Trump sometimes loses at SCOTUS not because they're noble exemplars of judicial independence but because they're partisan hacks for a slightly different flavor within the GOP coalition. Sometimes he loses in Congress, too, and it'd be just as absurd to praise the "independence" of congressional GOP.

Free speech absolutist wants the state to punish criticism of his government agency.

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating

Trumpism is a monumental failure and this gives Dems and liberals a big opening to reset on immigration. Here @shikhadalmia.bsky.social and I try to go big and deep on what this should look like. Really hope you'll check this one out: www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-has-...

That the CIA had nothing to do with it and Nixon tried to have them lie to the FBI and say they did is, like, the whole scandal. We literally have it on tape!

This is not what political scientists do. It's like asking an economist for stock tips, or a climatologist if it will rain on Tuesday.

the most stable figure in british politics in the last decade is the man who sets up the lectern the PMs resign from

Keir Starmer resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: "I will resign as Leader of the Labour Party. I have spoken to his Majesty the King this morning to inform him of my decision." Britain is about to have its seventh PM in a decade.

In many ways, this is the actual point of "The End of History and the Last Man," one of many academic texts cursed by a popularity that came from wild misunderstandings and misreadings. But it is this basic idea, cited by the Thorne here, that has been profoundly vindicated.

thinkng about the best tweet

Most of the time when Sanders has a dumb idea, it's because he really is a socialist in a way most others who've glommed onto the label as an affectation to mean the left-most flank of mainstream US politics are not.

Happy Father's Day 🖤

This is unfair to Caligula, who was (probably) making a coherent and calculated political point.

Because he is Catholic, Burnham would be prohibited by law from advising the monarch on Church of England appointments, a restriction which does not apply to the current PM, who is an atheist, or his predecessor, who was Hindu. Though if there's ever a (religious) Jewish PM, they're also barred.

This would mean it's likely, unless Burnham (presumably) wins in 2029, the UK will go all the way from Cameron's resignation into the 2030s with no PM serving longer than Boris Johnson, who set the high water mark at just a bit over 3 years.

Mystery solved, it seems. It's a photo at Camp David from the 90s. Trump is at Camp David and, for whatever random reason, was sharing the photo with Margo and also complimenting her GOP hack daughter. Combine that with him yet again accidentally posting an intended DM on main, and there you go.

Greetings all—it's #Juneteenth, a powerful day in the Black freedom struggle. In NC's history, newly emancipated Black voters allied with poor White farmers through fusion politics. That same spirit can guide us today. #FusionVoting can break the two-party doom loop—and build a real #democracy.

Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint

It gets better. His company’s name: Greenwater Services. Did he once pay a bribe to Jim Traficant: yes, of course

they should try shooting the algae

Take blue no matter goo.

Stephen Hawking was asked about his IQ once and said "I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers."

The only people who ever say this are patronizing elitists with Ivy League degrees who think the plebs are unwashed masses who have no concept of manners and are too stupid to understand anything other than trash talk.

I used to think his ideology is more later brain-poisoning and less about his early life, but it's pretty clear Musk's obsession with stoking a race war in the UK in particular is because he has a white South African's / Rhodesia fanboy's obsession with wanting revenge for Britain 'betraying' them.

The successful Ukrainian operations against the refinery in Moscow, Russia, made all flight operations of the Russian capital stop.

Lmfao

stop it he did not sign this thing literally at Versailles no that's too much, go back and rewrite it

the ad agency got the Mike Collins and Susan Collins files mixed up (this is what he's pivoting to for the general election)

lol

You can absolutely notice it in other contexts and pretty reliably tell without even having to check. So many "oh weird, he (and it's always he) seemed to be nice and mellow before, why is he being such a miserable dick now?"

With a few trivial and limited exceptions in a handful of states, the party has no power to "ban candidates from the primary process." For better and for worse, that is the whole point of having government-run primary elections.

"Corruption and the destruction of our governing institutions are not separate from cost of living. Corruption and government lawlessness are a tax on everyday Americans." My latest w/ @shikhadalmia.bsky.social @theunpopulist.net :

A slight tangent but the list of states that hold runoff elections for primaries is Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas. You get one guess what historical motive those states have in common.

Trump said yesterday July 4th on the Mall will be "the most spectacular TRUMP RALLY of them all." "We can refuse to allow Trump’s desecration of our 250th to be our desecration. Our celebrations can make a statement that July 4th is our celebration, not Trump’s." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Some Trump-endorsed primary candidates so far this year: GA Gov: 38% first round, then lost runoff OK Gov: 26% first round (2nd place), going to runoff IA Gov: 37%, lost AL Sen: 39% first round, but won runoff

Everyone shut up I finally got a video of Jyn doing her cartoon snoring thing

This is still a very weird reference to drop but this makes sense. He's saying people compare Trump to Hitler so somebody is going to think they're an anti-Nazi hero, and reaches for a distorted notion of who Bonheoffer was as an example. Stauffenberg would be more apt, though it's dumb regardless.

We’re talking about Gerry Adams? My time to post the greatest tweet of all time:

Lukewarm take: Biden shouldn't have run but Harris would have then won the primary without serious opposition anyway, and the end result probably would have been the same.

Riddle me this: why would America-dominated Oceania be governed by "Ingsoc" i.e. English socialism? More seriously this scenario is basically North Korea so it's not that crazy.

Hell of a Freudian slip. I *assume* he was thinking of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, a far-left terrorist group. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a legendary and rightly celebrated anti-Nazi theologian & dissident.

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

I wrote about the White House UFC cage match, including Josh Hokit calling Michelle Obama a man. As we turn 250, America is celebrating the worst it has to offer. www.liberalcurrents.com/donald-trump...

It's nonsensical to talk this way about primaries. Nobody's getting "disqualified." You can attack a candidate for what they've said and either primary voters agree with that criticism or not. It's not unfair either way. Candidates can be judged for what they say and primary voters do the judging.

Won't pass (needs 60 votes) so it's just performatively stupid. But one annoyance about the whole thing: the Department of Defense was never the Department of War. War Dept. ran the army, Dept. of the Navy was separate, DoD combined them. The successor to the War Dept is Dept. of the Army within DOD

Liberty Justice won its huge case against the Trump Administration on tariffs. And their donors fled bc of it. Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump spoke at the Libertarian convention in 2024 in front a big banner with this exact same slogan.