Pope Leo when he hears JD Vance is writing a book about the Catholic faith

It's not a constitutional stretch to say "corrupt self-dealing pardons don't count, sorry". Obviously this SCOTUS wouldn't go for it, but that's why you replace this SCOTUS day one of the new trifecta

I'm not sure if this is true, but either way, we should ignore all of his pardons

“dumb antichrist” is going to be with me for a long time

there are two absolutely canonical Good Friday posts

All Democrats in Congress need to talking about Nuremberg 2.0 often and openly.

Ok this thread rules

Anything less than a 9-0 unambiguous affirmation of birthright citizenship as settled law that cannot be changed except by Amendment is properly understood as an assault by those Justices on the foundation of American values, law, and government. To even humor this shows the institution has failed.

this + if any Supreme Court justice *doesn't* reject Trump's attack on the constitutional order in the birthright citizenship case, Congress would have good cause to pursue impeachment it's that flagrant 9-0 or they've got to go

Trump has the highest disapproval of all time on inflation, higher than Biden, higher than Carter. Inflation is currently 2.4%. Look, I don't feel bad for Trump. But we are experiencing a complete breakdown of the political information system.

I can imagine cases where this alone should justify an award of punitive damages.

Travel writer Rick Steves on Washington's newly signed "Millionaires Tax"

i've yet to see evidence that this man is anything other than the fucking coolest to ever do it

Ketanji Brown-Jackson gets a lot of shit for being “impractical” etc but she’s the only person there who understands the assignment and even her “allies” resent her for it.

I hear from friends I trust in software that AI is clearly the future and increasingly the present in their field. I hate all the AI bullshit forced on me and don’t trust the assholes pushing it, but software sounds like one of the areas where it is genuinely revolutionary.

Jackson is the only liberal justice who understands the moment and what it calls for. which we already knew because if Sotomayor understood it she would've retired under Biden

the reason hegseth lobbied trump to pardon war criminals in his first term and why he has done everything possible to make war crimes more likely is that hegseth believes war crimes to be Objectively Good. war to him, in fact, consists of committing indiscriminate war crimes.

damn she got my ass

Unmedicated ADHD: my plans for today are none of my business

imagine the Pope personally calling you a fake bitch who's going to hell lol

It’s undoubtedly reductive to frame American political decline around a single issue but I do think we would have been less likely to elect people who promise to burn it all down if we had basic necessities like healthcare provided by the government. I keep coming back to that

Seattle, Cal Anderson Park - No Kings.

#Seattle #NoKings March 28 early estimate 90k

Ha I see my signs

NYC NO kings

John Waters with a "Trump Ruined Bad Taste" sign just might be the best protest photo of all time.

I cannot stress enough how these are PTA moms and soccer coach dads and I can best describe the vibe as “festively bloodthirsty”

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

On my way #NoKings #Seattle

I for one think it’s very cool how millions of people periodically line up to tell donald trump to eat shit

see you there

Seeing a million people turn out and snake through a large city is very cool, I won’t deny that but my favorite genre of post during these protests is “small town in a red state with the biggest crowd anyone has ever seen”

Nearly ready for some First Amendment activity

They started a war of choice for absolutely no reason, with no real strategy and no real preparation, and the end result will be a global situation that is, in every single way, worse than what it was when they started.

hold my beer, hemingway

this is going to be more embarrassing than any of us can possibly imagine and I cannot wait

Ok I think this hits the nail on the head

introducing my kids to the concept of pronouncing things wrong on purpose

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

Just so we're clear here, Trump installed his own defense lawyer as the Deputy Attorney General and had him lead the purge of the federal prosecutors who brought cases against Trump.

Hot take: No Kings is good and if you have the time and capacity, you should go to a protest on Saturday.

one thing a whole lot of us struggle with at times is feeling isolated and depressed and like not enough people care about what’s going on and I really cannot emphasize enough that going to a no kings protest helps this feeling a lot there are so! many! people! who hate all of this shit

OK this is good posting

It's Akira Kurosawa's birthday, so in honour of that, as always, here is that picture of him visiting the set of Kindergarten Cop

I think about this all the time listening to Ezra's pod, 75% of which is: Ezra: Can you believe Trump [acted in a way perfectly consistent with everything we know about him]? Guest: Yeah, it's almost like he's [exactly as he has appeared, at every second, from the beginning]! Repeat.

This from @mkhammr.bsky.social seems like really good advice. Particularly these days, when tragedy seems so common.

A thing that’s fun to think about is that when it happens it will be a GLOBAL celebration. Like there will be video from around the world of people dancing and laughing and singing

RIP Robert Mueller, he was preceded in death by the Rule of Law.

lol