If leaders abuse the rule of law to make themselves immune to it, so that they can undermine the rights of others with impunity, by what moral or philosophical argument are they entitled to its protections, once they lose power? By what grace should they be sorted by law instead of by other means?

I was thinking about this recently: you'd have to go back deep, deep into antebellum politics to find someone as nakedly, publicly racist as the current president

Contrary to the Wurman, Barnett, Epstein, Lash, et al. story re: the common law and natural subjects: "le fits de alien, ql fits est nee en Angliterre il est anglois et non alien" "the son of an alien who is born in England is English and not an alien" 36 Hen. 8 (Eng. 1544) FIFTEEN-FORTY-FOUR

NEWS: “The Supreme Court is absolutely wrong,” Gov. Andy Beshear told me in an exclusive interview hours after the ruling today. “Torture is never free speech. It’s just torture. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Just turned on the hotel tv and turned to an episode of House Hunters that opened with a shot of a gay twink couple and the words “Tyler and his partner - also named Tyler - are looking for the dream home for their family and emu farm.” This is the future I want.

DOGE is a genuine echo of the Cultural Revolution. a bunch of fucking morons, most of them kids hopped up on hyper ideological extremism, went around gleefully yanking the wiring out of stuff they didn't understand bsky.app/profile/anna...

Dear companies, I will never take a customer survey after dealing with your business. Let's just get through this. No need to linger after to reminisce about all the valuable lessons we learned along the way.

Pretty soon they're gonna need to release the Epstein files as a distraction from the price of gas and the dropping Dow.

Truly the Fyre Festival of strategic campaigns.

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

Every Republican elected President since I was old enough to vote has pushed us into a war in the Middle East, and each one was stupider than the one before. Just waiting for President Jake Paul to invade Qatar in 2059 because they insulted his haircut.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Guy across the street is putting the finishing touches on his “No War, No Pedos” sign. I’m with him.

The government should not purposely hurt people, especially kids, especially for no real reason whatsoever. Just kind of a feeling I have.

That does it, I’m definitely not voting for Biden.

Stand up for each other. These weird losers who hate Americans are not going to win.

My husband just called me from the store to ask me if chunk light tuna is okay if they don't have solid white and I said "Absolutely not" loud enough to sound certifiably deranged.

I wrote about my dog today. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/what-my-do...

Haitians fought in the Revolutionary War for US independence. The new Haitian government gave weapons to Simon Bolivar for the independence of Gran Colombia. The Haitian Revolution inspired slave uprisings. Haitians have done more for freedom in the hemisphere than most countries.

The first time I went surfing I learned the obvious fact that the ocean was bigger and more powerful than me, and while I might be able to navigate my little board to some extent, the ocean was in control. And yeah it turns out grief's kinda like that.

One reason to remain skeptical about prominent anti-Trump Republicans is that they tend to propagate a diagnosis of Trumpism as a mere aberration from an otherwise noble conservative tradition. Such self-serving mythology misleads the political discussion.   Some thoughts from my new piece:   🧵1/

People who pride themselves on a sophisticated understanding of nuance should make room for the possibility that “Born in the USA” can function as both a critique of patriotism and a patriotic anthem. Art can function on multiple levels. You don’t have to adopt a pedantic literalism.

The thing is, once somebody proposes restricting the freedom of women to travel from one state to another, we actually don’t have to care about their ideas about marginal tax brackets or international trade or whatever