he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep

Some of the Platner coverage/discourse is making me feel insane. Whatever game you want to play in terms of "true intentions" behind symbols, this particular symbol is unambiguous in its meaning. The Totenkopf is not open to speculative interpretation! It does not "resemble" a Nazi icon, it is one!

The Platner stuff reminds me of the Kavanaugh confirmation, because of the sneering at the idea that we should have high standards for a man who wants to be one of the most powerful people in the country.

My feelings, exactly.

Just amazing that, as things worsen week after week, the nation’s most powerful court keeps proceeding as though the gravest threat to our democracy is district courts failing to get out of the President’s way.

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

in 2023, Miller and Vought were ranting about how weak and squishy the Federalist Society lawyers were. They were going to have none of those legal types who followed the law this time "The Federalist Society doesn’t know what time it is,” said Russell T. Vought" www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/u...

John Roberts broke the appropriations process and made any deal impossible. What Roberts doesn't understand is that there are benefits to allowing someone to legally bind themselves!

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy. slate.com/news-and-pol...

i'm a traditionalist but sponsored content should be better labeled

The more mockery there is before the actual violence, the better. If the public sees months of ICE brutality and chicken suits, then suddenly there are shootings, it's going to be hard to pin that on the chicken suit guys.

Trump and Miller will probably get the blood in the streets they want eventually. We don’t know when or how it will unfold, or how the public will come to perceive it. But we do know that no matter how it unfolds or is perceived, it is already their fault. All we can do is our best.

Legitimately disgusting that were getting legal rigging of elections and nobody cares in the media or the electorate. This is not that functionally different than tossing out thousands of votes to help your side win.

"This is, simply put, bullshit." Much of what #SCOTUS does these days.

There have to be consequences. Not just for the masked goons snatching people off the street. For the elites issuing the orders, the justices giving them the green light...

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

Bullshit.

Fascist Snowflakes #FreeDC

I spoke to the hardest working man in podcasting: BEN MEISELAS of Meidas Touch, who's taking the fight to Maga (and beating Joe Rogan in the ratings), and doesn't mince his words about the state of US media, and its failure to meet the current moment. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Public funding of elections, then instead of giving mostly-ceremonial ambassadorships to big donors, we give them to elderly Senators.

Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

The most galling fact about obsolete Democratic spending is that instead of helping build up a center-to-left ecosystem, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭-𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚. Most Dem ads go to local TV news. They are putting billions of dollars in the pockets of Fox, Sinclair, Nexstar, etc! WTAF

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in. Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators. The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

EPPC -DC’s far right Catholic think tank & Leonard Leo front. Princeton’s Robbie George on board. Mary Hasson, wife of founder of Becket Fund (Leo sits on board) is a fellow & board member of Napa. Google Ed Whelan & Christine Blasey Ford @alexaronson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/courtacc...

Ok!

Newsom says he’s on the verge of quitting the National Govs Association: “should not be difficult … regardless of partisan affiliation, to agree that politicizing our states’ Natl Guard and deploying… over the objections of the home-state Governor,harms the interests of states”

Everything that's wrong with legal journalism in one New York Times headline and pie chart. If all these "legal experts" are so shocked by the threats to the rule of law, maybe they're not the experts we should be asking in the first place. All of this was foreseeable. Many forecast it.

The reason Trump, Vance and Miller want to make it un-American and maybe even illegal to mention "fascism" or make comparisons to Nazis is because they are aggressively doing fascism, with Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago We are all outlaws. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

"The mistake that Jonathan Greenblatt made was believing that a hundred annoying students at Columbia were more dangerous than a gangster government."

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

This is real fucked up y’all. #PDXStrong

Hell yeah David Byrne! #NoKings

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

I think we can and must expect a different Democratic Party now. But it’s going to take a lot of courage and outcampaigning corporatist milquetoast in primaries, in an ever harsher political landscape.

Swear her in.

Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned much: Republicans could have passed whatever budget they wanted without Dem votes...if they hadn't already used reconciliation to force Trump's billionaire tax cuts and slash Medicaid and SNAP.

Roberts Court: "Sure, disappear brown people off the streets to South Sudan all day long, but don't fuck with our stock market." LAW 👊

Republicans this week: "If I intentionally drive this vehicle off a cliff, it will be the fault of the people in the car that didn't have control of the steering wheel."

loser shit

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.