at some point we are going to discover where the shakedown money Trump is taking for his various "deals" is going and it is not going to be what anyone would understand as being "the United States government"

IMO it helps to compare the chart for Democrats vs Republicans. Voters say that Republicans are not prioritizing health care, affordable prices, or jobs and wages enough — these are the top 3 issues by MIP. But voters do say Dsm are prioritizing this correctly. That's why they're up big on the GB

i'm a big fan of sharlet's work but his posts about that harris interview range from "i didn't notice that" to in one case something that just straight up didn't happen

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

...knowing Jəsse's the author (& that gender-affirming care practitioners are well aware of his biases & tactics) utterly changes the meaning of the last paragraph. without attribution, it makes it sound like the authors are suspiciously dodging the question. in actuality they know he's a bad actor!

Yes, she should've said all this on the campaign trail. And also, the voters should've recognized that candidates, especially Democrats, are often following bad advice regarding what kinds of statements they think might cost them votes.

There's no legal authority to do this at all. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

ASU says the new policy is in response to Texas law. But no such law banning discussions of trans people exists.

I'm way less interested in the arguments vis a vis whether or not she could have broken with him than I am in the structural incentives which exist today with regards to throwing Biden under the bus for being too pro-Israel. Did Harris have to write any of this? No. But why did she?

“Dems need to be united in their messaging!”

1. Pretty sure we can put a fork in Humphrey's Executor. 2. This isn't particularly unique to Trump (it's been a FedSoc project for ages), though his propensity to fire people was a happy coincidence for the effort.

This can't be like the FBI, where Republicans treat it as a purely partisan office, and Democrats respect their choices. If we're going to have a unitary executive, the next Democratic president should pledge to purge every single Trump appointee on day one.

This is an ur-”wrong rock” post.

If you want democrats to allow a shutdown, you need to boost their messaging blaming republicans for it!! Share with your family and friends

If the government shuts down, it's because Republicans chose to shut it down rather than negotiate a bipartisan budget that serves the American people.

Well, that answers that. Sorry FedSoc attorney with actual prosecutorial experience.

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

Turns out Niece No. 1 was totally correct when she decided to go to a university outside Texas bc she feared Texas schools would become hostile to LGBTQ students.

Considering the air disaster that happened earlier in the term, I'd be afriad to fly into D.C.

this is objectively the opposite of how Politico covered this which I think says a lot about how the leadership of Politico thinks about LGBT rights

Are you kidding me?

As far as I can tell, the US military now just killing people for sport for the president's amusement.

That may be part of the story, but people need to understand that, while personalistic regimes often create bad policy, they also create winners as well as losers. CEOs are betting that they can be the in the former group, and afraid that speaking out will get them in the latter.

Today’s “One First” looks at the status of the birthright citizenship cases—and their broader lessons for what we miss when we ignore the cases in which the Trump administration is both (1) losing; and (2) *not* seeking emergency/expedited appellate relief. It turns out that those are the majority:

douthat is a liar because he knows that obama did so repeatedly

An open endorsement of hate - precisely what you do not want the President to do after an assassination when messages from leaders disavowing violence are especially important www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

I volunteered for the District 7 recount today, and recounts are so fascinating because you get to see how every possible ballot combination that can exist, will exist, and how so many voters make absolutely no sense. 10/10 Would do again.

Really feeling the unity here.

Proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

What's the exact complaint here? I think Democrats should make some strong demands to avoid a shutdown, and I don't think Schumer and Jeffries are at this time. But they're going to have to communicate those demands in some way, such as sending a letter or in a meeting.

So, you know how the current cold water realism response to "put humans on Mars!" is "no matter what the problems are making Mars habitable, they're harder than keeping the Earth habitable"? The "the Democrats are useless we need a new opposition party" gets the same cold water response, sorry.

So is Halligan nominated or appointed as interim? It would certainly resolve some confusion if Maggie Cleary is the acting U.S. attorney while Halligan's nomination goes through, but the likelihood of Halligan getting confirmed seems slim if Alina Habba couldn't get confirmed.

Pretty much. Even when the free news is of decent quality, like a local newspaper or news station posting its stories on Facebook, the medium really drives what the audience will take away from it, since most of those stories will have comment sections filled with misinformation.

Trump and Vance’s contradictory messages on these killings: 1: Our glorious military carried out hyper-precise attacks on dastardly drug smugglers. 2: If you’re an innocent fisherman, watch out because we might kill you by mistake!

I think this is right but the other thing is that you should try not to hate whichever candidates aren’t the one you pick

I'm going to spend a lot of time hammering this between now and the 2028 primary, but everyone should vote for the candidate they like the most and not play 11-dimensional electability chess

I am skeptical this will change Israel’s position in the short or medium term. But the signal it sends about America’s loss of leadership is immediate.

It was pretty apparent in the Signal leaks the the president is absent in almost every discussion and that we have real issues in unity of command but man www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Potentially interesting tea leaf here. If SCOTUS does decide on a more moderate decision in the Louisiana Section 2 lawsuit, they'll probably require the second VRA district to be compact and hug the Mississippi, thus drawing Letlow out of her district.

The way the radical communists get coopted and turned into products squabbling about their royalties was some of the most biting satire in the film, as was William Holden's comment to Faye Dunaway that television had effectively destroyed both Beale and the radicals.

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

If you created X today (UI/ownership/"pay for views"/moderation), no self respecting liberal would join, and the people who constantly whine will never admit that. And beyond that, social media is ultimately about the user *enjoying* the experience, not persuading people about politics.

Ngl, I think there is a decent chance this blows up completely in their faces from an optics standpoint

Seems unlikely it would be successful, but it could be if: 1. It happens in 2027-2028, so Senate Republicans could still feel assured that a conservative would take the seat and 2. The GOP decides that Trump is a lame duck they need to pivot away from.

Also, the country as a whole is simply more pro-choice than it was fifteen years ago. You can't recreate the past's coalitions. Why even look at the 2009-2010 House majority when the 2019-2020 one was also huge and much more liberal?

Counterargument, though, is that it's weird for him to be asking Bondi to appoint Halligan when he could do it himself. Bondi can also do it, so maybe he wants Bondi to make the appointment because he knows it looks worse if he does it directly.

Yeah, I think this was a DM he accidentally made public. I don't think he'd publicly admit that the administration's reputation and credibility is suffering. He's leaning on Bondi to appoint Halligan to E.D. Va.

Sorry but no. Woke Sunday school exists and I’m the teacher