Well, sheeeeeeeeeit www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/well...

There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...

Lots of things to fix out there but a decent argument that a real fix (if such a thing existed) for what can reasonably be called “elite impunity” would cascade out fixes for like 90 percent of the rest of it

Glorious 🧵

shel silverstein was a prophet

Voting for Trump’s nominees and xenophobic priorities, as Slotkin has, is not “disrupting” anything.

On my disappearance www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-i-disa...

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

Bari shoulda googled "Streisand effect." This is already a classic example less than 24 hours later. Many MORE people will have seen the "forbidden" segment than would have tuned in on Sunday night.

So this is supposedly the CECOT segment that was pulled at the last minute. Allegedly, Canada's Global TV app received the episode before 60 Minutes removed the story and it was available there until this afternoon.

did a video a few days ago making the case for supreme court expansion www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjB_...

Conservatism is a big tent of freethinkers, from freethinking Nazis to freethinking right-wingers who think everyone besides themselves and the freethinking Nazis are secretly taking orders from a shadowy, sinister Jew behind the scenes. Teach the controversies!

todays reminder that every single democrat in the senate voted to confirm marco rubio. every last one. www.local3news.com/regional-nat...

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.

Congressional investigation now.

Yes, but it’s not a “nuclear option.” It’s the most basic, obvious, conventional option available if you want to actually do something effective. The fact that they’re not immediately promising it en masse tells us something, and that something is not good.

This is the best argument for wealth caps. There are levels of individual wealth and power that are fundamentally incompatible with democracy and broadly-enjoyed human freedom.

If you want to read a 2024 autopsy from folks who aren't cheering for/fine with the party moving right on policy, check out these two. democraticautopsy.org/how-democrat... and chartingthewayforward.substack.com/p/towards-st...

The good news is that we don't need to read the report. Voters hate the party and we hate the leadership. The country is literally coming apart at the seams and we blame you. Entirely. Hide all you want, we know who's at fault. And we know who the consultants are. You're fucked. I promise.

What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.

The Republican platform is simple: They want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it .

Anthony Geary also died yesterday. He was best known generally for being on General Hospital, but he was best known to me for being in UHF.

the reason why the right was able to use immigration so effectively isnt because of any material policy change under the biden. the minute he won the right began saying he opened the border. the democratic response was no response so the right's narrative dominated. and that happened for 4 yrs.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

I didn’t think today could get worse.

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

THE CENTRIST CONSULTANTS DID THIS. They watched for decades as corporations paid the federalist society to destroy labor rights. Alito laughed at people like Podesta in Janus, as he took organizing rights away. Until Podesta calls for Court reform he can shut the fuck up.

Natural science, licks the rock Social science, watches someone else lick the rock and writes down if they die

I shouldn’t have to share this article as much as I do. Sending condolences to all friends and family and loved ones from the Brown Shooting today. www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...

Four minutes of reading up on this would give Cuban all the answers he seeks. Yes, I would gladly be taxed 8–12% more to spend 30–40% less of my income on medical expenses.

Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...

at this point AI is the equivalent of your friend eating something disgusting and asking 800 times if you wanna try it

Trump’s obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help. Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead. He continues to be a national embarrassment.

"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...

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

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

Again, adding a few seats to SCOTUS is now the baseline "moderate" position in the face of this authoritarian nonsense. The real, serious reforms need to go much, much further:

once again, "the supreme court will act as a bunch of partisan republican hacks" is the single most accurate heuristic for predicting its behavior, putting any coherent legal theory to shame because fuck you, that's why

Anybody who bet on a different outcome is a sucker.

We spent 100% more time being told Democrats shouldn't say "oligarchy" than having anyone in the National Conversation tell these people not to call human beings "vermin" or "illegals"

New A24 horror movie just dropped