20+ years as a criminal lawyer and I finally spelled uncorroborated correctly on the first try :-)

You're supposed to go out into the world and discover that it is simple and the people on the internet who learned about it from repeating each other are, in fact, all correct

[All of This] ends if and only if a small handful of Republicans in Congress decide to end it. That is all it will take. But it will take that. There is no end run around it. Remember that when you are deciding who to yell at online today.

80s/90s TV was optimistic in a way that it didn’t even realize. So many stories ended with the big bad thing that [government or corporation] was doing being exposed. And that was it. That the exposure would be enough to stop them wasn’t even questioned.

💯 agree. Knock the nihilistic BS off. Get on board or get the f*ck outta the way.

One encouraging theme in last night's NC primaries is the simple fact that being pro-trans is now like being anti-ICE among Dem voters: to them, it means you're a fighter, it means you're not giving into Trump. That's a really, really good sign.

“His job was Mr. T. That’s the job.”

yeah the damage a single bad billionaire can do wildly outstrips any positive impact even a theoretically ideal billionaire can have more, I think that the kind of person you need to be to become a billionaire tends to select for the worst outcomes in all but the rarest of cases

Bessent is a dark horse for ending up winning “dumbest member of the Trump administration” when it is all said and done. I realize that the competition is fierce, but he’s putting the tape out there. Don’t count him out.

Press gave Biden far worse coverage for a small number of American soldiers dying while leaving a war than to Trump for a similar number dying while starting a war for no reason. It makes you think!

I might be late to the party in realizing this, but the VP & cabinet have basically already soft 25th Amendmented the President. We see him going to MAL parties constantly and think that is his choice. It is his advisors, pushing him away from the decision-making apparatus.

That can't happen until we win in the midterms. This congress isn't going to do it.

I think Trump should revise his statement. He should now indicate that he could shoot someone in broad daylight in the middle of fifth Avenue and 3/4 of Bluesky would still somehow find a way to blame it on the Democrats.

i think we need to make a social shift. instead of proving how cool you are by knifing someone on our team, what if you proved how cool you are by taking the fight to the enemy. crazy thought

This whole decade is all about conservatives getting basically everything they want and realizing that what they want sucks and everybody hates them

Frankly, I think rightwing concern trolls have determined that trans people are going to be the new Palestinians for the upcoming election ratfucking. A marginalized group to use as a wedge to foster voter apathy among left leaning folks & peel off the votes of the gullible to elect more fascists.

For the first time ever, Team USA finished a solo 2nd place in both gold medals and total medals at the Winter Olympics. It's the best we've ever done. And U.S. women carried Team USA on their backs: 67% of gold medals, 61% of total medals. Thanks, Title IX!

Try to vary the words when you copy paste your rightwing op script. I’m seeing the same comments verbatim all over the thread. It’s turning into a drinking game.

3 of the 9 justices on the Supreme Court disagree with this only in as much as they think he should also be allowed to impose the little fee.

Without regards to the merits of this particular decision (which I haven't read), I think that this trend of concurrences and dissents dwarfing the actual opinion is bad. The Court should speak with as few voices as possible, IMO. 1 opinion & 1 dissent should be the default.

Swiss women are good at curling. Just completely smothering us this morning.

There is such a *selfishness* to purity voters. Voting is about compromise. You take the time out of your day and vote for the best (or least worst) candidate--even if they aren't perfect. The fact that people would rather [gestures broadly] this than to compromise is pathologically selfish.

According to the WSJ, the question of whether inflation is caused by "the President" or "Companies" depends on whether Biden or Trump is the President. www.wsj.com/business/pri...

There will be bigger fish to fry, but when The Reckoning comes, I hope there is some space to hold to account conservatives who posted #NeverTrump for whom “never” meant until it became mildly inconvenient. They created a false impression of intellectual conservative resistance that was never there.

Roses are red. Violets are blue. My concurrences are often doubtful unlike my love for you. #AppellateValentines

Roses are red. I see my light is, too. If there are no further questions . . . #AppellateValentines

Trump has never had juice. The GOP pols, media members, CEOs, and university presidents who claim to be scared into supporting him have always agreed with him. The fear has been an excuse since 2016.

Bold of him to give his 2028 GOP Convention acceptance speech before he has formally locked up the nomination.

There's a lot of kids in Minnesota missing. No one knows where they are. Not DHS, not ICE, not the local police, no one. They just know some masked unidentified people claiming they're police took them. No one knows where they are. And now we know who ICE is employing.

Trump gaff renews concerns about Biden’s competence.

the thing that gets me about the antivoting leftists is that they don't just want to not vote. they want to not vote and have all the rest of us admit how cool and good it is. a participation trophy for laziness

I’m sure she will be very mature and professional about it, but if I were the first alternate for the US team that was prevented from having my Olympic moment, because Lindsey Vonn decided to try and ski on one knee, I’d probably lack the maturity and professionalism not to say *something*

Anyways, dear reader, this congress has been wildly unproductive, and that includes things like appointments. The democrats have literally been as obstructive as possible in the senate and forced Thune to change the votes multiple times -after- wasting tons of time.

They're literally being worse than McConnell basically ever was. People just have this strange shibboleth in their mind because he kept the Scalia seat open, but the GOP literally had a majority in the senate wtf were you expecting

Doomerism is just a combo of self-fulfilling defeatism, counterproductive demotivation, and a lazy insistence on refusing to accept any of the facts that contradict it. Aided, admittedly, by a media that would STILL somehow find a way to phrase a successful removal of Trump as “Dems in disarray.”

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Instablock of the day: person saying transgender folks won't die if not given gender-affirming care/hormones. If I have to explain why that's a daft statement to you, you're following the wrong guy.

That guy who once bought a pizza with 10,000 bitcoins now sitting with his fingers tented like, yes, my investment is coming around

It’s an S-tier office. Anyone with interest should apply.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

There is value in having executive branch actors that exercise interpretive and adjudicative powers while helping their agency execute the law. We should stop calling them judges. They can provide a valuable service. But the term "judge" implies a neutrality and detachment that they do not have.

History should remember Brett Kavanaugh for only two things. This is one of them.

same with “virtue signaling” signaling virtue is good, actually. the depraved signaling that is popular now is bad!

“Why aren’t Dems trying to defund ICE”

THEY DID IT. EVERY SENATE DEMOCRAT just voted on an amendment to DEFUND ICE (rescind the BBB slush fund that keeps ICE open during a shutdown.) This amendment failed, but it shows broad support! KEEP CALLING and make it a demand to vote for the DHS funding bill!!

On the one hand, I’m a career public defender who believes that our criminal justice system over punishes people as a matter of course. On the other hand, I think there should be mandatory life sentences for people who post about court decisions without linking to them. I contain multitudes

Now, at a time when a Republican president & a Republican congress are tearing apart the very foundations of this country, it is more important than ever to attack the people truly responsible for this: The Democrats.

Timeline cleanse - CC (Cool Cat) and Zinnia would like us to remember to hold each other close, especially during hard times. ❤️

Has anyone called the Republicans? They are being stubborn. Now is a good time to call them.