Man they're really giving him one of these cognitive tests like every two weeks aren't they?

The Ellison family’s desire to take over Warner Bros should alarm anyone concerned with U.S. propaganda & media consolidation— They would own Paramount, Warner Bros, CNN, CBS, HBO, TikTok & a host of major cable channels

Not just Jared but almost all the gulf monarchies plus a pass through entity for the ccp.

Trump 1 -> catch and kill tabloid stories Trump 2 -> catch and kill entire media corporations

“the judiciary will kill key parts of the working model of American governance, built up over time to adapt to the needs of the country, with no functional alternative beyond handing unprecedented power to an eager authoritarian.”— @donmoyn.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni... Good mourning

Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.

this is why i keep saying that the unitarians have embraced a vision of the plebiscitary president who acts as the sovereign embodiment of the people. it is the only way this notion of “accountability” makes sense.

the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.

(2) seems to be an even more dubious point than (1). first because agencies are shaped by congress as well as executive appointments, and second because the agency rule-making process is more transparent and democratic than top-down decrees from political appointees

the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.

♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”

hey a fun thing is that if congress is delegating authority to an independent agency then by definition that agency is not "unaccountable." it is still accountable to congress. and it is interesting (read: extremely frustrating) to me that these people just write congress out of existence here.

The Financial Times finally covers the Network State cult. Is this tech fascism? "I mean,we are funding companies that will operate non-democratic cities...and if you're not into that you shouldn't move there," says Peter Thiel protégé Patri Friedman.

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“We knew very well what we were electing” isn’t a defense of Trump’s actions. It’s an admission of your complicity.

don't worry, john roberts says this is a legitimate exercise of presidential power and if we did anything to curb it, we would be robbing the executive of the energy he needs to do his job

Newsom's morality is his problem. So the only case for him is that "HE CAN WIN." Much of this lies in his white male bland handsomeness. Centrists think that solves Dems' "cultural issues." What this gets wrong is that 2028 must be about corruption. And he's on the opposite side of that.

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what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

Trump's dementia has grown so extreme that a select group of advisors are now running the country without his input. To find who those advisors are and what their plans are, buy my new book, which will appear in March 2029.

One advantage with Trump's anti-European "National" Security Strategy is that it clarifies to all Europeans that Trump hates Europe. Thus, Europe should stop listening to this hateful & self-enriching man & seize all Russian state assets in Europe asp & pass on to Ukraine!

every single day i see more groyper policywank the stronger my conviction gets that x needs to be made into the equivalent of a seedy porno theater in a “i am a mugger target” neighborhood

we have no idea what we’ve lost.

Worth noting that some of the people having their car windows smashed and dragged onto the pavement did immigration more "the right way" than the First Lady.

Jaime Hernandez, 1984

Anton wrote this so I wouldn't exactly think Taiwan is secure on that basis alone

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.”

Congratulations to Aida de la Cruz, lab manager in the @harmitmalik.bsky.social Lab, on receiving the Hutchison Award! The award, presented by @fredhutch.org SPAC and named for Dr. Nancy Hutchison, recognizes phenomenal mentorship. It also comes with an awesome personalized bobblehead.

any elected dem who isn't calling out the unprecedented corruption of the supreme court and demanding unprecedented reforms to restore its integrity is a dem who has pre-emptively surrendered the next dem presidency to veto by the gang of six

the thing is that blowing up drug boats is just murder. no law licenses it. it is just war crimes. but to say out loud what the penalty for committing them is puts us in the position of accusing high government officials of capital crimes. it is critically important to be able to say the obvious.

It is simply impossible to believe on this record that this would have been the lineup (or a stay issued at all) if the district court had found a racial gerrymander in a large blue state.

2/ As long as this short post is getting some attn, here I explain why there is no saving the American Republic without reforming the Court and breaking the hold of the corrupt six Republican appointees. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?

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.

Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

this is sort of what i mean when i refer to the current moment as one of constant cumulative radicalization of the right

Yeah, a House member needs to send up that impeachment flag. This is illegal, immoral, dangerous behavior — that is also likely unconstitutional as well.

41 minutes is a long time to sit in your air conditioned office watching men struggle to survive as you decide to kill them.

Damn well better be a full-blown Gala Night of Humpy next season!! 😡

Did the #Mariners become America's team in 2025? According to Google, the M's were the No. 1 trending sports team in the United States this year. sports.mynorthwest.com/mlb/seattle-...

This is the story tonight. Every Dem who was in that room should be telling us what they saw.

NEWS --> Tons of fresh detail on what video of the strike shows: Rep Adam Smith says two men are sitting on capsized boat, drugs aren't visible. Rationale officials gave for killing is they *may* have been able to keep trafficking. "It's bad," Smith says. Read here: newrepublic.com/article/2039...

To be clear, you have to be a fucking monster to assume what the Trump regime is doing off Venezuela is in any way okay. Apparently and to my surprise, the GOP is not 100% monsters.

Honestly shocked that extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean has been an apparent tipping point with many in the GOP.

@dahlialithwick.bsky.social We reported that Rep Adam Smith told us he tried to solicit Admiral Holsey's sworn testimony in a classified briefing, Pentagon said No, and Republicans won't push for it: newrepublic.com/article/2025...

Oh.

must be pretty bad when the Daily Mail is running smashmouth exposes on a GOP admin www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...