Why do these articles never ask the basic question of "does the president have the power to do that?" because the answer is obviously and clearly no.

“Revanchism for oil” is certainly a twist. What a gd nightmare.

I cannot even begin to get into how braindead and ahistorical this is, but the crux of the argument relies on Stephen Miller being upset that Venezuela, which discovered and nurtured its own oil industry including throughout WW2, bought Citgo and then nationalized it. bsky.app/profile/expl...

I know that I'm preaching to the choir, but just to emphasize: this is a wildly illegal military intervention. The 2001 AUMF certainly encompassed the Afghan war, and if you squint your eyes and tilt your head, maybe the Iraq war. There is no world where the 2001 AUMF encompasses V-E-N-E-Z-U-E-L-A

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

I don’t know how long it will take, I hope it’s not long, but we will look back on all this as a period of raw, discriminatory malice and cruelty that shocks every conscience.

I was riding my singlespeed commuter in to work this morning and I’m thinking, hmm, I guess there is one more rim brake bike I need to sell.

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

Just to somewhat explain the fax machine thing: during the mid-late 90’s there was a time when you could use the dial-up connection on a PC with an attached printer to receive faxes - or send electronic documents as faxes. Without it being a literal fax machine.

Uh, it’s “mix tape,” not “mixed tape.” Anyway it’s 18 or 19 depending on definition of using a fax machine; I never had an aol address but obviously lived through peak AOL.

Me, age 20, when there’s ice on the bike path: 😆 Me, age 40, when there’s ice on the bike path: 😱

I’m not even going to publish a copy of Trumps comments about Reiner and his wife. But occasionally he reminds me that he is simply one of the worst, most degenerate individuals who has ever existed in American public life. Hard to think of any more vicious, vile and sociopathic.

The news right now is like, “Oh ho, you think it can’t get worse?” on infinite repeat.

The Trump comments about Rob Reiner are extra batshit because a few months ago people were getting fired and civil war was being threatened because some people dared to accurately describe Charlie Kirk's beliefs

this disgraces the office. we do not and should not want a president who behaves this way.

I am totally serious about this: file articles of impeachment over this specifically

This guy disarming the terrorist at Bondi Beach, Australia, can only be described as hero.

Class solidarity doesn’t demand not firing someone who shouts racial abuse at customers! Have some goddamn standards!

absolutely massive, historic W for the republic's defenders

I am not pro-market or anti-market. Specific markets produce outcomes that I think are normatively good. Others produce outcomes that I think are normatively bad. Exact same thing with regulations.

Yeah this has def been an evolution for me as well “markets” and “regulations” are just dumb things to have strongly held views about in the platonic abstract! They’re both social tools, the actual normatively substantive question is the outcomes they produce.

AI is involved in this to some degree, but the actually existing American “tech”” barons are violently opposed to climate policy and doing all in their considerable power to stop it. objectively anti-progress

the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry

Keeping myself young by taking the stairs at subway stations 2 at a time.

I really, REALLY fucking hate the personalist character of this regime. It’s so grotesque and anti-American.

AI companies are just out in public saying “we’re going to kill your job and future and laugh about it,” and then have the gall to be upset that the public isn’t head-over-heels in love with their technology?

I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*

Christ

Finally wore a pair of bib tights today after 20 years of cycling and I regret to say, they are better. Sigh.

It’s giving

How cursed is it that the Brits make math plural and sports singular. What are they doing over there??

Strava reminding me for the Nth year in a row that they call their annual wrap-up your “Year in Sport,” a usage designed specifically to send me up the wall when it comes from an American company.

“Supreme Court reform is now the sine qua non of any reformist program in the United States, any program to re-implant/re-secure civic democracy in the United States” -- @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...

The conservative justices have their talking point -- what if Congress turned every department into a multimember commission -- and it is totally absurd considering that has never happened under the existing law.

On the one hand, I’m like “surely they won’t find that the constitution requires the dismantlement of all executive agencies,” because that would cause catastrophe of unimaginable proportions. But also, what happens if that’s the ruling?? What next???

It’s pretty crazy that the conservative majority a) want to blow up the modern administrative state in the first place, but even more so, b) think this will go… fine? For them?

It is really, really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should've been done.

the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism

During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind

THESE PEOPLE ARE FILTH

While the outcome should be clear from the plain text of the Constitution, the central project of this court and Administration, together, is to nullify the reconstruction amendments

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

Not only excellent reporting, this is the clearest and most plainly stated article I've seen in the mainstream media so far, mincing no words and pointing out every single one of the Trump admin's canards and misdirections. As one of the quoted experts says, it's murder, full stop.

these gross fucks. just scum.

The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

ah but you see sam, if the kids get liver cancer that just means they were meant to get it and Nature is doing its job

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream