If this is true -- a very big if -- it is surely how McConnell would have wanted to go: exploiting the timing of the death of major figures (Scalia, RBG) for cynical partisan gain.

And the same for authors and books

The Cook Political Report just shifted the Alaska Senate Race from Lean R to Tossup.

Amid the 250th, I'm excited to announce my new book: "America in 25 Revolutions: The 250-year quest of an imperfect country to be a more perfect union." Writing it reminded me that we have always been an imperfect country—but change is possible: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/a-project-...

The corruption is staggering Trump just hauled in over $2B! He's exploiting the presidency, incl. $635M from his meme coin He & his family are knee-deep in trading on his power R's in Congress are enabling this

It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.

two things. first, always an irony that alito recapitulates the exact same arguments made against his immigrant forbearers. second, if this is all the 14th amendment did it would not have repudiated dred scott

Is it not clear now that reforming the Supreme Court must be at the top of the agenda along with accountability?

Christ, Kavanaugh joined the judgement but dissented on the Constitutional question... meaning that the vote is only 5-4 that the 14th Amendment exists.

5-4 instead of 9-0. Just a completely illegitimate institution at this point.

An excellent piece by @vermontgmg.bsky.social regarding the whitewashing of the Nixon impeachment, while acknowledging he did do some good things. It’s important to learn the real history. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/jd-vance-a...

the president can negotiate with congress. the president can offer proposals and suggestions. but the only direct control the president has over lawmaking is his ability to veto! once something is signed into law, he is constitutionally obligated to "faithfully execute" it!

Stunning and distressing incoherence on the part of SCOTUS.

So henceforth and forever more, it will be completely accurate—and utterly inactionable under the common and constitutional law of defamation—to state the following fact: DONALD J. TRUMP IS AN ADJUDICATED RAPIST.

By far the best thing about the Great American State Fair is that DC statehood activists have infiltrated it (with official permission!) and are lobbying attendees to support their cause. I saw several MAGA tourists receiving the polite but vigorous spiel for DC statehood and it warmed my heart.

“Step right up and greet the Mets…”

Trump ripped up the walkway between the West Wing and the mansion to replace it with polished African granite carved in Italy. "Paid for by me," he claimed. Except that's not true. Taxpayers paid $689,232, per documents obtained by @michaelscherer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Prima facie 1st Amendment violation ⤵️

NEW: Hours after heated exchange with Trump, Sen Bill Cassidy (R-LA) joins Sen Cory Booker (D-NJ) in memo to Todd Blanche seeking answers about Trump’s sweetheart immunity deal with IRS

Beginning next week, Australians get free electricity for three hours every afternoon. That's what happens when you build out wind, sun, and batteries open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

It takes 1.28 seconds for a message to reach us from the Moon. It takes as little as 35 minutes from Jupiter. It takes as little as 4.5 hours from Pluto. It takes at least 6-12 months from NYT reporters, plus $35 for the book containing it.

Who cares. Restore Popehat.

We identified 17 of the 27 'grievances' in the Declaration of Independence with a contemporary analog. We then annotated those 17 grievances with quotes from federal judges across 52 court cases involving the Trump administration. The judges in their words (many referencing the Declaration itself)

WATCH LIVE: After undergoing a $14 million renovation, the Reflecting Pool is now algae-filled with chunks of paint coming apart. President Trump said the pool will “probably” be drained again for repairs and, without evidence, blamed vandals for this mess.

The next Dem POTUS and Congress must add four progressive justices to SCOTUS. It’s the only way interpretation of federal law can be restored to fairness and common sense for all Americans.

Today was an absolute blood bath at SCOTUS for the less powerful to enforce civil rights in the federal courts. TL;dr - SCOTUS rules 6-3 that only corporations have rights that are enforceable in federal court??

Hummmm

His waveform has collapsed to a definite particle state of ignorance.

People such as this are truly the worst of humanity.

Every time Trump threatens to attack Iran he is violating the terms of his surrender. Here's the very first graph of the MOU he signed:

A trail of destruction. Imagine their reaction if Obama had done even one of these things.

This.

😂😂😂

when republicans start their inevitable whining about people making a big deal over the paint peeling algae infested reflecting pool remind them who made it a big deal in the first place lol

What makes my heart heavy is that 13 servicemembers and a school full of girls died for no reason except to attempt to boost a sad old man’s ego

This is not part of the agreement. He is making this up. Iran agrees to give up NOTHING on their nuclear program in this deal.

Trump has spent the last 15 years, and will spend the rest of his life, trying to overcome the humiliation that Obama inflicted upon him at that White House Correspondents Dinner

Is he still in love with Kim Jong Un, too? His choice of partners has always been abominable.

Donald Trump inheriting a situation that was suboptimal but honestly fine, deciding to personally intervene, and making everything significantly worse at great taxpayer expense is a perfect synopsis of every single thing he has done as president both times.

Science, and evidence of their own eyes, is beyond MAGA deniers.

trump will NEVER beat President Obama. He is smarter. He is classier. He is better in every way. trump's deal will NOT measure up.

Incompetent negotiators.

Absolutely brutal indictment of Trump's epic failure here, made even worse by his inability to grasp how monumentally he failed.

The president waged an unnecessary war, cratered the economy and wound up losing it anyway, and to celebrate his failures, he's going to throw himself a big birthday party with UFC fighters and dirt bike ramps and fireworks and cake and ice cream and

I find myself explaining the same thing to people—as a Trump biographer—in *every* Trump scandal: *never* celebrate battle wins rather than war victories, and *never* accept his word. Don't celebrate over the Kennedy Center until the tarp is DOWN, or an Iran "deal" until SIGNED.

"Any person who cannot see that elections—which are constitutionally mandated and have never been forsaken, even at our darkest hour—are the beating heart of our democracy is not fit for the presidency." Period.

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

I'm sometimes critical of cable news TV but this is programming I can get behind www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm...