see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.

This is where right wing Christians are headed.

This is where his popularism is…uh…weird. Because birthright citizenship is opposed by less than half the country. It’s all Republicans. What do liberals get from this?

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

It remains fucking crazy that we've turned the entire federal government over to a bunch of internet trolls.

Isn't it just "the wing" now?

Man, how many times a day is he asking where he is?

2024 was a lot of folks who heard Trump make up vicious lies about Haitian immigrants eating cats and agreed with him completely, never once thinking he might lie about them, too. 1/

Probably most Republicans aren’t turned on by this. But they’re not turned off by it either or ignore it. They’re the worst, really. Because they’ll later pretend they hated all of it.

Years ago when I saw Mercedes Schlapp tweeting about vaccines I knew we’d ultimately end up in a place where you if you’re a Republican, you’d need to be anti vax like anti tax. And it’s worked out like that.

Republican voters cannot be reached by any kind of genuine policy. They’re just not interested. Conservative media has made policy irrelevant. They’ve created a party that cares only about hurting other people.

This is why Republican primary voters pick Trump and why if they could, they'd do internment camps for their opposition.

Broadly: this is the problem all over. It’s the voters.

Why can’t he sit? 🤔

A lot of people trashed @timmiller.bsky.social for interviewing her. But it put a light on her. And she looked awful. Now this. So…what happened with the Times? What explains this story now?

He’s not covered by the pardon because of how it was technically phrased, but an obvious question to ask at his next press gaggle would be why Trump isn’t pardoning the pipe bomber, another of his violent supporters who apparently had the same motive as all the other Jan 6-ers he pardoned.

My guess is late Trump term they’ll start trying to earn back credibility by ruling here and there against him. And they’ll expect a Democrat to honor it all as legitimate.

Jiffy Lube just made me their Poet Laureate?

It’s fascinating how there’s just no subtlety here at all. Using his own sexuality as a dig at Fuentes, calling him a horror. And yes, Fuentes *is* a horror. But not because he may or may not be gay.

Stranger still: health/age was THE issue in the last election. But only for one guy. And it continued to be an issue and continues to be one now. A bigger issue than this.

It was crazy she got another job to begin with. But this would have been a fireable offense and major scandal for any other administration. Overall, our standards are declining.

They’re thrill killings. Murders by psychopaths for psychopaths. They’re not trying to justify the killings to themselves. They don’t care. The ability to just will without justification because you can is where they get the thrill.

The combination of things here suggests the US is currently engaged in serial thrill killings. 1) We have no idea if they’re smuggling drugs 2) killing them wouldn’t be legal if they were. 3) We’re pardoning drug traffickers left and right here. 4) We’re killing survivors (witnesses) who…

Hearing that Bessent is up for the National Hockey League-Hellman’s Mayo Prize in Economics.

This is pretty much it for the Court. The Court’s legitimacy is at stake.

That’s the end of democracy. Not just the gerrymandering. The threats of violence as part of the electoral process.

Indiana state House Republicans have passed a new congressional gerrymander intended to turn their 7-2 majority into 9-0. It’s unclear whether they have the votes to pass it in the Senate, where many Republican holdouts have been swatted or received bomb threats from Trump supporters

One thing you can say about Trump, he’s undeniably useful for exposing the moral rot and patronage that sustains elite cosmopolitan society.

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud. In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that. What a confession.

ok but he hasn’t lost his companies money, he has that money due to not paying taxes and deregulation…americans invested that money in him and he lost all of it we are not getting a return on investment and im sick of it

The fact that both the unsigned 6–3 majority opinion and Alito's concurrence (for Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch) open with a reference to California's redistricting leaves one with the strong impression that this decision, like California's, is about tit for tat.

New in PN: A war criminal without a war "We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."

It’s almost trite to say this but if any other country was doing what we’re doing right now there would be no hesitation in calling it a terrorist state*

just to drive home the point. Texas created this map in August. the lower court rendered its decision November. So three months later, a year before the election in question.

It’s all transparently bullshit and immune to rationality, but if struggling to stabilize half a burning boat to avoid drowning is “getting back in the fight,” what they’re really saying is there’s nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And that definitely isn’t the law.

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

Our drug policy right now is that if you’re convicted of some drug related offense, but politically useful, you get a pardon. Maybe even a job in the administration. But if you’re suspected, you get death.

Yes, I think you’ll be able to find one very clear principle that unites all these rulings

The Supreme Court sided with this dissent:

Bit off that Cuellar is pardoned, to the delight of democratic leadership, just as there is large amounts of pressure on them to be more aggressive in fighting the Trump administration for murdering people.

At best, this thing will be half finished in three years.

What’s the punishment for insider trading in these countries?

Basically real tho

Merry Christmas America

Grand juries suddenly becoming a real live check on abuse of power and politically motivated prosecutions is like constitutional Rip Van Winkle.

Building transportation policy for the 21st century around this dumbass meme

There are a lot of crazy stories right now, but the President pressuring (and threatening) a state to release a political ally from prison would have been impeachment level in any other time. 1/

There has not been a really good, honest discussion about what tilted Hispanic/Latino voters to the GOP.

this really isn’t an exaggeration