This is extremely lawless and corrupt by the Trump DOJ. So, par for the course. The presumption of regularity is a joke now, and federal prosecutors won’t recover the esteem they had from federal judges for a generation. (Which, actually, is fine.)

These 8 Democrats voted to pass a national ban on trans teachers and mention of LGBTQ topics. Rep Henry Cuellar (TX) Rep. Don Davis (NC) Rep. Cleo Fields (LA) Rep. Laura Gillen (NY) Rep. Vicente González (TX) Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH) Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Rep. Eugene Vindman (VA)

Don't even have to create it. Use the *actual* Declaration of Independence as the framework impeachment. This wouldn't just be a rhetorical device, but an actual framework. It elevates things that maybe aren't "illegal," per se, into high crimes and misdemeanors. Here's a sampling... 1/x

Republicans should not get credit for being against the thing that spun out of control when they were in charge of spinning it.

Today in "there's a word for it" I have learned about the Woozle effect > The Woozle effect, also known as evidence by citation, occurs when a source is widely cited for a claim that the source does not adequately support, giving said claim undeserved credibility.

What is this absolute HORSESHIT

So to recap, students weren’t enrolling in the “center for intellectual freedom” classes (they were free to do so) so now the legislature wants to force students to take them. Irony is dead, bludgeoned d to death by the worst ignoramuses. Too bad students won’t learn about it in those “classes”.

there’s a thread around this that has a bunch of stuff related to the whole project, from bathrooms to youth care to adult care and using sports to break solidarity.

the thing of "trans people just pushed too hard on the sports stuff" is so ahistorical that it makes me mad, when did you hear about trans sports before 2020 outside of the occasinoal human interest story on it

"We could confiscate 90% of your wealth and you would not experience a material change in your life."

personally I think anyone should be able to change their name for any reason ever and society should just adapt for that. you will not change my mind

on my birthday I took to the newsletter to write about the AI commencement address backlash, and how growing anger at AI is now irreversibly tethered to justified rage at the extraction class -- whether AI boosters like it or not

Far from being the staunch defenders of trans people we're constantly told they are, Democrats are actively, eagerly participating in our subjugation, and we're supposed to be grateful and silent.

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

The whole premise of this "ballroom" is that you've got the nation's most secure military command center in the basement, and a top-security military drone installation on the roof, and between the two is an impossible-to-secure quasi-public space for foreign spies to have dance parties.

In 2011, the year he was worth $18 billion, ProPublica reported that Bezos received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. He paid zero income taxes. Jeff Bezos should live in absolute terror of the public he has pillaged from.

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I hate to talk about it, but I have to talk about it. Long post incoming: www.patreon.com/posts/158715...

The Free Speech Coalition is serious about starting an adult industry credit union. Part of this is being able to show regulators that enough people would use it, so please fill out this form if you're interested! (Yes, credit unions can issue credit cards!) www.freespeechcoalition.com/survey

Everybody here

For every year that Clinton was out of the White House we have gotten 500 million stories about how Democrats are “out of touch with rural America” and we’ve never gotten stories about how republicans do badly in many suburbs and absolutely get blown out in cities where the mass of people live.

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Including the “um’s” with AOC would guarantee a news cycle Including it with Trump would be a Tuesday The end

Dear everyone talking shit about "The South" like it's all one thing and where all the racism comes from: DT is a New Yorker.

“That’s why the students are booing, I think. They’re experiencing AI in realtime as a forecloser of futures; as the cruel new face of hyper-scaling capitalism, as the prime agent moving a world that’s become a deck stacked against them.” — @bcmerchant.bsky.social really nails it, as usual

This is not “the Justice Department” creating this $1.7 billion slush fund to hand out to Trump’s criminal supporters. It is Trump’s former criminal defense attorney Todd Blanche handing out your tax dollars to Trump’s co-conspirators and thugs.

“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

If the our major media outlets are incapable of conveying to the public how extraordinarily corrupt it is for Trump to take $1.8B in tax dollars and put it into a slush fund for him to give to people who broke the law for him and other allies, well I just don’t know what the point of it all is.

Alex is a stellar journalist doing important work. We need people like him now more than ever. What a shock.

If I were the opposition party I'd be saying anyone involved in creating this corrupt scheme will be prosecuted but also anyone accepting payments from it will at minimum be required to pay back the full sum with interest

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

We're going to see an American Airborne Anabasis and it's going to be so fucking stupid.

Birth rate discourse is like “It turns out if you give women more choices, they’re less likely to make ones that make their lives harder.” Which is really helpful in figuring out how we can improve society somewhat. But instead people are like wow giving women more choices was a mistake

… we have lost much of the civil rights act, most of roe v wade, most of the EPA, any remnants of a progressive tax code, the voting rights act. I’ll be shocked if the ADA makes it through the next two years. I want to vote for candidates who recognize the scope and are ready to try new things.

If you really can't say "AOC is better than Tucker Carlson," you are on the right-wing. You see a basket of extreme right-wing views from one of Trump's friends and find it compelling. Nothing else you say about your political orientation makes the slightest difference, you're just a right-winger.

There is no known cure for this strain of Divorced.

Fun fact! Land-grant public universities were opposed by the southern states and only happened due to the The Morrill Act of 1862 while they were off being the Confederacy. I WONDER WHY THE MODERN GOP HATES THEM NOW?!?! It is a DEEP MYSTERY!

A surprising amount of what made the USA a functional country was put into place during the very brief period where white southerners didn't have the ability to veto it

Like, if it weren't for the fact that thousands are dead and we're about to enter a global recession where millions will suffer, it would be *extremely* funny that the "rah rah manly warfighter, stop being woke soy pussies" crowd immediately got us into the USA's worst strategic defeat in 50 years

and, relatedly, with the fact that all the handwringing about "birthrates" is really handwringing about discomfort with womens rights as a thing that makes women (and uterus-havers more broadly) something other than reproductive assets controlled and exchanged by cis men

They’re doing reparations for the January 6 guys.

all this odyssey-posting has got me thinking about this again

I ORDER MY COFFEE BLACK. NO SUGAR. NO MILK. NO WATER. NO CUP. THEY HAND ME THE BEANS. I EAT THEM IN THE PARKING LOT LIKE A HORSE. THE BARISTAS HAVE STOPPED CHARGING ME. I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE TUESDAY. I CAN HEAR THE WIFI

When you understand the Odyssey so well that you think Homer was a guy who likely existed and he definitely came up with the epic himself