characters are repeatedly like Everything is bad. I hate that this is happening. I don't want to be in this fight. But it is happening. And there's good worth fighting for. So I'll fight & it will be good again

This is what made the post-Floyd “no, still more policing” reactionary centrist punditry take so infuriating. Everything Trump is doing now was already being done somewhere locally. And the conventional wisdom’s absolute refusal to engage w it in 2020 helped normalize/solidify it all.

You're living through a major technological revolution right now and it has nothing to do with AI. The United States is in danger of missing it and getting left behind because our corrupt President wants us to be buyers-of-last-resort for fossil fuels owned by his paymasters in KSA and Russia.

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

Bob Clark, VP of marketing for Herr Foods, Inc., said the company was surprised to see it was mentioned in the press. “While we can’t speak to the details of the story,” he said, “we can confirm that our Sour Cream & Onion flavor is money.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/21/w...

some one offers u a bag if potato chips and there are no potato chips in the bag what kind of sicko does that