one of the secrets of Clown Law, which Donald Trump is the grand master of, is that in Clown Law you recognize that you can file any old bullshit and they'll have to pretend it's serious and it'll eat up weeks of time

I still can't believe this video is real and something that a member of Congress said. If you said this about literally any other foreign country, people would be like "wtf is wrong with you, traitor?"

There’s this pattern with everything conservatives do that causes people to move the goalposts a little closer to their side every time. It’s always imagining there’s another extreme that would only then be out of bounds so whatever bad faith accusation they make now is fair game. It’s insane.

"Before you even get to Republicans being bad actors" — No. The *only reason* anyone gives a shit about California taking a week to tally votes is Republican bad faith. Stop pretending every fake GOP conspiracy has a kernel of truth to it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Can’t wait for our annual end of June tradition of seeing what rights our malevolent clerics decide to kill before they go yachting with billionaires for the summer.

I mean in one of their few signed opinions last year they ruled that detaining people based on racial characteristics is compliant with the Constitution that bans discrimination based on race. Idk why we continue moving the goal posts for them. They’re already so far out of bounds.

A FIFA referee has spent more time in federal custody for being Somali than anybody on epstein's list for raping kids.

Judicial review should be destroyed. Hope that helps!

Honestly one of our biggest challenges moving forward as a society is going to be discarding media outlets that constantly show themselves to not be up to the moment. NYT, WAPO, 60 mins all need to be sent to the dustbin of history

This should just be how it is. Colorado does this my vote is always counted days before Election Day and the results take like < 4 hours after polls close to call a race

The majority of white women who vote, vote Republican. Every year, it's the same thing.

Is this normal Presidential security measures? Like a POTUS throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium doesn’t seem to require this much or like any other event

Conservatives are completely unable to fathom a man can have multiple consensual non-simultaneous girlfriends. To them you either need to have a mistress, harass a staffer or rape an underage girl.

The NY transplant discourse just shows why Boston is the superior city. Rather than gate keeping, we trick people into coming here to get an education, turn them into Bostonians, then export those newly minted Bostonians to other cities, ensuring our cultural hegemony.

honestly this is nuts, they're establishing an 8-hour security perimeter around the most used transportation hub in North America, so one guy can attend a basketball game

screworm outbreak is another good opportunity to remind americans that government is what protects us from things like this and not the magical free market. want safe food? government, bitch.

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

The reason the fascists all hate travel is because the minute you start seeing the world you’re smacked in the face with the most obvious lessons about how similar we all are and our global shared values. And that is the biggest threat to them.

The problem is he’s going to be hailed as a hero by liberals and centrists won’t see that anything but complete loyalty will never be enough for fascists and round and round we go down to hell.

Israel only knows collective punishment. It’s the entire ethos of its military.

Israel today has assassinated two officers of the Lebanese Army and another soldier. It is very clearly not just a "war against Hezbollah" but against the cohesiveness of Lebanon itself.

Yeah but a few ultra rich people who have multi million places in NY they never use might have to pay a tiny bit more in taxes, so let's stay focused on the important stuff...

I keep saying we live in a post Constitutional government. The structures and buildings are all still there but the actual power doesn’t

If the people, through their duly elected representatives, do not control how their tax dollars are spent, then the constitution is a dead letter.

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

Congrats, John Roberts! You ended the three-branch method of governance!

Even if all the singers came he would still a hold rally during the concert. Let’s all be fucking serious for two seconds

no healthcare no vacations no energy no video games no jobs no steaks no housing no porn

a big part of being a republican is cutting programs that keep disasters from happening because we dont need to try to prevent something that isnt happening

Pretty great example of how our current government structure is post-Constitutional. Congress votes to end a war they never voted to start but that vote doesn’t actually matter because the POTUS that started said war will veto resolution to end it and Congress doesn’t have the votes to override it.

To prove racial gerrymandering, a plaintiff has to draw race-blind districts that are just as favorable to Republicans. But that's impossible to do because Republicans uniformly select racists as their candidates and Black voters won't vote for racists. So racial gerrymandering is always allowed.

There is no 'opening the strait.' The strait was open. Iran was tolling vessels. They were letting whatever ships they were comfortable with pass by, and Americans and frankly the rest of the world needs to get it through their heads that this was as open as the strait was ever going to be, again

80+ villages have been nearly or totally destroyed by Israel, 3,200 people have been killed, more than 1,300,000 displaced and yet there are people “fuming” about this resolution?

Last night, the Supreme Court ruled that the VRA cannot protect even against *intentionally* discriminatory voting policies When we say there is no federal statute remaining the enforce the 15th Amendment, this is what we mean

Until proven otherwise, the JCPOA is the high water mark of American diplomacy and it's emblematic of everything since that the US was unable to honor it (thanks to sabotage by Trump) and unwilling to restore it (thanks to sabotage by hardliners within the Democratic caucus and Biden's indifference)

This lack of an ambitious vision for America is what sabotaged Biden’s term the most and is what has depressed sentiment towards Democrats. Say what you want about Bernie/AOC or the Green New Deal but they’re at least coherent visions we can work towards. Idk what the corporate wing wants to do.

Wait this entire debate is because of methodology changes that are understating sentiment??? How has this dragged on for two years and this is the first time this has been brought up?!?!

conditioning talks on your adversary giving up their strongest point of leverage — which they wouldn’t even have if it weren’t for your mistakes — is an utterly unserious, clown position

Abolish the Senate

Conservatives are so closeted they can’t fathom a straight man dating a hot Latina. If she’s over the age of consent these guys have no interest

If we had a true leftist news outlet there would be opeds about how electing a socialist has brought the championship mojo back to NYC

Schumer, Nadler, Jessica Tisch, Julie Menin, Dan Goldman, Mike Lawler & Alex Bores all stood alongside terrorists who: –Boosted a Nazi –Called to nuke Gaza & ban Mamdani's wife from Israel –Said Muslims are prone to "cultural murderousness" & "the children in Gaza have brought this upon themselves!”

“I won’t be intimidated!” I yell while running out of the room crying

It is simply untenable for the Senate Leader of the Democratic Party to be someone whose number one issue is being unconditionally supportive of a country that >80% of his party's voting base views negatively

One reason I disregard everything American Christians say as total horseshit is because these “good Jesus loving” people are the main drivers of these policies mostly as an attack on poor people and there is nothing more antithetical to the actual gospels of Christianity

The slow disappearance of public amenities in general -- benches, toilets, etc -- has made a lot of public spaces relentlessly and intentionally hostile

Chuck Schumer was fine with it though apparently

Polis should be impeached and I’m not sure why it hasn’t happened already. Dudes a lame duck who’s only making things worse in this state.

A lot of Americans don't really like it or they sidestep it altogether but in actually existing Israel if you are for a state of all its citizens you are near uniformly considered anti Zionist, or more charitably what people call "non-Zionist".

If "equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis would be the end of the state of Israel" then what does that make the state of Israel?