Really important to internalize that the president of the United States is ordering troops into major population centers precisely to create violent confrontations, for the sole purpose of intimidating, criminalizing and disabling opposition

If I was Donald Trump I would not be drawing the public’s attention right now to my ability to release files

Timeline cleanse. Really great stuff, here.

cartoon by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

Joe's right.

This uncouth galoot is going to make IKEA bookshelves more expensive. Look, I'm still salty about the Library of Alexandria burning down, I'll be mad about this for the rest of my life.

Patel is basically admitting on camera that the FBI no longer adheres to the Attorney General Guidelines, which prohibits investigating U.S. persons based solely on First Amendment activity (including membership in a group).

This thing where Trump just makes the Cabinet stand around where he fields questions from the press - just so he can feel like he's doing Big Important President Things - reeks of insecurity, and it will never not be strange to me.

I'm enjoying this new meme format.

We took over TikTok because we feared it could be state media, only to turn it into state media.

This thread is a delight.

If you believe that this was accidental, I've got some crypto tokens to sell you. Just ship me all your money in a box, I'll send you the crypto tokens sometime soon, promise.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

i really wish our law enforcement and media werent telegraphing to mass shooters that messages written on bullets will be breathlessly and uncritically publicized with no further examination

I hope this ends well for Oklahoma, but I can't remember the last time someone in a deep red area resigned and GOP voters replaced them with someone more sane.

Remember: the purpose of a system is what it does.

This is one of my favorite types of interactions on here. I've got a pretty good idea of what has happened, and I'm happy to skip it.

This is not how Article V of NATO works. I thought that all of us were clear on that.

The Streisand effect in action. Kimmel should send the folks at Sinclair and Nexstar a nice fruit basket.

There's a lot to this point, and I would argue that this is a direct result of Christians (1) not knowing or understanding church history, and (2) conflating their practice of Christianity with the existence of Christendom.

Same.

Wild that this is a more full-throated defense of the First Amendment than anything that I've seen in the NYT, WaPo, etc.

It's very strange that this is being covered as a funny story about the president of France having to call POTUS about not being able to get to his motorcade. Reverse the rules with our president in any other country and I'm sure it would be covered in a completely different way.

This may have been the most insane and incoherent four days of his presidency. Tylenol, the U.N., I hate my opponents, other countries are going to hell, this escalator's broken, I'm mad at a TV comedian, I like Ukraine now. It really feels as if some minimal tether to reality has snapped.

For what should be painfully obvious reasons, we cannot accept disappearing people as a society. The administration has to explain where these people are.

I'm real curious to know how he actually came up with this. Like, did someone who knows tell him this as a joke, just to see how far he would go with it?

Miran literally works in the White House at the president's pleasure. This would be disqualifying to anyone who cares about Fed independence from political interference. The GOP majority in the Senate is evidently fine with ending Fed independence.

Anything but a clear yes when asked if the US backs up NATO allies is effectively a no, undermining the credibility that has made NATO such a success, deterring attacks for over 70 years. Clear yes—backed by action—is key to the whole thing. Getting to maybe not was a Russian foreign policy dream.

We haven't digested the degree to which our current betrayal of our friends will live in infamy.

I consider myself to be a fairly orthodox Christian, and so my feelings on the rapture are one of skepticism as a result of my general rule of thumb: do not believe theological concepts that were invented recently enough that the inventor could have plausibly driven a Ford Pinto.

Don't miss this: this is an American SecState publicly bemoaning that China is not adequately filling the gap left by waning American influence.

Seeing some very smart people say that this speech at the UN is the low point of US diplomacy, and I've got a reminder:

Yeah, some of us know. Some of us are working very hard to not know.

I dunno, guys, I think that this dumpster fire of a speech is only getting Trump closer to a Nobel Prize unless he kidnaps the committee at the end of it

For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law

He's bragging about breaking international law to the UN. I'm just ashamed for my country.

*sigh* He probably thinks he's changing hearts and minds, here, but he's really just convincing the rest of the world that he's a deluded fool.

The Supreme Court could say the president’s allegedly illegal actions must be put on hold while the Court reviews it. Instead, they repeatedly say Trump’s abuses must be allowed to go forward while in dispute. That’s entirely a choice. There’s no basis in law. Made the opposite call with Biden.

I mean, when he’s right . . .

Ah, yes, let's replace the scientific method with the vibes of . . . this guy, excellent plan

At least in this instance, the WH is doing their best to keep their base from punching themselves in the face, and the base is not having it.

Reading this while remembering all the evangelicals that told me that sure, they knew Trump's character wasn't all that great, but he was still who they would vote for because good conservative policies were more important than character.

the fact that in multiple cases the Supreme Court has worked to legalize bribery in the United States is a major corrosion of our civil order

It matters that Dems say these are impeachable offenses to the public, whether or not they immediately pursue them.

The Sermon on the Mount is for suckers and Democrats, apparently.

The bride at every wedding; the corpse at every funeral.

Incredible image. Also incredible that the vast majority of white Christians in this country align with the men in camo.

Remember when news media flipped out bc Biden momentarily mixed up Mexico and Egypt?

Every time I read something like this, I think of that observation - that I think was from @daviddark.bsky.social - that your politics are your character writ large in your community. And so this tells me more about Megyn's character than it does her policies.