If you’re wondering how the FBI could do this given that the general federal statute of limitations is five years: the search warrant references a statute, 52 USC 20701, that requires certain election records to be retained for 22 months. uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...

Is this bad? Seems bad.

The Georgia Supreme Court is completely conservative, yet today, they unanimously recommended the State Bar disbar a lawyer who participated in the January 6th insurrection. They were notably unimpressed by Trump’s pardon. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Every time Trump breaks the clear letter of the law, the NYT and WaPo write a story about how he’s “pushing boundaries” or “testing the limits of his authority” He's not Chuck Yeager, guys. He's a crook.

Some of Dr.King’s speeches feel like they could have been given last week. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fPBDds/

Every accusation is a confession Every single one

Dear @theeconomistevents.bsky.social, have you seen ANY polling on this? Americans UNIVERSALLY don’t “hunger for Greenland.” One man wants Greenland. Fix your headline.

How it started/how it's going

“We will keep punching American consumers in the face until Europe gives us Greenland” is not the Own you believe it is, MAGA.

youtu.be/WavjZtuHyiQ?... @hcrichardson.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @meidastouch.com @indivisible.org

hard not to notice that as trump's polls crater and gop gets crushed in election after election, news orgs are not racing around hiring progressive commenters and boasting about how they're reaching out to real americans by following the will of the volk.

How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“Whatever government is not a government of laws is a despotism, let it be called what it may.” ~Daniel Webster. Webster was born on this day 244 years ago: Jan. 18, 1782. Image: Public domain.

Terror is essential to Miller's project. It's designed to dissuade us from showing solidarity with the immigrants getting removed. Stand in the way of ethnic cleansing and you risk violence yourself. (h/t @whstancil.bsky.social and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com) newrepublic.com/article/2053...

Blueskis, studies have shown that when folks see or hear about a book more than five times, they are likely to check it out, and buy it. So in the spirit of creating buzz, here is the gorgeous cover of THE WESTERNERS, which will be published on March 31!

I’m waking up and choosing violence today because I had a dream last night. Those of you who have been around a while know that I regularly say MAGA is like Gene Talmadge’s Wool Hat Boys and Tom Watson’s Wool Hatters before that.

BREAKING: We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing People have had seizures. They passed out. “I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished www.propublica.org/article/vide...

In honor of the Georgia legislature being back in session, I wrote about Parlor A in the now-defunct Georgia Hotel. open.substack.com/pub/nahalicr...

What’s Europe waiting for? @nicolasberrod.bsky.social #eu #x #grok #children

HALL: “There was a time when American power at least felt obligated to explain itself… What is different is that we have stopped pretending the rules apply to us. We have stopped pretending there are rules.” 😕🇺🇸 www.mediaite.com/opinion/trum...

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

"Russian commentators have frequently suggested that Latin America lies in America’s domain just as Ukraine was under the Russian shadow. Vladimir Putin thinks the same of much of eastern Europe. Xi Jinping will draw his own conclusions." Apparently this attack was originally planned for Christmas.

Whatever happens now, we absolutely cannot allow Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization for what appears to be a large scale military attack on another country vanish from the media discussion, which already appears to be happening.

Laws do not yield to arbitrary impulse, even when the target is plainly a wrongdoer.

I’m shocked - shocked, I tell you - that refusing FBI criminal background checks likely resulted in… criminals in the administration. To be fair, that was also the entire point - there were several Trump appointees who wouldn’t have passed an FBI background check.

The funniest part is that the whole point of funding the crusades was to send your potential sources of domestic political instability (loud, violent lunatics) off on a mission where, worst case scenario, they were out of your hair for several years or, best case scenario, they died.

This is what I’ve been talking about for months now: GOP lawmakers are trying to figure out how to reclaim their power after ceding it all to the White House. The problem? They’re cowards, and most of them are just going to resign instead. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Trumps’s for they and them.

We should never have stopped calling these people weird

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Among other things, they put you in a wheelchair basically regardless of what your mobility issue is. But more importantly: something odd and troubling is happening, so much 'disabled people are faking it!' stuff in the air.

My forthcoming book— For which I began research in 2006. Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press. Cover will be added soon. The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery

He never disclosed that he’d visited Epstein in that column and did a lot of hand waving to insist that he and his fellow elites had nothing, nothing at all to do with him.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan has earned a reputation as an eager Trump supporter, with prayer appearances at both of the president’s inaugurations.

All this will do is increase, dramatically, the suicide rate among trans kids. Societies should be judged by how well they take care of their most vulnerable members. The United States in 2025 continues to fail this test.

A new report from @warren.senate.gov details Elon Musk’s reign of corruption in Washington, itemizing 130 dodgy dealings in 130 days. EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

It’s a Tuesday in June, which means Orientation for incoming freshman. And their parents. As I pulled into the parking lot this morning, Superdad in a minivan driving the wrong way made it a point to cut me off in his quest to get the parking space I was signaling to pull into. Good times.

Morning: Assistant scanning photos: “When was this picture taken, do you think?” Me: “Looks like a 70s or 80s Camaro parked out front…so then?” Afternoon: Assistant: “Who is this guy?” Me: “Joe Frank Harris. He was governor when I was born.” I am a fount of totally random knowledge, friends.

Welp. First AOTUS, then the Kennedy Center board, then the Librarian of Congress. I suppose this was inevitable.

Y’all, imma try this again. I feel like I never quite get my rhythm here. Since I ghosted everyone, here are a few wild developments in my life: 1. I’m three water heaters in and about to upgrade my electric panel in a quest to return hot water to my house. 2. Carter turned two on May 8th!

Hello, yes… Am I speaking to Georgia’s Ghost of 1941? How well did the Cocking Affair work out for Governor Talmadge? www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

this entire article is an argument for dems to refuse to lift a single fucking finger to help republicans pass a dirty CR. if congressional republicans can go straight to musk to get relief for their districts but congressional democrats can't, then there's absolutely no reason to help, at all.

Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.

I suppose with these new tariffs on Mexico, Tea Partiers have finally stuck it to those pesky, avocado toast-eating Millennial kids. Too bad that in that 13 year interim, a lot of those Tea Partiers discovered guacamole, green smoothies, and… avocado toast. Alas.

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A lot of folks think the Great Depression happened all at once , with the stock market crash. That was bad, absolutely, but things got worse from there. Smoot Hawley helped make it worse

A central project for the next little while is to figure out how to tell the many people who don't closely follow politics what Musk is doing. Like literally get the information to them and make them believe it even though it all sounds cartoonishly evil.