While individuals like Calla gained prominence for progressive advocacy on Palestine, their positions on Syria, Ukraine, the Uyghurs, and now Iran reveal a pattern of supporting any regime they perceive as going against the west. (3)

never get involved in a land war in Minnesota

People should put down their phones and pay attention in freshman social studies

RFK Jr/MAHA world say they're not reducing access to vaccines for anyone who wants them, only giving people "choice" to opt out. But by refusing to even review new vaccines, yes, they are absolutely blocking those who want a new immunization from ever having access to it.

That is so fucking rich. This asshole has supported the pardoning of the J6ers.

So. Imagine if humanity had started using CFC's closer to 1812. A century before even knowing the ozone layer existed. And like 70 years before being able to actually monitor it. Imagine what *173* years of CFC's would have done.

Shifting focus to going to sleep in my bed, as that's something I can potentially do in less than 1 hour.

There are only 2 real responses to housing scarcity. You can either build enough homes to accommodate everyone or start drawing up a list of “undesirable demographics” to exclude. I know which side I’m on.

VA Senate president responds to Ted crying about VA’s redistricting, which should add 4 new Dem seats.

Absolute amateur hour at DOJ; they didn’t even respond to a “hey you forgot to attach the thing” request.

Some think the big issue is the massive increase in government violence and repression, based on lies and bigotry, with no accountability. Others think the big issue is what words people they don't like use to describe all that, with a top priority of never ever saying "OK, maybe you had a point."

Unless it is assaulting police officers at the Capitol on 1/6. That’s just AOK.

We can actually predict polar vortex events now by monitoring Ted Cruz flight patterns

Jack Smith: "The people who assaulted police officers and were convicted after trial in my view and I think in the view of the judges who sentenced them to prison are dangerous to their community. Some of these people have already committed crimes against their communities again."

Adventures in due process in an actual SCOTUS arg exchange: Alito: "Are the mortgage applications even in the record in this case?" Sauer: "I know that the text of the social media post that screenshots of the mortgage applications is in the record."

Danish parliamentarian Rasmus Jarlov speaking to MS NOW on Stephen Miller comments regarding Greenland: "I hope he’s kept away from young women, because that’s the mentality of a rapist. You can’t defend yourself, so I’m going to take you. That’s basically what he’s saying."

It’s too bad all the Harper’s letter signatories all died in that awful fire or they would be furious

The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.

In the spirit of magnanimity and unity, Trump has signaled that war hawks are now welcome in the Republican party.

Your reminder that the Purcell "principle" is "it is always too close to the next election for a ruling that would benefit Democrats, and it is never too close to the next election for a ruling that would benefit Republicans"

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: