Hitler and the Nazi Party equated themselves with Christianity -- the result was Germany becoming one of the most atheist countries after the war. It is in Christianity's own interest to rebuff Trump's attempts to co-opt Christianity to legitimize his immoral behavior.

Bears repeating that he is threatening Iran over something that wasn’t a problem until he bombed Iran. In this sense it’s very much like many other problems he’s promised to “fix” bsky.app/profile/pale...

The federal government is posting about “our Savior” and “God’s plan” in a country that was set up with no official religion and has been run that way for 250 years. Extremists hate the idea that America belongs to all of us.

It turns out that breaching the wall between church and state means that some branches of Christianity are officially elevated over others. Who could have known? When in the last 500 years could such a lesson possibly have been learned?

This was a good outcome. The candidate filed without the knowledge of the party, at the last minute, and she is (putting it charitably) not aligned with reality. Screenshot is from a website she created.

I don't know if Senator Mike Lee is interested in the open Attorney General position. I know he's quite comfortable getting paid a senator's salary as a full-time social media content creator. So we'll have to wait to see. #utpol

I feel like it ought to be illegal for a city to settle for large sums of money with employees or officials who are accused of wrongdoing, until the allegations are investigated and resolved in the accused’s favor.

This is an absolutely rotten, evil thing to say. “Stone Age” implies targeting civilians—the innocent men, women, and children he is supposedly trying to liberate from a brutal, oppressive regime. That would be a war crime.

"We tend to obscure one of the most damaging aspects of Trump's presidency, and it's exactly what Pam Bondi has been doing...which is eliminating the idea, the very concept, that there is such a thing as independent impartial justice in this country." Susan Glasser on Trump's lawless DOJ.

The US Department of War Crimes.

According to the Times:

The Office of Legal Counsel under this president is not sufficiently independent for its advice to be legitimate or binding.

Hegseth's military purges are what I call "ethics cleansing." He's getting rid of people who might not support his war crimes agenda and might think twice if he orders American troops to attack the American people.

the president of the United States is a madman seriously damaging the entire world

Feels like all it would take is a few notable defections from the Republican Party and everyone will flee for the exits lest they be among the scorned few remaining. Maybe I’m just being wishful but if the self-preservation needle starts pointing away from Trump then things could change really fast.

The Buffalo Medical Examiner rules that the death of a legally blind elderly Burmese refugee dropped off by Border Patrol at a closed shop late at night in winter was a homicide. He died of a burst ulcer caused by severe stress brought on by dehydration and hypothermia.

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Honestly the justices (particularly Justice Sotomayor) sound ... somewhat taken aback that they're even hearing this case. And ... same? Also - you didn't have to! You could have just issued a summary op saying "See the Fourteenth Amendment"! Even last year in the nationwide inujunction case!

One indication of congressional atrophy is that people turn to SCOTUS for the thing we should but don't get from Congress: an actual public debate on an important policy issue. Which of course isn't supposed to be a legislative debate, but we've stopped having any actual legislative debates.

It’s not a joke. It’s a clear and frequently reinforced signal to the armed services that if you break regulations or laws you will be exonerated as long as your actions show fealty to Trump/MAGA.

A crazily unconstitutional effort to seize control of elections from states by seeking to have the USPS put in place rules to ban the transmission of mail-in ballots that don't form to standards the Trump admin puts into place and for people the Trump admin hasn't verified as a citizen.

Here we go. With new polls showing a Doomsday Scenario for Republicans in the midterms, Trump escalates efforts to try and steal the midterms with an unconstitutional and illegal order.

The U.S. just lifted sanctions on Russian cargo ships and multiple high-profile narcotics figures. Dozens of names were removed from the Specially Designated Nationals list—including vessels tied to major Russian leasing operations and individuals linked to Mexican and Colombian drug networks.

BREAKING Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to stop funding NPR and PBS is “unlawful and unenforceable,” a federal judge ruled. Doc buff.ly/WcnQN4A

Man, SCOTUS denied cert in Wilson v. Midland?? Blurgh. That's the IJ case where a criminal defendant sued a lawyer who acted as both the prosecutor and the judge's law clerk int he same case. Yes, you read that right. He was on both sides of the case. Secretly.

People are going to focus on the reply, but consider the question being asked. 1. The idea being floated is attributed to undefined people, without any representative of that view being present in the discussion. 2. This softball setup is designed to let the guest deliver an unrebutted message.

NEW: Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.

“Thou shalt not take the name of God in vain.”

Gerald Ford vetoed naming a post office after himself.

This is nuts. The only reason to do this is the cruelty and the racism. It will actively harm the U.S. economy. We're not talking about undocumented migrant workers here. These are legal PERMANENT residents.

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

“The inquiry on behalf of the high-profile potential client was flagged internally at BlackRock, according to the people familiar with the matter.” Seems bad!

A lot of SCOTUS decisions are dumb, badly reasoned, even dangerous, but merit compliance out of respect for the rule of law and the Court's position under Article III. A decision denying birthright citizenship is a challenge to the constitutional order and should be understood as such.

Western civilization includes Just War Theory and the Laws of Armed Combat. Those aren't PC niceties, they're the legacy of centuries of philosophy, religion, tradition, and the accumulated lessons of bloody experience. Hegseth doesn't champion Western civilization, he rejects the civilized part.

A very real problem with our foreign policy is that we are able to easily kill for causes we don’t actually think are worth dying for

Scenes from the protest in Provo. #NoKings

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"

To my knowledge, this is the first time in history that an American president has openly claimed the right to spend money without congressional appropriation. It is as grave a threat to the constitutional order as can be imagined.

Sorry Mr. President, but that’s not how NATO works. Let me help you out. 1/ 🧵

She should resign or be expelled.

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

A single sentence bill that reads: The name of no elected official or former elected official, shall, while alive, be affixed to federal property” should be a promise of the Dems when they take Congress.

Utah friends, a call to action: Contact the governor’s office and leave a comment that you are opposed to him calling a special session of the legislature for any sort of constitutional amendment regarding redistricting or initiatives. This is to send a proactive signal, not waiting to react.

3/ From the Founding through the present day, the power of the purse has been understood as one of Congress's most potent tools against the executive: the executive can't do anything without money, and he can't spend money without Congress.

2/ These actions aren't just illegal, although they are that. They aren't just unconstitutional, although they are that. They are anti-constitutional: they strike at the core of one of the principles that allows our entire constitutional order to function.

Blanche is nothing more than a mob boss’s henchman, and he is a disgrace to the Department of Justice.

"Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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