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Have you considered kicking out the people who gave up the fight and picking a new leader who is capable of leading the same

Might be a poor night’s sleep talking but I feel like we’ve done one of these Musk reacting embarrassingly after getting owned by Oates things before

Someone else handle this one

any time a republican brings up how bail reform is causing all the crime throw this back in their faces

You'd think this would be a scandal of some kind but

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

I mean not fine fine, it's actually kind of ominous (as @attackerman.bsky.social notes), but not for the reasons that Fox News would lose its shit over if it were a Democrat in the White House www.forever-wars.com/al-qaeda-in-...

Just imagining the media on Earth 2 on a day when President Harris's aides are fighting to withhold food stamps and raise healthcare prices for tens of millions of Americans while she hosts a former affiliate of al-Qaeda and ISIS in the Oval Office

To repeat: Maybe electing a life-long criminal to an office where he can pardon other criminals wasn't such a good idea.

It’s such a bad idea, when one of his crimes was calling forth an insurrection, that he’s actually forbidden from holding the office by a constitutional provision, which a unanimous Supreme Court invented a way to turn off.

In this case, the alleged problem -- men pretending to be women so they can dominate women's sports -- does not exist, and policies to prevent even any potential abuse of the system are already in place. This leaves the policy proponents actually want: banning trans people from public life.

I have given up caring about what the Substack class argues out of ignorance and what it argues out of bad faith

The hard part is convincing people to stop listening to Matt Yglesias

This is incorrect. I’d rank Trump way behind Wilson and Coolidge. Interested in learning more about this President McKinney however.

Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.” Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.

I don't understand the assumption that the administration will stop trying to defund SNAP, a program the USDA chief calls "corrupt," given how often the WH has ignored Congressional jurisdiction over funding. I don't know why the WH would stop pursuing something it's fighting in court right now...

Preferably with someone who won’t be 77 at the end of the next term

And then their response is to scold people who didn't show up rather than giving those people a reason to show up. They can't be this stupid. It's malicious.

So I understand (and I haven’t seen the clip), all of this is because they edited together two different parts of Trump using his Ellipse speech to urge his followers to storm the Capitol?

BBC demands Harris stage insurrection

Once they were in the shutdown though they could have made it about anything. Put clips of ICE abducting children on endless loop and say “do we keep funding a govt that does *that*?” Then you might get federal workers clamoring not for concessions but a strike. Again, requires believing in things.

The most Democrat consultant-brained piece of this was making it a procedural fight about ACA subsidies — that, if extended for a year, would help the GOP in the 2026 midterms anyway — instead of making it stand against Trump’s lawlessness and corruption. But that would require believing in things.

Should be pretty clear that without House commitment on a vote on ACA extensions, it is purely symbolic as part of the Senate deal

I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them

Cannot wait for every one of these losers to get Mamdanied to hell the next cycle they’re up. They can all go live with Cuomo on an island in the sea.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

Trump was told to pay out by two courts and kept appealing until scotus said it was fine for the moment to starve people

I wish I was in a regular poker game with Chuck Schumer

The amount of pilling you’d need to understand the Gaza protests as an act of “cancel culture” rather than an emblematic case of pure speech is beyond the limits of pharmacology.

The other thing is that he’s real dumb

It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

This was a good read. It's focus on the boomerang effect reminds Americans that imperial adventures are: not new, pushed most aggressively by hardline factions of conservatives, industrialists & finance, and redound badly on the US itself and its people. Also See Chalmers on 'blowback'.

There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.

Jesus Christ abcnews.go.com/amp/US/5-sho...

Did I use my newsletter for some self-promotion? Yes. Am I also making the urgent case that Trump is returning to an early-20th Century style of militarized imperialism at home and abroad? Also yes. Do I wish my book was a lot less relevant? Every day. theracket.news/p/it-wasn-t-...

There was also his dictatorial antisemitism

I see everyone getting incredibly mad about this but… this is basically what the Dems have been asking for the entire time it’s a bad deal for the Dems! it’s super easy to say yes to! and we are over a month into a shutdown anyway because the response has been “you get nothing, good day sir”

This was one othe best books I've read in the last decade. Two other freinds of mine were reading it at the same time, and we hadn't planned it that way, it just happened. @katz.theracket.news is one helluva writer - and he's right here too. Not a playbook! theracket.news/p/it-wasn-t-...

Cheers

I continue to point at my sign

This is a stupid offer

I'm exhausted. (New Racket.) theracket.news/p/it-wasn-t-...

boy I saw that in person a LOT living there. particularly toxic in an expensive-ass city like DC, you basically can't start a family on staffer wages bsky.app/profile/seth...

STATE FUNDED. STATE FUNDED. Maryland using Maryland taxpayer funds to supplement the federal tax Marylanders have ALREADY paid in federal taxes to fund SNAP. Paying twice! But guys, we gotta pay the king. There's no mechanism not to pay the king. We must give him our money guys.

This is so dumb, even for Elon Musk.