while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

Trump, Vance not invited to Thursday funeral for former VP Dick Cheney www.youtube.com/watch?v=do5n...

It’s almost like they’re being paid for loyalty rather than competence.

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

I’m Jewish. I lived in New York for a decade. I am very, very concerned about antisemitism. I have no doubt that Zohran Mamdani would fight to protect my life and my rights. I have no doubt the ADL has entirely failed to protect me and my family from fascists. I know where my allegiance lies.

stay tuned

Aren’t they arguing that Biden’s pardons are invalid bc he had no idea who he was pardoning?? So…

JUST IN: Feds explain how CBP vehicle involved in collision that led to woman being shot & criminally charged was moved from Chicago to Maine and then partially repaired while it was evidence in a criminal case. Doc www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Running gag goes meta as Johnson says he knows nothing about Trump knowing nothing

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

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Jack Smith is going the wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove route. Will Republicans let him?

As Marcy notes, @seamushughes.bsky.social is doing such critically important work. Here, folks should read Judge Rodriguez's opinion (to which Marcy links) for themselves. It's a chilling account of what's become standard practice in ICE arrests these days—from a district judge who is no firebrand.

Unless I'm missing something, this seems pretty straightforwardly unconstitutional.

How can a sheriff, a prosecutor, and a judge be this moronic?

... that, in addition to violating the Constitution, the assassination ban, two criminal murder statutes, and international law (see piece below), Trump is now violating section 5(b) of the War Powers Act, too. [2] www.justsecurity.org/120296/many-...

The Oregonians interviewed a guy who Republicans have accused of running an “Antifa safe house.” The levels of MAGA derangement about Portland are truly off the charts.

Oh nooooo!!!!!! The government has decided that it is not in their interests to explain to the judge whether they knew the "victim" here had a criminal record. Holy hell public defenders might gets us thru this shite. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Stephen Miller says that he wants to build a fascist totalitarian police state. Democrats agree that this is what he wants to do. The truth is more complicated.

Calm down, liberals. Donald Trump's demand that the DOJ pay him $230 in taxpayer dollars is just an opening bid in a negotiation. He's unlikely to walk away with more than $180 million. Feel silly now? by Megan McArdle

The young men in my focus group had lost money on Republican-controlled meme coins, Republican-owned sports gambling platforms, and Republican-backed meme stocks. None were interested in voting for Democrats, stating that the party didn't have their best interests at heart.

Whether it's Staten Island Republicans screaming racist epithets at Zohran Mamdani or Manhattan Democrats bringing up Andrew Cuomo's history of sexual harassment and nursing home deaths, both sides have pushed the boundaries of civil political discourse.

Reup: DOJ neglected to tell Ashleigh Brown that the alleged victim in her case, an FPS officer, has a criminal record, including 2021 charges for harassment involving physical contact. [fixed screencap] storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"This is America, NYC. Don't let them tell you that we're the exception. WE are the rule. We are the standard. We are the acceptance. We set the bar for America. I'm talking to you, Donald Trump. There has been a day before his presidency. And there will be a day after. And it belongs to us."

Ashleigh Brown, charged w/assault in one case in LA and doxing in another, just discovered the FPS officer she allegedly assaulted has a criminal history, including a 2021 assault. DOJ did not disclose it to her. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Subtly downgrade a band: Difficult Straits

Important message about @NobleOne, Ammon Bundy, Michael Flynn, @IvanRaiklin Plan B to arrest officials! Please listen and share! youtu.be/yMNO2sHBzz4

I continue to be struck by this language of “in accordance with the president’s priorities,” which treats the executive branch as an extension of the person of the president, and not a mechanism for instituting the will of Congress

We spent the last ten years criticizing the American left for undermining free speech. Now that the America has a right-wing dictator, we plan to focus more on free speech issues in Europe.

RIP David Souter, who dared to betray the Republican president who nominated him to the court by being a more or less decent human being, a mistake they made damn sure never to make again.

If I were an editor at a prestigious national publication I would simply ask writers to define what they mean by words like "forced" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

New: Though the Rabbis & later commentators crafted a narrative in which the Exodus was one of "just us,"-- for, by Israelites-- a closer look reveals that this was never the case. Our liberation has always been collective, has always been about who else comes with us. On solidarity in the seder:

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

Vladimir Putin is the most successful investor in the history of the world.

Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.

The Signal group chat included Pete Hegseth saying “we will bomb their main compound at exactly 3 PM on Friday because that is a time when they won’t be expecting it,” but there was nothing on the chat that could be considered classified or top secret b

Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

I take my good and joyful news wherever I can find it, and this is GREAT. Just need to increase those negativity ratings!

I appreciate Josh's elevation of the term "anti-constitutional," which is different from "unconstitutional." Deciding not to spend appropriations because you don't feel like it isn't some outré theory of the Constitution. It's just an assertion of power, a rejection of constitutionalism altogether.

Trump has long boasted about the market's performance under him. But now he seems to have other priorities.

The Constitution conflicts with his power. We told you he wanted to be a dictator.

Gender self-identification is the only way to maintain human dignity in a gender segregated society. Anyone who claims otherwise is either falsely assuming the genital police will never come for them or their friends or their children, or lying.

Eighteen Ukrainian soldiers died in Iraq. No one gave Kyiv any minerals open.substack.com/pub/countero...

@anntelnaes.bsky.social National Women’s Day

“Frightened for the safety of their families.” America, 2025.