If Rs win in 2028 and replace Sotomayor, it's gone. I don't know why a bloc of left-wing voters convince themselves "the court shouldn't matter, you can't blackmail me" but that happens every decade and a half for some reason

the commutation was an abuse of power since she was utterly unrepentant and he knew it, it was timed in a way to foil the legislature responding which was another abuse of power and this is insult to injury, he should be impeached

What does Jake Tapper consider a good use of his attention as a primetime cable news host? Well, here he is asking Dan Goldman, who lost his seat to Mamdani-endorsed Brad Lander by 31 points, if he thinks Zohran Mamdani is a secret antisemite.

I disagree slightly here. I don't think Klein is into this stuff, I think he values what he sees as civility and collegiality with far-right racists as fellow "intellectuals" more than he does having values, and that effectively makes him a useful idiot for promoting their views.

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

next journalist who interviews vance about his faith should ask him about his role in ethnically cleansing his co religionists

Enjoy this article from a Minnesota newspaper in 1882 noting that Scandinavians love their home countries so much that it will take them generations to assimilate into America. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...

tbh it was crazy how SCOTUS's take is "you can only ever accuse people of racism when they explicitly say 'I am being a racist'" but with the Haiti comments they don't even think that's enough evidence anymore

You can be as communist as you want in New York and nobody cares, but you can't upset the patronage and sinecure networks without causing a civil war.

@tonyreast.bsky.social would/could there be any two-way contracts (potentially) announced by the Pacers tonight if they don’t trade back in, or are all their current guys on two-year deals? I know this front office likes the two-year approach. Just prepping myself for how quiet tonight could be.

i think it is great that conservative students functionally work as a volunteer stasi for republican politicians and conservative media

No Kings protest btw

we have to do whatever we can to keep yglesian-shorism away from the Democratic Party if we’re going to rebuilt a better country post-MAGA

The theory that “electable” means “work to appease right-wing bigots under the assumption that majorities agree with them, at least partially, and they prioritize it when voting” has been tried. It has failed. Try something else.

I am so tired. we bailed out their pensions with billions of our taxpayer dollars and they turn around and endorse awful republicans

i believe JD Vance is responsible for this disastrous conclusion to the previously victorious Iran War and he should be punished by MAGA patriots

Low-hanging fruit for journalists: ask Gill what Bonhoeffer did. High likelihood Gill answers with neo-Nazi esoterica about how Bonhoeffer was a traitor who was lawfully executed for attempting a violent overthrow of the State. (On Hitler's orders, he was given a show trial then murdered.)

You do not have nearly enough contempt for political news media

I'm gonna normie post and just say it is truly sickening that that dude can Nazi salute, stoke racist violence, commit voter fraud, kill kids across the globe with callousness, be a sexual predator and so fucking on and get rewarded rather than be in the stocks

the US president, with the explicit support of the US legislature and the US supreme court, is stealing billions of dollars in thousands of ways. meanwhile the NYT is on the case of whether, when mamdani paid a thousand dollars for a knicks ticket out of his own pocket, he got a ticket for VIPs

Spurs are doing this with basically nothing from their touted vets. Former clutch player of the year (Fox) with consecutive careless turnovers and current 6MOTY (Johnson) is borderline unplayable unless you’re trying to hard foul people.

the knicks are obsessed with "sending a message" by committing a bunch of dirty plays when down by 20 points. it's game 4 of the nba finals. get it together

the cars don't drive themselves and we're still nowhere near Mars, but you can't question Elon Musk's ability to deliver screwworms and racial violence

one day you're going to see elon posting "we just cut 200 million dollars going to bull weevil outbreak prevention 😂😂" and then a couple months later the entire midwest will be decimated by the first mass bull weevil outbreak since 1884

“more children have been preyed upon by republican politicians than have received gender reassignment surgery. let’s talk about that.”

The NYT once again covering for their special birthday boy

Dude…

the GOP understands they've gone too far, but they also know that that means they can't stop now.

Chuck Schumer refused to endorse Zohran Mamdani but did endorse Graham Platner, which says a lot about Schumer—none of it good

The Assassination of Stephon Castle by the Coward Alex Caruso

will they write an equivalent "James Talarico attacked Ken Paxton for releasing a child rapist, putting release of pedophiles front and center in the race" piece or do they only amplify GOP attacks for some reason?

surely now that tanking has been “resolved” there will be a renewed focus on addressing the aspiration and gambling scandals instead of hyper-fixating on how AI can fix the all-new, never-before-seen flopping issues

Jared Polis should resign today and never return to politics.

It’s her day

What did people think he meant when he said Republicans just had to elect him this one time and then they would fix it so no one had to vote anymore? Like what other explanation was there?

Virginia Supreme Court declaring Democratic gerrymandering illegal while Republicans are literally wrapping themselves in Trump flags while disenfranchising black southerners is the most on brand moment for the modern USA.

if you let the white south go too many generations without federal occupation, this is what they get up to

what makes the SCOTUS Gang of Six acting as an unaccountable super-legislature especially intolerable is that they are not just setting up unfavorable rules, they are playing Calvinball where they selectively apply the rules case-by-case exclusively to help Republicans. A judicial dictatorship

the thing dem pols need to internalize is this guy and his entire family will vote republican for the rest of their lives, regardless of the republican party literally ending their livelihood

Trump knows that everyone understands what "Low IQ person" means when he says it but the press isn't willing to write it. He knows they will always cover for him and he loves that he can get away with it. He's used so many old timey racist terms he hopes no one knows but he also does this

i know the nba loves a heel but they really need to get Lu Dort off the court before he causes a career-altering injury to a star

same writer

This is sociopathy masquerading as socialism.

Josh Hart is grabbing and shoving dudes left and right. No calls lol.

if the authors of this piece want to live in a world with socialist policies, they should stop boosting selfish, anti-social behavior

He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence

why on earth are you trying to convey that message to the country chuck