They’re calling it the liberum veto

He should do it again

someone recruit the DOJ antitrust paralegal who threw the sandwich to run for Congress

straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.

Come and take it

Walked by the White House today, that was pretty surreal

Dem-Soc & Neo-Brandesian alliance is strong

Been thinking about this. It is so bad that climate change—a literally all of humanity issue—is seen as a narrow interest group concern.

Zohran breaks a weird streak in American politics, in that he is the child of a foreign-born radical professor but has not become a centrist

no.

"No. You see. Unlike today's immigrants my grampa came here legally: He stumbled off a boat unannounced and didn't visibly have Tuberculosis."

Ironically, immigrant-hating second-gen Italian dudes are a testament to America's ability to assimilate immigrants.

Guy whose name is halfway to a slur for Italian immigrants: demographics is destiny

We have friends everywhere

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

Dummymander dummymander dummymander

The popular front is reborn

Jeffrey Yass and Elon Musk set a lot of money on fire for nothing

American left-wing patriotism is Jewish guys signing Christian anti-slavery hymns about the first Muslim mayor of New York and I think that’s beautiful

reconstruction II is going to happen

so my understanding is that woke 2 is officially here

Doing election night live-blogging for an off year election is just self-inflicted cruelty

I think this is the basic distinction between an idiot‘s world view and a non-idiot’s world view: Do you understand that there are social systems so complex that no one can fully understand every element? or do you think complexity is evidence of intentional conspiracy to hurt you?

There’s no such thing as “accountability” for 49 percent of the electorate. The only victory is to defeat this political movement, impose a better social and political structure, and tell everyone they will be tolerated in the new social structure if they don’t try to bring back the old one

Personally I hope they all have fun

I support tradcaths (the pope should make impious princes kneel barefoot in the snow begging for forgiveness)

my unpopular electoral opinion is that you probably shouldn’t get to be attorney general of a state if you wrote what Jay Jones wrote; and if you are going to write it, sending it to a Republican operative shows a profound, profound lack of judgment

for its flaws, Ellis Island was a good system: you arrive; an Irish guy intentionally fucks with your name; you wait like two weeks in quarantine and then a hundred years later your great grandchildren are posting online complaining about immigrants

In many of these cases, there’s not a lot the judge can actually do if the government tells it to fuck off, but here the judge could dismiss the indictment

Proud of myself, I think I called the top of the market for nvidia and sold at a good time (I only have a little bit of money in individual stocks just to play around with, I am not a degenerate)

He’s mad because Michael Burry is shorting him. Michael Burry shorts basically everything, in search of reliving the high of getting lucky in calling the mortgage crisis

Assad will probably die in exile in Russia, possibly poisoned by the security services. Cheney died in comfort. Both of these men deserved justice, but only one of them got anything resembling it in this life.

If the sandwich doesn’t have ham, this case is a scam

It happened irl

the people who got caught up in absurd cancel culture shit were usually themselves enmeshed in left-wing or liberal cultural circles

"Hott—shockingly— answered 'No' when asked if he agreed 'agree that it's unconstitutional to arrest people for being opposed to Midway Blitz?' Similarly, Bovino testified that he has instructed his officers to arrest protesters who make hyperbolic comments in the heat of political demonstrations"

It is so fucking obvious that he was selling state secrets

Can’t find a non-Twitter link to the clip, but the full quote (it’s longer than what’s posted here) is a profound commitment to the idea that we can and must live together despite our differences. very few people making that pitch today. Berets off to Sliwa.

okay, but if you accept the principle that only congress can appropriate money, and that the American system does not involve snap elections, isn’t shutdown the necessary outcome of failure to pass funding bills

It is hard to argue that democracy is important to the Democratic party when so many of its representatives have absolute contempt for their constituents

Yeah I worry about this a lot

the Constitution includes the constitution and sometimes the writtenness of the former impedes our understanding of the latter

This is not ponzI shaped

We should indict Yoo, and also indict everyone who signed off on Obama drone striking US citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki

the fact that John Yoo faced no negative consequences for his involvement in war crimes—not even a bar suspension!—paved the way for these pathetic excuses for lawyers to sign off on mass murder

Bernie made some big steps forward on immigration and social justice in 2020 and unfortunately seems to have backslid to his old self from there, time to retire man

"I was able to have a perfectly pleasant afternoon with trans people by politely holding my tongue long enough to have a mundane business transaction." You know, there's a lesson to be learned here if he bothers upon reflection.

when I was a teenager I’d wake up pretty early to get to school and watch morning Joe and they’d always have Buchanan on. He was very avuncular and funny, I did not know he had been a mainstreamer of Holocaust denial. Very weird choice from MSNBC