Checking in on these dudes, brb.

They’re TAPED to the wall????

Like I’ve been saying: Mamdani’s real threat is that he is an attractive, intelligent liberal who is clearly having a good time, he makes other people happier, and conservatives have spent literal decades convincing people that their lame boring ugly shit is Super Fun Freedom Time Guys!

to a degree that's limited by his infirmities and disorders, i think trump actually sort of sees this as a problem, but as long as he's letting vought and miller run the entire government, there's no way out of it, those guys are the embodiment of everything people are loudly showing they hate

Unironically I think the No Kings protests helped with this, especially the last one. It was big enough and widespread enough to make completely disengaged people with median voter brain wonder what was going on, and then just maybe take a few small steps towards finding out.

sdklfj Gorsuch asked a question like, so if the pres unliterally declared a 50% tariff on all gas-powered vehicles to respond to the unusual & extraordinary threat of global warming? DOJ says well we'd say that's a hoax & not a threat Gorsuch dripping w condescension goes I'm sure you would lmao

The ghost of Dick Cheney made one last trip to the CIA to push the case for regime change

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Strange that the "We Support The President Who's Trying To Make the State Unemployment Rate 20%" message from the GOP isn't resonating.

Beating a guy in an election and quoting his dad in your victory speech is a FLEX.

I’m gonna need to see live reaction videos of several men right now

CIA finally learned how to rig an election huh

JD Vance is out there openly defending the Immigration Act of 1924, which effectively banned Jewish immigration from eastern Europe and prevented hundreds of thousands of Jews from escaping to the US prior to the Holocaust. www.youtube.com/watch?si=BAo...

Helpful 🧵for numbskulls who still think Musk was sending his heart out to us.

Virginian here. May I point out in support that the federal layoffs and grant cancellations have been more devastating to Virginia than anywhere besides DC itself, her GOP opponent is praising it, and that Spanberger is racking up numbers simply by standing there saying “Um, so that’s BAD actually.”

After his 1st meeting with the Russians, where the only other people in the room were translators, a whole slew of US operatives turned up dead. This mfer has been selling "secrets" from Day One.

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

“Oh no! A giant tire!” Laughs the drone operator over its loudspeaker as she punches the launch button.

This FT account of pure thuggishness of Trump representatives posing as diplomats has not appeared in US media anywhere, but is being widely circulated and reported in media in Europe, the UK and the Asia Pacific area. Be sure to read it all.

Video in comments: it is 100% clear that the ICE vehicle crossed lanes and ran into hers, and that she was not taking any action to impede them. Then they storm over and immediately and violently haul her out— if it was a targeted kidnapping it’s hard to say what would’ve happened differently.

More broadly, a whole lot of Democrats settled on the line “Trump is a unique, unprecedented threat, and Republicans have always been like that”, and that message has its flaws

Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally. Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"

The irony of "I'm concerned but I have to trust that he means well" as an orientation toward finding an opponent for Susan Collins

Another step in the de-professionalization and politicization of DOD. "The head of an office that helps organize technical research and disburse billions of dollars for the Navy is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGEr with no apparent naval experience." www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

brad lander caught this shit when he got dragged off and locked up by ice for standing between a family and the goon squad a candidate is trying to win your vote *by doing good things* and your galaxy brain take is to *punish* them for it? what the hell are we even doing?

NEW: The Trump admin just ended the practice of automatically extending work permits when people file to renew them — meaning that if USCIS takes too long to process a renewal the applicant loses their authorization to work legally. The interim final rule applies to renewals filed after tomorrow.

The fact that Trump brokered a ceasefire that immediately collapsed in on itself shows that Biden could have done this the entire time.

Feeling safer any day now…

And speaking of metatext with the possible exception of the previous bit, this whole section is a defense of valuing the lives of the global poor as opposed to being afraid of them increasing their numbers and energy usage making our lives in rich countries worse.

If you get injured by a vehicle accident, it can take years for an insurance settlement for your bills, let alone go to court on it, because you don’t even press your claim until you are done treating. Even a common “soft tissue” injury can be months of PT. The whole time it is common to owe bills.

No—this guy is *proud* to be a bad guy (link); and until we confront the fact that Gen Z Repubs *actively want to be villains, because they think it's hilarious*, we won't have an answer to this mass psychosis. Right now we're stuck on "Hey, you're actually evil. Gotcha." They're *way* past that.

its driving me up a fucking wall! tons of jobs created that were coded masculine and they didn’t want ‘em! like I’m sorry Chad, there’s no jobs where you can sit around at the Spark Generating Factory and make 120K a year and have a steak dinner on the table every night!

So I guess they won't be inviting the Steelworkers new Black woman President on the pod to discuss her decades of policy work on behalf of union members.

This still holds up, and has only gotten worse since the election.

Debate in the chat: Should the USA followup nation be called 2SA or USB?

Presented without comment

The next Dem president should do to the IRS what Trump did to ICE. 10x their enforcement budget, arm them to the teeth, and have them repel from Blackhawk helicopters into boardrooms, country clubs and owner’s boxes to shake these goblins by their ankles until every last penny falls out.

no im pretty sure the anti-Zionist with a Nazi tattoo has a very clear reason for why they’re anti-Zionist and it’s not because they care about the freedom of Palestinians

To be clear, the thing that will absolutely fuck us in the "drug war" is losing the cooperation of Colombia, Peru, and Mexico and it very much looks like we're doing it.

also, this guy is a world class piece of shit and always has been

England literally regicided a king for asserting he could do that in fact, a detail itself which our founders pointedly took notice of

If WH reporters had any balls they would ask, “Does that mean other countries have a right to kill US citizens they suspect are smuggling drugs?”

Critical angle: Trump's accomplices are surely counting on pardons, which only makes them more beholden to him. Todd Blanche must think hard about saying "no" to Trump's demand for the $230 million. Raskin and I discuss this here. It's something Dems could say more: newrepublic.com/article/2021...

No one slanders men and boys more than men who want to believe their deep moral deficiencies are universal. A man-hating killjoy couldn’t even come close.

The literal strongest form of repudiation of this policy possible would be to prohibit it in the Constitution, explicitly. And it is indeed prohibited in that way. So how do we stop him? Amend the Constitution to underline the clause and say “no, for real this time”?

Just insane thing for a NYT editor to say publicly: