Republicans use the "I'm not familiar with that" dodge several times a day now, and if a reporters or anchor isn't ready and willing to shut them down as soon as they try it, that means they're either incompetent at their job or a willing accomplice to the lies. Either way, never trust them again.

This is spot on 👇

Just heard a great line from the writer Paul Waldman: Trumpism is based on the idea that "our worst selves are our truest selves". It is fundamentally a bleak, brutal view of human nature — we all secretly want to be sadistic and corrupt so let it all out. It's not true but it explains a lot.

Something I’ve thought about a lot is that the WH has decided to govern the country like Missouri or Brownback’s Kansas, and most people have never lived in a deep red state so this is all a fairly new experience for them

One plan. Six pillars of international law demolished. Trump's Ukraine plan requires the US to violate 71 international commitments, @EerikNKross has calculated. It systematically contradicts the legal order America built over 80 years—from the Geneva Conventions to NATO's founding treaty:

The trump regime is setting up official agency accounts here on BlueSky, and they’re dragging their MAGA trolls with them. Block liberally.

DOJ is basically arguing in Court that if the President "determines" that literal martians have landed from Mars and are attacking the United States, Trump can invoke any emergency power he wants and the judiciary can't question it.

Perry is back on the bench.

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

great article. one thing i will add, i think, is how for many libs the election was a traumatic event. they deeply believed that it "should not be close", that democrats should *obviously* run away with it, and the fact we didn't must mean americans just LOVE trump's policies

Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

Seems important and relevant.

Too accurate

She's in big trouble. 😂

Franklin uttered the phrase on this very date (September 17), the last day of the Constitutional Convention, in 1787

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov's take on Kirk is the correct one: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it." On point. So glad Democrats are saying this.

Devastating

The real theme of the last 5 years of discourse is that liberalism sucks because it didn't solve all of our problems, many to most of which were caused by not enough liberalism existing. This is a great example

Trump Urges Supporters To Move On From Societal Disdain For Pedophilia

I'm going to re-up this. Lisa Murkowski just gave a two-minute, unintentional master-class in why the GOP of the MAGA era will be studied forever in chronicles of cowardice. These are the two minutes she should be remembered for. (She could have stopped this bill.)

"The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival. Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort." -- Sotomayor dissent

Trump looking absolutely inconsolable at his fascist-themed 79th birthday party which no one turned up to other than those who had to because he's their boss.

Chicago congresswoman @repdeliaramirez hands Kristi Noem a letter of resignation and encourages her to use it 👀

ICE fled the scene after ramming a car in Boyle Heights! ABC-7 in L.A. reporting what police said. They're saying there was an incident involving "a federal agent." "They fled the scene." "Hollenbeck Division is even saying they're investigating this, possibly as an assault with a deadly weapon."

Judge in the lower federal courts are trying to play a role that are not used to, trying to wake up the public to what's going on, while remaining true to their constitutional role.

"Not one to be deterred by generally accepted silences" When Women Were Dragons @kellybarnhill.bsky.social dropping lines in her book that everyone should read.

ICE goons roleplaying Call of Duty while in front of a Mexican restaurant with a sign that says “Make Tacos not Walls”, as if the symbolism could get more on the nose

HSI agent on lake st standing next to a “DEFEND IMMIGRANT RIGHTS” sign

The SS you say?

Teachers Are Not OK 🔗 www.404media.co/teachers-are...

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

It’s crucial to keep emphasizing that these EOs were lawless. There was never a plausible argument they were constitutional. This administration has nothing but contempt for the constitution and the rule of law.

meanwhile many mainstream news orgs are covering IS BIDEN OLD as the number one story. It makes you think!

HAPPENING NOW: Status hearing in the case of Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts PhD student who was recently released from detention in Louisiana. The hearing before a federal judge in Vermont will largely cover the subject of whether Ozturk will be subject to ICE conditions while out on bail.

Amen

The GOP’s “big beautiful bill” includes a clause giving Donald Trump the ability to revoke the tax-exempt status of any group the Treasury Department says is a terrorism supporter. The bill is in the reconciliation process, meaning it only requires a simple majority in the House and Senate to pass.

Just to be clear: accepting a $400m gift from Qatar is illegal and completely corrupt. The fact that the Attorney General who signed off on this is a former lobbyist for Qatar is also outrageous. We need to start enforcing the rule of law again in this country.

Here's the defacement on GlobalX's website at the moment. Says it's in response to the Trump administration not following a court order which said the president unlawfully invoked the Alien Enemies Act www.404media.co/globalx-airl...

AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care? There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.

If this wasn’t posted by @atrupar.com I would have thought it had to be a doctored screenshot. But…it’s not

The worst thing about living in this country is the tens of millions of people who would rather be governed by these despicable rapist morons than let other people be free.

The Onion Looks Back On Pope Francis Busting His Holy Ass

BREAKING: SCOTUS orders the government not to remove anyone from the United States under Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation who is a part of the potential class in the Northern District of Texas case until further order of the court. Only Thomas and Alito note their dissent.