“As the founders intended, we cannot force the president to comply with the law or constitution right now, he has touched an Invincibility Star and we must wait until he stops flashing rainbow colors and the music stops playing”

The Supreme Court made up the "major questions doctrine," under which the Court gets extra powers when things are a Big Deal and what's a Big Deal is up to the Justices. Why not make up a new "signature policies" rule where a president can put things beyond the court's reach, like a franchise tag.

i think vance is only interesting inasmuch as he extremely unprincipled and thus a good guide to where the GOP is going (gift link)

this is excellent and utterly outrageous and further confirmation we are living through a period of extreme decadence and corruption by a relatively small clique that i think it’s fair to describe as leading members of the ruling class

She’s lying, of course, but it is noteworthy that the feels like she has to lie and say these things. She’s a weathervane and this is a sign of the way the wind is blowing.

Look what @dandrezner.bsky.social started over at the hellsite?

The Trump Administration “denied causing… harm, even as it has made the scale of the damage harder to measure—halting data monitoring & dismissing inspectors general who might have documented it.”— @agawande.bsky.social “This is common in cases of public man-made death.” Authoritarian blindness.

I don't think the president should accept gold bars from foreign governments

would love to see the sourcing on this

Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do

I don’t think US taxpayers should subsidize treason against the United States

Just in the past 3 days, I happened to speak to an academic, a US politician and a former Biden official who had all received death threats and severe harassment from the MAGA movement. It's now a common experience. I am sorry MTG has to live through the same thing, but she can't be surprised

“straight up giving the president a bar of gold” is where we’re at now on the “corruption isn’t real” scale good work, John Roberts

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

Conan O’Brien get Pope Leo and Werner Herzog on your podcast together challenge

As annoying as I was back on Twitter the thing that got me blocked by the most DC journalists was the time I went on a rant about how going to Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ holiday pie party was inappropriate.

As usual Trump himself flails disastrously through a scandal, if the pattern of previous scandals holds it will be the political media and friendly judges on the courts who clean it up for him

A local bakery just posted this photo on Facebook. I’ve gotten stuff from her before. Nice older lady. I do not know if she made it but…it’s perfect. Perfect.

Jamelle was cooking. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

It’s interesting watching Buttigieg go full stubble-and-denim to court the 8-9 moderate Republicans who would absolutely switch parties and vote for a gay man if only that man were slightly more traditionally masculine and also disliked trans people.

“Who is Bubba” would be a great season 3 of American Vandal

yes, and: there is an entire generation of voters out there that don't know what politics is like without Donald Trump

Looking forward to hearing more of Mitch’s Clinton impression on @doughboys.bsky.social

Bill Clinton seems like the kind of guy who reacts to all his sex scandals with “still got it”

Lies. This is the pig from angry birds

Pretty skeptical of the idea that the “bubba“ email is anything more than a joke, but regardless if someone projected “Mr President, have you ever sucked a dick?” on the side of a DC building it would probably get to him

if Trump can’t keep Greene of all people onsides, there is simply no chance a third term will be happening. The odds were already low but I’d say right now they’re <0.05%

Oh. The Deciding to Win report, the big report saying Democrats need to just be moderate, came from an organization funded by Michael Bloomberg, Rupert Murdoch’s son, and *Joe Manchin himself*, among others. Was this widely discussed? @davekarpf.bsky.social did you know? nymag.com/intelligence...

This is unbelievable. I got suspended by bluesky just for quoting the lyrics of the Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and changing “hold your hand” to “stab you with a big knife”

Stephen King: “I wrote Pet Sematary as a cautionary tale of what happens when a grief and despair overpower the order of a natural world” Tech Bros: “At long last, we have recreated the pet sematary from the novel Pet Sematary”

Jack Black issuing a statement saying that Patton Oswalt and Sarah Kendzior are no longer a part of Tenacious D

The @zeteo.com searchable dataset of Epstein documents is the best I've seen— by far. You can filter by date range, person, organization, and location. Amazing public service. Check out @micahflee.com and @premthakker.bsky.social 's article (below) and explore the data via the link in the article

Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles’ https://theonion.com/trump-denies-writing-36-volume-comic-titled-don-and-jeff-time-pedophiles/

Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.

Dear NPR, You do not work for the president. You are not his public relations team. You do not need to try to boost his public image with “preparing to take on the concern,” especially not when referring to problems he has caused or made worse. Your job is news. Or at least it’s supposed to be.

all I’m gonna say is that I am a life-long slightly edgy poster and I’ve never caught a suspension or a ban anywhere - because it is in fact quite easy to avoid crossing the “this joke could possibly be construed as a violent threat” line on social media

Mafia governance in action "the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."

Absolutely correct. So much of the discourse around restoring trust in the institutions is focused on decorum and civility theater. But why would anyone trust the institutions if, after the horror show that we are suffering through, they yet again fail to impose some measure of real accountability?

Absolutely bizarre that these people willingly chose to pass up the pleasures of being rich in Kokomo, Indiana

This calls for

Man, look: The regularity with which Trump defends his relationship with Epstein by noting that he never went to Epstein's island makes me think 1) that the island is where the really heinous shit went down and 2) that Trump knows that very, very well.

This is awesome, also kind of a tangent but it reminded me there is a Santa-themed love hotel in Osaka that my friends tried to stay at once www.unmissablejapan.com/sleeping/chr...

NEW: I wrote about the secret history of Santacon, which began its life as a weird little art prank attended by a bunch of my friends. Now, a new documentary explores its absurd, anarchic, hysterical early years: www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...

Those of us who are SA survivors are used to the mass shrug in response to even the most overt evidence of horrific behavior. Epstein's crimes and the complicity of many influential figures involved have been known for decades (’05 to be exact). It's never mustered much interest or consequence.

I highlighted this in the appeasers' statements on Sunday. It is something that comes across in Schumer's comments repeatedly. And it explains why Democrats don't do more to block Trump. bsky.app/profile/rikl...

This is how Senator Markey concludes his statement on the government reopening without extended healthcare subsidies. *This is the plan* and Markey is complicit. DC Democrats are willing to let things get worse now in the hopes that it leads to electoral victories in the future.

let me be the first to say we should not do a nazi jurassic park