Zero assistance from the State of Minnesota is what is called "state sovereignty". Your party used to care about that a lot.

We seem to have lost the concept of personal credibility. When people are caught lying, no one should believe them in the future. These people lie freely, even in the face of copious video evidence, because they don't value their credibility. If they do not, neither should anyone else.

Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents? Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?

Absolutely right. Amazing how many progressives have already moved on from winning this fight to retribution. We need the broadest possible coalition as soon as possible.

Key point being widely missed. Zeroing out ICE does nothing meaningful in the near or medium term.

Two things you cannot plausibly have together: the Unified Executive Theory and administrative search warrants. The Administration has declared the President's absolute control over all executive branch officials and fired immigration judges for their decisions. Administrative warrants are worthless

Could someone please explain to me again why these are not emoluments? There's actually no "the President's business" exception in the Constitution.

These are the people the Supreme Court says should not be subject to damages suits because Congress did not explicitly authorize them. I would argue the Constitution did. Yet when neither the Constitution nor Congress authorized presidential immunity for crimes, the Court has no problem acting alone

Excellent, crystal clear summary of why trade policy in the current environment is inherently unstable. That is not to say, of course, that foolish actions cannot make things much, much worse.

An emptiness that can never be filled, a hunger that can never be sated, a self-loathing that can never be assuaged. Scary, appalling, but on another level quite sad.

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

This is a very good point. The November 2025 US National Security Strategy never mentions the Arctic at all. The idea that it's a genuine security priority for the Trump administration is not credible.

My latest, on the prospects for another government shutdown later this month. Balkinization: Homage to the Once and Future Government Shutdown share.google/Dnw7Y2dHqC3X...

Investigate and prosecute political opponents, sell pardons to your rich friends so they can commit crimes with impunity. Authoritarianism isn’t coming, it’s here, whether people realize it or not.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

This is how civilian airliners get shot down. Appallingly reckless.

To the surprise of nobody, Heritage really is scraping bottom here. GWBush spent huge sums testing several of these ideas. They flopped completely. The alleged "marriage tax" has been replaced by a mix of taxes and penalties such that the tax code has no clear skew. Leaning heavily on debunked ideas

𝗦𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆! Journalist Claire Hollingworth called the British Embassy in Warsaw on Sept 1, 1939, to report Germany's invasion of Poland, marking the start of WWII. To convince officials she held the phone out a window so they could hear the German tanks. She died #OTD in 2017 at age 105.

Completely illegal. They lack authority to do this, and they obviously know that so they keep the details of this action vague. Recycling scandals from years earlier that Biden and Walz addressed and relying on unsubstantiated news reports suggests they lack credible evidence for this action.

We should take seriously the well-developed sociological research about institutional culture. People see how others in their agency act and form strong instincts that that is what is appropriate. Once a toxic institutional culture has become rooted, it's almost impossible to reverse. That's ICE.

The thing about the Boston Massacre— the fruits of arbitrary power— was not that the colonists were universally in the right. Things were thrown at the soldiers. But, the presence of a standing army escalated conditions. The use of force that night was not proportional. Citizens died needlessly.

DOJ is still violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Valuable explanation 🧵

It isn’t difficult to hold 2 thoughts, side by side, at the same time: The people of Iran deserve freedom, dignity, & protection from state violence. The US & Israeli governments have caused great harm to Iranians and don’t have the best interests of the Iranian people in mind.

Another clear pattern by the Trump Administration in Venezuela, Iran, and elsewhere: Build Up Raise Risks Ignore The Opposition He's humiliating the brave Venezuelan democratic resistance to bolster Chavistas while giving the Supreme Leader an excuse to tar demonstrators as foreign stooges.

So if a mugger intercepts her on her way to meet with Trump, then the mugger will become a Nobel laureate?

This is what I think of when I recognize that the lies Tricia McLaughlin, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, and Trump all told about Renee Good's killing are INCONSISTENT. They're not just inconsistent with the video. They're inconsistent with each other.

All lies dishonor the teller. But some lies are so grotesque that they express contempt for, and dishonor, the listener. He must think a great many of his followers are completely debased to think it profits him to tell these obvious lies. Sadly, he seems to be correct about them.

Alfred Nobel specifically stated in his will that once the prize has been awarded it can’t be changed. But if Trump is so pathetic that he wants to take Machado’s medal, and she’s so desperate and weak that she will give it to him, let the world watch that disgraceful charade.

The same ethical shortcomings that allow far-right politicians to spew racial hatred and disregard the rule of law also allow them to corrupt public administration and public works projects to their own financial benefit. "Bigot with integrity" just isn't a thing.

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism. Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

Inquiring minds want to know. Far less significantly, but perhaps some should also reconsider their appraisals of his intelligence retweeting this: white men are not even a majority among white people, much less in the U.S. population.

The killing of a US citizen today in Minneapolis is horrifying and deeply devastating. My thoughts are with her family & her community. This administration’s policies are rooted in fear & grievances & they are endangering American communities. We must stop gun violence in all of its forms.

I hope all the insiders trading on non public information who bet big on the invasion right before the invasion go ahead and sue Polymarket in their own names.

Not only does he disregard Congress's exclusive power to declare war, he also disregards Congress's exclusive power to appropriate public funds. Any money he obtained using the U.S. military is public money that may only be spent with congressional approval.

A thread responding to the ridiculous White House lies about the “peaceful protest” on January 6.

Seems like time to begin a review of the “effectiveness” of men in decision-making positions

That a politician thinks he can retain credibility while saying that the U.S. has never engaged in imperialism speaks volumes to how badly whitewashed American History courses are in our schools. Neither the Mexican-American War nor the Spanish-American War had any other real purpose.

Would President Trump say that Hungary or Russia were entitled to attack Washington to seize President Joe Biden, whom President Trump has called illegitimate?

Speech and Debate Clause, anyone? At least now we know why the Administration is so horrified about service members disobeying illegal orders: they give a lot of such orders. Like going to war without a congressional declaration.

Indispensable 🧵 on the well-charted minefields that Trump and Rubio are blissfully dancing into. In a sensible administration, even a malign one, they would have experts in-house to warn them about these risks. However annoying the warnings, the consequences of ignorant blunders are far, far worse.

Very good point:

It’s darkly humorous he can’t even muster the ability to give some lip service to democracy or allowing the Venezuelan people to choose their leader.

Excellent 🧵 on where this leaves U.S. policy. French and British colonial rule in Africa is more than half a century gone and they still lack credibility there as respectful partners. Could be even longer before the U.S. is trusted. Huge opportunity for PRC and other global adversaries.

Pretty sure that, whatever else he may have done, Maduro was not withholding any Epstein files.