BREAKING: Today, over 1,000 former DOJ officials who served in both Republican & Democratic administrations—have released a letter condemning the unprecedented, politically motivated indictment of fmr. FBI Director James Comey. Read their letter: protdem.org/3ITOo0Y

The "compact" is a threat, with the administration explicitly stating that it plans to disfavor universities that don't sign in areas from foreign student visas, student loans, federal contracts as well as grants, and even tax [501(c)(3)] status. It's a maximalist plan of 1st Amendment violation.

😎🌵🪴 exercise your freedom

All those 2024 media fact-checks that said, “Donald Trump and the Trump campaign deny any connection to Project 2025” look pretty ridiculous right now. A Trump denial is not a fact. You just used his lies to “debunk” a reality that was obvious to anyone paying attention.

amazing watching tradcath converts discover they are protestants.

i think the most hilarious "discourse" from the era was jon chait writing an article about his white hot hate for george bush - his bush derangement syndrome - and then 2 months later (or so) writing that anyone who opposed the iraq war only did so because of BDS.

New WaPo poll: Extend ACA subsidies 71%-29% Blame Rs for shutdown 47% Blame Ds for shutdown 30% Dems winning the big arguments so far www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

It's fascinating and revealing how many centrists think refusing to compromise on human rights to gain the support of bigots represents a "political purity test," yet also think that a bigot saying "I won't join you unless you accommodate my bigotry" does NOT represent a "political purity test."

every day JB is out there showing none of this is hard, the democratic party is just that soft

The constant lying is simply depraved. They never stop lying.

🚨 New Bright Line Watch report on state of US democracy brightlinewatch.org/violence-red... -Expert ratings ~= since April but ↓ substantially since January -US now most closely resembles an illiberal democracy -Partisan gap in democracy ratings highest since 2017 Full thread of results below

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This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

Poland has announced the return of four historical items looted during WWII and missing until recently being spotted at auction. Hundreds of thousands of artistic and scientific works disappeared during the German and Soviet occupations of Poland, and many remain unaccounted for.

Trump is building a personalist regime where every university must bend the knee or lose funding and every business must bend the knee or face tariffs, H-1B fees, and regulatory blackmail. You can't cover each domain in isolation; they are all the same story.

It seems that none of the Advanced Politics Knowers can explain why Sir is unpopular and they don't seem interested in talking to anyone who can.

John Searle (1932-2025) dailynous.com/2025/09/28/j...

SAD!!

Tom Nichols, Jon Stewart, etc in 2024: "it's too early to call them fascists" Trump regime in 2025: "it is now illegal terrorism to call us fascists" Funny how the time window on that worked

Donald Trump is going to wage war on American cities over a fake crisis that isn’t happening involving a fake “terrorist organization” which doesn’t exist, so he can stop us from talking about the real child sex trafficking files he’s very much in.

Hey @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social,I asked Steve Bannon directly if he thinks Miller will now unleash the state on groups that describe ICE as "authoritarian," and he said: "Yes," adding that Miller is "in charge." cc @mcopelov.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2009...

"The effect is a line-item veto for the president over spending... Once again, the rules magically change when Trump is in office... This is not behavior that a healthy democracy tolerates from its judiciary. It is the kind of constitutional rot that precedes the rule of law’s collapse."

For the Kool Kidz and the Establishment Dem cowards, the weak approach is always the savvy approach

Here are two of the most influential people in liberal media, David Remnick and Ezra Klein, telling each other outright lies about what the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate said because years of exposure to conservative grievance media pounded the original facts of the case out of their skulls

Kimmel won. Winning matters, wins are how we’re going to prevent this autocratic slide.

Six Justices shockingly conclude that it's likely the Impoundment Control precludes an otherwise valid APA claim to require expenditure of obligated funds. This argument, which turns the ICA on its head, is so absurd that the Trump DOJ itself wisely disclaimed it a month ago. Utterly lawless.

Not only is this foreign aid stay an assault on the separation of powers and rule of law, it’s also an assault on Congress as an institution. If Congress can’t tell the executive to spend money, what can it *actually* do?

Trump demands that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco. Anybody from the party of small government have an issue with this or nah?

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that congressional appropriations are optional: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The Establishment Dem cowards are acting like cowards again....

Trump is a pathologically lying basket case

Release the Epstein-Trump files! Stop protecting pedophiles!

Imagine being one of these incredibly impressive four-stars and being lectured about being a warrior by an alcoholic former weekend cable news host

If we're finally going to crack down about lying to Congress under oath, I think there are several Cabinet members and a few Supreme Court justices whose testimonies might need revisiting.

Aside from how utterly deranged it is to even make light of this, he's not mocking some reporter or pundit by calling him "General." Ben Hodges is a real three-star general, he was the commander of the US Army in Europe before he retired. In other words, he's worked with a lot of Germans soldiers.

This apparent media hypocrisy is because Republicans are the primary news agenda setters during election campaigns. Journalists vainly think embracing Republican talking points will make them seem less biased to Republicans. It doesn't work AND it biases campaign news in favor of Republicans.

Their place in history is settled alright but not the way Posturing Pete would like it to be. People who participate in or facilitate massacres are rightly hated by the masses and hated by themselves as well.

in a sane world, this would be an impeachable offense & articles of impeachment would be drawn up tomorrow. just as Jimmy Kimmel’s case wasn’t about Jimmy Kimmel - but about state sanctioned censorship - the Jim Comey case isn’t about Jim Comey. It’s about the rule of law versus authoritarianism.

I honestly don’t care about James Comey. But I want to live in a democratic republic. His indictment proves we live in a banana republic, where the autocrat personally orders indictments of his political enemies, and when his own officials refuse he finds new ones that will.

Trump is intentionally trying to cause violence against Democrats. Trump is a sick, sick man. www.youtube.com/live/TClRH0G...

Vought and Trump say they'll destroy the federal government if it shuts down. That's like saying, if you don't let me break this toy, I'll break it anyway. No shit. But that's on you guys.

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

"The memo suggests department leaders are following orders from the president that specific people or groups be subject to criminal investigation — a major break from decades of past practice meant to insulate the Justice Department from political interference." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

Great piece from Adam Serwer who explains the difference between chickenshit and coward, with chickenshit basically being low threshhold of cowardice.

Amid reports that newly appointed USA Lindsey Halligan will seek to indict James Comey on bogus charges of lying to Congress after her predecessor declined to, it’s a good time to do a reset ahead of the wave of Trump-driven political prosecutions. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

If I could get more people to internalize an idea, it's that inaction, weakness, and appeasement come with costs. "Feels like it'd be easier in the moment" isn't costless. Often, it ends up costing more. The options are not fight at a price or don't fight at no price. Not fighting has a price too.

The Constitution makes Congress Article I. It requires presidents to faithfully execute laws. Congress can override and remove presidents, not vice versa. The Roberts Court says Congress merely gives a president at-will employees he can have ignore laws. Not originalist or textualist. Monarchist.