Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):

Analogizing the EU to the Nazi regime is embarassingly ignorant of history, and it's shameful that our new national security strategy seems to say that those promoting international cooperation in Europe are bad and those trying to rehabilitate violent nationalism are good

I have every expectation we'll have an economic crash at some point. And I expect it to put an end to the use of AI to replace human labor to about the same extent the dotcom crash put an end to the Internet. We'd be wise to focus on how to make sure AI's benefits flow to all, not just a few.

Looking ahead past 2026-28, one of the biggest risks to the Democratic party is that it adopts the mantle of opposing technological progress.

The Declaration of Independence, the American Constitution and the Gettysburg Address. Liberty and equality for all in a constitutional republic. Not blood and soil nationalism. America is not an ethnostate where your rights depend on ancestry.

The MAGA left is fascinating. I bet this guy will claim he is against what ICE is doing to immigrants, and yet he will be working hard in the coming years to make sure it continues.

I love this political tack and I encourage Republicans to keep repeating it.

I shouldn't be surprised by this, but apparently the National Park Service is doing a fee-free day at national parks in June for President Trump's birthday. Seems like a good time and place for some No Kings rallies...

When we talk about refusing illegal orders, this is what we mean.

Oh my. When you've lost the Babylon Bee …

haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”

It seems worth getting very crisp on whether the presumptive 2028 Republican nominee for POTUS agrees with his boss that members of Congress should be killed.

"If Democrats don’t change course, they won’t just lose a constituency; they’ll lose a critical governing asset," Wendy R. Anderson writes. Here’s what Democrats should do:

a take which I thought was too basic to write up but I clearly should have written up lol was that one underrated success of the 2024 Trump campaign was to manage to make it *look* like the Kamala campaign was back-to-back culture wars, they did a very good job on that front!

The Biden administration could be pretty damn good if we don't have the fallout from COVID to deal with and had a leader who was less ancient and better at communicating and keeping the groups in check.

even if/when we make through to 2026/28 it's a temporary win unless we commit to doing Reconstruction For Real This Time

I am well aware that they are and will continue to do massive damage to this country but does it feel like they’re on a glide path to successful authoritarian consolidation anymore? I submit that it does not

Do you call for Schumer to step down as leader by the end of this year?

I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy. "I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."

All the yes votes came from Senators who are retiring or not up in 2026. Voters spoke clearly on Tuesday. We wanted a fight. Dems now know reopening is an electorally indefensible position. So they plotted to give themselves cover. Why? They’re afraid of their own voters. Good. They should be.

Hey 2028 Dems, You should call for Schumer to go now. I promise it'll only help you.

When you've lost *checks notes again* Chris Cillizza

"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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.

Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...

A fine example of the erratic insanity of Trump's 'emergency' tariffs - and their real costs for American businesses www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Battery plants can create advanced manufacturing jobs, help the US compete economically with China, diversify global supply chains, improve grid resilience & provide domestic supplies for automakers. So naturally the DOE is clawing back funding for them.

It's this photo if you missed it, savaging the East Wing to make a vanity ballroom.

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

Your daily reminder that while leftists weren't the only reason Trump won, they're among the reasons, and they're at or near the top of the list of reasons Trumpism could endure.

If you try to hijack the fight against Trumpism into a fight against the pre-Trump capitalist status quo, you will lose, and put the fight against Trumpism in jeopardy.

Oh no not my "power analysis", I clearly haven't read enough theory that explains the very good reasons you oppose protesting a tyrant

You've turned off replies because people are rightly yelling at you. Instead of embracing the widespread popularity of protests against Trump and celebrating their popularization you're being a gatekeeper and a killjoy. Whatever effective protest is, it's not complaining about protesters.

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

If you think your power bills are too high, Trump is the reason.

This is one of the rare times in Illinois politics when you could call for the governor to be jailed and be incorrect.

Good thread on the dangers of using inflation numbers across eras. And happy Christmas to all who live in this century.

We are never going to usefully address climate change by cajoling people into giving up things they enjoy. This attitude strikes me as one that is not only deservedly doomed to failure, but risks doing incalculable damage to the climate movement.

Everybody burn flags this weekend.

The REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN is what they want. They are in the majority. They can bypass the filibuster with a rule change just like they did 12 days ago. It’s all a performance.

Who controls the House, @washingtonpost.com ? Who controls the Senate, @washingtonpost.com? Who controls the White House, @washingtonpost.com? Who controls the Supreme Court, @washingtonpost.com? Who controls YOU, @washingtonpost.com?

Pete, essentially: If logistics isn't ready to storm the account ledgers int tip-top fighting shape, then we have already lost. I don't care how many rations we've distributed. We look bad doing it!

An MEP engineer told me the other day that he often times gets better heat pump/geothermal systems installed in red jurisdictions because they just go for the operations savings, while sustainability-focused jurisdictions dither and assume climate-friendly design has a sort of penitential cost.

What Trump has wrought: a reversal of attitudes on immigration. Now we're an immigrant nation again, we need more immigrants to maintain our economy, and Trump's persecution of immigrants is just wrong.

At some point people need to learn that the poverty rate is mostly about the safety net or lack thereof and not the economy. The economy was doing historically well, real wages rising for the first time in decades, etc. And poverty rose because pandemic safety policies expired.

Every single day of this administration, I have thought of my late professor Joe Nye and his work on soft power. Every single day of this administration, Trump finds a new way to hemorrhage soft power from a country that once had more to spare than any in the world.