So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

I wonder if the 60 Minutes CECOT story will be available there?

Go birds

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

So did Iowa just decide that after “Field of Dreams” they never had to do anything good ever again? Because I’m really noticing a pattern! @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." -- Mark Twain

"Republicans were ready. Democrats weren't." is an apt description of most of the major social & political developments of my lifetime.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Omg, this is beyond psychotic. The level of dehumanizing hatred you must feel towards someone to do this to children is jaw-dropping. This is the sort of stuff that requires truth and reconciliation tribunals—there’s no crime here, but it demands public accountability.

I also think algorithms have collapsed genres. People talk about scripted shows and movies like they’re real people; they talk about reality shows like they’re scripted. The net result is the whole conversation feels dumber and angrier.

The head of our public health system, ladies and gentlemen.

He really is the weakest senator there is. Two people have been murdered, there’s been no accountability, and he believes the Senate is powerless. He believes Trump gets what Trump wants.

Note: I should have added "at worst" to the line about the fishermen. We don't know how many were actually even doing that. Also, as with the brazen, wildly exaggerated lying, the hypocrisy is itself a projection of power. They want you to see that there's no pretense of justice or fairness.

Baltimore's crime rate has dropped dramatically under Moore. The homicide rate last year was a 50-year low.

So they can sue for $10 billion now, right?

This seems like a reasonable idea to me!

Dark woke

The reality is that most of you do not need to have your doorbell be a 24 hour surveillance camera. It is lunacy to pretend the mass adoption of an Amazon owned home monitoring system is necessary.

Look, Matt Gaetz should never have even been considered for attorney general, but you have to admit it would be hilarious to have him running point on the Epstein Files Cover-Up.

Incredible.

i love when trump knows he’s toast “watch, it will get great reviews” lol big “please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad” energy

I like when the President of the United States felt he had more important things to do than troll halftime shows. Honestly, like it, don’t like it, the remote is right in front of you.

There's a ChatGPT ad about a family farm where the owner says her family has been doing this for a hundred years and she doesn't want to be the one to screw it up and that's why she's getting advice from ChatGPT and, my God, can you people hear yourselves?

"Epstein class" is terrific not simply because several of them are directly tied to Epstein's crimes, but because it strikes at the corruption, immorality and impunity of that entire circle.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

Sure would be a shame if people took up the same chant during the Super Bowl since it’s the largest event on TV and all that.

Guys they are really, really not winning It sucks what they’re doing to our country, and my city especially God only knows how much damage they’ll do before they’re stopped, much of it irreversible But they are very much not winning

As expected, #SCOTUS denies the emergency application to block California’s congressional redistricting—with no public dissents. Among other things, this is also a good addition to the “be cynical but not nihilistic about the Court” file.

If DOJ is sending these teams to help charge cases, but only for "one or two weeks" at a time, then who is going to prosecute the cases after they leave?

A year from now during oral arguments, when the solicitor general is some schmuck who sent in three cereal box tops for a JD from the University of Southeast Montenegro because everyone else has resigned for ethical reasons, the SCOTUS majority begins to wonder if something is amiss.

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

A reminder that Bad Bunny performs in front of the biggest audience on earth in seven days

So two Hispanic border patrol agents killed a white guy in the streets of Minnesota…God Bless America.

32 point swing in a Texas election with the winner being outraised 2.3 million to 350k. That is difficult to encapsulate. There are people in the republican infrastructure *freaking* out right this second.

JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

On one hand I’m glad to see people figure it out, albeit embarrassingly late, but on the other I can’t help but be a little snide and point out she only has a problem with the leopards because it’s her face they might eat now, not because the leopards are eating faces generally.

Attention all Second Amendment enthusiasts. There’s a movement you might wanna join.

"I think our people hate the right people." - J.D. Vance Look no further for an explanation of the shootings.

it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”

There are people with principled takes on the 2nd Amendment, like the 1st. But if you ever believed that the American Right broadly supported 2nd Amendment rights, as opposed to rights for people who agreed with them, you are a fool.

Chuck Schumer's starting position should be as maximalist as possible -- complete abolition of ICE, resignations of Bovino, Homan, Noem and Miller, unmasking of all agents, and prosecution by state authorities of the murderers. Don't start with what looks like a compromise half-measure.

The guy genuinely gave a shit. And the empathy vampires murdered him for it.

You can chafe at people calling them the "secret police" or you can insist they stayed masked and anonymous while they take facial-rec photos of citizens. Can't do both

Radley Balko checks out some historical materials on King George's efforts to reduce Boston to submission in the late 1760s, and compares them with Donald Trump's present effort to reduce Minneapolis to submission.

Border Patrol is pulling out of Minneapolis. Bovino is ending his punitive tour of blue cities. Calls for Noem's resignation are mounting, even in conservative media. Senate Democrats are dug in now on refusing to fund DHS and ICE. "Abolish ICE" is now a mainstream position. They are losing.