I don’t think “vote blue no matter who” precludes criticizing Dems. But I do see an unexplored problem here: Public thinks Dems are more extreme than they are Centrists reinforce this belief by punching left Reinforced belief necessitates punching left harder to compete in swing/right districts

Cillizza is so thirsty to be in the running to replace Mark Thompson after the Paramount/WBD deal closes isn't he

The typical cycle of right wing projection: Convince themselves they’re victims, feel aggrieved Do the very thing to others that they wrongfully assert was done to them This is not much different than Republicans’ use/abuse of the power of the federal government to attack their enemies

It’s telling though, I think people like Weiss really do want “being not nice to conservatives” to have the same legal consequences as discriminating against legally protected classes

James Talarico fucks…an adult!

What Democrats need to understand is that properly looking forward requires both specific and general deterrence against future law breaking by Republican executive branch officials

The Pedo Payment Pot

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

Guy who thinks movies should all look like European art house pictures from the early 90s and be recorded on film only, but from the right

Well, what are you waiting for?

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Will just reiterate that in the many years I covered Polis closely, he never showed particular interest in the topic of over-sentencing, nor in criminal justice reform generally. This decision would read a lot differently if Polis had any sort of record as an advocate for clemency.

"factory reset option in the mayoral race"

As with the illegal arrangement to transfer TikTok to a regime-aligned oligarch, these payments—all of which are likely illegal because they’re not authorized by Congress and a subset of which (to Jan 6-ers) would violate the 14th amendment—must be treated as void ab initio by the next Dem president

I’m ok with the speed but my somewhat related cranky old guy take is that they should force teams to take advantage of the faster pace to make pitchers throw more innings. Cap the number of pitchers on each roster at 10. Bring back 250 innings guys who go 16-15 on the year

Pander Express.

i've said it before but there needs to be serious congressional regulation of clerkships at the federal level

Over at my periodic Substack 'Please Take My Advice,' I went deep on the Kinks' 'Muswell Hillbillies' 55th anniversary. Topics include style of paranoia, Ray Davies' endless elegance, encroaching techno-feudalism, diet fads and shapes of things to come. theparanoidstyle.substack.com/p/but-in-her...

brutal but extremely important piece from Nick Kristol www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Uh, maybe hold that thought. Wtf is Jones doing? www.vox.com/politics/488...

I both love the idea behind this invention but am simultaneously reminded of this theonion.com/new-wearable...

There’s something so chilling about being a former politician on one’s death bed, having a clear portal to an existential, cosmic perspective on the meaning of life, and counseling everyone to ask for less. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

Are you standing up to your state level Democratic colleagues who apparently can’t be bothered to find a way around the abuse of authority by partisan Republicans on the state supreme court to overturn a referendum when they didn’t like the outcome?

Pathetic

Liz Cheney made a big issue of Jan. 6 and Trump’s coup attempt even though the GOP demanded she stop, served as vice chair of the Jan. 6 Committee and conducted investigations, got kicked out of the Republican Party for that, then endorsed the Democraric nominee for president. What has Greene done?

Really, we need Congress to pass laws to impose zoning reform on California. To do that we need a more expansive commerce clause interpretation. For that we need to pack the Supreme Court. For that we need more Dems in Congress So the correct answer is: Do an even more aggressive gerrymander

I’m firmly on team fight back, but I do think there are costs to flat-out ignoring a court ruling…not sure the benefits here outweigh them. Dems are likely to get the 10-1 map when the Va. court’s composition changes next year, and will these four seats make the difference of house control in 2027?

Great thread. However I do think the administration (wrongly) thinks all white male journalists are liberals; imo this doesn’t show a desire to shape news coverage by eliminating women/POC voices so much as it shows a desire to purge women and POC from a prominent knowledge industry for its own sake

This story is wild even by Trump administration standards

seeing people describe the auctioning off property in illegal West Bank settlements as “Jewish people gathering to buy real estate in Israel” reminds me of this meme

very funny that ilya shapiro walks around like he is some grand arbiter of merit when he would be unemployable if not for wingnut welfare

These people are boldface liars. How many unlawful maps have been kept in place because of legal pretenses the Court drops suddenly? Alito and the five horsemen of our time are a national embarrassment to the legal profession.

Ugh, Schlossberg sucks. I’d honestly even prefer Conway www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

Part of why the Republican justices’ shadow amendment to the constitution implemented via Trump v US was such a big deal (yes it applied to the president specifically but we all know this court would extend it to admin officials breaking the law on his behalf, to prevent their accountability)

One of the ways you can tell originalism is a fraud is the way right-wing orignialists interpret the reconstruction amendments compared with the way they interpret other parts of the constitution.

Of course, there is a comparatively easy way to amend the constitution which Republicans appreciated for decades: get more votes on the Supreme Court. Through its Republican majority, the GOP has implemented major shadow amendments, e.g., presidential immunity, partial repeal of the 15th amendment

Me: I voted for Donald Trump because I had him confused with that other guy. Donald Duck. NYT reporter: Are you sure you want me to print that next to your real name and a drawing of you? Me: Yes.

The funniest thing would be if he invades the Falklands on behalf of Milei, but then Milei loses and Reform wins parliament in the UK, and then he reinvades on behalf of the Brits

INS v Chadha might be the only case i have encountered in which Powell (not the worst justice at the time but probably the dumbest) was the sole member of the court to get it right

What timid Democrats need to learn is that restoring government human capital requires Supreme Court expansion. Laws protecting civil servants from future purges must be strengthened, with criminal penalties for admin officials who break these laws, but the Roberts Republicans vehemently oppose this

Left unstated in this article is the appeal of being in a community where you can live, go to the gym, eat, get various chores done and socialize with other people, all without a car. For those of us in NYC, that’s life, but for much of America, it’s a luxury www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

Even the “good” (not loyalist Trump dead ender) conservative legal pundits are just shameless liars

Isgur is such a fucking hack. the case she’s referring to is one where the 5th Circuit entered a stay and it was appealed to SCOTUS. the case in the Times story involved the Court intervening to stay an EPA rule while a lower court was still adjudicating the issue.

I thought the point of being owned by an evil billionaire who should probably be in prison is that we wouldn’t have to put up with 11 game losing streaks

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...