"If you do a Google search for 'ICE raid this is what I voted for' you will get a quick sense of how MAGA supporters are celebrating the cruelty of Trump’s deportation regime." Good @sykescharlie.bsky.social roundup on MAGA sadism here (includes our pod): charliesykes.substack.com/p/the-derang...

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again: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The open disregard for judicial decisions and orders is being normalized more every day

We know you said we're behaving illegally, but you didn't tell us to stop, so ... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

The shame of it all is that the U.S. judiciary has held up well in the face of an authoritarian onslaught. Unfortunately SCOTUS is at war with the courts.

Sam Alito lashed out at a district court judge for not assuming Texas Republicans were operating in good faith when they created the state’s latest gerrymander. How rich. badfaithtimes.com/alito-theres...

It’s clear from the video this woman had just come to the park to play with her child. She said as much and was upset that there were masked men with guns in the park. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino calls the woman an “activist” and Andy Ngo says the woman was using her child as a “human shield.”

The Trump administration has removed MLK Day and Juneteenth as holidays that include free entrance to national parks, adding the president’s birthday instead

Trump Corollary *slow jerk off motion*

cannot stress enough how bad it is to give teenage boys a "see this person naked" button. massive, multi-axis disaster

The guy is a chiropractor *and* a naturopath. What could possibly go wrong

Again, Trump is less than a year into his second presidency. There are no signs the economy is getting better, health care premiums are about to double or triple for 24 million people, he is unpopular ON IMMIGRATION now. At a certain point, presidential popularity hits a point of no return.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

when your 20 year old space company is valued at 800 billion dollars and you're still blowing out shares to keep the lights on (and pay employees), you don't have a real company. hth this bubble popping will be spectacular

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.

Pirro said the pipe bombing suspect had "not a lot of social media". She should call me, because I have now found his: Twitter, Tumblr, Soundcloud, YouTube channel, songs he made on YouTube, Steam, and about five fanfic and gaming forum accounts.

We have become a profoundly ridiculous country. This makes the Nero-era look sane and normal.

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

Calling it now that she'll eventually end up at CBS www.wsj.com/business/med...

JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan has rejected DOJ's effort to dismiss a lawsuit brought by immigration detainees at Guanatanamo Bay, saying the plaintiffs made a plausible claim that the policy is illegal and punitive. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

It is kinda wild how the president is evidently receiving some kind of regular medical care that requires IVs and we don't know what's up

it cannot be said enough, and should be shouted from the rooftops: this is a fake legal issue that's been backstopped by on-demand scholarship from academics who are part of the same project as the conservative justices. the "authority" they will cite is no better than citing AI slop.

NEW: Supreme Court will decide whether to allow Trump to limit birthright citizenship www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

It is completely unethical to permit an unqualified attorney who is suing HHS to sit there and critique the vaccine approval process at an HHS committee meeting, especially without permitting actual scientists to respond to his accusations. His sole goal is to profit from this.

Attorney Siri makes the utterly disingenuous statement that the scientific community hasn’t studied whether vaccines “don’t cause” autism. You can’t prove a negative using the scientific method. He’s been told this many times.

Attorney Siri is now saying that states should not receive federal funding if they don’t allow religious exemptions to required vaccines for school attendance. Currently 5 states have this law and they also have the highest vaccination rates in the U.S.

ACIP member Meissner is honestly beside himself after Attorney Siri’s utterly contemptible presentation. Meissner says that Siri doesn’t understand correlation vs causation (AGREED!). He says that Siri quoting Plotkin is a gross distortion of the facts.

The last ten minutes of this Kennedy Center and FIFA draw thing have simultaneously been a clinic in where to not point lights and how to make an award clip for Trump look like it was written and produced by a Christian high school news team with flawless tonal fidelity.

Update on this story from a month ago. The winner of the first FIFA Peace Prize is … Donald J. Trump. What a surprise.

Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud. In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that. What a confession.

Clown shit. People in 100 years are going to learn about this moment in history in disbelief.

this shit is just beyond parody, man

RFK Jr.’s hand-picked anti-vax panel has removed any doubt about their obvious bias and destroyed any shred of credibility for their decision-making process. CDC should reject this dangerous suggestion that will simply mean more babies die in the United States.

the elevation of “separation of powers” as the paramount value of the constitution is just rhetorical justification for presidential dictatorship, since that is what you have when the legislative branch cannot constrain the exercise of executive power through law.

In her dissent, Judge Pan says the emerging view of executive power by Trump and his backers in the courts "concentrates excessive power in the President and thus paves the way to autocracy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JUST IN: A 2-1 panel of the D.C. Circuit rules that Trump may remove members of the NLRB or MSPB regardless of laws meant to shield them from removal without cause. Majority: Rao (Trump), Katsas (Trump) Dissent: Pan (Biden) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NYT really burying the lede here. This is a kangaroo committee appointed by a man with literally no qualifications.

The NSS of the US is to overturn small-l liberalism in Europe and corruption is one means they plan to do that.

JD Vance Munich Speech has become the Vance Doctrine. Actionable policy which includes and prescribes direct interference into EU democratic processes by supporting far right and Eurosceptic parties. If this is not the final wake up call Europe, I don't know what is.

The US National Security Strategy is an unhinged screed of bone-headed post-truth MAGA lies and bullshit propaganda. It's a groundless, paranoid rant with no basis in empirical reality or objective truth whatsoever. Once again Trump's America proudly and publicly soils itself on the global stage.

Democrats can retaliate against these GOP gerrymanders with new maps in Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, & Virginia. They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana. Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this

Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett are bad-faith actors who abuse SCOTUS power to support Republican policies, Republican billionaires, and Republican political power in defiance of law. They won’t stop until we expand the court.

To average Americans these rulings come out of the blue, because there's no oral argument and less focus on the shadow docket. And when the Court fails to explain its emergency rulings, they undermine their own legitimacy because they appear to be acting in an unprincipled way.

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.

Bring the hammer down. As a candidate, and hopefully as a member of Congress, I strongly endorse hammering the living shit out of Republicans until they agree that democracy is important and the shit that's broken is fixed.

The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”

just to drive home the point. Texas created this map in August. the lower court rendered its decision November. So three months later, a year before the election in question.