These assholes will be clerks for Neil Gorsuch in a few years, most likely.

Wife [looking at a skin I just bought]: Well, she has great boots. Me: She sure does! Wife: I like the flames. Me: … there are no flames. Wife: Right there, on her boots. Me: Oh! BOOTS. Wife: Yes. Boots! Me: I… never noticed her boots. Wife: What did you think I said? Me: … Wife: You fucking suck.

*Plenty* of ways to dunk on Ben Shapiro without delving into an antisemtic screed and this monster person does the entire Hating Ben Shapiro movement a disservice with this bullshit. I will be making a motion to reject Ms. Owens' application to the Hating Ben Shapiro club at the next meeting.

Okay, that was the first Dr Pepper college football commercial that made me laugh. Pelting the mascot with snowballs after we were supposed to feel sorry for him for not making the playoffs. Well played.

I wrote about how the Trump administration won’t let Black people use MATH to prove racism exists. Apparently, only white self-reporting their own racism now counts as evidence of racism.

[clears throat] [deep breath]: BYE FELICIA

I find Sherman fascinating because he's a war criminal by any modern definition and you can pretty much drawn a line from Sherman-Total-War to Nukes. BUT... he did it to Confederates and literally freed one of my direct ancestors so... I'm cool with it. 10/10 would march to the sea again.

13yo [busting through the door after his last half-day of school of the year]: "We're free! We're free! We're free!" Motherfucker came home like Sherman just marched through his school.

In this week’s newsletter, I explain how Trump’s $1,776 payments is actually one of the most dangerous things he’s ever done. Armies loyal to a paycheck and not the government is how you get authoritarian overthrows of republics.

There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office. And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.

Everyone who is having a pleasant holiday season because they aren't in the Epstein files, step forward. Not so fast, David Brooks.

Zohran: "We have monetized the dysfunction." Gamers: My dude, welcome to the club. Korean Devs: I can't believe you idiots still let people buy plane tickets. They should be buying a chance to be given a plane ticket to an unknown destination. Delta: Wait, we can do that? Sean Duffy: lol, sure!

Umm… what the fuck is even happening right now in the White House? The fucking Downfall meme feels more calm, measured, and logical by comparison.

Brilliant. From @michaelharriot.bsky.social

The conspiracy by this Court to replace our founding charter with dictatorship isn’t funny, but: “Every time Trump makes a shadow docket appeal he might as well shout ‘By the power of Greyskull!’, because he’s about to transform from a feeble man who can’t grip a glass with one hand into HE-Man.”

Reeeeeallly dating myself with this reference, but I stand by it. :)

The Supreme Court's use and abuse of the Shadow Docket is *how* Chief Justice John Roberts legitimizes Donald Trump's authoritarian takeover of the government. Me, in print for a change, in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Sigh. Chile is going fascist... again. New guy wants a Chilean ICE. :( edition.cnn.com/2025/12/14/a...

One of the great failures of contemporary political news coverage in a lot of media is the unspoken principle that no violation of norms or decency by Trump is really news, worthy of sustained attention, unless it also upsets people who love him. It isn't "not taking the bait"; it's sleepwalking.

The people who wrote this about Charlie Kirk were fired and threatened with violence

LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...

Perfect descriptor for this year: "Another Week of Unfettered Moral Depravity" Gotta say @thenation.com has been killing it with articles, essays, newsletter actively promoting folks to pay attention & take action. All the writers, editors and staff walk their talk!

Co-sign

My newsletter is out. I explained how a chimpanzee throwing feces would be doing a better job of communicating than Democrats on the Senate Judicary Committee, and why the World Cup will be Trumpist slop (shoutout to @theoldzealand.bsky.social) www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I propose we call that the "MechaHitler Clause."

This is really the heart of Trump’s new AI rules: he’s trying to make sure Mecha-Hitler proceeds unobstructed

Ahhhhh shit. Total War: Warhammer 40k. Much anticipated. Now it’s real. Gotta catch up on my Bricky

Withering Waves winning the “players choice” award is a great example of why democracy fails

Somehow I'm going to live long enough to watch two absolutely trash Street Fighter movies.

Divinity Original Sin 3 is also going to be good someday. I really need to outlive the Trump administration somehow.

KOTOR 3!!!!!!!! New reason to live just unlocked!!!

Giving Trump the courts will lead to more mass shootings, example umpteen

ICYMI, here's my segment on @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social yesterday on the Supreme Court. www.wnyc.org/story/the-su...

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail

I really wanted Alonso to be a Met for life. :(

What!?

Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This is a good thread

Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."

I'm going to be on the @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social show at 10:40. Which will save me from listening to the rest of this argument at SCOTUS where the Republicans are eager to kill mentally disabled people who at least once scored an IQ above 70.

Voting for Trump fundamentally means you lack the capacity to onboard information

Thank you for making it clear (to those who read to the end) that the so-called "unitary executive theory" is really the "Republican autocratic power theory".

The authoritarian takover of the state bureaucracy might not *sound* like a big deal. But SCOTUS giving Trump the ability to fire the federal government is a God-King power, and represents a failure of the American Revolution. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The case is submitted. What a shitshow.

On the other hand: Jesus Christ could be making these arguments against the Trump administration and we'd still lose in front of this court.

Deepak Gupta has been defending independent agencies—their leaders, structure, and workforce—since the very start of this administration. Why he wasn’t asked to handle this seminal case is beyond me.

You know things are bad at SCOTUS when the guy aruging for your side makes things worse than the guy arguing for the other side.

I'm not live blogging the Trump v. Slauighter args (can Trump fire everybody args). I will be writing about it. But I come here to say: Dear Liberals, please STOP ASKING former Republican clerks to argue our side of the case. I know you think they "speak Republican." But they also SUCK.

Under current and future Supreme Court doctrine, Congress cannot insulate public-health experts from being replaced by an anti-vaccine secretary or president. The unitary executive theory kills people.