America is not now, has not ever been, nor will ever be a "Christian Nation." It is profoundly unamerican to say it is.

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

Chris Rufo makes a passionate plea for Americans to confine themselves to fact-based bigotry and fear and ignorance.

7 of the 8 worst people on earth since 1945.

7 of the 8 worst people on earth since 1945.

It seems to me the goal of AI is the death of human expertise.

I wish I had something eloquent to say here, but really just fuck 2025. This year blows. I never met Rob, but his movies were defining. They taught us to love, to be weird and be ok, to dream big, and so many other life lessons.

My guess is that some of his advisors think they can convince the courts at least SCOTUS to say presidents can pardon ANY crime. The goal would be to make his administration completely unaccountable to any law. This is the canary in the coal mine for that effort.

"The majority seems to want the political payoff of a stronger presidency without accepting the doctrinal endpoint its own reasoning dictates."

You could impeach him and mirror the tone and language of the Declaration of Independence. You could have constituents volunteer reasons in which they were personally harmed by his crimes, and it could be a true citizen's impeachment. (In Illinois, not hard!) A lot of visible avenues.

Apparently my neighbors and there dog froze to death...

i am levitating

100% this.

Steve Cropper, the soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.’s at Stax Records and co-wrote the classics “Green Onions,” “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay” and “In the Midnight Hour,” has died. He was 84. https://to.pbs.org/48fgEoM

Lately I really just want to curl up in a ball and and do nothing till March.

The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker. Just to level set

NYS Department of taxation just sent me a notice claiming i underpaid my 2022 taxes by like $75. This feels like one of those state level scams. Like its too small to spend a lot of time fighting but also fuck that I paid my taxes.

When your motto is "don't be evil" and you decide its no longer an appropriate motto....

No matter how old I live to be I will never be too old to watch The Sandlot.

White House aggressively posting “trump is straight” content amid the blow job e-mail

Unless he dies suddenly in office, he's probably going to issue blanket pardons to everyone who did what he asked. The people breaking the law for him are counting on this.

Yes falling apart for Trump just like im 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.... I hope so, but I'll believe it when i see it.

Dick Cheney dies the day that the first Muslim is elected NYC mayor.

This could easily be the best thing about Mamdami--if Dershowitz was telling the truth.

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

My wife is an immigrant. I just got a notification email that USCIS had "taken action" on our case, but there is nothing new or changed showing in their portal. This does not feel great.

This quote continues to rattle me to my core: "So what you’re telling us is you need less evidence to kill somebody than you do to hold them." That's Rep Adam Smith to Pentagon officials in a briefing on Trump's illegal boat bombings. As he told me in this piece, they didn't answer his objection:

If you blame migrants collectively for the horrible actions of a few but do not hold white people collectively responsible when white people commit heinous crimes, that's racism. Just saying.

Go Blue Jays!

If you title a calendar invite "Let's Connect! Other words" know i am not reading the rest and i assume this is some kind of sales spam.

Jack Smith for president??

He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house. Remove him from office.

If the House ever reconvenes, every Democrat should sponsor a resolution impeaching Trump for the destruction of the East Wing. It's not his worst crime, but it should be shocking to the largest number of Americans. Of course it'll fail - but the whole party should go on record calling this a crime.

@nytimes.com expands its antitruth campaign

In response to the arrest of the man who was threatening Jefferies I was wrong. That was state troopers who arrested him. The DOJ clearly does not exist to protest Democratic lawmakers.

It has only been nine months????

Two days ago, he took a shit on the American people. Today, he began demolishing the People’s House. That’s all he does. He shits on people, and he destroys things. Bcuz he’s a horrible person. I blame him a lot for the death & destruction he’s caused. I blame his enablers & his appeasers even more.

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

I think the statement from the GOP is that protests are not legitimate unless they get to smear shit on something.

Yeah, Obama definitely bears some blame for where we are. If you just lookat the kind if ten thousand foot view of his presidency it was pretty good. Once you get into some of the details...not so much. This one in particular was very bad for democracy.

This is insane. It needs to stop.

If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks: I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

Don't ignore this. ICE shot a woman after verbally abusing her.

Sometimes I really, really just want to be *alone,* and have all the things pulling at me be quiet. For, you know, a month or so. Actual rest would be so helpful. 😭

At a Mexican restaurant in Alexandria for lunch today everyone here eating besides me is black, my expectations for the food immediately went up. Is this wrong?

Every member of the media that credulously repeated Trump’s lies about not being connected to project 2025 should be fired and excluded from the industry for a decade

This is clearly a massive violation of the 4th amendment. Everyone who took part in this should be thrown in prison and the residents and owners of this building should sue the shit out of ICE.

Have they ruled against him at all since the immunity decision???