He tore up the Obama deal with Iran out of racist jealousy, started a war to prove he could do better by punishing Iran into a better deal, and wound up with a worse hand to play because he’s a dumbass loser living in a bubble of equally dumb sycophants and war hawks.

DOGE dickheads specifically named in this article as trying to implement this plan. Stephen Miller isn’t mentioned, but I would not be surprised to learn that his greasy fingerprints were also all over this. It’s his kind of cruel.

We are living in an age of “blinkered narcissists.” (Great turn of phrase.) What a time to be alive.

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I’ll be very happy if there’s an Attorney General Raskin in the Democratic presidential administration that assumes office in January 2029. He’ll be great at prosecuting all the shady shenanigans sure to take place in the 100% certain MAGA attempt to prevent a future Democrat from taking office.

WTF is this NYT headline? What the Alabama + Callais decisions really signal is that Roberts Court will make up whatever the hell rule it wants to maximally help the GOP & prevent Black voters from having any representation

I'm a professor of American history and even I have no clue what Bessent was trying to get at here with "who was the president during World War I?" Woodrow Wilson. He pretty much sucked in every way. He was a Democrat, was that the gotcha? If not, what? So incredibly smug and stupid at once.

The official strategy of the administration when before Congress is to behave like condescending dickheads.

Could hear the helicopters but we weren’t close enough to the site to hear anything else. Found it very troubling that there was no explanation for this exercise, but at least there was some advanced warning from the city that it was happening.

That tracks, just look at his boss.

This is such sad news. If you haven't read any of Marjane Satrapi's work, that would be a nice way to pay tribute. May she rest in peace.

tee hee! 🤭

I don’t know that I’ve ever heard a more thoughtful, introspective, poetic answer to a post-game playoff question than this.

among the biggest problems with television today, the lack of economic or logistical pressure to actually make shows is among the greatest. (1/14)

Okay, Reek.

New glasses and good grief are my eyes tired. Computer glasses and my first pair of progressives, which is an adjustment.

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Making it about himself is all he’s capable of doing.

He's probably just trolling but dems should absolutely make sure as many people as possible know this is what he's doing to the White House

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SCOTUS needs to be reformed and the Roberts Court destroyed. They are aware their rulings are pushing Democrats towards those positions, and each of their increasingly desperate, pretzel-logic rulings are not just an attempt to enshrine white rule, but the conservative court’s power, permanently.

watching the horrible anti-trans stuff in the UK and the horrible [gestures broadly] from the US, it's hard to conclude anything except that a small group of powerful people has gone completely insane, and that they were more powerful and more insane than previously understood

For the millionth time: his brain is broken.

“bias in media” was treated like the biggest scandal in this country’s history a few years ago

Exactly. Not dropped at all

BREAKING: Don't fall for what Blanche is suggesting - DOJ is NOT getting rid of the whole bogus slush fund deal; it's still giving Trump $1,776 billion AND still giving him (and family) a broad civil release of liability; all it is NOT doing is using the $1,776 to create a fund for J6ers and others.

Any detrumpification effort is going to founder if it isn’t going through an independent court system (which divests the Supreme Court of any review authority). Because the detrumpification commission has got to look at this claim of immunity and say, “LOL, no.”

A reminder that all it takes to overturn a Constitutional amendment is 5 justices on SCOTUS

The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

Bari Weiss is either the least self-aware person or the most skilled deflector of responsibility.

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as @scumbelievable.bsky.social perfectly channeling Orson Welles put it:

Roberts Court wants to create world where Dems have no legitimate chance to ever take control of Congress, there are no Black members of Congress from the South & no voting rights violations can ever be proven. Their end goal is permanent white GOP minority rule www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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SCOTUS Republican Justices approach to rulings: heads we win, tails you lose.

🚨BREAKING: All I can say is this is fucking so cynical I have no words. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"performative display of hostility" MFer really can't imagine genuinely caring about something

We do not have voting rights in this country anymore. We just don’t. We did for a while because Congress codified them pursuant to a constitutional amendment enacted by the people in a great repudiation of the original sin of slavery. But the Supreme Court has nullified that law and that amendment.

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

this court would authorize all-white primaries if it could find some facially neutral means to do so

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

Jim Crow is chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

According to the Roberts Court, a state can’t remedy racial discrimination with new maps months before an election but can enshrine racial discrimination with new maps weeks before an election.

“Yet just as Alabama doubled down on racial discrimination, the Court today doubles down on chaos. Because I choose to defend the rule of law and the right of all Alabamians to participate equally in democracy, I respectfully dissent.” Thank you, Justice Sotomayor.

At the new CBS News, civility > integrity.

"hostile work environment" is chef's kiss (cc @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social ) www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1867-e...

Well we've now seen what the Supreme Court has to say about the matter and surprise surprise it's outrageously bad

The president took your money illegally and he won’t give it back