consider just this one line (from HCR's daily summary/analysis): Hours after Good’s death, Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem appeared in Manhattan behind a podium emblazoned with the words: “ONE OF OURS, ALL OF YOURS.”

This -- will we let thinking matter - and will we trust people to exercise judgment in their roles ... www.linkedin.com/pulse/someth...

How we lean and where we stand We lean left because we’re better informed? Hogwash. We lean towards what you (some few, loudly and with well-funded megaphones and algorithms) speak of as left but it isn’t even left. If we leaned towards what one could reasonably construe as center we would be…

hell yeah

No Kings. No Kings. None. Zero. And so: No Kings, no Princes or Princelings No Duke, Count or Czar No Royals, Aristocracy or Caste No Hereditary Roles or Rule No Imperial Majesty, Empire or Emperor And no more ‘might makes right’

The “big, beautiful” bill ain’t beautiful—it’s bullshit. House Republicans just voted for the largest cut to SNAP & Medicaid in U.S. history—turning their backs on their own damn constituents: the working people they were sent here to represent. They don’t serve the people. They serve the rich.

This should anger every American. via HCR: “Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country,” Noem said.

An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

It’s hard to believe we’re talking about Kings, Kingship and the rights of a sovereign in the USA not as backdrop to how and why we have the rights we do but with reckless abandon as power consolidates and our rights are abrogated.

Thinking about that special breed that carry around pocket-sized copies of the Constitution ... maybe they should go talk to 'ol yeller, the veep and his dogepals, bring some extra copies.

"I don't know if I have to do what I said I'd do when I took that Oath a second time" I'm paraphrasing and explicating a bit ... but that's the substance of it.

The one word I strongly associate with Alcatraz is Escape.

via HCR: “It’s good to feel a victory like this. I stood in the White House and when confronted by the president of the United States, I told him I’d see him in court. Well, we did see him in court, and we won.” -- Governor Mills

Re the EO “Unleashing” EOs aren’t law. They may think they are law and they want us to think they are but they aren’t unless the Supremes let them be. Ofc they will abuse our rights until they are stopped so I don’t take it lightly either.

Found on threads: ‘It’s quite the thing seeing the “shall not be infringed” crowd try to argue that birthright citizenship doesn’t exist.’ www.threads.com/@andrewjwein....

FT: Russians linked to Ukraine war bought Maltese 'golden' passports Several Russians sanctioned over Russia's Ukraine war obtained Maltese passports via a golden visa program under EU court scrutiny, FT says. euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/27/f...

What kind of logic is "three of us signed it, we sent it by mistake, but it still stands"?

waiting for ol yeller to demand that the college of cardinals elect him

meidasnews.com/news/first-r... Almost the same shade. 😂

Reported that 75% deported to El Salvador had no criminal record: And the other 25% also must be accorded due process, not for their rights specifically but for the integrity of the system, that is, for all of us.

Fuck em up, CVH

None of these thugs are qualified to be in the positions they are in. In any sense - life experience, maturity, moral-development.

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

The Trump administration reportedly plans to axe the IRS’s Direct File program, which lets taxpayers file returns directly to the agency for free

This is it, folks. Far larger than Harvard itself, as large as Harvard is. Every nonprofit from the center leftward is on notice for potential destruction.

Supremes caution respect for powers of the exec - let’s caution the exec on not trampling the rights of the people

It’s almost like SignalGate came and went and isn’t an ongoing problem…

meanwhile, you can now select which cell and cellmates for a stay in El Salvador

Dumb AI response of the day — AI rejected a request to give me lines surrounding a quote from Hamlet. ‘Copyright.’ I explained that this was several hundred years old and in public domain… so it gave me what I wanted.

Idea: couldn’t we just take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?

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Contemplating DeCentralized/DeCoupled Social Media Dave Winer regularly draws our attention to issues of centralized social media platforms --   So: given BlueSky is (still ofc) a centralized platform … we have to illustrate an option that’s not multi-centered federation qua mastodon fediverse.…

In news, guy who has promised, and failed, to deliver robotaxis every year for the last decade somehow not living up to promises about job performance

NYC, and NYT -- do better. fair.org/home/nyt-cov...

Can we take a minute to consider how politically self-destructive it is for the national Democratic Party that Andrew Cuomo is the front runner in the NYC Mayor Democratic Primary? Can you imagine anyone who will undermine every anti-Trump message more effectively?

“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.

From an article: “.. in the last few days, we have had many conversations with macro fund managers. Their concern is that the White House is not acting rationally, but rather on ideology. And some fear that it may not even be ideology.. A few have quietly wondered if the President might be insane.”