To say it in no uncertain terms: If Trump orders a nuclear attack on Iran, or for that matter if he orders a conventional attack on desalination plants, the military should refuse to carry out the order, and should instead mutiny against him (Which, he's not the lawful president anyway, so...)

I’d guess that he’s unpopular because of the animal abuse and misogyny and antisemitism, to name three things.

None of these cowards and morons who are now leaking to try and protect their “reputations” offered any opinion. They left it to the dumbest President in history and now are trying to claim “no bad boyar! No bad boyar! YOUR the bad boyar!!”

The people who voted for Trump should have voted differently, though. They wanted to give him and his party power and that’s why he and his party have power. It’s a direct cause and effect.

These guys are all paid by the Russians, we have proof they're all paid by the Russians, but pointing out the malign influence Russia has been exerting on American politics gets you called a hysterical Russophobe

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

I'm not claiming to be a hero, but with every Cadbury MiniEgg I eat, that's a dog not getting chocolate poisoning. I've saved so many dogs.

No, I’m sorry, you don’t get to pull the “liberals don’t care about ICE” card after what just happened in Minneapolis. Nope.

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"

I'm going to fix Bluesky's user growth issues. I'm going to start posting about which MLB players have "George Lucas-ass names" again. Sorry about that.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

This kind of smarmy faux-victimhood is very easy to dunk on, and many people have, for years and years. But in this case? I specifically feel like this guy may not know what "Lent" is, heh. "Happy Lent!" said no one ever. If you're happy, you're DOING IT WRONG you jerk.

Thirty-one years ago today, the New Orleans-based alternative rock band Better than Ezra released its hit single “Good,” marking the first-ever Good Friday, which has now grown into a major holiday celebrated throughout the world.

The news needs to stop mincing words about what Hegseth is doing: restoring racial segregation to the US military by preventing anyone but white men from advancing

Saying “I think Trump is worse than Bush was” is not whitewashing Bush. It’s just fucking true. And even if you go by the death toll of the Iraq War, Trump demolishing USAID is going to dwarf it.

exonerated after FORTY THREE years in prison, only to end up falling in ICE detention immediately www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

it's never "meet the liberals pushing for nuremberg 2.0" is it?

we gotta send so many guys to the Hague

“Sure all those people would still be alive, but have you considered how I would have felt bad about myself for filling the little bubble on the private ballot next to the person who I find imperfect”

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

So, transit through Hormuz is gonna be permanently more expensive now and some countries will likely be barred from doing so completely and the markets reaction is "hooray"?

He said a lot of really offensive shit post 10/7 and all of that has no bearing on me disliking him because I already disliked him for denigrating the Hong Kong protests as an NED funded op

Just so everyone knows, the Solicitor General straight up lied about the 1921 law review article he kept talking about. quick thread:

Laying down a marker now: The first time a Supreme Court pundit uses John Roberts's "It's a new world, but it's the same Constitution" line to cast him as Our Principled Defender Of The Rule Of Law Agains Trump, I am going to go their house and give them a swirlie

I like to imagine that Sauer is making all these arguments in comically ill-fitting shoes

If I were appearing in front of Gorsuch on a random contract dispute I would expect a Native question to come up, how did they not expect it come up on this??????

The thing about a democracy - even one that’s been wounded like ours - the people are the primary actors. Donald Trump and Mike Johnson are in power right now because on Election Day 2024, in all their collective wisdom, more American people wanted them to have power.

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Gov. Tony Evers vetoed five anti-LGBTQ bills targeting transgender and gender nonconforming youth on International Transgender Day of Visibility Signed the vetoes in a private ceremony Tuesday at the Wisconsin State Capitol, surrounded by LGBTQ kids, families, advocates and community members

You’ll put down strangers, Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise Hath chid down all the majesty of England; Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage, And that you sit as kings in your desires, Authority quite silent by your brawl, And you in ruff of your opinions clothed;

The thing about Weigel is he doesn't post stuff like this because he thinks things are this way, He posts things like this because he WANTS things to be this way.

Cannot think of a better example of how both parties are NOT the same.

Americans, this is going to sound like a meme, but please get the Dems to explicitly announce that Alberta will not get any deal from the US should they seperate and/or be annexed

Really cool how the NYT insists that Zohran Mamdani saying Israel should “exist as a state with equal rights” means he’s gonna turn the Battery into Bełzec any day now while a bunch of bona fide Hitlerjugend get to Name The Jew and it just means they have some questions about the Israel lobby

okay so this what I'm talking about when I question Platner's dedication to his current progressive talking points.

Plausibly, this should (if it happens) be understood as the death of the federal Constitution Not just, to be clear, a mortal wound: imo that's already happened. The actual death. Such that it should no longer be understood to be in force

I don't know what SCOTUS will do on birthright citizenship case, it's anybody's guess. But if they endorse Trump's diktat, the only response is defiance. Outright, open defiance by the states. A decision not just erroneous but illegitimate, beyond their power, null and void from the day it's issued.

The thing about Donald Trumps very clear desire to leave a lasting imprint on the country as a way to assuage his fear of death is that he already *has* secured that. Tens of millions of ppl are going to spit at the mere mention of his name for the rest of their lives, long after he's gone.

In which Ilan Wurman endorses using white supremacists' writing to interpret the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. He says that complaints about his [and the government's] lack of source criticism deploy a "classic logical fallacy." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

wurman, basically: “just because you can find a bunch of ideological white supremacists trying to redefine the 14th amendment to write ideological racism into its substance doesn’t mean you can’t rely in their arguments to, uh, advance the interests of ideological racists”

The NYT is being disingenuous here. The AMA has *always* said that gender-affirming surgeries should generally be reserved for adults. That's part of why so few kids get them! The AMA reiterated this position and the NYT is characterizing it as a policy change. It's not.

A future DoJ should charge them all with obstruction of justice and conspiracy to violate civil rights under color of law. It's legal to petition a court, even to petition it with insane ideas that you *actually* believe. Defrauding a court with intentional lies is something else.

I know I’m a broken record on this but: A handful of law profs are engaging in an effort to convince the Supreme Court to accept a reactionary administration’s effort to redefine American citizenship and render countless children stateless.

It is extremely wrong how Dems talking point on this is that paying TSA by EO is totally legal and he should have done it sooner. It is not legal, that $10B is only for border security and TSA is not border security. He's stealing the power of the purse, stop saying he should have done it sooner!

Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars reut.rs/4rZIThC

Every now and then I remember indignities that That Man has inflicted on us, like when he lied in court and said he never met E. Jean Carroll.