McConnell denied Garland a vote nine months out under the guise that there was an election soon and then jammed through Coney Barrett a week before Biden won. They have been flipping the bird to the concepts of norms and fairness for decades and the democrats have done jack shit to fight back.

And it wouldn't even lead to lower prices at the pump! Here's the legendary @pkrugman.bsky.social writing in 2000.

interesting: on page 3-4 of ABC's filing to the FCC they accuse the Carr agency of working with right wing non-ABC owned affiliates to concoct a scandal surrounding The View's decision to host James Talarico last February (I'll explain) www.fcc.gov/ecfs/documen...

As my friend @mirandayaver.bsky.social has pointed out repeatedly, “work requirements” are actually paperwork requirements. This massively increases the burden on both SNAP applicants and staff, which in the case of AZ has resulted in almost half of SNAP participants being kicked off.

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

Here's the website with the recordings. It's been under heavy DDoS for a week now hondurasgate.ch

This is basically harassment of scholars willing to question the Trump administration’s targeting of Chinese colleagues. Innes already had the FBI investigate his lab and was given the all clear. Now USDA is shutting down the Lab, which focuses on making fungus-resistant plants.

The Speaker of the House in Alabama calls on the courts to “overturn the 14th Amendment.” This is the same legislative body, a court found engaged in intentional racial discrimination in drawing voting maps in the Milligan case. x.com/austinpratt_...

You wouldn’t marry someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t be friends with someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t do business with someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t work for someone who lied to u like this. You’d want nothing to do with someone who lied to u like this.

Even @wsj.com is debunking Trump’s economic arguments for his mass deportation campaign: -Employment among US-born men FELL in areas with more ICE arrests. -Deporting law-abiding immigrant workers REDUCES job opportunities for American workers and is BAD for the economy.

Can't fix racist maps because the election is only a year away, but you can stop an election after voting starts to make the maps more racist. Good thing racism is over. 🤬

iiiiiiiiiiiiinteresting www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Stock market is up nearly 16% over the past 26 trading days primarily on hopes that we’ll soon resolve stuff with Iran. If we can keep this up for another year, we’ll see the market go up 315% from here.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Ok, WHAT NOW? (from an article about Trump's sparsely attended golf tournament.) www.mirror.co.uk/sport/golf/d...

We’re just now hitting the point where there is less petroleum products in the United States because of the war in Iran. Hard to see how this could play out well.

The proper approach is not to “focus” or not on Trump. The task is to stretch Trump like a filthy wet blanket until his unpopularity covers and discredits the entire GOP, which spawned his crime spree in the first place.

After 'Shelby County' 13 years ago, I wrote that John Roberts was on track to displace Roger 'Dred Scott' Taney as the Chief Justice who would live in infamy. It's no contest any more. Alito is a worse partisan hack, but he never pretended to be anything else. Roberts wanted to be "respected."

It's just not a thing as @jlazarus.bsky.social shows in his slide. And nonstop efforts to restrict suffrage, on the basis of lies about it being a thing, should disqualify an entire party from polite society & any treatment in the press as anything other than far right authoritarian extremists.

No real leader responds this way to concerns their rhetoric is deeply antisemitic. Hegseth defiantly unapologetic. Doubles down. [Some good background here by the Times of Israel: www.timesofisrael.com/hegseth-comp...

You remember last year when 500 South Korean battery production experts were kidnapped from a Hyundai plant in Georgia and mass-deported? This single act completely destroyed the willingness of foreign EV experts to work in the US to advance American battery and motor manufacturing. 7/x

I will note that Techdirt's most vocal troll has been posting multiple comments pointing to Planter as proof that it's leftists who are Nazis and anyone who refers to maga as Nazis is just trying to deflect... So... yeah

In August 1964 my father wrote: “People are very scared. To give you some idea of the fear, in this town one Negro has registered to vote this summer, and three have said they will try soon. Everyone fears for his job, and rightly. They stand a good chance of being fired if they try to register.”

Has the Supreme Court ever previously struck down all or part of a duly-passed, constitutional law on the grounds that Justices feel like the law achieved its goals and feel like the goal would stay achieved without the law so therefore it shouldn’t be in force anymore? Because that’s legislative.

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

basically wrong the entire way

Very very telling. It’s been a big question how the govt was able to get a grand jury to sign off on this particular conspiracy charge. Seems pretty clear the govt had dirty hands on that front.

“The majority avails itself of tools used before to dismantle the Act: untenable readings of statutory text, made-up & impossible-to-meet evidentiary requirements, disregard for precedent, & disdain for congressional judgment…it greenlights redistricting plans that will disable minority communities”

it's absolutely wild how little support there is for community colleges in this country. they do so much more good, and with far fewer resources, than the so-called elite universities that largely function to reproduce/sustain existing hierarchies of wealth and privilege

“He’s off the charts.” Probably a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10. Send help, preferably someone who’s understands how charts and numbers work.

Franceska also expected to be paying no tax. None.

Thinking about the Warsh testimony more, noteworthy how he highlights trimmed mean inflation. It just happens to be the lowest, of course. But it's a terrible lesson to draw from the past 6 years. It got it wrong in both directions, misleading many. newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/cherry-pic...

Nothing to worry about, just the Heritage Foundation publishing an article on how the Republican Congress can refuse to seat Democrats www.heritage.org/election-int...

Jay Bhattacharya has ordered that a paper showing the effectiveness of COVID19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and hospitalization be suppressed and hidden. This man has been crying nonstop about political censorship for 6 years. But he’s the one who is actually doing it.

In case you’re wondering why Musk is pivoting to space

This made me a) cry, but also b) want to be Sister Mary Kay when I grow up (Gift Link)

Facebook today:

The much-vaunted DOJ "Weaponization Working Group" released its very first report last week on supposed DOJ abuses under the Biden administration. The report shows ... not very much.

3 public universities on Ohio stop offering degrees in mathematics. 4 will stop offering degrees physics. At least one university hasn’t announced degree termination yet,

to summarize, this week jd vance laysplained st augustine of hippo to the augustinian pope, while the pope visited hippo

“Over and over and over again, the district court rules that this detention that’s happening on Camp Pendleton is a violation of due process, but they just keep doing it because most people don’t have an attorney that can get them out.”

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

These would be deplorable, inhumane conditions for any prison. The majority of these people have never been accused of a crime, much less convicted of one. Most, at worst, entered the country illegally seeking a better life. Some, not even that.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal. Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.

And the three exceptions, who were Afghan, had their protected status stripped by Trump.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here: