Pretty revealing, in my view, that Scalia spent his entire career ridiculing diversity and affirmative action for underrepresented groups, given that the Reagan White House put him on the Supreme Court in part because it really, really wanted to nominate the first-ever Italian American justice

America 2025.

The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone

Amazing. Dude is just winking at Cassidy and telling him what a schmuck he is while he kills children.

fundamentally the kind of person whose eyes light up at the idea of pinning down a con artist is someone you can probably trust with a gun. [lowering voice to a whisper] give me a gun

I would without question trust my consumer law colleagues with guns before actual cops tbh. yes we're universally insane but have you met cops

At least 30 individual or corporations who have given over $116M to Trump and his super PAC have received regulatory favors from the Trump White House. That includes Big Tobacco companies, Pharma giants, and crypto moguls like the Winklevoss twins. Pay-to-play corruption.

Routinely using unreasoned orders to make major policy baseline shifts and to overrule longstanding precedents sub silentio is an obviously indefensible form of judicial power in the abstract, and it's also predictable that the shadow docket is even more nakedly partisan than the merits docket

1/This week has seen a blitz of what looks like corruption sandals: Saudi development deals for US military tech, Pakistani payments to Trump insiders for tariff relief, Swiss gold bars for a trade deal. Far from a payoff, this is a reordering of internat'l system. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mxthh...

If the president can just raise taxes and spend money without Congressional approval, the constitution is null and void.

Epstein Scandal is the biggest ongoing political cover up in modern times. Don't let Trump gaslight you. He's all over the files. Also, why is Maxwell in a minimum security camp?

i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...

matt yglesias' primary claim about politics is that to win elections, democrats should adopt the strategy which has given starmer a 13% approval rating in the UK

My neighbors just up the street from us own A-squared pizza in Charlottesville, and their youngest was recently diagnosed with leukemia. Their family is really nice, and this is a huge bummer right before the holidays. A GoFundMe has been set up for the family to help with everything.

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove

Faculty discipline committees should really normalize de-tenuring/dismissal investigations for the sort of behavior described in the Summers case

We can claw it all back and put them in prison for accepting it in the first place

These are surely the actions of an innocent man with nothing to hide

It's Tuesday. It's November. And it's been awhile. So lets tell the story about the eel, the scheming wife who ate it, and the talking magpie that ratted her out! That's right! It's time for the eel tale from the 1370s blockbuster hit, "The Book of the Knight of the Tower." 1/5 🗃️🧪

Seriously ... the Declaration of Independence list of grievances could've been written yesterday.

Everyone is saying it. Literally everyone

So it’s just hard to explain this as a strategic decision at all. Instead it looks like what they learned was their own unwillingness to see people harmed by the shutdown and their own lack of leadership, not anything about strategy

However bad you think Schumer is, he is worse prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...

Sheesh zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...

The thing about the "I voted against this" position Schumer is taking is that either he is trying to mislead Dem voters by implying he didn't support reopening right now, or he has no control over his caucus.

The Democratic Party is a European Grand Coalition, and the Republican Party is the Nazi legacy party others shun.

lol I did wonder what other shoe was going to drop besides the hemp thing in terms of GOPers sneaking stuff into a bill no one was going to read

This is what's so aggravating — yes, it was not working in extracting a policy concession but it was working in *driving down trump's numbers and provoking GOP infighting* which is what's important if you take Dem rhetoric about the perils of MAGA remotely seriously.

Dems should be all over THIS, not caving on a shutdown and healthcare premiums on which the publicly currently clearly blame Trump and the GOP for.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

If you've only read one Barbara Tuchman book and it's A Distant Mirror, you reside on a higher plane of existence from the rest of us

Three questions: 1. Is who politicians follow online newsworthy? 2. Is the vice-president more important than a primary candidate to be junior Senator from Texas? 3. If the answer is yes to the first two, why isn’t Axios doing a fuck ton of stories about who JD Vance is following?

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

Anything we can actually do, we can afford.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

if i were running for office i would absolutely call my volunteers “the wide awakes,” i would hand out wide awake pins and stickers and hats for people to wear and campaign events would have wide awake banners

There's also a strange CW that Dems are desperate if they run "the current president is doing a bad job" ads, but Rs will be savvy to run "y'all hear about this mayor of New York City?" ads in, like, northwest Indiana.

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Too many Dem strategists both feed the NYT these bogus narratives or believe them Best thing some of them could do would be stop talking to each other and go canvass with state leg candidates. Listen to some actual voters. Same for pundits. And always read @gregsargent.bsky.social

this shit right here is wrecker shit, as much as wrecker shit as any online leftist has done, if not more so. no wonder so many people are repulsed by anyone (rightly) saying 'vote blue no matter who', the most powerful elected Dem in the nation won't do it! it undermines the whole coalition! jfc

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.

score one for "the pundits are projecting their own preoccupations onto the electorate"

Excited for 2028 when some state SoS kicks Trump off the ballot, Federal district and appellate judges uphold it and then SCOTUS issues an unsigned 6-3 shadow docket rulling staying the lower court ruling, allowing Trump to stay on the ballot and schedules arguments for the case for February 2029.

on an emerging movement in the discourse: "platform temperance" maxread.substack.com/p/platform-t...