Time to bring back this glorious map.

Whenever you try to unbundle education, you need to explain why your approach is going to work when *books* did not. What innovation are you bringing to the table that exceeds the development of the printing press?

The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!

it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.

as I've remarked before, cyberpunk isn't 'I glitch into the webframe and draw my katana', it's 'the life of a man working for a criminal syndicate in Myanmar who spends his days pretending to be different women online to steal from the elderly'

The reason to require government approval of big mergers is to prevent market-distorting concentrations of corporate power that harm competition and consumers, not so the president can distort the market in favor of ideological allies and/or solicit a bribe for himself.

During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind

if they wanted the 14th amendment citizenship clause to apply only to former slaves, they would've written it that way. it would've been really easy to write it that way. and they wouldn't have included language excluding diplomats if it only applied to slaves

Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award Also Boomers:

Voted yes on RFK Jr when he could have voted no. Continues to hedge, when he could act.

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Pete Hegseth keeps demanding to be taken seriously and then spends all his time talking down to accomplished military leaders, rebranding his department and renaming ships, engaging in culture wars bullshit, shitting all over the military's sense of ethics and generally making an ass of himself.

First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

the house hates the senate, episode infinity

NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court. Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution

Cosmic fucking horror

Trump called ABC's Mary Bruce "a terrible reporter" with a "horrible, insubordinate and just a terrible question" for asking about Khashoggi's CIA confirmed murder. Watching Trump defend bone saw diplomacy while attacking free press. Orwell couldn't write this betrayal better.

“.. Tariffs were pitched as the fix for America’s trade deficit.” 🤡 - Bilello

"Some Thoughts on Iraq and How to Think About It" Actual Rumsfeld memo subject line.

The real danger of Unitary Executive Theory was always that it cut a Trump-shaped hole in our Constitution

This is a Texas Republican who was part of the January 6th mob

Similar to the US right, the Brazilian right is also telling young people that university degrees are worthless and that you should go to trade school instead. Just as in the US, these conservative elites will tell their *own* children to go to university and to never work in the trades.

At the end of the day, I don't believe a GOP led by the Fuentes faction can win elections. And if I'm wrong about that, then America deserves to be destroyed.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

President Trump: "Imposing tariffs doesn't raise prices -- how dare you suggest otherwise! But I'm going to cut tariffs to lower prices. That's just common sense."

Trump Administration promotes new 30 generation mortgages: “Create a legacy for your gggggggggggggggggggggggggggggrandkids.”

every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way. Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August. Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.

If Know-Nothings could tweet in the 1850s:

Just picturing all the business interests trying to set up calls with City Hall and Lina Khan being all “well hello boys”

Seems like a good time for the Speaker of the House to swear in Rep. Grijalva.

the thing that I find frustrating/enraging is that this is the really boring polisci explanation. it's not some secret code; like, it's what you learn if you just follow political scientists on social media, or read a few books. 1

we did it, Zo

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

This is one of those inconvenient truths: it’s a lot easier for various well-paid strategists and pundits to advise “stop saying Latinx” (a non-issue) versus “substantively change the media environment and people’s online consumption habits”

A district court would preliminarily enjoin the razing but SCOTUS would stay the PI and allow the razing to occur while litigation concerning the razing’s legality proceeds.

i will never understand how 77 million Americans thought empowering this was a good idea. our country was so lucky to survive his first term and he's much worse now.

Have I mentioned the time my husband insisted on a destination vacation to ... the Erie Canal? We saw it with our own eyes and I sang the song we learned in 4th grade. ("I had a mule, her name was Sal, 16 miles on the Erie Canal.") George Will on the canal's big birthday. Gift link wapo.st/48D8ozx

I dont feel so good

Sure seems like Big Pharma spent way way more energy, money and lobbying capital on fighting Dems on prescription drugs than doing anything about the Secretary of HHS casually, and without any real evidence, telling everyone their products kill kids and give them autism.

He sold arms to terrorists to fund terrorists - but the real battle was in his heart.

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To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

10/10. Chef's kiss. No notes. 💯

Here is the story. Now remember that the IQ guy is taking a job from a woman who is objectively far more accomplished than he is, and neither he nor Trump will see any contradiction between their espoused commitment to intelligence and how they are acting. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas

The U.S. Secretary of Energy does not know that electricity is energy. I'm glad we've gotten rid of DEI programs and are now giving America the leadership it deserves.

Your dad was Mario Cuomo.

This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.