If a shooter’s politics are hard to pin down, he’s a leftist If a shooter’s politics are right wing, he’s hard to pin down

A basic facts of American history is that members of the European world order* did not accept the legitimacy of the Native world order. Europeans & their heirs tolerated the order they found here only as long as military resistance made them. Infrastructure played a role in the assault. 1/7

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2020: Biden, 51.3% popular vote, 306 EV; Trump, 46.8%, 232 EV 2024: Trump, 49.7% popular vote, 312 EV; Harris, 48.2%, 226 EV

It has come to this: the New York Times devotes the full first page of its National section to basic vaccine information. Because the CDC can no longer be trusted. This madness can’t go on any longer. We need a swamping, crushing midterm victory in impossible-to-win places. America must be saved.

He lied. Gotta use the word

The swing voters who decided the 2024 election voted for Trump because they didn’t believe he’d do what he said he’d do.

He should tell his protege Kavanaugh.

War-ravaged Portland, with its bicycles, gourmet donut shops, and gun control!

1. No one should listen to me on economics. But I'll note one factor driving the stock market is call loans—their availability & price. Investors know Trump's policies suck. But that means interest rates are falling & the Fed is pumping out money via open market operations. From a Fed paper:

Is there anyone in America who honestly believes that Trump recognizes *any* limits on his power? He went all the way to our worst fears and beyond in maybe six months. Your worst fears for what he will do next are probably right.

Trump makes chaos.

1. The report this post by President Trump is referencing specifically notes that FBI agents were deployed AFTER the violence started. Yet many people, including the President of the United States, are either misunderstanding the report or outright lying. The Report: bit.ly/46ocjPa

These assertions are all lies and he knows it.

Impeachable offenses occur hourly.

Today's Republicans—including SCOTUS—are all about partisanship, not principle. Justices act on prejudices and hot takes, of a sort drilled into them by Fox News & the right-wing cocktail party circuit. All the worst SCOTUS opinions for 200 years show this tendency. Check it. Shadow docket's worse.

Hilarious.

The excuse for past leaders is usually that they were products of their times. But many could see beyond their times & themselves. This excerpt of John Marshall Harlan's dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson shows his Kentucky slaveholding background—and how he looked past it. Today we're going backward.

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

Cosplay War Secretary proves the absurdity of putting the vast, complex military establishment under the control of an aggrieved former part-time junior officer with no national security experience. An old saying goes: Amateurs focus on tactics; professionals focus on logistics. He's an amateur.

I really want to stress this. It's SCOTUS's job is to write clearly for the body politic about what the Constitution means. It's not just that the shocking shadow docket decisions can only be described as partisan, it's that they provide no guidance to lower courts and no explanation to the public.

Into a fund to repay importers when unconstitutional presidential tariffs are overturned.

HAHAHAHAHAHA! [wipes away tears] Aaaahhh, OK. Actually true.

In past shutdowns, Republicans fought to take things away from the public—to cut spending. This time Democrats are fighting to save something for the public—health care spending. I think it’s a different dynamic. I’ve been against small-bore politics against Trump, but this is a good fight.

If you have to say it, you’re not. The U.S. Supreme Court isn’t here to just perform a technical legal function. Its role is to explain to the whole public the application of the Constitution. It is meant to expound on the spirit and purpose of the Constitution. This court ain’t doing any of that.

Hegseth is by far the worst in his job in history. And that’s including the three months when Rutherford B. Hayes mistakenly named a walrus in a top hat the Secretary of War.

Damn

Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there

EXACTLY!!! THIS THIS THIS!

Hegseth is by far the worst in his job in history. And that’s including the three months when Rutherford B. Hayes mistakenly named a walrus in a top hat the Secretary of War.

If you want to understand how truly despicable Hegseth’s Wounded Knee statement is, read Heather Richardson’s book. The tensions & military build-up were driven by federal patronage, corruption, factional politics, & the GOP’s desire to control the Western states. The GOP is worse now.

EXACTLY!!! THIS THIS THIS!

Ex-Trump attorney warns America may have just reached 'tipping point': 'Take it seriously' www.rawstory.com/james-comey-...

When are people—and I do mean on Wall Street— going to learn that Trump will only accelerate his drive to crush the U.S. economy? There is no plan. It only gets worse. We have made an old man whose only policy is to yell “Get off my lawn!” the president of the United States.

I think we have to entertain the likelihood that farmers *want* to live off government welfare. Many voted for Trump after he tanked the farm economy last time. Now he’s doing what he promised, destroying export markets, locking up & deporting farm laborers and customers. Farmers must like it.

THE ONLY REASON THEY HAVE TO BE BAILED OUT IS BECAUSE YOU PUT INFINITY PERCENT TARIFFS ON CHINA AND THEY RETALIATED I AM GOING TO LOSE MY MIND

MUST READ! It lays out just how empty any attempt to indict Comey would be.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Semi-regular reminder that a sane country would have already impeached and removed. But then again a sane country wouldn’t have elected a maniac criminal twice in the first place.

So now you can afford to restore our ACA subsidies, right?

Why did the Confederacy lose? The U.S. had greater might, naval superiority, & arrived at better strategy, yes, but the decisive factor was this: Uprising. At least 1 million (out of 4) enslaved people fled & fought back—the greatest slave uprising in history. Lincoln recognized & ratified it. 1/5

If you want to understand how half-baked—no, more like an incomplete pile of ingredients—the plan to indict Comey is, read this. The daily beat reporters can’t explain it half as well. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

yeah this guy is dumber than donkey shit

This investigation is devastating. If the gross misconduct & incompetence at FEMA in the Texas flood had happened under Biden in a blue state, Democrats would have been outraged. But it’s Trump and Texas, so expect Republicans to say nothing. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

Putin wouldn’t have DARED to violate NATO airspace if Trump were president! Never would have happened.

GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s experiment as a model for the federal Medicaid work requirements set to take effect in 2027. A new report by a government spending watchdog found that the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement program spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care.

Donald Trump isn't just the stupidest American to become president; he's the stupidest American to become famous.

BA-HA-HA-HA-HA!

Who can forget FDR’s immortal words to Hitler and Poland on September 5, 1939: “In any event, I wish both Countries well” and “Good luck to all!”

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