The most important thing to remember about all this fantasy-engineering of the Constitution is Madison's warning: If we suck as a people, no clever constitutional schemes will save us.

This young man has it exactly right.

Trump’s so-called "peace plan" is a blueprint for Russian victory. Forcing Ukraine to surrender any territory under threat is not diplomacy—it’s appeasement that guarantees future conflict. We must not reward Putin’s aggression with Ukrainian land.

It is amazing that the lawyers for Texas tasked with defending Texas' racial gerrymander are essentially throwing both DOJ and the Governor under the bus.

Live your life so you’re not the only living president and vice president not to be invited to a former vice president’s funeral

Crow: "It just tells us everything that we need to know that reminding people to obey the law, reminding people to obey the Constitution, is somehow criminal in Trumpworld and should be responded to with death threats. It's very, very telling."

Jeffries: I think Rick Scott has some history with medicaid fraud in the state of Florida. So he's no expert on health care. We ain't going to be lectured by Rick Scott about anything, but certainly not affordable health care.

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution. In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files? CHRIS MURPHY: So what?

This would defeat the purpose. Release EVERYTHING, or it means nothing.

I see the far right is trying to extricate Trumpstein from child abuse by saying teens are ‘women’. Whether Epstein raped a 12y old in Epstein’s homes in NYC, or Florida, or his plane or his island, that’s depraved, that’s evil & that is illegal. Those excusing paedophiles are as bad as them.

I wonder if they dredged the waters around Epstein Island what would be revealed

Even on Fox, this is the best the Flabby Felon can do. In other polling news, 38% of Americans approve of pedophilia.

One clear example of how the rich write our laws: Thanks to this year’s Congress, the first $15,000,000 a kid inherits doesn’t get taxed at all. If you actually work for your money, taxes start at $14,601. The rich gutted our silver spoon laws, just because they can.

Starbucks can end this today: bargain in good faith, resolve unfair labor practices, and stop the union-busting. Until then, workers are holding the line! #NoCoffeeNoContract

Moskowitz during a hearing reads an excerpt from Kristi Noem's book where she talks about shooting her dog Cricket and says, "If we're get on high horse about animal cruelty I just want to make sure we apply that equally"

aside from Cloudflare and AWS what other internet-breaking single point of failure can we look forward to in the coming weeks

A House panel is holding a hearing on a proposed ban on Congressional stock trading. This ban is long overdue. Why should members of Congress be able to use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you?

Kamala Harris dropping in on an HBCU event in TN-07 is good actually. The GOP is spending over a million dollars on the race, thus lowering the salience of the race isn't really possible at this point. Trying to rally Black turnout in Nashville is a logical counter-strategy.

Khanna: "The speaker looked frazzled last night. I think he's totally lost it. He's attacking the bill and he's not showing up to hear the survivors. The survivors wanted this bill. Then he's voting for a bill he criticized. And he's lost the confidence of half the people in his own caucus."

Finding out about USian suburbs was wild, because in the UK a "suburb" is just a residential area inside a city or town. But in the US they're, like, islands cut off from the rest of the world except by car? J.G. Ballard could have come up with that shit.

BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.

Money. Lots and lots of money.

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

Reminiscent of the shell game trick

Women are watching abusive dynamics play out on the national stage and for many it feels very, very familiar to what they’ve experienced regularly— I hope midterms are a referendum

The White House dinner last night for MBS was a coterie of corruption & back channel access that has become synonymous with the #Trump regime— Notable Attendees: Elon Musk, Tim Cook, David Ellison, Marc Benioff, Michael Dell, David Sacks, Charles Schwab, Stephen Wynn and many more..

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

People having babies right now are braver than the troops. My kids are teens and I'm not sure what I'd do if I was facing the prospect of having to give birth and raise young children amid the dismantling of the medical system *and* the department of education *at the same time.*

I love the point @marisakabas.bsky.social makes about jumping to the head of the line by doing sensational “journalism” with questionable ethics. This has been a thing in sports media for a long time, as management thinks hiring influencers is the key to getting any more clicks.

Massie: “[Speaker Johnson is] trying to say the rich, powerful men who flew to Epstein Island are the victims now. The only way a ‘Christian man’ can stand up there and sell a lie like that is if he’s already decided in his head that protecting them is somehow okay.”

Donald Trump doesn't want to release the Epstein files because he's in the files. Trump is in the files because he was "best friends" with Epstein for years. He was "best friends" with Epstein for years because they were abusing women and girls together. His attacks won't change any of that.

I've written on this question, and while I think detached house with a yard is a real preference a lot of Americans would hold regardless, I also think, to an American today, the question of preference is circular because urbanism is barely an option. thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/have-you-e...

The crime of genocide didn't exist until after WW2. It was something we decided was real, needed to be identified and punished. Even if we've been spectacularly bad at putting it in practise, we conceptualised it. I think it's about time for a CEO crime of murder-by-Economy.

Terrific

The latest Cloudflare and Amazon outages have got me thinking about utilities. We can't build modern software without dependencies. The days of running entirely on the client are over, which I see as a good thing. The cost is that we rely on infrastructure. 1/5

Every outlet worth a damn should be calling this out. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?

Fox News credulously reports that "the Saudis now say their investment pledge in the US will be increased to $1 trillion." THE ENTIRE GDP OF SAUDI ARABIA IS $1.1 TRILLION, so this is total nonsense.

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me

Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks: “Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”

wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)

DOJ will refuse to release the Epstein files based on their sham "ongoing investigation." Bookmark it.

Swalwell: Kristi Noem and Tom Homan, you should familiarize yourselves with this room. Get to know that witness chair — you’re going to be parked in it for a long time. Accountability is coming.

Robert Reich is exactly right - and Fair Share America's leadership was instrumental in passing the Massachusetts Millionaire's Tax. We need to do this in all 50 states. Read more here: bit.ly/3XzD1iq #TaxJustice

This is bullshit! What are the charges? 📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence

Dear ICE: They don't let you wear a mask in your mug shot.

You don't often see this at the end of a whistleblower story: