The New York Times, ladies and gentlemen

BREAKING: I punch you in the face in a test of our agreement not to punch each other in the face.

Somebody please ask Mike Johnson about Donny's king shit plane video. Preferably 100 times to his face while playing it on a loop.

At this point, if you're interviewing a Republican about the president's latest transgression and you *don't* have the video or post or whatever cued up and ready to show them when they pretend they haven't seen it yet -- I'm just going to assume you're in on the con yourself.

Something I've learned to my regret is that even otherwise sane movement conservatives believe that conservatives have an absolute right to rule. They may not know this about themselves, but it is the revealed preference.

Hope folks feel less alone today, that people join with others to take further and deeper actions, and that everyone fights like hell to protect those most vulnerable to this regime.

Nothing that any elected Democrat has ever said about Republican voters is ever as crass or as cruel as what Trump says about Democratic constituencies every single day, and the media just treats it as background noise.

The Trump administration is offering $60K in student loan forgiveness as a recruitment tool for ICE, which just proves fighting Biden on student loan relief was never about the loans or “paying your own debt.” It was about who was offering it and who it would’ve helped.

Same energy

You're not gonna believe this but @cbsnews.com appears to not have a story about some of the largest mass protests in American history anywhere on its main page.

They're probably prioritizing holiday hosting tips from Bari Weiss's sister.

Stephen Miller thinks this 93-year-old veteran is a terrorist.

People are doing it.

1. Conservatives push manufactured budget crises to shut down the government. 2. Shutdowns make it harder for the government to regulate and tax billionaires. 3. Billionaires pocket the savings and donate to conservatives. It's a toxic cycle. We need to end it.

Today In 1977: The New York #Yankees win the #WorldSeries vs. the Los Angeles #Dodgers at Yankee Stadium! Bedlam breaks out as fans storm the field! (Howard Cosell, Keith Jackson & Tom Seaver in the broadcast booth!) #MLB #Baseball #History #RepBX #Postseason

This is potentially a massive story. Did DOJ plan for survivors? Do they have sufficient evidence to prosecute? What is US jurisdiction to prosecute? Where will they go next? When is their court date? Will they be indicted? Held at Gitmo? Returned to Venezuela? Be Epsteined?

Again, this is a liquidation of the union in all but letter of the law. This is reverse secessionism engineered by a central government.

Important: Sen Chris Murphy just sent pointed questions to Kristi Noem about DHS's account of shooting of US citizen by Trump's paramilitary forces in Chicago. The official line is imploding. Murphy wants Noem to explain why DHS misled. More like this, Ds. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Is there something I can install to make @whstancil.bsky.social and @angus.bsky.social stop fighting?

This administration is in court every day claiming the right to imprison and deport you for speech they don't like

Police escalated the situation here in Broadview incredibly quickly. Saw multiple brutal arrests. ISP jabbing protesters with their batons like battering rams. Here ISP lifts @katmabu.bsky.social by her feet to flip her over a concrete barrier.

oh man they did it for real

These dudes believe the law will never apply to them in any context.

literally no need for this the protesters were just standing there, not causing any problems. then here come the police, causing problems. I need @govpritzker.illinois.gov to tell these goons to go home. And if he can't or won't do so, I need to know that, too.

Four decades! A lot of Trump's plans date to the 1980s. Until very recently, he had the same team of 1980s advisors (Manafort, Stone, etc). Trump is very easy to figure out because he tells you what he's going to do and some ding-dong says "Hey, that's illegal" and then Trump does it and they gasp

Jeffries: "What's hateful is what happened on January 6. That was a Hate America Rally sponsored by Donald Trump and his sycophants who incited a violent mob to storm the Capitol. That is what hate looks like. What you will see this weekend is what patriotism looks like."

So, I have to say — as members of Congress go, Adam Smith is about as run of the mill as there is (used to be). He’s sensible, compromises, believes in bipartisan work, believes evidence, thoroughly studies material for his committee work. Seeing quotes like this from him is… deeply unnerving. /1

These are the only sentences which should be said over and over again to the SCt “The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were expressly crafted to grant Black people equal rights as citizens in a democratic society. The Court is preparing to use those very Amendments to deny those rights instead.”

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

This is good reporting on the disaster in Alaska if you're looking for a reliable summary. This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...

Remember, no matter how unpopular you think they are now, this is the most popular they will ever be between today and any date you pick in the future

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

I’m old enough to remember when it was a scandal to say that a portion of your opponents were “deplorable.” This seems a lot worse?

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

On brand for this OR GOP activist to post a picture of herself with someone she met at a Trump event who told her he was Ace Frehley but almost certainly was not.

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

The central founding principle of our country is that government gains legitimacy through the consent of the governed. Any government that emerges from deliberate white-supremacist rigging no longer has the consent of the governed and is not legitimate.

I think about this a lot.

Hey baby, do you "like the vehicle"? /wink wink //nudge nudge

the brunchlords were so so immeasurably butthurt by a tiny fractional percentage shift in power toward labor during covid they decided the only sensible course of action was to wage scorched earth warfare against the the entirety of progress

“This stuff doesn't just permeate the culture of conservatism at this moment. It is the culture, by and large. These are ‘JD Vance Republicans,’” says Chris Hayes on the leaked GOP text messages praising Hitler—and the vice president downplaying it.

Don't let me catch you in Kendale with a bucket of wealthy man's paint.

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill. Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.