it remains very interesting that the big blue cities in Texas and Florida have not been occupied by their Governors who are very interested in sending troops out of state

Under Title 32 USC, The Adjutant General (TAG) in each state is the military commander for both the Army and Air National Guard for that state and usually coordinates directly with the governor for domestic operations including emergency response.

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

On the one hand, civ-mil relations are gonna be nuts for the rest of my life On the other hand, encouraging that the military isn’t cowed at every level

fellas is it gay to live in a city

another ""antiwar"" article that's primarily slobbering all over russian imperialism and calling it peace original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_ca...

The thing is the people in the social justice mutual grifting game don’t really care about one another. They are desperate people desperate for connection, mixed with some sadists and gunners and social climbers and probably a few feds. everyone has ulterior motives

Feel like the story of the cumulative weaknesses of our republic is partisan capture of multiple power centers that were designed to be in perpetual low grade conflict defending their spheres of power against each other.

They’re channers People on the left absolutely love to emphasize that they’re nothing like channers becuase channers are far right but like, they absolutely just are the same, It’s the same politics, with a woke branding

People started out far right on the chans becuase on average if you’re going to be a souchenozzle on purpose you are probably a right winger but once the number of people being recreational shitheads online reached an appreciable fraction of everyone, there wss plenty of space on the left

If you actually wanted Newsom to sign this law you’d report this very differently

Why is all news like this now

I swear to fucking god everyone who thinks they're a fucking journalist needs to stop practicing their profession (The piece itself reads like it's fucking AI in the first place it's so unintelligible) and recognize you're just screaming for attention like the rest of us.

in Newsom's tepid defense I cannot imagine a single person who isn't a sicko wonk actively reading a Newsom veto letter even if it's put in front of them; I don't think "politicians explain their reasoning for every decision they make in a way legible to everyone" *is* a reasonable ask

I think part of the dynamic is that the CA legislature likes to pass things that sound good but aren’t well thought out / subvert processes that already exist for producing that thing. IMO, the veto message seems pretty reasonable. www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

useful context note in re: Newsom veto; if there weren't a *pattern* of Weird Behaviour from him this is the kind of thing I would have immediately tried to go look up, and probably should have anyway:

I’m a single-issue voter from now until the day I die: “hold the people who did this and all these other crimes responsible, no matter what it takes” I’m gonna go to town halls and congressional field offices and bring it up ad infinitum

It permanently altered my perception of Discourse and Poasting when I clued in to the fact that a lot of people on social media really do just want an acceptable target to bully.

Ana Kasparian shades Cenk over this. "I'm gonna be on my best behavior and give you guys accurate and measured information."

OMG. the largest kleptocracy in history is in power in our country right now but this is what you want to focus your efforts on. Be better for God’s sake.

Go duck yourselves

Remember, it was the Washington Post who gave Bondi a thumbs up to be confirmed. Democracy Docket made clear from day one that she was an election denying sycophant. No surprise at their coverage of today. Support independent, pro-democracy media today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

why are you fighting so hard for your right to be mean to computers? just be nice to all objects it’s a better way to live.

Stephen Miller/ heritage vought, gave Bondi a list of one liner insults to sling at each individual asking questions. Beligerent, finger pointing, irrational, defensive. You’d think she was hiding stuff.🙄

Fox News: where every woman’s opinion is reinterpreted as a crush.

another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.

what

Lol, it really is all just cosplay

I’m sure replies here are going to be very normal

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Not since @RepAndyBiggsAZ asked for a pardon have members of Congress acted this guilty

That asshole in the white house is right there. Take him! Leave Dolly alone!

Remember when the Boston Globe ran this supposedly over-the-top front page to attack the idea of Trump ever being president, and now this is just the news every day? We've fallen so, so far because of this man

Legacy newspapers: "Print media is dying, and the public will suffer for it." Also legacy newspapers: "We can't offend the government with information and framing that helps the public."

Schiff: This is supposed to be an oversight hearing when dozens of prosecutors have been fired simply because they worked on cases investigating the former president. Bondi: What about the fires in California? Are the riots in LA serious?

lack of congressional representation and self-governance. we joke about it but actually we're pretty mad

Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.

"They shut down the government, and we are not going to pay you for it." They are not serious people. They are not politicians. They aren't good at whatever they're trying to do. Once again, if they were smart they could've insulated themselves for 30 years.

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

Anyway, bullying is bad, flippant comments lionizing bullying are bad, even when your targets are themselves bad.

They're stupid and they got us Trump

Mike Johnson doesn't care about the law he cares about evangelical dominance and arbitrary rule, he's a religious reactionary

better plan would be to build more pro social tendencies, not to accept the anti social ones

why would i want to lean into low social trust

You can’t lean into low trust, by definition

ehh I think it's more accurate to say there's a kind of general 'FUCK DA MAN' low social trust style of politics that is sometimes left-inflected and sometimes right-inflected in mostly incoherent ways

We call them median voters

Yes yes good definitely be the first Republicans to not backpay people during a shutdown you caused.

it was not a weekend news dump and now they’re making up a thing about how they’re going to withhold back pay, which is just straightforwardly black letter law now. they got nothing and Vought is having the worst work day of his life right now.