Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Learn whatever you want about "law," it doesn't matter because GOP Justices blew up the entire process of deciding cases based on chats with rich friends and stuff they watched on TV. That was the entire basis on which SCOTUS switched to the shadow docket.

In addition to everything else we know about FBI Director Kash Patel, it turns out that he’s so drunk so much of the time that his colleagues in law enforcement and intelligence consider him a threat to public safety national security. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! In Feb 2025, Russ Vought, CFPB's acting director, announced a tipline to encourage companies to report CFPB enforcement/supervision staff who violated a work stoppage order. I filed a #FOIA request for a few days’ worth of tips. Let’s just say they weren't credible

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started. Just. Tax. Them.

GREAT but you need bush, gore, clinton, boehner, ryan, kerry, quayle, schwarzenegger, frist, corker, other former cabinet members/lawmakers, retired military leaders, business titans & top lawyers on board & out front in the issue. Their silence/inaction is appalling!

KERNEN: We'd never be able to send anyone back if you needed a judicial warrant every single time RAND PAUL: Well, I don't think that's true. Obeying the 4th Amendment of the Constitution shouldn't be too difficult. It's something we fought the revolution over.

Young Americans aren’t just "stressed”; they’re redlining. We’re witnessing a generation in collective burnout because the math for a basic life no longer adds up.

It’s almost like a coordinated talking point went out on Red Cross doctor Jesus H. Trump.

Trump’s blockade is getting an immediate test. A Chinese tanker has cleared the Strait of Hormuz. Will the US seize it? If the US does, is that an act of war? If it doesn’t, does the blockade collapse? This is a scary moment. www.newsweek.com/first-chines...

Erica Payne, founder of @patrioticmillionaires.org: "Doing it around the edges is what got us this freak show in the WH sending out memes about him being Jesus & getting in a fight with the Pope in a country that prides itself on the separation of church and state. For heaven's sake! Enough already"

I'm cosponsoring articles of impeachment against Trump with @johnlarsonct.bsky.social. His lawlessness is escalating—threatening war crimes, turning military forces on our own cities, abusing the pardon power and undermining our credibility. Where's the line? This vote needs to be on the record.

burn it all down.

How is the Democrats’ anti-East Wing campaign not named Stop the Steel

it really can't be overstated how much MAGA zealots really really loved Orban, and saw what he was doing (especially across media propaganda) as a template to magically obtain permanent power free from harsh reality and the fussy din of the lowly plebs

yea this was march 2011

Mainstream media describing interaction between the head of a church devoted to peace and a babbling lunatic threatening genocide.

We cannot risk the world nor the wellbeing of our nation any longer,” she wrote. “Whether by his Cabinet or Congress, the President must be removed from office. We are playing with the brink.”

that one is on may 25. on may 8, the not-oakland a’s come to town and… WHAT

New from 404 Media: the FBI was able to extract incoming Signal messages from a phone even though the app was deleted. Why? Because parts of messages were stored in the iPhone's internal notification database. Shows how secure chat data can come from unexpected places www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

A Baltimore-based thread to explain one singular, overriding reason why American journalism is incapable of compassing and explaining the astonishing misrule and the implosion of all our governing norms. To wit: A few decades ago, as a police reporter covering the Baltimore department, a new...

I don't know why these people lie so incessantly when it's so easy to prove that they're lying.

I don't understand why we aren't seeing articles of impeachment every day for scotus for congressional traitors and every person working inside this regime Repeatedly Even if they don't work Weak ass congress

In retrospect, seems bad that we played Fox News 24/7 on USAmerican military bases worldwide for the last 25 years.

I am not sure why Melania Trump decided to make a statement about Jeffrey Epstein seemingly out of nowhere today, but if the idea was to put the ongoing coverup in the rearview mirror it will backfire spectacularly

over at the newsletter I wrote about Sam Altman and how the tech press is obsessed with mythologizing unethical assholes

From a post: “Told my wife to have dinner ready by 6 or I'll obliterate her entire civilization. So anyway, she now charges me a fee to use the bathroom that used to be free, and I didn't get any dinner, but I'm pretty sure I won that exchange.”

We've had a decade to figure this out & change the way we cover Trump. The only conclusion, at this point, is that certain editors & journalists simply do not care about accurately reporting the news & informing the public of empirical reality.

a functional press would explain to the reader that these are all propagandists and rank opportunists who hold no real fixed values outside of the pursuit of wealth, attention, and white supremacy

Trump's threat to obliterate Iranian civilization cannot be forgotten. There cannot be any coming back back from such a glaring and unequivocal sign of Trump's fundamental unfitness for the presidency. @jenrubin.bsky.social and me on this: newrepublic.com/article/2087...

For those of you who were curious about what it looks like when a consummate bullshitter gets dementia… now you know.

So who's the theocracy here?

Remember when a delegation of congressional Republicans went to President Nixon and told him to resign? Yeah.

MTG, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Fuentes, Kelly, Kent, etc vs Laura Loomer, Mike Flynn, Mike Levin, Fox News (Hannity etc), most big MAGA X (Daugherty, Lindsay, catturd, etc) has been quite something

I hope all the people who voted against Genocide Joe are feeling good this morning

This should be an enormous scandal but most people don't give a shit because we live in a dismal era where ethics, morality, basic respect are all demeaned as "woke" by a toxic culture of grifter corruption personified by Trump and imbecilic DraftKings/crypto bros.

"a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" don't like that one bit from the demented president every single person who helped bring this about, big or small, should carry that shame with them to their graves.

It is interesting because today my tasks included Teaching a lesson on nuclear proliferation Writing notes on multiple regression Teaching a section on logarithms and regression Checking in on administrative tasks Speaking to a global audience Making contingency plans in case the IRGC attacks

When is the last time or has a US president/VP ever gone in public endorsing another countries political candidate?

Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral and former Navy SEAL William McRaven on Donald Trump: "Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation."

I'm kind of obsessed with the way this country is being devoured by artifice

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

CNN reports that 75% of Americans support impeaching, prosecuting, and imprisoning Donald Trump

It says a lot about where we are that one can read the entire @nytimes.com story on the firing of the Attorney General of the United States without a *single* reference to that officer's duty to uphold the Constitution—which might just sometimes make it just a little hard to do the boss's bidding:

Hegseth is probably too arrogant to admit he doesn’t know what the phrase “no quarter” means. He just wanted to sound macho. Without a retraction or clarification, he puts US troops at extreme risk.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Someone needs to tell the American people what's going on in the Pentagon, and it obviously won't be Pete Hegseth, who is at war with America's senior military officers. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...