“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Person who hates Democrats and is ambivalent to positive about Republicans while loudly proclaiming themselves to be the biggest trans ally and therefore most progressive. Many such cases.

The entire reactionary project in a nutshell. A bunch of elite rubes annoyed at anyone they view as beneath them being used by billionaires and oligarchs to crush opposition and be discarded when they're no longer useful.

Apropos of nothing, let's check in with how things are going at Bari Weiss's free speech university. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1

I am going to be honest that if you aren’t sure whether or not it would be good if the fascists kill a prominent anti-fascist activist with whom you have developed an inscrutable parasocial antagonism, I really doubt the sincerity of your commitment to leftism or anti-fascism

"...it’s hard to get over the fact that [the author] didn’t (and still doesn’t) see this as an obvious right-wing grift from the get-go." Like I said: It’s the institutional equivalent of Just The Tip Trumpers -- they were either lying to con the rubes, or to con themselves.

Cancel culture at Bari Weiss U. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/canc...

LOL is this a bust of Niall Ferguson at Bari Weiss U?

It is Hard Pundit Law that the Democratic Party is fully responsible for anything ever said by a Wesleyan sophomore, and the Republican Party is not responsible for anything said or done by its top political leadership

I like to keep track of Trump's wee little baby steps further down the road of absolute degradation. Like pardoning a woman for fraud and then pardoning her a second time for a new fraud three years later. I think most dictators would find this embarrassing?

Hunter Biden painting sale update www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/hunt...

Great @resnikoff.bsky.social piece: dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

this image alongside the article: this woman wasn’t even protesting. She was a U.S. citizen trying to drive to an appointment and then was dragged out of her car.

America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.

I need to apologize for something I did. The @bostonherald.com is right, there is no place for profanities in politics.

A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:

Transparent, open bribery.

shooting a woman in the face is not an optics problem, it is a *problem* problem

A gentle reminder that poorly (if at all) sourced assertions that Democrats are about to do something only Rahm Emanuel would like are one of the quickest ways to drive engagement on social media and you should probably treat them with at least some measure of skepticism

Virginia Democrats know what the shot is www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/virg...

Jagged little shill www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/jagg...

"The network’s top editor, Bari Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call Wednesday morning" wow what are the odds?

When you grovel before Trump and give him your Nobel medal and thank him for invading Venezuela you're pretty much guaranteeing you won't ever lead the country, right? In other news, pissed-off CBS staff are leaking like crazy.

Congratulations to Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/ajco...

The deck is stacked in about 10 different ways to give extra power and money to rural areas, but it's never enough. Right wing propaganda continues to tell them they are out upon victims powerless against the mighty cities.

Distressing number of the whatabouts here reduce to "but Donald Trump *is* the president, & he is very bad" & then constructing some scheme demanding a much smarter & more capable Donald Trump than anyone we've seen in years, if ever

Via @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social "Let them eat (one piece of) broccoli to leave room for Trump to fund his invasions and soccer mom assassinations." Trump take beef www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/trum...

Buying somebody’s Super Bowl ring on eBay doesn’t make you a Super Bowl champion

Increasingly convinced that one of the main reasons the "Trump is going to cancel the midterms" meme won't die is because a lot of posting addicts don't want to accept that electoralism is still a necessary condition for beating Trump. It's a perverse sort of wishcasting.

“It literally had nothing to do with gymnastics anymore." Stanford gymnast Levi Jung-Ruivivar is one of several women's athletes who have spoken out about eating disorders in sports and the pressures behind them | @sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/sports/colle...

Excellent thread:

begging people not to preemptively hand Trump powers he does not have and has no practical means of accomplishing the scope of his actual abuses is quite bad enough on its own

Ambivalent on the Paul question myself, I enjoyed both point and counterpoint:

i actually live in a district that might be the kind of competitive that attracts attention, in a city that holds real significance for trump and his minions. there might be goons at my polling place and if i see them i'll give a smile and a wave and i'll cast my fucking ballot

Burying the lede at the core of the Earth www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/bury...

Hunter Biden Laptop Update www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/hunt...

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

I still suspect that Bari Weiss gets replaced by a much bigger asshole by summertime

"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"

We've lived in Minneapolis for almost 14 years, and I don't think people realize how close the communities are - *especially* people in the state who live in rural or exurban places. You fuck with our neighbors and we get big mad

Incidentally, KBJ just sniped at Kavanaugh over his Kavanaugh Stops opinion in a footnote today joined by Sotomayor. She isn't letting this one go. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

Velazquez: The American people are upset. They did not sign on for this. The most fundamental principle for the American people is fairness and humane policies, not beating the shit out of people, especially vulnerable women and children.

"The federal government's narrative could not immediately be verified." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.