During a government shutdown, the Trump administration is bailing out Argentina, whose president is fond of saying, “The state isn’t the solution, it’s the problem.”

All else equal — ceteris paribus, as the economists say — if you were to just grab that expensive watch from the jewelry store counter and walk out the door, you'd be better off. Only all else would not be equal. Lots of data-centric political punditry is basically "grab the watch".

For the normal people in the room, you should probably know this shit is a hit with neo-Nazis. The 14-year old Groyper you know has more space in his head for circumcision conspiracies (all of which blame the Jews) than you have space in your head for your cousins' first names.

No creativity or ingenuity in thinking of ways of how to fight Trump but infinitely amounts of creativity and ingenuity when it's time to brainstorm reasons why it's actually smart to do nothing.

This powerful JB Pritzker response to Trump's lawless threats is another reminder of what I tried to argue this morning: Pritzker understands Stephen Miller's theory of this moment, and he's responding accordingly: newrepublic.com/article/2014...

They are, and the consequences are extremely dire, but that pales in comparison to the much bigger problem: we don't have a legitimate president of the United States right now. What we are to make of his enablers and supporters who have thereby also delegitimized themselves is a secondary problem.

this is an incredibly evil thing for fetterman to break party ranks on. like...maybe worse than manchin or sinema?

Ezra Klein: Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

John Fetterman, ladies and gentlemen

His own words.

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Coming around to the theory that they're Truman Showing him

Cmon man lmao

Trump is the problem, sure, but they put him in charge. Had big pubs reported honestly on shit during the campaign we wouldn't be having this little roundtable

Is it good when the commander in chief is untethered to reality?

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

"In effect, these voters responded to the most comprehensive attempt to provide concrete benefits to them since the New Deal by loading an economic shotgun and pointing it directly at themselves." prospect.org/politics/202...

It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x

thank you brett kavanaugh!

What's it like living in Chicago today? This image gives us a strong sense of the fear that Chicagoans fear from Trump's secret police.

Getting heckled by someone in a dirty chicken costume has to be pretty low on the totem pole of life experiences

This strikes me as pretty bad

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital. apnews.com/article/chic...

But I thought if you smeared someone and they were then the victim of violence, that meant you had to be fired from your job. Or does Fox News only think that applies to teachers?

idly speculating how many troops you'd actually need to forcibly subdue a place the size of Illinois. like 400,000? at least?

I was a semi-important person once upon a time, and the Rahm Emanuel intake reached out to me. Diplomatically, they were all full of shit and they all lost their seats

👇🎯 This is how governing works in literally every actual democracy around the world. If you don’t have the votes, it’s up to you to make concessions to the minority parties. It’s not their job to save you from your responsibility to govern by giving you things you don’t have the votes for already.

Lmaooo

This is literally the only interpretation of these things. Rs could end this in whatever time it takes to do a voice vote in both houses, but they chose not to (because they don't have the votes). None of that is the responsibility of the Dems to fix.

Trump is coming for Social Security. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

"Congressman, what do you make of the government shutdown?" "Well, it gives us time to ask ... is the president suffering from dementia?"

Wurman is one of the starkest examples of somebody who’s not stupid, he could easily explain himself why this is wrong, but has simply decided, eyes wide open and knowing exactly what he is doing, to be shamelessly dishonest.

The President of the United States is lying and/or delusional, and it seems like we should be talking about this and nothing else.

When President AOC federalizes the National Guard in 2029 to protect abortion clinics, Ilan is going to magically discover an English treatise written in 1610 that proves Matthew Kacsmaryk can issue a nationwide injunction against her.

During the Obama administration, Oregon Republicans were convinced the federal black helicopters were coming for them at any moment. Today they’re posting videos of black helicopters over Portland & cheering giddily about it. They hate their senator who is speaking out against the black helicopters.

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

Federalist Society talking points only exist to address the short-term needs of the Republican Party. Anything else is superfluous.

i think anyone taught by ilan wurman ought to ask the university of minnesota law school for their money back

It’s a lawless regime.