There are many, many reasons David French and the Never Trump GOP are not serious people. This is one of those reasons.

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Still can’t believe Colin Robinson is head of the council of economic advisors.

Real insane part of this clip is Hassett saying in the beginning that NY Fed researchers “should be disciplined” for…writing an economics paper that comes to a conclusion the president dislikes? A conclusion that matches the vast majority of economic evidence on tariffs? Nuts

seeing this shit while donald trump is president is enough to melt my brain

Again, Kevin Hassett got famous for co-authoring Dow 36,000 (1999), which is considered “the most spectacularly wrong investing book ever.” This is where Trump economic policy is coming from. fortune.com/2021/11/01/d...

Where are the “religious freedom” right-wingers? Nowhere, because their view is always that religion is a cudgel in the service of white supremacy.

There are plenty of areas of policy that are complicated and require expertise and nuance. And then there are some that aren’t, but require the right, simple solutions to be presented and fiercely advocated. The failure of Dem leadership re: the latter is unforgivable.

And have they created jobs, Kev? Is the US adding a bunch of those construction and manufacturing jobs? No. In fact, the President is currently disrupting a massive, necessary shovel ready project in New York and New Jersey that would employ thousands of people.

A very detailed explanation of how FBI bamboozled a magistrate into authorizing a raid on Fulton County’s election offices by omitting critical information that would have totally undermined any probable cause claim. Pretty clear-cut case of calculated deception of the courts.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Look… don’t share medical data with LLMs. But also, no one needs a first, second, or fifth opinion from MechaHitler.

Ok, it is wild that the craziest story about AI misuse/abuse also included a (more conventional) story about AI misuse. (I get being pissed at Edwards, but I think this is a pretty good showing of taking responsibility here. I suspect the investigation he faces is worse punishment.)

But it imposes serious costs. As we at @brennancenter.org explain in a comment submitted last week w/ @knightcolumbia.org & @epic.org, this broadscale collection will chill free speech and association, silencing would-be travelers’ speech and restricting Americans’ ability to receive that info. 4/

If Sally makes $100K a year and the tariffs cost her $2k and Tom makes $40k a year but the tariffs cost him $1k, then that’s *still* regressive, even if Sally is paying more. Greer and Kernan both know this; they’re just lying on television.

I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.

I will always recommend listening to Strict Scrutiny on anything. As a thought here: “Relearn” is the ministry that Dale Partridge runs. He’s literally qting himself.

Not only did Trump fail to learn any lessons from covid, but his public health policies have somehow gotten far more dangerous and destructive in Trump 2.0. God forbid he and RFK Jr have to handle a global pandemic. We'll be pining for the days of Dr. Birx.

Statistically, if there’s an instance of voter fraud in 2026, it’s far more likely to be perpetrated by a Trump supporter than a non-citizen.

Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!) This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

Rubio’s willingness to just completely and openly flip positions to appease Trump should be more remarkable, but it just makes him like the vast majority of Republicans.

The fact that the GOP position is basically just “we can’t do the 4th amendment” is not surprising, but it is appalling and shows how open their authoritarianism has become.

I call this: The John Wayne Gacy theory of authoritarianism.

One of the lessons that sticks out to me is when I hear Dems looking back and saying “no one understood that [x,y,z] back then” and there’s pretty much always a clip of Rev Jesse Jackson saying it. May his memory be a blessing, and may we all find in him a model of advocating justice.

“My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. They are restless and seek relief.” — Jessie Jackson www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

When I was 17/18 and Prop 8 was on the ballot in CA, one of the major points of discussion (especially in Oakland) was about Black churches support for Prop 8. A good friend of mine, Rev Byron Williams, told me about this story, and he preached about it.

Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too

Fetterman literally doing spin for the GOP. We could’ve had Lamb.

Fascinating chart with one outlier: Warren Buffett. At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to: Net worth -> Lifetime Giving 50K->$30 100K->$60 500K->$300 $1M->$600 Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*. www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...

Watching the ANTM docu-mini-series and these things are always so much worse than you think. But was looking into producer Ken Mok (who's responsible for a lot of the scandals/horrors on the show) also produced... Making the Band. Yeah, that checks out.

There’s going to be Covid style shortages of cars, TVs and even washing machines and fridges, then job losses because assembly lines can’t source solid state memory, just so the stupidest person you know can state with 100% confidence a chatbot confirmed dinosaurs coexisted with humans.

I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.

For Americans who don't know the context, Matt Lucas and long time collaborator David Walliams were doing blackface on British television in 2003, then decided to take a second crack at it in 2010.

Agree with this. It's just open racist garbage. It also won't work, because European nationalists are extremely attached to the distinctions between countries, and people who claim Magellan (Portuguese) aren't claiming Beethoven (German) or Michelangelo (Italian). This ain't European nationalism.

There's a lot going on here, but I deal with a fair number of people at the War Colleges (students, alumni, and faculty) in my work and this kind of take is much more likely to show up with politicians and State Dept officials than at the War College.

If you can’t answer this with a straightforward “yes,” then I don’t think we can trust any of the things you say. This question is a basic “is the sky blue?” test. Disappointing to see Moore fail it.

Karen Attiah’s work on preserving/expanding access to all of this cool academic work is one of the few bright spots in a depressing time for higher education.

There are mixed signals around AOC's candidacy, but that's actually really good, because usually for a candidate as young as she is, there are just no signals and it's all about building a profile (at which point, they run to build profile; e.g., Buttigieg 2020). She should run; she could win.

One of the themes that I've come back to a lot in discussing the intersection of MAGA and white evangelicalism is exactly this point. (It's one I think @swordsjew.bsky.social crystalizes really well in Wild Faith.) For these movements, "fatherhood" is ownership without an obligation of care.

What's wild about this is that McConnell has been *by far* the most effective politician in the United States at aiding Trump. The man is the reason we have a Trump-aligned SCOTUS. But because he's recently decided to softly criticize some Trump policies, Trumpworld is going after him.

Recommend this 🧵 There have been incidents of abuse and harassment in academia for a long time, but the Epstein files show a level of rot that's much, much worse and hits many major figures across a huge range of fields.

"Was Nietzsche right about the Jews?" No. Next question.

Looking through Tom Massie's history, it looks like his closest ever election was his first GOP primary, back in 2012, which he won by 16. I just can't make sense of the electoral psychology of someone who has never had a race within 15 points. Personally, I'd feel like Superman.

"Platner didn’t duck the accusations; he apologized and addressed them head-on..." No, he didn't. He went on television and deflected by blaming it on oppo and "well, I'm a different person now." Here's an interview characterizing him as "apologizing," but he doesn't. youtu.be/nXSqLdCTtD8?...

One of the reasons people don't like HRC is that she's a craven political actor. There's some misogyny in the fact that she's attacked for it more than (say) her husband, who is also, but she does this "we were serious about crime" and "we supported family values" so bluntly. It's gross.

This is called a community college and if we funded them properly we wouldn't need private individuals to offer these kinds of services.

The head of Southcom resigned because of these strikes. Senior military officials know that these are crimes against humanity, and have been told by figures like Adm Holsey, and they're continuing. Prosecute all them. Rejoin the ICJ.

Southcom strikes which illegally kill people on boats in the Carribean that three months ago elicited shocked headlines in US news media are now being reported in low priority spaces buried deep in news outlet websites. Normalisation of what are in effect US military death squads.

Again, there's a reason that she's doing this on Fox and not MTP or ABC This Week. The follow-up of just asking, "reports say you are concerned about detention of children. How do you square that with the spin you just puked up?"

American political figures and media thinking this counts as a "conciliatory note" and improvement of relations with the Europeans really, really don't understand the mainstream European views of the US. The isolation from the EU is going to get worse as Trump et al push nationalist politics.