He seems to be suggesting that anything short of actively drowning themselves is evidence they sought to paddle their shipwreck to US to continue their mission. If true, I want an inspiring biopic of the most determined employees in human history. That'd be some serious can-do attitude.

Is tom cotton the only one stupid and empty enough to make the rounds excusing murders? It’s primarily him, and I would posit he gladly volunteered for the role.

This year, U.S. employers announced the highest number of layoffs since the 2020 pandemic recession and the lowest number of planned hires since 2010. This is Trump’s economy.

HOPE WALZ: “What world are we f*cking living in? I draw the line at Gus. You people are f*cking disgraceful.” She says MAGA loyalists are now driving by their home and yelling “R*tard!” at her family and her special needs brother after Trump called GovTimWalz the R word.

If these people are ever thrown out of power, I hope we all understand there is no reformist pathway for institutions like this as much as Dems might desperately wish and claim there is.

Yes. And given the references to Doing Good and God's opinion of him, the transaction Trump is attempting now is to buy his way into Heaven.

Tom Cotton saying “President Bush” like his brain is still running Windows XP is honestly the least surprising thing he’s ever done.

Freudian slip from Tom Cotton: "I think President Bush has every power under the Constitution to strike boats in international waters"

The President promised prices would go back down. In a healthy economy, they almost never do. The normal pattern is: prices jump, then over time your paycheck catches up. The pain comes when wages don't follow—then it's not “inflation” so much as an affordability crisis.

I.C.E. isn't targeting just violent criminals. In many cases, they're grabbing people who have a legal right to be here. And in EVERY case—they're grabbing human beings.

Does anyone seriously believe the Trump White House and solicitor general aren’t in communication with several of the conservative justices on SCOTUS, being told exactly what to move ahead with?

Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.

The sound Lisa Rubin @lawofruby.bsky.social made after Tom Dupree defended the shadow docket and said the court couldn’t have possibly made a different decision on the Texas maps was everything and represented my thoughts exactly. The most polite wtf I’ve ever heard. 😂

excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

No bailouts for AI. Check your investment exposure. This bubble is going to burst.

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

Kagan: “this Court’s eagerness to playact a district court here has serious consequence.” Yes.

this shit is just beyond parody, man

BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake? TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.

Uhhh I’m guessing pawpaw gets a call from big oil because he isn’t keeping the narrative straight. Has anyone actually prevented the making of tiny cars other than market forces?

These drugs are incredible! The unexpected benefits they’re finding in these trials are nuts. Life-saving stuff. @rnflex.bsky.social is the person to follow for up-to-date info and interpretation, IMO.

Y’all who are fortunate enough to own stocks, whether retirement or otherwise, check your exposure to Tesla and AI and make some decisions. Re: retirement—Unless you have a pension plan managed by the state or something similar, you can change your allocations from their default.

Please explain this “logic” to me like I’m 5. “Alito said…plaintiffs challenging the map needed to…produc[e] their own map [to] show [TX] partisan goals could be achieved by other means…failure to do so [is] “a strong inference that the state’s map was indeed based on partisanship, not race.’”

“We don’t want people … abusing their office. So there’s probably a way to do that that still allows for lawful conduct by members. You don’t want another deterrence for good people running for office.” If they’re good, they aren’t staying home because they can’t trade individual stocks.

It's almost like mass conservative psychosis. Zero self-awareness; cold hearts; sealed minds; unrivaled arrogance. Such people belong nowhere near any court of justice, let alone the Supreme Court. They're utterly unfit; Christian zealots in robes.

Ditto. They’re going to gut the VRA, allow racially discriminatory gerrymanders, and then what? Good luck reforming the court if they make sure Dems are never in charge again.

This is the way. I don’t know of a viable alternative—best suggestion yet. These rulings knock me down every time. The tide starts to appear to be turning, courts are (rightly) ruling against the bullshit, and then the six come in and make some shit up and further empower the R’s impunity.

By law, the Department of Justice CAN go to another grand jury and try again. But even if they succeed (a big IF in this case), the DOJ will have handed Letitia James even more evidence for her vindictive prosecution motion to dismiss the charges. And that motion was already quite strong.

Yep, the Supreme Court really is just a House of Lords—a purely political branch with bizarre veto power, wielded capriciously and without accountability. Time for massive reform.

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

They hate it the way it is now…

Jesus Christ. Get the 6 off the damn bench.

"Polyworking" is the fancy, sanitized term invented to normalize people being forced to work multiple jobs to afford basic necessities. Don't glorify the grind. Dismantle the system that requires it.

Ahahahahahahahahaha

Per the NYT, a bizarre legal fiction underlies this matter, i.e., a claim boats allegedly carrying drugs are engaged in armed combat. Based on that falsehood, the second strike may have been justified on the even more false premise that survivors, by radioing for help, were continuing the "fight."

The USA’s relationship to the ICC is poorly understood, including by me before I looked into it. This is a good explainer (from last year) that gives the details. It’s effed up. My point is, the ICC has what you might describe as negative jurisdiction re: the US, NATO, and our other allies.

Is anyone else a lover of em dashes but now feels like they shouldn’t use them because they’re a hallmark of AI? I’m having to revise my personal punctuation priors.

“Trump’s unlawful dismantling of [USAID] has contributed to the first rise in global child mortality since at least 1990, according to a new report from the Gates Foundation. Nearly a quarter of a million more children under 5 are projected to die worldwide in 2025 than in 2024.” (TPM Morning Memo)

"Matter of fact, they sat on floating packs of cocaine, and padded with cocaine bricks in the general direction of the United States. They had to be annihilated."

Newsom is unfit to lead the country. Apparently he’s a top contender because his comms team is cute on twitter? If this is how we are going to approach 2028, we’re falling into the same trap as maga—being fans of politicians instead of their bosses.

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Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream. Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads. Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?

The Heritage Foundation’s recent decision to hire Scott Yenor, a family-policy scholar, “poses serious questions about the institution’s beliefs concerning the equality of women in the workplace and perhaps even as citizens,” The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

GOP Rep. Mike Turner: "This activity that's happening in the Caribbean where they are hitting these boats -- these individuals if they were captured and tried and convicted, they would be guilty of criminal activity for which they're not subject to capital punishment. These people are being killed."

Sean Duffy articulates with clarity what America's golden age will look like: you will drive a Ford station wagon that guzzles gasoline, pollutes the environment, and will kill you dead if you get into an accident... and you will love it.

A very logical simplification.

Guy inventing capitalism - "The most efficient way to allocate resources would be if everyone was trying to trick each other all the time."

If someone looks at Aftyn Behn’s performance in TN-07 this week and says the takeaway is you just don’t run progressive candidates in red districts, kindly tell them to fuck off and never speak to them again. @aftynbehn.bsky.social