Garland appointed Smith, who brought two ironclad cases in plenty of time for trial, but was undermined by corrupt Trump appointed Judges. The Roberts Court is responsible for this debacle, not Garland, not Biden.

China has surrounded Taiwan with warships, aircraft, troops, and drones in what it calls large-scale military exercises. Taiwan is strengthening defenses, reports record-high Chinese military activity near the island, reserving the right to respond to threats.

Jan Crawford’s Face the Nation comments attacking a “narrative” of Supreme Court corruption as “dangerous” was both a harsh accusation and completely lacking in specifics. As such, confronting her comments is like nailing Jell-O to a wall. Nonetheless, at Law Dork, I tried.

My attitude towards Jonathan V. Last is the same as my attitude towards MTG. You were wrong, and you realized it, and your reward is you get to go away forever. Go get a real job. We don't owe you attention because of your halfhearted Damascene conversion.

Once you legally become a citizen, you're just as much a citizen as anyone else, regardless of when and how you got it. If you can forcibly deprive someone of their citizenship and expel them, you can do it to anyone.

Wouldn't it be faster and easier to do this by reclassifying gains as "realized" if the associated stock are ever used as leverage/backings for loans?

I honestly expected the conservative movement to go all 14A wasn't properly ratified and was surprised by the post modern turn of we can reinterpret all words to mean what we want them to mean. Shouldn't have been surprised based on what happened with the 2A (not talking about Charles).

למקרה שאתםן נתקליםות בויכוח בנושא youtu.be/n0x8sH0M9CE?...

The bearer of the One Ring. We're doomed.

My children are babbling nonsensical things that I suspect are related to this "Italian brainrot" thing and it finally stopped driving me crazy when my brain's universal translator turned it into "badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom"

UPDATE: grandpa also sometimes burns a covert action

This, in the context of the thread, is meant as a rebuttal to the idea that it is always "objectively worse" for Republicans to win an election than Democrats and it feels like it's a too-cute-by-half excuse for people to complain about Democrats. I don't think you need to give people this.

We’re murdering fishermen in handmade peñeros with $40K in motors using $300K in missiles to depose Maduro so Rubio can come 5th in the 2032 primaries 🎁 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/world/americas/trump-boat-strikes-gulf-of-venezuela-wreckage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AVA.OLR8.KODM5zTAI3xD

I don't think that's right, reading the rule. "The rule formally defines postmarks [...] to improve public understanding that while a postmark confirms the USPS possessed a mailpiece on the date inscribed, [...] not necessarily [...] the date the USPS first accepted possession of the item."

Biden could not fire him. The governor's board could have fired him. Not biden the administration tried and failed to put pressure on the governor's board to get rid of dejoy. Blame the fucking republicans that put the governor board together.

The answer to waste, fraud and abuse in government programs is they can’t be eliminated but we can safeguard against them and go after them when they do happen, which is rarely, and the systems we have in place to do so mostly work, so you don’t need to know every detail of those times. Live life.

The only thing I saw about this “scandal” was a Dave Weigel post about how it was an example of right wing attention hacking, but like…it was a dozens of tweets long thread about the thing, which, isn’t that attention hacking? Anyway, I didn’t read it because fuck it.

After 24 hours of "did Nancy Pelosi personally cause McConnell to be McConnell" discourse, Will now pretends it was all about whether people thought the entire Democratic leadership during Trump's first term was "optimal resistance." These are of course two different arguments he's conflating.

An AI girlfriend just seems like a sex tamigotchi.

Boiling hot take, maybe: This is why I’d like to see Harris run again, and run on “I told you so.” Give people a do-over vote and a lot of them will take the do-over, even if they lie to themselves or others about needing a do-over in the first place.

Schumer said "yeah, it would be great if the authoritarian dictator in Venezuela left power on his own, but Trump is so fucking bugnuts no one knows what he's talking about when he suggests a strategy." That, uhh... seems pretty reasonable?

But anyway, the reason Israel is so brutally good at fascism is that it had very good teachers about what it's like to wear the boot and what it's like to be under one.

If you want to know why Israel is the way it is, it was built by people like this (and their predecessors who survived and were formed by prior episodes of racial and religious antisemitic violence).

I don’t need people to love elected Democrats but many of you fail the very basic test of hating Republicans more, or even at all

I need many of you to do the following: (1) write down a timeline of events related to the 2 impeachments of Donald Trump (2) go look up when those things actually happened

Morality in Mass Effect is basically “do you want to have less content with worse outcomes, Y/N?”

While I’m getting yelled at for being Correct: I am not the biggest fan of Merrick Garland but “if Dems were serious they would have tried to rush the most politically and legally complex prosecution in the history of the DOJ” is a position that I think you’d need to argue rather than assume

I kinda miss multiplayer games that were aggressive with banning bad actors for a few hours or days. Time outs do work on adults and I think people need more of them

Some of it here

Prosecutors say disclosing steps to bring Srulik Einhorn from Serbia could disrupt proceedings or allow him to flee as he faces charges over alleged harassment of a state witness in Netanyahu's trial Bar Peleg reports: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.

Meanwhile, DOJ wants to push the first public hearing for accused pipe bomber Brian Cole past the date (January 5) when 5-year statutes of limitation would expire. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

I think the correct read is that McConnell and other Senators thought, in the moment, Trump was politically finished so they shouldn't get their hands dirty and piss off his followers by finishing him off they were cowards who refused to choose a side thats why Mitch ran away.

Biden: after Trump is gone the fever will break Bluesky: YOU NAIVE FOOL Also Bluesky: if only democrats had impeached a bit faster republicans would have nobly stood up and done what they knew to be right in their hearts

I get that I am out of step with much of this site on the question of 1/6 impeachment timing, and I’m fine with that; but I do find it funny that the argument rests on finding a well of decency among republicans and is made by those who mock other Dems for saying anything similar.

This. "If Nancy Pelosi had scheduled the House impeachment vote at exactly the correct nanosecond window when it was neither too soon nor too late, Republicans would have gone along with convicting, removing, and disqualifying Trump" is a fairy tale way too many people believe.

If it weren't for Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider might know he doesn't get work from anyone else because he's a talentless hack.

Agreed. They think “we’ve had to walk on eggshells for these supposed perpetual victims and look, they can be just as evil as the Christians who’ve been trying to eliminate them for the past 1800 years!” It’s a sick satisfaction.

The very idea of a book entitled "Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza" makes me want to give the author the biggest wanking motion humanly possible. Let's even grant the author his premises. So your religion has an atrocity to its name. Welcome to the big kid club in religions.

Will Stancil is reverting to his anti-anti-Trump Twitter form, nature is healing

Yeah, I just think this is not in alignment with any facts on the ground. The same senators objecting to the count did so when they reconvened that night to finish it after the insurrection. The failure was not on the part of democratic alacrity.

The logic here is that if she really wanted to, Pelosi could have singlehandedly impeached and convicted Trump in the first few hours after Jan 6. For some reason, folks always ignore the fact that Repubs kept invalidating state elector slates *immediately* after the Jan 6 riot ended.

Also like, I don’t want to be a fatalist, but she tried the most severe imposition of consequences on a president we have available, twice, and it failed, twice. The failure at that point is not personal but systemic. And a good bit of it lies with we the people, honestly.

Again, Pelosi personally did half of all presidential impeachments in American history

Had Merritt Garland done his job, he could have chosen with great specificity the precise day upon which John Roberts would announce that the President is, in fact, a species of king.

(There's nothing a criminal prosecutor can do to ban someone from holding office)

I’m naive, I’m a sucker, I’m all those things, but I really don’t think Bill Clinton is a childfucker

@netflix.com and the other streamers should do some shows about all the failed utopian communes in American history. So the very online leftists will know that it's not enough to just get a bunch of people who all have high ideals together. It can still go very wrong. It would also be high drama.

I'm avoiding reading too much of the day's discourse because I have family visiting and things to do, but I've got a few ideas floating around in my head about it and I feel the need to put them down before they float away at the art museum later today.

At some point being against spreadsheets and organization will in fact destroy your ability to do anything whatever your ideology.