“Unchecked power always turns on the innocent.”

“Why should I care if criminals are killed?” I see this comment everywhere. Here’s why it matters: these boat strikes aren’t war, they’re law enforcement. When the government can execute people without trial, the rule of law collapses. Due process protects Americans and U.S. service members.

The little orange bars on the right are what Trump is calling “the greatest economy in history.”

Trump has funnelled $2 BILLION of taxpayer dollars away from critical priorities like upgrading military barracks and repairing schools for military kids to fund his mass deportation agenda. He’s actively hurting our military readiness and morale.

Murder. Plain and simple. No due process. No proof. No justifications even if there were proof. This needs stopped and all involved need arrested.

Moving to three boats at a time pretty nonchalantly.

This makes the murder count stand at 91.

No judge. No jury. Just the Secretary of War.

I used to be proud to be an American, despite our many flaws and checkered history. Now I only feel shame & horror at what we’ve become.

“The offer is the strongest and most explicit security pledge the Trump administration has put forward for Ukraine, but it comes with an implicit ultimatum: Take it now or the next iteration won’t be as generous.” Why do all their negotiations sound like the mob leaning on someone?

Calling the issue of territorial concessions "painful", Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told reporters later: "Frankly speaking, we still have different positions."

Not surprising that Tim Chapman seemingly had no concern when it was only blue states being threatened. The Heritage Foundation has been working to destroy democracy for decades. It’s primarily responsible for our corrupt SCOTUS

Russell Vought came from Heritage Action — the Heritage Foundation’s dark money division. Vought is now Trump's shadow president, director of OMB. After today’s vote in Indiana, serious fissures in Vought’s diabolical plans. www.propublica.org/article/russ...

The Heritage Foundation is cracking

And, you know, acknowledging Black people existing or contributing to American life in any way.

one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states

“The report found that shifting the funds had led to the pausing or canceling of programs, including the building of a pilot training facility, the repairing of schools for children of service members and the refurbishment of military barracks,” something Pete Hegseth has called a priority.

Nothing new here.

This is how the economy works now. You kiss the ass of the top guy, he throws you favors. There is no ideology here, it's just mafia rules, the oldest rules in the book.

Stephen Miller wants to oust Kristi Noem for not doing fascism fast enough.

Ours, in fact, as I recall.

To keep budget nerding out: the President cannot do this “aid package” unilaterally. The tarriffs are a receipt to the United States Treasury. They can only be spent as an appropriation, which can only be made by Congress. This is illegal and un-Constitutional, start to finish

The tariffs are the greatest abuse of power by a President in our history.

The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.

Tolerating these bad faith parlor games, devoid of an attachment to actual history or the plain meaning of words, as paths to elite success in legal academia & the federal judiciary was a grave mistake. We need to stop doing that & never do it again.

Very few provisions on the Constitution have a meaning as readily and definitively discernible from text and history as the Citizenship Clause. All credible evidence leads to the same place. If self-proclaimed originalists can’t get this one right, they discredit the entire project of originalism.

You can only remove universal birthright citizenship from the 14th Amendment by inserting words that are not present in the text, like “allegiance,” then defining them in an idiosyncratic way engineered to produce your preferred result. No one should credit this fundamentally fraudulent enterprise.

By the end of the ratification debates, everyone understood that the 14th Amendment would grant birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. The only live question was whether that was a *good* thing. Some senators argued it wasn’t. But they lost! applyliberally.substack.com/p/birthright...

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

The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.

They also renamed the Institute of Peace. This comes after DOGE gutted the agency, of course.

REP. HIMES: “The video was enormously disturbing… the example given in the DOD manual is of shipwrecked sailors. You do not kill them.”

It’s CRAZY how many no bills this DOJ is getting. Would be utterly humiliating and career ending in any other administration. But this is not a Department of Justice. It’s a Department of Politically Weaponized Law. Will need to be thoroughly cleaned when Trump is gone.

At every level of courts, it’s always too late to stop a Republican gerrymander & always too late to implement anti-gerrymander rulings that will benefit Democrats & democrats. It’s been this way in Wisconsin & nationwide for at least two decades now.

Taps the sign bsky.app/profile/will...

Shocking. Nobody.

“According to two Pentagon officials, Hegseth asked Adm. Alvin Holsey to step down, a de facto ouster that was the culmination of months of discord between Hegseth and the officer.”

Turns out the waste fraud and abuse was coming from inside the Trump family

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

Behaving like a 13-year old boy. Just what we don’t want in an FBI director.

Uh…anonymous sources are an essential pillar of journalism. Anonymity protects these people from powerful and/or dangerous people who would want to retaliate. People rarely request to be anonymous when talking about the good things others have done.

Reminder: anonymous sources are not made up. They're not liars. They're people who could get in serious trouble for talking to the press if they were named. The reporter ALWAYS knows who they are--it's not the same as an "anonymous tip." And reporters don't use them unless it's ABSOLUTELY necessary.

I’m old enough to remember that Fox et al & the entire MAGAt world was furious about all the Afghani interpreters/spies for the Western alliance who were left behind & the Biden administration was hurriedly attempting to get the collaborators out. Where were their cries for vetting then?#hypocrites

Fox is ruining brains, turning families against each other, and destroying the very idea of objective truth.

Trump — in a racist, sleepy rant — bitches & complains about people who bitch & complain.

Donald Trump is a gutter racist and we to start reporting on him as such.

Straight up Nazi shit

"But it isn’t just Trump. His second term has made clear that there was no shortage of people waiting to put his ugliest impulses into action not despite what they themselves believe, but because of it." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

While Cabinet members praise his energy and fitness, Trump sleeps. No satire in the history of film and television has ever been this on the mark.

This guy complaining about people being in "air-conditioned offices." Where were you, Pete, when you were watching your murder-strike livestream?