Lmaoooo

This is LITERALLY camp of the saints

I’m sorry but this analogy doesn’t even work. The Nazis didn’t storm the beaches, we did. They came by land.

Yaakov Roth was a Harvard Law School grad, SCOTUS clerk, and longtime BigLaw partner. His resume, law students were always told, was a sign that he was among those at the top of the legal profession. Today, he said Trump could tear down the Statue of Liberty tonight and no one could stop him.

Congrats, John Roberts! You ended the three-branch method of governance!

For comparison, more than 13,000 eligible federal inmates were released early to home confinement during COVID, a policy which the Trump administration tried to reverse. By 2023, only 22 had reoffended.

Chris Wright has a master's in electrical engineering from MIT and absolutely understands "batteries" as well as any five-year-old child, but you see, he took a job in the Trump administration so he has to pretend he's just as stupid as the boss.

it bolsters talarico’s own persona and it allows him to say things like “weak men lie to you, they steal from you, they cheat you.” put that over a montage of paxton being a scumbag and baby you got a stew going

exactly the right response

Trump is an irredeemable asshole who appeals to assholes.

I appreciate the sentiment of wanting to do the White House correspondents dinner as a rebuke of the attempted shooter. But it doesn't make any sense to honor a president who consistently denigrates White House correspondents like this.

I love that there's incontroverible proof Talarico is straight in this picture and it isn't the girlfriend.

They're scared.

one might ask why a free speech org is scrutinizing the small dollar political donations of private citizens

An organization like FIRE is going to look at this and conclude the problem is with faculty, who are insufficiently heterodox, and not with the fact that one political party has made it their goal to dismantle my profession and everything I do. Why would we vote for those who openly hate us?

We're all mocking the sweaty "Talarico is transgender" stuff from the right but it's notable that the actual campaign seems laser-focused on "Paxton is one of the most corrupt politicians in world history" They're just not going to play this stupid game. Good.

Ouch.

a problem for republicans is that the entire party, from the white house to legislators to campaign managers to people who make ads and clip speeches etc, are chronically online, and chronically online on X in particular. it's even worse than the bubble Dems used to get criticized for

Lee Atwater was evil, but he understood this point perfectly. Mike Dukakis started the 1988 campaign with a 17-point-lead but Atwater leaned in on the weekend furlough of William Horton, bragging that his negative ad blitz was going to "make Willie Horton his running mate." It worked.

Right, with Trump they rationalized that God had used imperfect people to do his will in the Bible, and this was no different than, say, King David. With Paxton, they're trying to pretend the crooked criminal serial adulterer who just set a pedophile free is Actually The Real Christian™

Oh good. There are still a few metro stations without armed soldiers milling around doing nothing.

the position here is that being a liberal is itself a heresy and that the only real christianity is whatever happens to be aligned with the republican party

Fuck this demented bigot and fuck everyone who supports or apologizes for him

This is how it's done.

this is a good spot and also kudos to whoever is doing sound for the team, talarico's voice sounds great

Talarico's campaign should send a postcard to every Texas address that shows any headline about Paxton giving a plea deal of 60 days in prison to a serial child rapist. Just the facts, nothing else.

This is not even remotely true, but it’s a lie that a lot of Americans would like to believe, because it relieves them of the responsibility to make real choices about priorities.

at the risk of oversimplifying, i do not find it especially surprising that a full ten years into the era of donald trump dominating our politics, americans find ourselves angry, bitter, cynical and resentful no matter our material conditions.

congrats to jared polis for getting played like a chump

Political is when a black quarterback silently kneels Not political is when a white quarterback introduces the president’s speech at a campaign rally

54 year old man

McConnell is hugely responsible for us getting here. But you can see what kind of day the white house is having.

Recall: Dems hung tough on no funding for ICE & BP, Rs caved and passed rest of DHS and decided to do ICE and BP via reconciliation. Trump wanted ballroom then slush fund, couldn’t work it out, & here we are. Lesson for Dems: Hanging tough put pressure on Rs, -> Rs in disarray.

you love to see it

"Bc the agreement is cast as settlement of debt owed to Trump, it should be treated as $1.8b of income, which triggers tax liability. At his rate, it could run into the hundreds of millions, and the IRS lookback period is 6 years. The next IRS director has the chance to do *the funniest thing* ... "

She wasn't even targeted by the federal government! Come on, man.

He could do one thing today and another thing tomorrow without being defined by such activities. Thus far, only AI has lived up to this dream, as it's employed to make art and bomb countries without ever being an artist or a pilot.

Marx dreamed of a world where you wouldn't be pigeonholed by your job. As he put it, a man could hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, and critique ideas at dinner without ever being a hunter, fisherman, or critic.

I have no opinions on Carvana as a business, but if they somehow manage to destroy car dealerships, they will have done more good for this country than most institutions could ever dream of.

I feel pity for the folks who believe in a weak, mewling, needy Christ who requires forceful state sponsorship by the likes of Donald Trump and JD Vance and Mike Johnson to achieve His goals. What a puny god.

John Oliver.

Set off a constitutional crisis? That already happened. The constitutional crisis was 2016-2024, and the Constitution lost. We’re in the post-constitutional crisis. Wake up and act like it.

All of this. All of this today, all of this tomorrow, all of this in 2028, and 2029, and all of this forever. The last gasp of the confederacy, indeed. God bless this man. God bless him. We need a hundred like him in Congress.

As I noted last Monday, Justice Alito is the only justice who regularly imposes deadlines on his administrative stays—which he only does when he doesn’t like the applicants, and which *always* causes this kind of unnecessary drama as we approach his (totally arbitrary) cut-offs:

Really tired of being told we all have to sacrifice in order to prop up this president’s ego, salvage his fuck-ups, and fund his corruption.

"Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why you have to redistrict. That's why you have to cheat." Watch this man.

I hope this video makes its way into the Smithsonian one day.

SCOTUS in 2022: Five months before Election Day is too late for Louisiana to redraw its GOP House map that harms Black voters. It must wait until 2024. SCOTUS in 2026: Louisiana may cancel its imminent primary—where >40,000 already voted—to enact basically the same old map that harms Black voters