It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection. I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

If a high ranking Democrat ever said "the NFL sucks" it would be looped endlessly on the news as proof of how out of touch Dems are for the next 40 years.

If you understand the history of American coinage, you understand just how much of a full-circle betrayal of American values this represents. Here's a small thread to explain. 1/x

I spend the whole dang first part of my career saying that comparisons between the modern United States and the late Roman Republic are often misleading and facile, and then...he just mints it right out...

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not. “Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics. They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.

the amount of raw, unadulterated fear that many Americans have of even small cities is never going to stop being darkly hilarious to me

this is a lesson that is omnipresent in pop culture and yet lost on a subset of centrist pundits

The fact that we're on social media arguing about whether the U.S. is a dictatorship means it's not a dictatorship yet. I'm pretty fucking pessimistic about where the U.S. is but the doom from white liberals is exhausting. Pull up your big kid pants you babies

“the number of Democrats and esteemed American institutions that have engaged in the mainstreaming of Charlie Kirk demonstrates that espousing open and explicit bigotry no longer relegates one to the fringe of political discourse, a phenomenon we have not witnessed since the civil rights era.”

Ezra Klein has been speaking a lot on red states and rural Democrats and here’s the thing…he shouldn’t. He has no idea what he’s talking about.

💯 We need to stop spending so much time worrying about how to label what is happening and more time figuring out how to document it, stop it and help people affected by it.

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

So the poverty rate was lower during a period of the pandemic when the economy was in fact not great. And it's because the government showed they actually could provide a generous safety net. The Manchin and the GOP killed it. Like there is a great leftwing story here that Jacobin just misses.

Cities make America great

Tylenol causes autism and a broken escalator is a terrorist attack. It is only Thursday.

I believe the traditional Roman solution to this sort of profoundly awful decision would be to convert the building into some kind of public sporting venue.

My worlds collide! #Hokies #BoiseState 247sports.com/college/bois...

I bet James Comey wishes Hillary beat Trump.

Today, the president of the United States of America said that the country's current pediatric vaccine schedule was "too much liquid... going into that baby" and then issued a decree announcing that anti-fascism is terrorism

What this shabby little crook means is that a corrupt administration has made a choice to ignore his crimes. So he’ll continue to show up on propaganda TV and lecture us about “law and order.”

Raptors sign Boise State all-time leading scorer Degenhart

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

"I'm only Homan/Born to make mistakes..." -- "Homan" by the Homan League

Ah, I see, shadow docket *plus* rocket docket for whatever Trump needs. Reminder that the emoluments clause case filed by Maryland & DC started June 12, 2017 and then was stalled for so long that SCOTUS dismissed it in January 2021 without a decision because Trump losing made it moot.

September 21: A young boy of 8 years, 9 months, and 13 days [annis VIII, m(ensibus) VIIII, d(iebus) XIII] dies in Rome. His name was Pupus Torquatianus. His brother died 8 days later at the age of 5 years, 6 months, & 6 days (CIL VI, 27556). Their parents commemorate them gams.uni-graz.at/o:epsg.276

The chief reason I love the Romans despite all the unsavoury aspects of their culture is because of their funerary inscriptions that bring long-dead children, charioteers, soldiers, freedwomen and strangers to life in such a heart-rending way. My favourite from Aquileia:

It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

look, it is comforting to think that your political opponents are, at the end of the day, just people like you who really want us all to live together as Americans. it's just very obviously not *true* in MAGA's case, as you can tell through, well, what they say and do.

In other news: Akasha rocks!! 📷: Female Amur tiger

How do you govern when one side just lies about the most consequential things all the time and we have a press that will never ever call them out as lies because it seems partisan? How?

I'd just highlight again that this is precisely how Erdogan did it in Turkey.

How do you engage in “bipartisan negotiation” with a party whose leaders said hours ago that they want to crush you out existence

Democratic elected officials, here's some unsolicited advice. People are looking for leadership. Right now. This moment. Someone, anyone, take the konch and forcefully respond to JD Vance and Stephen Miller's promise to declare war against America. Speak up now. Press conference today.

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent. 1/ Here's what's happening.

I was skeptical of the Brent Pry hire from the beginning, but I wanted him to succeed. I never want to see someone lose their job, but it’s time. He, AD Whit Babcock, and any remaining holdovers from the Beamer era (John Ballein) need to go and the #Hokies need to build a modern program.

Charlie Kirk's allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else reut.rs/3JYLkkp

So to paraphrase, “The administration egregiously broke the law and did harm to people, but we judges don’t have the power to punish them. Nor do we have the power to make the victims whole. Also, we can’t stop them from continuing to break the law.” There are no checks or balances. Not anymore.

Agreed. I’m going to spend less time on these hell sites.