I do not think ANY of the decisions of this court are legitimate no matter whether some lawyers like how they ruled or not. It's the fruit of a poisonous tree. Gotta uproot the whole thing.

Democrats are the only ones who are expected to work toward bipartisanship. Republicans are allowed to talk like this.

relatedly "unitary executive theory" is incredibly stupid on its face

SCOTUS upholding the firing of the FTC commissioner but not the Federal Reserve board member is such a blatant reveal of how this Supreme Court sides with the interests of capital over consistent jurisprudence and precedent.

I don’t have much to say about Slaughter, and honestly I think we do too much justice to the Roberts Court by treating its opinions like serious judicial reasoning. But I will say that it’s striking how openly the court treats congressional oversight as somehow antithetical to democratic government

ah the 401K exception. i’ll have to read the slaughter opinion but it is worth saying that insulating operational control of the executive branch from congress is an instance of how “separation of powers” starkly undermines accountability and democracy

1. the next Dem president should immediately fire every Trump appointee anywhere in the civil service on Day 1 2. The Money should support court packing because we are one single solitary vote away from Fucking With The Money

The Constitutional Crisis started in 2000. You've been living through it your entire adult life. The reason politics feels hopeless is by design — conservatives broke our democratic form of government to guarantee that the people cannot act against them and are continuing to break it.

Alito’s dissent in the vote counting case makes perfect sense if you think of it from the perspective of a braindead fox news viewer who thinks dems are “cheating” when more vote get counted and a republican lead in the count is erased.

historians of american decline will spend a lot more time talking about john roberts than donald trump imo

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

SCOTUS waiting until the last possible moment to release their birthright opinion as some kind of exercise in drama is extremely annoying. underrated reform is just to mandate a day when they release all of the opinions.

In addition to packing the court, the next Dem trifecta should move the court back to the basement of the Capitol and forbid them from wearing their ridiculous little robes and attending the SOTU. Remind them that they truly are the last among equals and the least important branch.

Hot take: As an institution, SCOTUS is incredibly stupid because it is based in the English Common Law tradition, which is also incredibly stupid.

Absolutely disgraceful. Robert Kennedy owns all of this. Every sick and dead child is on Robert Kennedy.

You'd think we would've only had to learn this lesson once with his botched-at-every-turn pandemic response but most people in this country are too stupid to even remember he was president for that so 🤷‍♂️

The Trump regime has trained the media to accept the idea that constant lying is part of a president's official duties. And the media have trained the public to accept it, too.

Lol

When billionaires preach "abundance," remember that the richest man in the world killed the poorest children in the world just for the LOLs. And if these AI fascists get their way, most of us will join the starvation class. www.thenerdreich.com/a-silicon-va...

Here, we have a president who, by his own account, personally called a federal prosecutor to intervene in an ongoing election — and the story has barely registered. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

The pool and the county fair or whatever are a reminder that the real power and competence in the conservative movement are the media and the supreme court who usually are able to cover us for Trump's fuckups but sometimes can't when physical reality intrudes.

I was honored to celebrate Vesak alongside Buddhist communities representing Bangladeshi, Nepali, Tibetan, and many other traditions in a first-of-its-kind gathering.

Mel Brooks is a greater piece of American heritage than the Confederacy.

trump is stealing a golf course used by ordinary washingtonians and giving it to his rich friends

Wow Jeff are you telling me that you don't run Amazon as a not-for-profit governmental service to benefit people? What a great and absolutely not at all biased comparison! Your intellect is towering. It's towering so high it might topple over.

I have to remind everyone that are are 30 million CHRISTIAN Zionists in the US ALONE. And there are only ~16 million Jews IN THE ENTIRE WORLD and many of us aren’t Zionists. And those 30 million CHRISTIANS make Zionism a core tenet of their faith. This information needs to be household knowledge

The funny thing about "anti-woke" dipshits using BLAZING SADDLES as their north star is that part of the reason Brooks hired Pryor for the writer's room was to keep them from going too far with the race jokes. Essentially, Mel Brooks used a sensitivity reader. www.flavorwire.com/437137/revis...

remarkable that they haven't been able to fill this fake state fair thing with MAGA idiots. dead movement.

Michael Cembalest is out with his annual energy report for JP Morgan and it's full of fascinating stuff, but this graph jumps out: Trump is succeeding in stifling America's clean energy boom. Absolutely ceding the field to China.

The current crop of establishment Dems don't have the stomach for it because they're Republicans at heart. Imo it's as simple as that.

This was by design of course. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Trump is the epitome of the boss class. Like almost all bosses, he is both a petty dictator and a moron who has no idea how anything actually works or how to fix it when, through his own stupidity and arrogance, he inevitably breaks something.

The reflecting pool debacle is a marvelous illustration of the interconnection between autocracy, illiberalism and incompetence. Trump broke the pool. Lied abt it. Said it was violent outside agitators. Now he’s created a vast security perimeter to prevent people from getting near it.

we all make jokes about how woke 1 went too far but woke 1 was extremely, absolutely correct about how much these people were dogwhistling, absolutely correct about the direction they were going in, absolutely correct that how their beliefs were not compatible with a free society

A friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding at the Great American State Fair bc he knows no one is there.

Few websites have enriched my life as much as The Online Etymological Dictionary. Absolute yeoman's work. etymonline.com

The gentrification debate is always amusing to me because the biggest problem is that nobody wants us in their neighborhoods or schools and the question of where housing goes can’t really be addressed without attacking that as an unwell perspective and overruling it

My galaxy-brain take on this is that Collins doesn't want to debate Platner because she is 73 years old and, like many of her fellow gerontocrats, has experienced significant physical and cognitive decline that she knows will make her look bad on TV — especially next to a far younger opponent.

Fight. Don’t cower.

Mamdani: "What I saw from Darializa as a focus on what she describes as a politics of life ... what people in that district are exhausted by is a politics that has justified the spending of tens of billions in killing civilians overseas while working people are struggling"

It's going to be interesting watching the rightwing noise machine try to demagogue the incredibly likeable and helpful guy who never stops smiling, never appears in public without a suit on, and is genius-level good at media and comms.

More and more people are saying it

Another one: In January, a guy wrote an angry (but non-threatening) letter to former ICE chief Todd Lyons after the Good, Pretti killings. Last week, ICE agents tracked him down at the NYC hotel where he and his daughter were staying after returning from a vacation in Finland.

“The challenge for technocrats of all parties isn’t to have good ideas. It is to foster the conditions in which such ideas can triumph.” @chrisdillow.bsky.social

AI actually stands for "accelerating inflation"

The AI bubble comes for the For You feed.

FWIW, we should absolutely amend the Constitution to allow naturalized citizens to be POTUS. No other elected or appointed office has such a requirement. We are a nation of immigrants and it is outrageous and disgraceful that an immigrant cannot serve as our Chief Executive.

Wow. Big crowds at the the Epstein-Trump memorial festival.

i mean this is usually why you have career diplomats negotiate treaties and not the national review columnist suckup who trump was manipulated by peter thiel into picking for VP