"It would be wrong, or at least incomplete, to blame these cultural shifts on cultural leftism or on the Sixties. They may even be inevitable as countries become more affluent and more diverse." On the growing-up of American secular Christmas music:

After watching this, I am even more outraged that Weiss spiked it. Exposing such atrocities is what journos live for. But she opted to cover up for odious regimes responsible for the brutal torture of men whose crime was that they came to the US for a better life open.substack.com/pub/yashar/p...

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

I feel like the financial journalists should check in on Trump's Chicago tax cheating. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/u...

“What's up at the NatC Conference”

NEW: Trump has targeted political foes — including Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook — for claiming more than one primary residence on their loan papers. But ProPublica found that at least three of the president’s Cabinet members have done the same thing.

ICYMI: The 3rd Circuit ruled Pennsylvania must count undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots, determining that rejecting such ballots was unconstitutional. “Casting a ballot and having it counted are central to the democratic process,” a judge wrote.

Reup: John Roberts gave Ed "Big Balls" Cositine live and unaudited access to every Americans' social security data. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...

If Texas does a non-census-year biased redistricting, California and New York should respond in kind with extreme prejudice. It’s a shame, because CA’s current party-neutral process is where all states should be. NY definitely needs improvement.

“Imagine a bunch of guys sitting around a table, saying, ‘I've got a great idea. Let's give a $32,000 tax break to a millionaire & pay for it by taking health insurance away from lower & middle-income people. To top it off, we cut SNAP, food aid?’ Cruel!"—Sen. Angus King (I-ME) @lwvus.bsky.social

Listen, deaths are a natural consequence of violently arresting septuagenarians and caging them in terrible conditions away from their loved ones for alleged civil immigration law infractions. What are people complaining about?

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

I dream of a big blue wave of successful primary challenges.

What does "rule of law" mean if you explicitly state that nothing the chief executive does in office can legally implicate him www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

ooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!

“Terry. Terry. I am the Pope. Did you see the picture? The hat? The beautiful white hat? The tremendous cross? Get him the picture.”

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone

Let’s have a conversation about what happens when someone is raided like this and instinctively opens fire on ICE agents. In that scenario, at least one person almost certainly dies—possibly a federal agent. That’s bad enough. But what do you expect this administration will do next?

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

Congress says it's antisemitic to say Jesus wouldn't approve of killing Palestinian children but not antisemitic to say Jews killed Jesus

Incredibly telling moment. Trump is completely sure he is right here. We have a president that is pickled in his information bubble, high on his own supply, can't tell his administration's propaganda from reality. Next the White House will insist Trump is right!

See the problem here?

This is obviously just Gorka BS but these threats — which also come from Tom Homan — inspire law enforcement officers to bully folks who advise immigrants, as exemplified by this new and terrifying post by the great @radleybalko.bsky.social radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

Never forget: Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and his CECOT prison are direct subcontractors to Donald Trump. Bukele will do whatever Trump orders him to do. apnews.com/article/abre...

The irony here is thick. Pardon me if I don’t laugh though.

ICE brownshirts. Still trying to confirm the identity of the man wielding the pickaxe, who is believed to be right-wing vigilante Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer of Veterans on Patrol. youtu.be/xy3knCwDPww?...

The silent era in the USA was pretty much over by 1930 but I am looking forward to the public domain for it because it may result in Vitaphone films being reunited with their discs. Fox used sound-on-film but Warner used sound-on-disc (separate records) until 1931

I work in procurement and the weirdest random things are going out of stock. A lot of this has already been hitting on a wholesale and industrial level, at least in my very infrastructure-ish field. Work has been fun!

Cost of extending the Trump tax cuts for the rich: $4.6 trillion Cost of cutting corporate tax rate to 15%: $1 trillion Remember this as we hear about "wasteful government spending."

What the actual F?!?! Another Trump giveaway of the US government to Musk.

A detailed strategy to stop the Republican budget, which devastates everything including Medicaid and SNAP. It will require a lot of pissed-off voters in Red States to call their reps and show up in person.

Trump’s crypto bribery mechanism.

I am liking Rep. Steve Horsford (NV-4). More of this please!

The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else. Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.

Trump is creating giant market fluctuations with his on-again, off-again tariffs. These constant gyrations in policy provide dangerous opportunities for insider trading. 🧵

Commissioner. Chief Financial Officer. Chief Legal Officer. Chief Risk Officer. Chief Privacy Officer. Chief of Staff. All out. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

imagine being this pathetic, servile and eager to gulp up the slop

This is madness.

NEW: The Supreme Court took 6 months to decide immunity, but just 6 days to effectively strip the rest of us of due process. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-corrup...

Steve Vladeck on the Abrego Garcia case. (Does the judge have jurisdiction over Salvadoran prisons? No. Does she have jurisdiction over the Secretary of Homeland Security? Yes. Can she use that power to compel the DHS to bring Abrego Garcia home? Also yes.)

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

A friendly reminder

In better news the stiff tariffs on Gilligan’s Island may finally break the totalitarian rule of the Marxist DEI-swollen “professor”

Everyone should read this powerful clarion call. And the entire Bar--especially major GOP-associated firms--should now step up and join Paul Clement, et al. (and Cooley and Williams & Connolly) in their powerful indictment of an unprecedented abuse of power. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...