Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

1/ Much to criticize about Danny's analysis. But instead I'll focus on a useful observation: "The passage of federal tax cuts for the wealthy in 2025 … changed the debate among the local rich" More importantly, what the Trump tax cuts did was create the *fiscal space* for states to raise taxes. …

i can't believe a republican president did what every republican president of the last 50 years has done (exploded the national debt)

As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.

Damn you, WA state millionaires tax!

In an administration that posts Nazi iconography online and is full of people with ties to white supremacist groups, what could possibly go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

As a Penn alumnus I strongly urge the university to defy the president and the courts, whatever the costs.

If the Israeli Knesset members' lapel pins shaped as little nooses isn't where you say peace-out to that fascist state, you're just carrying residual nostalgia for some fantasy version of Israel that exists only in your head.

We’re just gonna tear it down anyway www.bbc.com/news/article...

I turn 63 in a couple weeks and have started researching my Medicare options and the one thing that seems clear is that unless you're absolutely wedded to Kaiser, stick to traditional Medicare and purchase a Medigap plan. Medicare Advantage is a trap.

I'd argue that any ruling in favor of Trump in the birthright citizen case—even an inconsequential ruling in dissent—is grounds for impeachment. A Justice who does not uphold the plain and clear language of the 14th Amendment and the 160 years of jurisprudence since has clearly violated their oath.

Free advice to the Trump administration: you should name your ground mission in Iran "Operation Eagle Claw." Trust me. It'll go great.

Plausibly, this should (if it happens) be understood as the death of the federal Constitution Not just, to be clear, a mortal wound: imo that's already happened. The actual death. Such that it should no longer be understood to be in force

I am at that point in recovery from surgery where the sections of my chest, back, and abdomen they shaved are now brutally itchy. Pure torture.

I honestly believe that the United States' only path toward peace with honor would be to hand Trump over to The Hague.

Imagine the outrage if U.S. citizens were dying in Mexican concentration camps? No, wait. Allow me to be more precise: Imagine the outrage if *white* U.S. citizens were dying in Mexican concentration camps?

Personally, I drive an EV. But it sure would be fun to print up stickers like this and slap them on gas pumps around the country.

Well, it's certainly going to affect *him*. At a reported salary of $4.5 million a year (one of the highest paid GMs in the league), WA's new millionaires tax will cost Schneider $346,500 a year. You'd think maybe the article should've mentioned his conflict of interest when quoting him on it.

The constitutional remedy for a cabinet secretary who is profiting off advance notice of an illegal, undeclared war is impeachment, removal, disqualification, and a criminal trial.

The only person legally executed by the state of Israel in its 78 year history was the notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann—and even that was controversial at the time. This bill is contrary to thousands of years of Jewish tradition and teaching. It is profoundly unJewish.

A close friend wrote: “They will reap the whirlwind. Never forget that the Talmud describes any court of law that institutes the death penalty more than once in 70 years as cruel and unusual. There is no clearer evidence that we are regressing into dark times as a civilization than this”

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

Analysis of News Analysis: If conservative legal experts are split on something as straightforward as the clear and plain language of the 14th Amendment, then half the legal experts cited aren't really "conservative."

I have a crazy way of reporting on 'No Kings' that's different from the NYT...I go out and talk to protesters about what they think Sure, size matters, but so does the passion of a movement offering the 4-letter word that beats back dictators Hope My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

What if—and stick with me here for a moment—what if Ezra Klein *is* an AI? Would explain a lot.

One of my favorite Seattle moments yesterday is how many people on here thought this huge crowd was No Kings, but it was actually people lined up to celebrate our new floating light-rail link over Lake Washington. Seattle turns out for mass transit and democracy with equal fervor.

How about next time we bring all 8 million to D.C.?

I saw multiple signs that would be 18 USC § 871 violations if transcribed on this website being held by the most normcore moms imaginable at Boston No Kings today.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Endlessly impressed by how self-organized and self-regulated the Seattle No Kings marches are. A ton of volunteers, very few police officers in sight.

Are there “No Kings” rallies today in the United Kingdom, and if so, how does that go over with the king?

New from me: The Senate offered a bipartisan solution to the growing airport crisis. Mike Johnson rejected it, empowering Trump to selectively grab more legislative powers by illegally paying TSA agents. This is an actual constitutional crisis folks. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mike-johns...

Exactly this. We’re not seeing the stories on this platform due to its relative lack of international reach and the obsequious nature of US reporting, but entire residential blocks are being flattened in Tehran and other cities in Iran.

Tell Your State To Pass This Model Law to Protect Your Elections From ICE. NOW. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tell-...

Time for new blue state laws that bar people with ICE/CBP work histories in 2025 and 2026 from service in state government, including police departments.

If we were a serious country, the government would fall tonight, on the day that the parliamentary leader said the chief executive can spend money without parliamentary approval & the chief executive said he can go to war without parliamentary approval. Alas, we are not a serious country.

Weird how the administration has stopped bragging about Dow 50,000.

Great! Once they eliminate all the jobs it will give non-billionaires more time (and motivation) to plot and conduct the violent overthrow of their corrupt regime!

i can't believe a representative of the Vatican openly pondering whether someone should be burnt at the stake in 2026 and my answer is, "Yes absolutely, do it slow." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...

So, either Trump could've been paying TSA officers all along, but chose not to, or he can't pay TSA officers without congressional appropriation, in which case he's flagrantly violating the Constitution. Do I have that right?

It would be far more efficient if we just got rid of the federal government and the blue states paid financial tribute directly to the red states instead.

One thing we're not seeing anymore from Iran are mass demonstrations against the regime. So mission accomplished!

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

For a country that got its start, and has continued its entire existence by obsessing over comparisons to Ancient Rome, doing the whole "Go and lose in an unnecessary war against Persia" really thematically brings the whole thing home, no?

real mad king stuff

We must burn everything with his signature on it, demolish everything with his face or name, destroy everything he has touched let alone built, leave him no legacy but the scars that remain from what cannot heal from his ruinous regime.

#SeattleIsDying (Only non-sunbelt metro to consistently experience significant population growth, but don't let that get in the way of narrative.)

If we were launching an anti-smoking campaign today the MAGAs would aggressively attack it as “woke.” People would literally lose their jobs for advocating against smoking. Public health experts would receive death threats.

Haven't signed a check in more than four years, and my signature has been an illegible scribble for the past forty. Touch typing proved a far more useful skill for me than cursive writing. In my daughter's generation the fundamental skill appears to be two-thumb typing on the phone.

The only thing protecting the U.S. from the same sort of demographic collapse affecting other developed nations was immigration. Let's see how well American capitalism does in the face of the inevitable population decline.