Early in Trump's first term, David Frum wrote that every time Trump and MAGA say "the deep state" you should hear "rule of law," then it'll make more sense. That stuck with me. And I thought of it again as an unqualified and unconfirmed director of national intelligence conducts political purges.

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” The Constitution settled this long ago. No president gets to decide who is and isn't an American.

Sotomayor: "The Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws."

If you can safely attend a game at Madison Square Garden, you don’t need a ballroom.

Cc @bryancurtis.bsky.social Strained Pun Headline

Republicans say James Talarico ordered a vegan taco. Democrats say that it wasn't vegan because it had both egg and cheese—doubling down on the cultural elitism that has cost them so dearly in recent elections.

Tech company invents the bus. Again.

The combination of crypto, prediction markets, online gambling and AI is just an unprecedented set of bad industries for a boom to be underpinned by.

Republicans hung Obama in effigy, said he was Kenyan, went after Bidens family and still — still both men said the Republicans would have an epiphany. They laughed af Pelosi’s husband being attacked and she said she just wanted a “strong Republican Party.”

Funny how the all the people ransacking the Capitol on January 6 were liberals, plants, and ANTIFA—until there was money to be made from it.

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lol keep these AI graduation stories comin’

One reason FDR's court-packing plan failed to catch on is that the Supreme Court was perceived by many Americans as apolitical and therefore a victim of unwarranted aggression from the president. This court, however, is nakedly partisan. And any Democrat in power should be saying so early and often

Klobuchar giving an assist to the Minnesota Republican Party. Useless. The moderates are useless.

Yikes! Both of Trump's hands are discolored today and one of them appears bruised as well (Anna Moneymaker/Getty)

It’s wild that he touts this as an achievement every chance he gets.

The left’s almost jocular response to Rudy Giuliani's illness stands in marked contrast to the somber tone adopted by Republicans in the wake of the death of Rob Reiner.

absolutely incredible thing for bret stephens to say out loud

Six partisan hacks

In which Justice Alito suggests the parties should have briefed an issue that the Court declined to grant certiorari on. www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

I'm rewatching the Chernobyl series on HBO, and the opening voiceover from Legasov resonates: "What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."

Trump: I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. We're going to keep killing people in boats. Senator Kelly should be executed. ICE protesters are domestic terrorists. Immigrants are vermin. Raskin: Donald Trump is bad for this country. Bash: Do you regret your heated rhetoric, Rep. Raskin?

I really think it’s important to underline that there was apparently no security breach. The gunman was confronted and stopped where he should have been according to the design—at the magnetometer perimeter. What this piece argues for is an *expansion* of the security perimeter in time and space.

Uh, Dana, allow me to introduce you to former President Theodore Roosevelt (who served from 1901 to 1909), who wrote this in a newspaper editorial published in the Kansas City Star on May 7, 1918, during World War I, sharply criticizing then-President Woodrow Wilson’s conduct of that war.

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion. I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience

you can't say she doesn't practice what she preaches because she's willing to reproduce with stephen miller, a job nobody else wanted

I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.

There are no brakes on Trump's psychotic war crimes plane. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s distinguishing characteristic in his prior role as weekend host of Fox’s morning show was his delight in the prospect of American service members engaging in brutality. www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth...

Democrats should file impeachment articles immediately.

Donald Trump is openly threatening war crimes against the entirety of Iranian civilization. 25th Amendment proceedings must begin immediately, but if the Cabinet is too cowardly, the House should begin the impeachment process now.

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

In his @status.news newsletter @oliverdarcy.bsky.social reports the White House got Getty to delete this photo (from a Thanksgiving White House PHOTO-OP STUNT) because Karoline Leavitt was offended It ran only in a Swiss newspaper. It would be a shame if you retweeted and Streisanded it

@olbermann.bsky.social Byron DONALDS

Filming the police is not obstruction. Filming the police is not resisting. Refusing to stop filming police is not resisting. Holding onto your phone is not resisting. Federal agents under this admin have zero respect for rights and liberties.

I stress that I feel like bringing your firearm to a protest is a huge risk. However, it is not illegal in most states. And the #2A crowd has advocated for guys like Kyle Rittenhouse. So I have this to say about Kash’s comments here: fuck off, nerd.

More evidence that the US government are lying liars who will lie about anything, this footage of ICE killing Alex Pretti supports the claim he was protecting a woman from violent ICE agents. The only thing he was brandishing was a phone.

Murder... bsky.app/profile/domi...

ICE agents killed a man and are disappearing the witnesses.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

Did Putin make Bob Kraft the commissar of Massachusetts oblast? Nope, just pocketed the ring and chuckled. Correct read here I think.

The most pathetic man alive.

Kash Patel is investigating the Renee Good shooting the right way. by Ezra Klein

Cc @olbermann.bsky.social

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."