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they're calling it the world's worst constitutional amendment

Long live the jury trial in America.

The viral post about the East Wing demolition contractor calling out the president for unpaid invoices is completely made up, but if you want to actually learn something about the procurement + regulatory environment for firms involved in the project, there's this excellent ENR article from today:

I really think we can drive a wedge between church ladies and the rest of the right and it will hurt! Do you think Groypers are organizing fund raisers and phone banking for candidate?

"The jury — which feasted on sandwiches for lunch on Thursday, according to a person familiar with jury lunches — deliberated the charges for several hours on Wednesday and Thursday before delivering the verdict." yeah they cooked

This year has been the best defence of the jury trial system ever

straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.

Sandwich guy is 3-0 against the feds, absolute king shit

#BREAKING U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago is entering a preliminary injunction governing the use of force against protesters and journalists.

not only did the regime fail to get an indictment on felony assault, they failed to get a conviction on misdemeanor assault I do not regret to inform you we are going to win.

Ross Douthat right now:

When @alvar0l0pez.bsky.social writes something, I read it.

It’s funny how they’re genuinely going all in on the hitler cult as the hitler cult visibly and measurably implodes in public

Sure buddy

need to get to SanFran for a conference in two weeks and suddenly very seriously considering a 10 hour drive

This is going to be an absolute disaster and they could stop it by ending the filibuster

We are very much not going to let the media rehab MTG right? The racist rabid antisemite who accused Jews of manipulating the weather and frequently attacks one of her Black female colleagues in disgustingly racist ways? Certainly not, right?

He's right!

I knew the economic situation in Bolivia was getting dire, but I didn't realize that despite being an important gas exporter in the 00s and 2010s (the fossil fuel underwriting expanded gov social spending), at present Bolivia is *importing* gas t.co/ueAfEiZxL8

there's... there's other wings?

Among other things, last night was a demonstration of the abject moral necessity to tell doomers to fuck off.

I wish everyone who insisted Trump would fuck elections by posting ICE agents at every polling place, or even just a few key ones, would grapple with what it means that they were wrong, why they wanted to believe it, why they pushed back so hard when disagreements happened.

Even the broadest possible reading of the First Commandment, John 14:6, etc. would not prevent a Christian from sitting down as a guest at a Shabbat dinner. The only way you get there is with copious amounts of personal, psychologically-rooted Antisemitism

It’s crazy that they thought they could keep ramping up the violent rhetoric (and actual violence!) and never get even a tiny fraction of the same energy back from their targets.

Nancy Pelosi voted against the Defense of Marriage Act the President of her own party pushed. She spoke out for human rights activists in China after the Tiananmen Square Massacre. She voted against the Iraq War. Thanks to her, people with pre-existing conditions can have health care.

I learned recently that Matt Walsh has *only* worked as a pundit, first in radio then online, and it felt like "why are you even allowed to have opinions? Who are you to opine on things? You've done *nothing* with your life!"

i really dont think these people are equipped to live in the world they built.

these people mostly voted for the Nazi porn candidate btw

Chuck Schumer's inability to say whether he voted for the Democratic nominee in a general election in his city is the final straw for @ryanlcooper.com. prospect.org/2025/11/06/c...

Not even acknowledging it’s an issue isn’t going to work, we saw this when Dems were in and we tried to show real data. the public believes the economy is cooked and thats what matters

btw the Downballot’s special election tracker is now showing a D+14.4% swing from 2025, putting us at around a D+13 implied National environment as I always point out even if you want to take off 5 points for whatever reasoning you have, that’s still D+8!

"off year elections are not indicative of what's to come, that's what history teaches us" no it's not! there is a strong relationship between the swing in the VA Gov race and subsequent swing in the midterms www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

Kind of hilarious to imagine they think this is targeting blue cities because they don’t realize what “hub” means.

Organized leftists won 53 city council elections in 2025. Wins and win rate, by group: #1: DSA with 37* wins at 71%* #2: ProDane with 7 wins at 78% #3: VPP with 5 wins at 63% #4: CPUSA with 2 wins at 67% #4: Greens with 2 wins at 14% * Not including races still to be determined

I initially read this as ‘83% of young women want Mamdani’ and did not question that as a statistic

wow, prescient headline from the new york times, great job everyone

It’s been 9.5 months and he’s been reduced to this level of nonsense. Three more years of this.

One underrated funny plot line from January 6 was Mike Pence being so dumb that he had to call up *Dan Fucking Quayle* to be like “gee Dan, Trump says I can just hand the election over to him on my own, does that seem right?”

I just can't imagine having been the premier surrenderist in the Dem House Caucus, after having been physically present in the building on J6 Bleak. Not an iota of self-respect (to say nothing of respect for his own constituents). Good riddance.

SMC member and @socialists.nyc Electoral Coordinator Álvaro López explains how WE can win Zohran's agenda in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Dem candidate in the TN07 specials(R+22) is airing TV ads as well. Tax cut for billionaires, Tariffs, healthcare costs, and Epstein all mentioned youtu.be/JjznC6xlYrE?...

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

Oh my god is that a Chiang-faced aircraft carrier?

Dr. Ally Louks where are you

Once you get past the throat-clearing nonsense blaming Democrats, the actual argument is good. Shutdowns are stupid and we shouldn't have them. Appropriations should continue at current levels until they are replaced, not periodically destroy the government.

the Wine Moms for Car Bombs are not fucking around