Also a good example of right wing legal scholars’ approach to textualism generally

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

we should treat these pardons as null and void as far as i am concerned www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

When we say that JD doesn't have the juice, this is what we mean. The argument that "we can't impeach Trump because JD is worse" is like saying "we can't cut out that tumor because there's another tumor next to it." Impeach JD next. No one likes him.

The singular goal of all future US politics is to ensure Trumpism is defeated and cannot again take root here, and everything that serves that end is to be considered and prioritized. It's a holistic organizing principle, from a Green New Deal to Nuremberg 2 to expanding the court to Reconstruction.

Every traditional American ally needs to recognize that the Republican Party is a threat to humanity, and they need to take every step they can to destroy it and force the USA to implement long-needed structural reforms that will prevent whatever replaces it from turning into the same thing

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

Remember all this nonsense about the supposed inferiority of “third world” immigration? They really believed that and applied their theory to international relations and it failed. Racism makes you stupid.

Humans walked on the moon before they made Brussels sprouts taste good

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

remarkable that the Times basically ignores any and all public criticism except repeatedly clarifying that they are in fact transphobes

I’m someone who thinks Biden should have dropped out because he wasn’t all there, which is why I wish the media had been sincerely concerned about president’s mental acuity and not just wielding the issue opportunistically against a politician they hated, only to ignore Trump’s similar problems

Hot take: No Kings is good and if you have the time and capacity, you should go to a protest on Saturday.

Who’s more out of touch? The members of party that opposes trans sports bans despite polls because those members know that the trans sport issue is a Trojan horse for implementing much more aggressive, sweeping, cruel and unpopular policies? 1/2

Yep. See also: Antonin Scalia refusing to read WaPo or NYT because he preferred to cook his brain on rightwing talk radio

I firmly believe that the right wing justices, who were always staunch Republicans, in the last few years have gotten way more brain poisoned and receptive to crank right wing theories than they used to be. Eg I’d bet if the ISL theory came up for the first time today it would get more than 3 votes

The establishment of domestic Nuremberg style tribunals is permitted under the exceptions and regulations clause of article III, section 2, of the constitution—and they don’t have to be subject to the appellate jurisdiction of the supreme court!

meta being called meta is so incredible. it’d be like if microsoft was called zune or nasa was called challenger

Me The most racist person alive 🤝 “Stop softening racists’ language”

Honestly I like Florsheim and have a couple of pairs I wear to the office. Good value for the price and comfortable…if worn in the right size. I do hope they don’t become a MAGA-associated brand culturally. Really they should be a Tim Duncan-associated brand: theonion.com/tim-duncan-a...

I know I’m a goddamn broken record, I really do, but Congress had a way to change that, it worked for decades, and the Supreme Court blew it up in the 1980s in a way that was impossible for Congress to fix. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This sucks

At least people living through 1973 got some really good film and music. We just get the economic shock and criminal president parts

Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.

I understand why reporters are skeptical of this, and I’m sure execs want to ram AI down everyone’s throats to save money even where it’s not a good fit, but this specific application of it seems…fine?

At some point we will have a conversation about the bogus claim that running a financially successful company equips you for leadership more broadly.

"in the business"

Remember when Mace and the media worked together to present her as a reasonable moderate? Useful to think about when you see these Katie Britt puff pieces

This statement is appallingly bad--like, the administration *illegally bombed a school.* It's mind-boggling to me for this to be the reaction from a human, much less a purported leader of the Democratic Party. I need a new senator stat

I think this administration just genuinely likes war crimes for their own sake (and our Israeli partners in this don't seem to have much problem with them either)

Being a trans journalist is going to work and having to cover how your life is now illegal in your state but also at the same time make sure someone else writes the story so no one can accuse you of being biased and a "trans activist" and then they do the story and you still get accused of it.

Human: Your instructions are to imagine yourself as a leader associated with peaceful conflict resolution and act accordingly AI:

Every now and then, I remember that JD Vance smashed the "like" button after reading this tweet, then went back and unliked it five years later when he ran for the Senate.

Pretty indeed, but of course my block (like basically every block) would be so much prettier without the unsightly cars messing up the picture

Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten

I don't believe in God, but sometimes, just sometimes, it's hard to deny His presence

Yup! Court expansion is a minimum necessary condition to protecting democracy

How do they ensure it doesn’t leak? I have so many questions

Tfw you have way too much money because taxes are too low, you‘re a paranoid freak because spend too much time watching Fox News, and you think you’re just way more important than you really are www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

The lesson is that trying to take the wind out of the right’s sails with right-wing policy from the center-left is not just a moral failure but a strategic one. The right won’t just refuse to give credit but will lie about the record while feeling emboldened to take even more aggressive stances

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

Matt Yglesias thinks the half-time show should have been about grocery prices.

The true error in trotting out Cheney is that Harris thought it would win her support from DC pundits and reporters—she’d built a bipartisan coalition that included Liz Cheney and Ilhan Omar, the thing Very Serious people supposedly want—but it didn’t work because the pundit class supported Trump

Have some quibbles with the thread but I think this especially is right. Democrats failed to address Trump’s extremely favorable information environment and that was the single most important factor

This woman is the negotiator for the GOP on Democrats’ DHS reform proposals! Not just a random backbencher with concerns about Trump’s overly aggressive approach but the specific person the Republican Party has designated to prevent as many of the Dems’ proposed reforms as possible from becoming law

WAPO "leadership" believe they're able to build a profitable pseudo-journalistic, pseudo-academic, pseudo-intellectual agitprop safe space for right wing corporatists, despite the fact that's a tiny, already well served market but they're also perfectly fine if the paper fails completely