ben franklin once said “justice is strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens. a highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and the nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.” a country of banditti, nothing more

what the actual fuck is supposed to happen to venezuela now

what a stupid fucking criminal country america has turned out to be

WOKENESS ASCENDANT

lol they put mark andreesen and abundance on my syllabus im gonna kill myself

dsa national should probably develop a script for members to ca republicans when they have to because the current one is just giving them a bunch of reasons ti vote for reconciliation

twinks keep making me WATCH MOVIES

why do i keep getting entangled with film nerds. i don’t WATCH MOVIES why do i keep attracting these people.

fetterman is out posting about how great this was. fuck that guy

what have we done

WE BOMBED IRAN?????

underrated civil rights issue is how much republicans just hate dc

they are at war with you

cory booker is éxplicitly out republicans (the DHS deputy secretary) for lying on the senate floor rn

i can’t believe newsom flopped his “major announcement” because he forgot to make sure the audio worked. how do you even come back from that man

There is no way to construct a “popularist” immigration policy because what the public wants is literally impossible. They want mass deportations without a crackdown, criminals disappeared without impacting due process, and nobody to be above the rules but exceptions made for the good ones.

posted “oh my fucking god” on twitter about trump endorsing newsom’s arrest and my replies are full of stupid election twitter 20 year olds soying out about how he’ll win iowa or whatever. guys. have some fucking PERSPECTIVE

it is very funny that certain historians specifically invoke the SCLC part of the civil rights movement and literally nothing else. like dawg i’ve read your books we both know there was more going on

on local news, karen bass says that the immigrants detained by trump on friday have been unable to contact legal counsel and their family members don't know if they're still in the country

there are so many thoroughly antisocial behaviors that would shock and disturb you coming from any other human being but are completely standard for cops

BREAKING: Newsom to Turn Torment Nexus Dial From 'Homeless' to 'Republican'

what a beautiful city los angeles can be

old woman yells at (the) cloud

this but unironically

this is such a stupid way for an economy to crash

They are tearing a superpower apart from the inside because jet ski salesman got mad the person serving them coffee had blue hair.

in retrospect if i was notoriously bad at anything in court i would personally not pick a fight with one of the best law schools in the country

twitter would be better if it didn’t break routinely

in retrospect (and this is not meant about this poster at all it just made me think) the “healthcare plz” meme was part of a larger package of irony and cynicism that helped pave the way to where we are today

the schumerian theory of politics is that as trump’s approval rating collapses, so will his ability to command congressional republicans. well. the approval is collapsing.

this is like the worst case scenario for congressional procedure lol. the terrible house rule enshrining the tariffs will pass and then house republicans will vote down the awful budget in favour of an even worse one that cuts MORE social spending

what does he MEAN europe should pay us reparations for trade deficits. HOW. WHY. WHAT

Being a billionaire in the United States feels basically identical whether you have $10B or $100B, but feels very different if you can sexually harass your au pair and she can quit and get a different job vs if she is desperate to keep her job and has to put up with it because the economy is shit.

"offer something phenomenal" is again the key point. Trump thinks he's hitting the Give Me Money button, & if you have a problem with that, you have to *outbid* the button.

Might be useful to Schumer defending an illegal detention because Khalil was an outspoken *Palestinian* (shudder), or Gallego trying to defend his reputation as one of the good ones by backing the El Salvador plan but only for real gangsters, or Newsom and his podcasts.

New from the Democratic Review: An anonymous staffer wants Democrats to learn what politics is. If you have friends who work in the Democratic Party or in non-profits, they should read this one open.substack.com/pub/thedemre...

This election got decided by the crowd who was googling, "did Joe bidden die" and "who is Cammy laharris" in line at the polls and they went for Trump by twenty points. Some of that is on the Dems for various misses, some is a truly horrible info environment, and some is just willful goldfish brain

NEWS: Judge Boasberg has issued a sweeping block of Trump’s effort to invoke wartime Powers’s to quickly deport Venezuelan nationals, telling the administration to go as far as turning around planes already in the air. t.co/i42LtWMzfd

For a lot of liberal (or "liberal") pundits, this is just a proxy war for their endless fights for status and hierarchy with their colleagues or ideological rivals, and it's not really ABOUT real people, it's about free speech, or cancel culture, or political strategy, or the 2016 primary.

at white house event, trump asks crowd “should i run again, you tell me”, followed by chants of FOUR MORE YEARS

The right doesn't want power, they want to *critique* power

that’s rough then

okay, but the republicans actually *are* the ones whose minds have to change, senate dems just held the floor overnight trying to make that point, so if you have republican reps or senators, you *should* be yelling at them

most of the changes which trump is rolling back are changes which were made between 2021 and 2024

between young and cassidy folding, it seems the senate is going to sink exactly one single trump nominee (gaetz)

WTFU! Trump Attacks Unions and Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs). www.whitehouse.gov/uncategorize... (Sneaky. This was posted “uncategorized” so it doesn’t pop up under Executive Orders or Press Statements.)

"you can't blame me", they shriek, "because i did nothing to prevent this!"