Bondi is going to ratfuck the files

The undergrads at the Crimson has consistently done a better job at investigating stories--big and small--than some of the legacy papers. Go college journalism.

Some elected official should just say "I will pass legislation to put the Jan. 6 seditionists back in jail. Trump's pardon is illegal and illegitimate."

Chris’s whole post is amazing, including this, from E.B. White:

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

Ordering to impede and ordering not to beat the shit out of protesting clergy are two different things tho

I always roll my window down and give them a thumbs down it makes me feel slightly better

as someone who really thought there wasn’t much there for the longest time I cannot draw any conclusion other than “they are monumentally terrible” at this point

The real $2,000 dividend was the friends we made along the way

"I am Spartacus" except everyone is admitting to felony sexual assault of a minor

more of this (as in constant) also make it pointed toward ICE, CBP, military (e.g. Venezuela), just screaming it every time we see a major violation of the law

This is the “I just want to stay away from chemicals” of politics. Fundamentally meaningless if you have even an iota of information.

epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump

@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”

"Homeland security investigators worked approximately 33 percent fewer hours on child exploitation cases from February through April compared to their average in prior years" A tragic shift with real consequences - just one horrifying example:

Yuuup

Did Washington punt at Valley Forge?

Espirit de corps

“When the eight African American sheriffs took over the largest counties in North Carolina, it became a threat to the good ol’ boy system," the Charlotte sheriff told Bolts in 2023 to explain why the GOP was targeting him. This weekend, DHS announced the deployment of federal agents in Charlotte.

Literally cheering on open racism

This is the sort of thing that procurement rules are meant to prevent. Those rules can make things slow and unwieldy in government, but reflect how politicized our system is. Other rich countries have figured out that a less politicized system lowers the risks of corruption.

Unchecked presidential power to use the vast national security infrastructure for poorly justified murders of civilians is a bipartisan perogative and has been since the Obama-era signature strikes, and also the present stake of sky murder for murder's sake is both precedented and unique.

I think we need to be careful with conflating "leans Democratic" with "not racist" Maine has a long legacy of racism. So does Oregon which is a blue state. Oregon was literally conceived as a white supremacist fever dream. And the KKK ruled Indiana for a period.

caring about Palestinian lives is in fact pro-semetic

Truly forgot how gutting the Finding Nemo cold open is

Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino responds “roger that” to a tweet reading “big or small, deport them all.”

do you people hear yourselves?

FUCK I‘VE WASTED SO MUCH OF LIFE

There's a big argument to be made that Trumpism is a revolt of America's hereditary elites who are apoplectic that the beginnings of a true meritocracy threatened to replace some of them.

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

Lol yeah man all that panic over "a Big Mac will cost $15!" if we raise the minimum wage. Well we didn't raise the minimum wage but a Big Mac is $15 now.

The Supreme Court made up the "major questions doctrine," under which the Court gets extra powers when things are a Big Deal and what's a Big Deal is up to the Justices. Why not make up a new "signature policies" rule where a president can put things beyond the court's reach, like a franchise tag.

[median republican] ok but does it affect one’s humours?

Let's start calling it the "Trump Murder Memo." #TrumpMurderMemo

The levels of this simulacrum are disturbing It’s a Lego set of a thing from a movie That only existed as special effects in the movie But it’s Christmas So the model of the thing from the movie that was never real is made of gingerbread. But it’s actually all plastic

actually, it's all because of shallow seas that covered large parts of what is now the continental United States during the late cretaceous period

I’ve now aged out of this but navigating the pestering attention of older men in my field—which varied from manipulative flattery when they were trying to sleep with you to contemptuous retaliation when they realized they couldn’t—was an exhausting and demoralizing tax of my early professional life.

Bari Weiss news director

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities raised more money than CAP a year or two ago. Turns out policymakers want rigorous work.

Yikes

Sure seems like a layup as a dem to say: “The president was close friends with the most notorious child rapist in America, and had clearly not been honest about it, as these emails reveal. I think the American people deserve to know if the president is a child rapist.”

Democrats need a CAP, but good @ejfagan.com are the two major party think tanks cooked?

unintentionally revealing that he’s not in or even aware of any networks who are at this moment doing exactly what he claims no one is doing because he’s not doing it

Securing defections from the authoritarian regime is the centerpiece of any successful pro-democracy resistance. Politics isn’t fandom—when someone leaves the authoritarian coalition, we should take it as a win.

Neighbors all across Chicago out surrounding schools at pickup and drop off every day, warning landscapers, construction crews, with whistles and bike patrols, signal chats, and mutual aid groups. Clergy praying outside of Broadview ICE detention as they are gassed, beaten, and detained.

Good god

Jesus fucking Christ

are men ok