The detail about testifying under oath that a still-wrapped sandwich “exploded” is comical but also a very important insight into the fact that human cognitive processes work completely differently when we are in our fear state. They are literally experiencing a different reality than we perceive.

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.

Prediction: Now it will be easy to justify moving the executive branch to Mar a Lago this winter in order to facilitate faster construction of the WH ballroom

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

ah yes another beautiful morning, time to decide if I want to be informed and frozen in panic, or willfully ignorant with a numbing background dread

There is no difference between Trump destroying the East Wing and using a wrecking ball on the Washington Monument or Smithsonian. Just because he (temporarily) lives there doesn't give him the right to demolish the White House without Congressional approval.

Read this whole Burgertown story and they didn’t mention that the term “cheesehead” is likely derived from the fact that our water is so hard you can’t rinse off the soap/shampoo, so you are always coated in a film of bacteria and oils that gives off a cheesy smell. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Who wore it better

Conservatives used to boast about how Ronald Reagan so revered the White House that he wouldn’t take off his jacket in the Oval Office.

I'm old enough to remember when David Broder said of Bill Clinton, "He came in here and he trashed the place, and it's not his place." Every day, in ways both literal and figurative, we now can see what trashing the place truly means. wapo.st/4hqBNiU

It’s such a tell that you identify with the villains of history when you call him by the epithet used by his executioners. Bonus points for making the amygdala face and being mad as hell when you misappropriate the legacy of the calmest man who ever lived.

Speaker of the House holding a formal presser to announce that Jesus is the king of everyone in the USA should be getting more attention

Even in my incredibly cynical brain full of previously disappointed expectations, I still think poop plane is a bridge too far—even for him. Like, it causes a visceral revulsion of some ancient reflexes. Plus, it pretty clearly represents his desire or those around him to actually bomb US citizens

"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world. For imposing taxes on us without our consent.

Can’t have any sworn testimony if a pesky, narrowly divided congress that is deficient in loyalists doesn’t come back in session until after the despot chooses his own congress during the midterms while selectively propping up favored parts of a collapsing nation with money from his tariff fund

Admiral Holsey has set the standard for all other flag officers given illegal orders. Also, the diversity present in our military is its strength, which is why weak cowards want to tear it down

Always thought he would use tariff revenue at his personal discretion and now it’s happening. Stripped of one of its primary functions, congress may be out of session indefinitely even though they control both chambers

I'll be writing about today's Supreme Court arguments in Callais v. Louisiana—which the GOP justices have likely teed up to nuke what's left of the Voting Rights Act—but for now, read up on the practical consequences of this case: a net 19 extra House seats for Republicans. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I’ve come to the conclusion that the first Governor or perhaps even Mayor to get arrested defending even something as mild as pre-2016 norms will be the next President and if none of them can answer the call then we have had our last election

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here. Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Good mayor

Bad mayor

I thought a tough talking billionaire governor was going to keep this from happening?

All eyes on Pritzker. The narrative has been good, but it’s time to deliver something—anything—that can be a model for other Governors

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

Hagueseth

this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life

Trump's cult of followers are attacking & making vulnerable another woman of color simply for doing her job. It is dangerous & despicable. The normalization of these threats cannot stand. We must speak out against them every single time & demand accountability every single time. @jayapal.house.gov

At boot camp I was very explicitly told in a classroom setting—more than once, in fact—that it was my duty to refuse to obey unlawful orders. So, I know our officers firing missiles at noncombatants know they can’t fall back on the Nuremberg defense.

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” -Declaration of Independence

Antiquity is fascinating news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Spending twice as much on administrative costs as on providing care IS modern health care, but, yeah, this is adding insult to injury

Duterte was arrested in March by Philippine authorities on a warrant issued by the ICC. He is now being held at an ICC facility in the Netherlands.

There are so many untrue things that the terrible people are going to cling to as articles of faith long after their demagogue is gone, but now I have to face the plainly idiotic “Tylenol gives you the woke mind virus” for the rest of my life while living in the charred remains of my country?

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

the biden administration suspecting and proving that homan would take a bribe and then being unprepared to take the next step and just letting him walk away with $50k for doing nothing is so on the nose it just doesnt feel real

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

So much weird, AI-enhanced beatification of Kirk floating around. We’re living in a rejected Black Mirror script.

I’m sorry that we all now live in the house where I grew up