The Puke-Green Lantern Theory

Even I did not think leaders mattered THIS MUCH

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Americans should understand that Trump has forward deployed a substantial fraction of US land-based aircraft out in the open within missile range of Iran. This is a war of choice that could wipe out combat power the US might wish it had husbanded for other scenarios. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor is it known unto the human heart, the magnitude of hate Pope Leo has for JD Vance specifically

Canada must immediately stop treating the US as a safe country in cases where asylum seekers arrive at the border having transited the US.

I know why AI sucks so much: it was created by the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.

Never has so much US combat power been assembled with so little explanation to the public, allies, or Congress regarding why or how it will be used. Never.

i also think if you’re going to write a piece about the court’s independence from Trump you might want to include some data about how often they have sided with him *this* term

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

The onus is on all those who are responsible for enforcing this. Courts say no, president says yes.... maybe don't do anything?

I keep this image on my desktop now because of how often I have to use it.

Tesla made suppliers tool up for 120k units/year of this turd, it sold a third of that in year one, and then sales fell by 50% in year two. Biggest flop in modern automotive history, and it isn't close.

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office. This is looting.

what is even the point of this

ice’s illegitimacy grows with every passing day

He is the least convincing liar in a group of bad liars.

"If you seized all Elon's wealth it'd only be like $2,000 per American." Do you know what a $2,000 'Fuck Elon' stimulus check would do for people and the country economically, emotionally and morally?

A sensible moderate, I will also accept fining him into oblivion followed by exile.

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Of course Trump is confused. The Supreme Court told everyone that the Constitution doesn’t apply to him and he can break laws without consequence if he feels like it. They effectively rewrote the Constitution just for him. More than once! Why would he expect the law to suddenly matter for tariffs?

This would be a great time to remind Americans that much of their cost of living increases the past year are due to tariffs.

There are few things I find more amusing than Republicans whining that the SCOTUS they bought and paid for -- a project that took decades -- is "lawless" etc. now.

Tis a survey that the @cdsn.bsky.social did with Nanos

Maybe Gorsuch could have thought about that before casting his vote for presidential immunity.

If you want to learn the fuller, more complex story — including about the would-be military coup and the downsides of Brazil's militant Supreme Court — please read the whole story. It was months of work, and I'm proud of what we came up with. www.vox.com/politics/479...

1/ Okay, now I’m mad. Any Supreme Court in our nation’s history before John Roberts would have upheld the lower courts’ injunctions blocking Trump’s tariffs & not issued a stay that let Trump wreck the economy and break the law for over a year. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

So beyond calling it a “constitutional crisis,” what actually happens when a president simply says no to a Supreme Court decision

The worst figures on campus arguing that campuses had become overrun with wokeness were all best buddies with Epstein. Quelle surprise. www.salon.com/2026/02/19/j...

Trump illegally imposed billions in tariffs (taxes) on U.S. corporations. Much of those costs were passed onto consumers. The corporations might get their money back. You never will.

Emergency power, Republican president: Learning Resources v. Trump as a year of lawless tariffs, then a 6-3 clawback—that record does not diminish but underlines the corruption problem of the Roberts right-wing majority on today’s Supreme Court: **The Corrupt & Craven Supreme Court Has a... 1/

This sounds like the graduated pressure logic that guided the initial U.S. air campaign in Vietnam, Operation Rolling Thunder. It was tactically impressive, lasted three years, and totally failed to achieve U.S. strategic objectives. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Who is going to be the voice of caution *that Trump will heed* if he wants to give Iran a bloody nose? Certainly not Hegseth. Secretary of State Rubio, the nation's top diplomat and NSA, seems preoccupied with strangling Cuba. Just don't see it. www.wsj.com/world/middle... 9/

Which, again, circles us right back to the other thing that people don't want to talk about:

This means that Trump is giving himself as the Head of the Board of Corruption, $10 billion to spend however he wants, with no oversight from the US government and without congressional approval. It’s outright thievery.

Ok, i guess it is sudden death

How does Trump know the question is about him?

My grandparents were there. Santa Anita Assembly Center, was a race track with stalls for horses. At it's peak it housed 18,719 Japanese Americans

This is a lay-up for the WH press "Karoline, the president said he was 'totally exonerated' of any role in the Epstein scandal. Who exonerated him?" [word salad] "OK, but the president said he had been exonerated, when his name appeared 38,000 times in the files. How was he exonerated?"

Hat tip to the veterans organizations that started flipping tables over this yesterday

Magic hotel tv turned on without any input from me and was set to US-Canada women gold match. For the first time in my 24 years here, I am rooting for Canada.

"The Times understands that the UK is yet to give permission for the US to use the bases in the event that Trump orders a strike on Iran, owing to concerns that it would be a breach of international law." This is a BIG deal given the US-UK military relationship. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

it's so funny to try to legitimize a moronic argument by claiming that it is supported by a growing movement of diverse thinkers and then you list the people who belong to that movement and every single one is stupid and/or racist

If Trump passed like a 4% income tax increase on the middle class, it would be a huge story and get like 90% disapproval. In essence, he’s done exactly this and gets no press on it at all (framing it that way).

Great piece by @kevinmkruse.bsky.social I very much appreciate when he uses Dept of War and Dept of Defense. Kevin's history is clear on diversity as strength so is poli sci via @jaylyall.bsky.social 's book--that armies that welcome diversity win and those that don't lose.

Historian Kevin Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) got irked about Musk banging on about how our multicultural society is a Bad Thing, and consequently wrote this screamingly fantastic little gem. Provides badly needed perspective especially for folks who don't know much about the US decades ago.

all this stuff makes much more sense if you understand “anti wokeness” as a general backlash to elite accountability more generally, even if you have criticisms of left wing egalitarianism bsky.app/profile/kevi...

This is the way. Each Russian demand list must be mirrored. The battlefield is stalled and no one is winning. Thus, there's no reason to preemptively concede a single russian demand. The deference to russia's supposed might, which has long characterized European/US policy needs to end. Russia...

has revealed itself as weak and incapable of compelling the outcomes it seeks. Trump, of course, is a lost cause and deeply pro-russian for no good reason. The EU is lucky to have Kallas as foreign policy chief as she really knows how to deal with russia.