i also think that it is only a matter of time before this court rewrites section 1 of the 14th to effectively end birthright citizenship. the 14th amendment is the chief obstacle to a legal regime of tiered citizenship and subordinate castes, and they will not let it stand.

Don't wear cologne to the gym. Good God people.

Donald Trump is the Colorado Rockies of US presidents.

Universities keep doing this. They have always done this. It's a massive mistake, & they should stop doing it & defend ALL the disciplines to the public. Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts research & teaching is stronger than ever. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Vaping is our modern public nuisance. Every night at the bus station I watch who is vaping and stand back, knowing that they will hit it three times before they get on the bus, almost without fail with fellow passengers standing right next to them.

If you paid $1 In federal income taxes, you paid more than: Tesla in 2024 & 2022 AT&T in 2021 Nike in 2020 FedEx in 2020 Dish Network in 2020 Amazon in 2017-2018 Elon Musk in 2018 Jeff Bezos in 2007 & 2011 Carl Icahn in 2016-2017 Yes. It’s time to tax the rich.

Market up, market down, market confused, tariffs, no tariffs. Know what? Fascism is bad for everyone who isn't plugged in at the highest level and collecting. Capitalists should never have supported it.

Today in the NYT Spelling Bee I got "mood, doom, and drool" right in a row. Seems appropriate.

I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.

You know that once Trump pulled this Liberation Day!!! stupidity that he had basically put himself in a situation where he had to do this. The thing that would have really crushed him would have been to not be talked about after his stupid press conference.

I needed something to make me laugh today...

Dictator shit

OK well here we are at what seems to be unambiguous defiance of court orders.

Trump's bullying of Zelensky is a sign of his basic weakness. Let him not get a deal. Go back on the resources and toughness of the Ukrainian people. Likewise with his bullying of the press. He DESPERATELY wants the media there covering his every move. Report other things. Call his bluff.

I just canceled my WaPost subscription that I had for well over a decade.

I'm sorry, but "Razin' Caine" is a stripper name. And what is with this "warfighter" shit? Is "soldier" not tough enough anymore?

And here’s the copy. Please disseminate these images widely. Who needs to place ads in a newspaper that few people actually read anymore?

JD Vance will reply to sub-10K accounts that do not mention him that his main account does not follow. He clearly has an alt, and finding it strikes me as a useful project if you’re a very online person who knows the terrain in that part of Twitter. Both for Kremlinology and propaganda purposes.

This guy gets it. This is how you message.

Prediction: Within a year we'll be hearing "I got all the liberal dumb-dumbs fired and now they won't buy cars and houses and eat at restaurants, it's a conspiracy."

Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny "When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come." (42)

We need a drinking game where you chug every time Brady talks about playing in the Super Bowl. The entire nation would be smashed, and it's not even halftime.

One of my favorite analyses of what's going on here. Terrifying but clarifying.

We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!

In a purely short-term financial sense, there's a possibility that Trump's trade war bluffing works, at least to the extent that he claims political "wins" that are largely illusory. But in the long term there's only one way this ends up--with trading partners who don't trust us.

1/ OK, Democratic members of Congress in the US Senate. It’s time for some tough love. I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like “the American people want us to work together” and “ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.”

This air disaster is authoritarianism in a nutshell. 1) Replace and remove qualified people, replace with lickspittles and cronies. 2) Place blame for resulting disaster on the enemies of the regime. 3) (Will play out in next weeks)--instruct regime to manufacture proof that enemies are to blame.

I like how the fireworks of the Patrick Mahomes v Josh Allen matchup is turning into a series of 3rd and 4th and 1 plays that are QB dive calls from 1920 or something.

What Trump is doing is awful, but the public perceives that he is DOING things. He is all anyone talks about. How can Democrats capture some portion of that attention with good policy? The Biden idea that no one really wanted to hear about the presidency was bad.

Hey I don't like seeing people laughing with Trump either but decent people don't start fights at funerals so maybe let this one go.

"Alexa, stop monetizing us." "I'm not quite sure how to help you with that."

I just sent off a book proposal. Hoping for good news in a month or two.

I'll try this Bluesky thing before it gets enshittified. It's like Facebook wants me to hate it. Twitter is evil. No, I'm not really "Alden Pyle." Google it and you'll find a great novel. Had some problems with using my real name on social media before.