Lovely little day trip to Great Dismal Swamp. Sunny and cool, too early in the year for most mosquitoes.

This should be recognized as a form of affirmative action for conservatives

A thread: Recently I purchased this map of Eastern Europe, copyright 1921 and printed in 1923. This was a tumultuous time in the world. A few highlights:

More than anyone, it’s been the ultra normies who were radicalized in Trump 2.0. If you go to Bethesda in the DMV or Orange County, California or Cobb County, Georgia, you will meet white normies who make $200k+ who don’t just want to Vote Blue No Matter Who. They want to punish Republicans

But kings and mightiest potentates must die, For that’s the end of human misery.

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

No better place to be Carrboro, NC #nokings

People are beginning to assemble 15 minutes before the scheduled march in Chapel Hill #nokings

The #1 headline in Raleigh: #nokings

5.) Recurring protests provide access points for normies to increase their threshold for *public risk* while also focusing the country's attention to the SIZE and SCOPE of the resistance to the administration's policies.

thoughts on today: 1) the protests are good, actually 2) you should go to one of you can 3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy 4) you might meet people who you can organize with 5) there are more of us than there are of them 6) we are going to win

Today is #NoKings day. Find your local event at NoKings.org. ✊

Currently at Arlington National Cemetery #nokings

It is kind of an amazing feeling to be preparing signs and getting snacks ready for a march, knowing that literally millions of people are doing the same #nokings

Everyone, please use the hashtag #NoKings so people can find your posts. Especially, those of you in small towns. It delights people who have moved away to get to see folks from where they grew up/went to school/had their first job out in the streets for democracy. Have a wonderful safe day!

Trump this morning: The Oracle at Delphi said if I became President again, it would result in the largest political movement in American history

Today is a brisk clear day in North Carolina. Rain came through last night, lowering the temperature about 30 degrees and also knocking a lot of pollen out of the air. A good day for marching.

I don’t love being in a society where you can sell enough pillows to do meaningful damage to democracy or sell enough children’s books to do a genocide or sell enough chicken sandwiches to abolish gay marriage That all seems like a ridiculous way to do society to me

Again this demand that gender be determined not at birth or by self definition or cultural upbringing but by genetic testing is a major and radical demand for a new standard never, ever practiced by any culture in the history of the planet Earth.

Corporate ownership of single family house rental Discourse makes me insane because none of the neo-Brandeisians are willing to come out and say "I think that lower middle class SFH renters should be evicted and forced to live in apartments so that upper middle class families can buy those houses."

3 minutes until we invade Kharg or whatever

This is the second extension of the FEMA Review Council. Their report is 4 months overdue. Western NC is still waiting on the aid they deserve, and that Michael Whatley promised as federal Recovery Czar. https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5799899-trump-fema-reform-council-mullin-dhs/

looking good Mr President

15. Things are fluid and maybe these dynamics change over the next few hours. But it's your regular reminder that there is no overlap in the Venn diagram between a government that works and a Congress under GOP control. /fin

14. It's so maddening. Government workers should be paid. You shouldn't have to wait on lines in airports, or worry about Coast Guard preparedness, or whether FEMA can handle the next disaster. But you do because of the utter lack of character in GOP leadership.

7. House should have come in today, passed that bill and gone home. But we can't do that because the wingnuttiest members of the Republican caucus (a) love fascist ICE thugs and (b) hate democracy so refused to support.

My clients get FIRED for doing that.

if you can reinterpret the 14th amendment to mean something other than what it obviously means it is stone cold proof that there is no legislative language, no matter how clear, that cannot be twisted into “2+2=5” at the behest of the corrupt partisan hacks who call themselves “justices”

Unpopular opinion alert: Chuck Schumer deserves credit for keeping his caucus in line until Republicans folded.

This is RAOS you can’t do this to RAOS

The constitutional remedy for a president who orders money to be spent from the Treasury without an appropriation from Congress is impeachment, removal, disqualification, and a criminal trial for violating the Anti-Deficiency Act.

Wisteria in bloom

You really have to hope he is more cowardly (or just forgetful) than stupid, which...

Me, reading the first sentence: “eh, does X-files really need a reboot though?” Me, reading the second sentence: “X-FILES REBOOT! LET’S DO THIS THING. TEN SEASONS AND A MOVIE!”

This explains so, so much

So when they want renewables, they don't just stomp in & force more renewables. It's all "tech-neutral tax credits" & "level playing field" & "all of the above." Reasonable! Fair! What do they get for this? Do they get a gold star? A Reasonable & Fair merit badge? No. They get *less renewables*.

So how does this translate in the energy world? When renewables were surging under Biden, it was "all of the above, all of the above" (fairness!). Now that Rs have taken over, are they respecting lawful process? Are they creating a level playing field? Are they pursuing all of the above? Ha. No.

The main takeaway from this entire fiasco today is that this Republican Party can never be trusted with foreign policy & national security again in any of our lifetimes, if ever.

Ways that the Black Lives Matter moment attempt to place weight on the Second Founding: included the failed attempt to use Section 3 of the 14 Amendment, the taking down of Confederate statues, the passage of Juneteenth. Trump v. Barbara has to be understood against this context.

A Texas school district has banned HOW LONG TIL BLACK FUTURE MONTH, along with over 1500 other books. Mine was kicked bc it's labeled for adults, which is true. But so are every one of my books, which are available in most schools. That's the only one with "Black" in the title, tho.

whatever the conclusion this raises some other points. first of all, i think it's clear any society needs an agreed upon moral framework to be viable. laws that apply to everyone, some belief that, say, violence is bad and should be avoided. lying is bad, stealing is bad. universally. call me crazy

Case of the Venezuelan sent to CECOT who's suing the USA for $1.3 million in damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act has been assigned to ... Judge James Boasberg.

i've got this one: he forgot the words "diego garcia" and the first thing that popped into his head was "ireland" because he'd been briefed on the it being an island in the *indian* ocean. this should not make you feel better about these comments.

one thing a whole lot of us struggle with at times is feeling isolated and depressed and like not enough people care about what’s going on and I really cannot emphasize enough that going to a no kings protest helps this feeling a lot there are so! many! people! who hate all of this shit

Here's where I will be on Saturday

For all those celebrating the defeat of Phil Berger in North Carolina, a reminder that he was a key player in NC's HB2, the original anti-trans law

All of the men we wrongly sent to CECOT deserve compensation and justice.

Haven’t seen this many viziers racing toward Budapest since 1526

I live in NC. The most delicious part of ALL of this, is that Phil Berger redrew his own gerrymandered congressional map, and then lost it. 💀 #karma

Jaw-dropping admission by DOJ to court. DOJ admits to having repeatedly made "material mistaken" representations to judge - ICE never had authority (under 2025 Guidance) to conduct arrests at immigration courthouses! DOJ admits court "relied on...prior misrepresentations." DOJ blames ICE (page 2)