For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

Civil Disorder will be defined as what we previously understood as our Constitutional rights of free speech & assembly.

No rational way to know what this is all about ahead of time, but there will absolutely be an element of attempting to implicate these officers in something just by virtue of their very presence at the event. They’ll say something and exploit the respect for order and rank to ensure their silence

Chotiner: So you already knew that Jim was free, but you pretended he wasn't. Why? Tom Sawyer: Well, I wanted to be able to say that I rescued him. Chotiner: But you didn't. Someone else did. Tom: I mean, yes I suppose. Chotiner: Mmm. Don't you think he'd been through enough? Tom: I mean ...

Two things simultaneously true: 1. Kamala did great with the terrible hand she was dealt, and 2. she's another example of the fact that Dems simply will not learn, they can't be reformed and must all be replaced.

Wait is the rapture today or was that yesterday? I don’t keep my calendar on my personal device and may have missed putting it in.

The dog, not the current one but the last one, got up from a deep sleep on the couch and started barking at something that -- based on his eyes - was floating near the ceiling. Not a bug, several of us confirmed that. He was looking at something we couldn't see and he didn't like it.

@beijingpalmer.bsky.social well there it is

"The Democratic Party is facing a crisis of leadership" Agree: 82% Disagree: 13% AtlasIntel / Sept 16, 2025

It's easier to see in Starmer but the same was true for Obama/Biden -- they appear to understand themselves to be in power to manage the transition out of democracy and into a different form of government.

watching even a few seconds of the kirk funeral makes it clear a large quantity of this country is ready for full on nazi authoritarianism and we have to really grapple with how much we need to put a stop to this as quickly as possible

October 1 is the eighth anniversary of the Las Vegas shooting (60 dead, 850+ wounded). You think Trump even remembers it? A reporter should ask him and see.

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

Democrats should become the anti-corruption party. 72% of voters think a member of Congress would likely accept a bribe if offered one. 80% say donors run DC. The solution isn’t left vs right, it’s clean vs corrupt. But first, Democrats must reform themselves and reject big money.

Any attorney upholding his professional responsibility would be gathering as much evidence of these crook's corruption as possible, including recordings, and then as soon as they fire him, walk out to a press conference and spell it out on camera.

Has anyone made the observation yet that one of Trump's lawyers on this complaint has the last name Epstein?

Disgusting. Satanic.

Should be impeached and removed from office for this alone

So Fallon and Colbert taped by now; what did they say?

Don’t bomb a Wal-Mart. But if “going to a protest” becomes a reason to have a chat with the FBI, you should absolutely not be afraid of making them come talk to you. Because otherwise you have been frightened into silence. At that point, you need to accept that civil disobedience is the path.

the next president's duty will be to collaborate with Congress to destroy the presidency, and, along with it, the judicial majority in favor of the unitary executive

So pressure’s on Fallon tonight, innit. We’ll see if he comes through in the clutch. Not holding my breath.

So when the big guy dies, people need to be prepared for the blood thirst in this crowd to get worse, not better. Very dangerous stuff.

JD Vance, alleged Catholic, making jokes about fisherman, literally the job of the Apostles. He worships Satan, not God.

People's beliefs and ideas, and therefore their political opinions and behaviors, are formed out of a combination of direct observation and social mechanisms, and what I'm saying is the latter is far stronger and has far more predictable effects than the former, which is weak and variable.

every day I wake up, longing for it to be The Day

If we still had a functioning legal system, the three members of the bar who signed this thing would be sanctioned for contempt and summarily stripped of the right to represent other people, or even Donald Trump, in formal proceedings www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/the-...

New York Times actively worked to get him elected twice, and all they got in return was a $15b lawsuit.

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

Debate is a hobby. It’s not a thing you do to understand another person. Listening is a thing you do to understand someone.

I couldn’t really make sense of what was going on this week until I realized that, for them, this is all a dry run for when the big guy dies.

Not all ideas are created equal

Most persuasive framework to understand our current political moment is the place-based, authoritarian politics of petro-state oligarchs (which now includes a good # of tech) versus ...everyone else, with many in this category who have no idea what kind of fight they are in or what they face.

This writer has been following the Groypers for years. Read this, and the rest of her stuff.

In my experience, courage is usually the product of love and/or solidarity. When we are deeply invested in each other, we are more likely to take risks that we wouldn't take out of mere principle, or for the sake of people we feel disconnected from. Our alienation mass produces cowardice.

This is only a "jarring contradiction" if you refuse to learn anything about how the anti-vaxx movement speaks and behaves. They do not give a shit about "chronic illness" or "combating big pharma," it's all a smokescreen for their dumb, child-killing bullshit.

Basically post-WWII US history has been the long process of the US fascist movement, which had been decisively suppressed & rejected as part of the global fight for democracy, reconstituting itself & slowly but surely bending the country back to its will.

Congress is the dominant branch of our government, not the president, and not the courts. Both the executive and the Supreme Court are subordinate to Congress, via impeachment, the power of the purse, and Congress's ability to dictate organization of the other two branches.

"Fact check" is a wrong and frankly ridiculous schema to apply to this. The President made up an obviously insane, not rational fantasy lie that EVERYONE KNOWS IS FANTASY. Guys, it's literally an emperor with no clothes situation. Why are we talking about fact checking?

We literally heard him on the phone asking Georgia officials to find 11,000 votes for him in 2020. He gave an exact number he needed to win. And he straight up asked for it on the phone. Nothing happened at all.

People are following federal agents around DC w/the Imperial March. 😘 CHICAGO!! Will add some basic ICE melting🧊 resources below. Plz add other resources/ideas, & let’s get sub threads by city, so eg one person can start a Boston reply thread and everyone can add stuff to that thread — ? 🧵

The politics of rape

When I am elected, I will read the code DOGE wrote. I will find out how they stole your data and what they have done with it. And then I will tell you

The best way to summarize this legal rule is "White people are allowed to use race to discriminate against nonwhite people"

I used to think Roberts and ACB would tap the breaks a fair bit so as not to completely undermine the Court (and, you know, the Constitution). I no longer think that. Either they are totally bought in and are going for it, or they still think they can ride the tiger. The latter is foolish.

Yep. The recent Kav opinion could be a tipping point. He's too dumb to not write "most stops are no big deal, just show them your papers and they'll move along." As though the last 150 years of jurisprudence never happened (even if he's trying to undermine it).

In addition to everything else, we are witnessing a complete and total failure of the legal profession to regulate itself.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Abuser logic - if you don't do what I say, you'll get hurt and it will be your fault. @lindseyboylan.bsky.social