"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

It’s this or nothing

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

my most boomer belief is that you can often get a malfunctioning appliance to work again by slapping it

NEW — Freedom Flotilla Coalition says there may soon be an attempt by Israel to intercept the Global Sumud Flotilla. Say radars show roughly 12 unidentified vessels, just 5-15 miles away. Some flotilla boats seem to be losing connection, possibly experiencing signal jamming.

Very important to understand that this is the posture of a flailing loser who has no idea what he’s doing, and is keenly aware that the people he’s in charge of hate his guts

I was pretty confident the admin would go full ham. What I didn't really expect was the degree to which the democratic party specifically would just... give up fighting

I have always gotten the sense that membership in European sports federations goes a really long way towards convincing Israelis they have international support. (they can't participate in Asian competitions bc so many nations refuse to play them)

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

You see this is why I'll never make it in the podcast game. I'd just say "No it's not" and the episode would be over.

JUST IN: A new class action lawsuit challenges ICE's warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C., which they say are occuring without probable cause and based largely on perceived ethnicity. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

unilateral polarization of the right is in fact the big problem facing the democratic world but unfortunately you cannot stop it by lying about why it is happening

Again Bouie from the top rope

A statement dripping in contempt for his own voters and his colleagues. Hakeem Jeffries isn’t suited for office, let alone leadership.

fine i’ll hand it to kathy hochul

The horrors are amassing.

you really have to step back and admire it: they just released a winking SIGNED love note from the sitting US president to the most notorious pedophile sex trafficker in history, and nothing much is happening

When govt loses in court and appeals, should they be allowed to continue the allegedly illegal activity until a higher court says they can’t, or should the lower court order stand unless a higher court rules they can? No answer in statute. The Roberts court answer is whatever enables Trump’s abuses.

Millions of people will die horrible deaths globally, likely for many years to come, because Elon Musk, a single individual, wanted to punish USAID for investigating Starlink. This is why we cannot allow people to become billionaires if we want our species to survive.

Everyone across Arab Twitter is unanimous in the assessment that any possible "guarantees" the US could give to Syria and Lebanon in exchange for their acquiescence to Israel mean nothing in the face of reality, which is that the overriding principle of US policy is to allow Israel total impunity.

I'm not a historian but my analysis is it's "Not good" when a government constantly commits crimes and tells the legislature, courts, and general public "What are you gonna do about it"

Yes, do this. "You cannot arrest someone because they are Hispanic" is worth fighting for. It's worth shutting down the government for. And it's worth attracting attention to.

appears to be exactly one country that can get away w/ bombing half a dozen others in a calendar year (while simultaneously committing a genocide against a captive population of its own) without consequence. syria, qatar, and possibly tunisia in just the last day that’s your rules-based int’l order

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

every birthday message to epstein is like "dear jeff, you're so rich and so handsome but probably the thing about you i love most is that you're a prolific child predator. never change <3"

this is another good reason why the debate era is over. splitting hairs over tax revenue numbers at this point goes nowhere. the real reason is that the extremely rich require a practical limit on the impunity and power that money can purchase

the deep American inability to think about other countries is going to mask how much we're destroying our international reputation I think

This point from Sotomayor: what Kavanaugh is proposing to shift administrative burdens from the state to the individual, with the widely-agreed upon expectation that the burdens will fall heavier on some groups more than others.

this should be the attitude of almost anyone in a public role - including faculty at universities

the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile

Stop saying he’s doing things that only Congress can do!!!!

notably, this case was originally filed as a felony case and was downgraded a week later to a misdemeanor, which doesn't have to go before a grand jury

Preview of the announcement:

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything

I think people really struggle w partially consolidated authoritarianism, either understating our problem or understating our power It's like we're in a liminal fascist space. And not recognizing how far gone we are or thinking we're simply too far gone are both grave errors we can't afford to make

despite the supreme court witnessing all of this, it’s still basically certain that they’ll overturn humphrey’s executor this coming term. maybe even because they’re witnessing it. really is remarkable

it remains genuinely shocking how much Trump 2.0 is anti-treatler - making everyone’s hobbies and small pleasures worse and more expensive - and how little this has impeded his authoritarian consolidation because the elites don’t care

“The Biden administration was totally feckless when it came to holding the Netanyahu government to the standard of American law and the standards that we claim to apply to every other country in the world when it comes to the duty to provide humanitarian assistance.” Senator Chris Van Hollen.

This is the beginning of a four page long string cite of all the reasons the administration is no longer entitled to the presumption of regularity on review from last week in FEA v Trump

If you can't come up with a winning message about how the power mad dunce emperor marching federal troops into peaceful cities is bad, you should not have a job in politics

this is why gorsuch is complaining about lower courts defying SCOTUS. a lot of communication between SCOTUS and lower courts is informal, especially in re: shadow docket cases, and SCOTUS has been sending unmistakably clear signals to roll over for trump. and lower courts have responded “make me”

Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.

yes