White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse. Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

Deeply disappointing order from the Supreme Court in the USAID impoundment case. The Court grants a stay for something under half of the impounded funds, letting the district court's order stand for the majority of the money. A short 🧵.

He is definitely NOT O.K. with having Trump endorse his primary opponent. The rest follows.

Some are being misled by OMB memo on RIFs in the event of a government shutdown. It's a pure smokescreen, meant to distract from the Administration's intransigence. It's also almost certainly unlawful. A short 🧵.

People here will rant and rage against the "Democratic Consultant Class" for being too dependent on polling, and then in the next post will cite the most specious possible polls for whatever they're preferred positions are...

Dwight D. Eisenhower was a militant antifa. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

If too many liquids are going into people, can we start with removing the bleach (or was it Lysol?) that Trump suggested might help with the coronavirus in his first term? Very, very bad liquids! I don't wish those liquids well!

Ah, I see, shadow docket *plus* rocket docket for whatever Trump needs. Reminder that the emoluments clause case filed by Maryland & DC started June 12, 2017 and then was stalled for so long that SCOTUS dismissed it in January 2021 without a decision because Trump losing made it moot.

Beyond cost, states have a finite number of safe, supportive foster placements. Filling the system with children whose loving parents are just unable to afford better housing endangers both them and children who really do need to be taken from their homes in sketchy placements.

on a human level I feel for Erika Kirk. The look on her face here. Heartbreaking. My heart goes out.

This is exactly what we don't need at this time: turning an external threat into an excuse to attack one another. We will not get out of this without the help of many people who took a while to recognize the problem and get ready to act. Anyone offering positive messages should be welcomed. Period.

This is so messed up.

Judge Katsas doing the S.Ct. no favors here by ignoring their clear warning not to fire Fed governors. The S.Ct. will have little choice but to defy Trump or to admit that they will back down whenever he tells them to. Judge Katsas could have treated Trump's position as lawless giving justices cover

Reminder to self. And anyone else who might need it.

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

My latest on how an Administration run by a proud businessman divested itself of that most crucial business asset: the capacity to make a binding deal. Avoiding a shutdown will be very difficult. Balkinization: The Administration’s Self-Created Inability to Make a Deal share.google/JktLtFb2aGOy...

The losses of Korean investment in the US since ICE harassed and arrested Korean citizens who were preparing a new plant in Georgia might be higher than all the foreign investment Trump drummed up with trade war pressure combined.

Admirable. Important. Long overdue.

Murder. He’s calling for the murder of people, a significant percentage of whom are veterans who served in our country’s military.

The Trump administration knew that they could fire thousands of people, and by the time courts got around to issuing a ruling, it would be too late for any meaningful action to be taken. That's precisely what has happened. Now they'll keep doing it, because it works.

New AP history prompt: Did Father Coughlin do politics right? Discuss.

Puzzled by what's missing in these accounts. They say he criticized Kirk but not why. They say he got more political but not how. Aren't these obvious things to explain? The Charlie Kirk shooting suspect went from a quiet upbringing to a murder charge www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

In all seriousness, I am continually shocked by the heartlessness of innumerable conservative influencers' silence as young, conservative men are trained for lives of solitude and misery. Ferocious misogyny will keep them partnerless and homophobia will keep many unhappily closeted.

On this day in 1907, white Methodist ministers in Michigan voted to exclude Black clergy from leadership positions in the church, grounding this vote in white supremacist views and fears of Black advancement.

I really wish Democrats would stop distracting people with silly fantasies like the 25th Amdt. That takes Vance+half the cabinet+two-thirds of both houses of Congress. And it just gets us Vance. Pointless discussion.

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel

A big undercurrent of the « NATO expansion was bad » claim is that the Cold War was a period of peace/stability in Europe. Sure, life in a NATO country was good. Life under the Soviet boot meant dictatorship, indignity, and shortages. Stop blaming EEurope for wanting to share in the peace/stability!

My latest summarizing the principles emerging in the litigation against the President's many and varied impoundments of appropriated funds. Balkinization: The State of Impoundment Litigation Now share.google/czQU72VfxySB...

The Supreme Court really said

All this from a Supreme Court that, when considering affirmative action, insists on rigid colorblindness and suggests that racism is a thing of the past.

Yet we are still supposed to take Pulte's thin accusations against Dr. Cook at face value?!?

Nothing will nail down a Nobel like rebranding to the “Department of War.” Also sorta overrides the key military mission of deterrence, which is a piece of our national & defense security strategy.

Trump's interest rate demands are so absurd even his own appointees don't support them. Certainly no regional Fed presidents will. So he's going to have to fire two or three more governors to have any chance of what he wants. It's not just Dr. Cook.

My latest on how President Trump's purported firing of Dr. Lisa Cook is a finger in the Supreme Court's eye that could simultaneously destabilize both expert public administration and the economy. verfassungsblog.de/trump-federa...

Why do media articles refer to her as "Ms. Cook"? She's a Ph.D. Why is she not "Dr. Cook"? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/b...

This talk of security guarantees is simply absurd. The U.S. has been ignoring its commitments under the Budapest Memorandum for eleven years, under three presidents. Trump ignores trade and other agreements. Why should the Ukrainians think he or his successors would honor new commitments?

If the problem is mental health, why did you rush through legislation denying mental health treatment to the unemployed, a group disproportionately vulnerable to mental illness. Many mass shooters would be ineligible for Medicaid under OBBBA.

A reminder that PhD students are also teachers. It'll be much harder to run undergraduate programs too with this change.

And please don't say "the solution is mental health" after Congress enacted a massive reduction in access to mental health services this summer to pay for upper-income tax cuts. Complete bad faith all the way down.

Claiming that more guns will make us safer ignores the data on vast numbers of firearms accidents. Having untrained, inept or panicky people firing more shots will result in more dead children.

Gun-free zones implies that guns are lying around in schools and picked up when a shooter decides to kill. Neither shooters nor guns are in the schools immediately prior to most shootings: they arrive with guns from the outside.

Katrina was predicted, and in eerily accurate simulations, the response was disastrously bad. Yet nothing meaningful was done to prevent what actually happened because of austerity.

Valuable 🧵 gathering in one place the key data. The "gun-free zones" line implies that shooters would obey such rules when they already ignore trespassing laws-and the prohibition on murder. Cynical fantasies.

What too many people miss is that Trump is provoking a crisis of confidence with his tariffs, his broken int'l agreements, his irresponsible tax bill, his lawlessness, and now attacking Fed independence. Crises in confidence mature suddenly, without warning. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Hard to forget the GOP shrieks of indignation at any suggestion that the U.S. receive an equity share in banks it literally saved from oblivion in 2008. I'm sure they will protest loudly again? Trump says Intel CEO agreed to give U.S. government $10 billion www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...