This REALLY struck me from yesterday's oral arguments. It's cliche that the Trump Administration is terminally online, but the Solicitor General arguing that the President's personal social media platform constitutes a forum sufficient to satisfy due process rights is an unimaginable sea change.

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

they are literally kidnapping children. HOW ARE WE ALLOWING THIS TO GO ON.

i honestly don’t care what the polls say, if you’re still falling for the dems’ whole “we would love to oppose trump/the right and fight culture war stuff but it’s just not popular, we simply must follow the polls this time” song and dance, you’re a mark, sorry.

this IS a fun fact

The Virginia legislature today passed four constitutional amendments, all by day 3 of 2026 session: —protect abortion rights —repeal the same-sex marriage ban —allow mid-decade redistricting —greatly expand voting rights restoration. These will all go to 2026 referendums.

Spanberger is now governor of Virginia, ending the Youngkin era and returning the state to full Democratic control.

Also, not a con law guy, but don’t think the idea is that the 4th Amendment aims to PROTECT arrest powers but to LIMIT them. They are trying to invert a Constitutional that focused on negative liberties (“state can’t do x”) to constrain the state into one of positive liberties FOR the state.

Listening to the Sabres game on a long drive home. It is very weird being in the car and listening to people talk at a normal speed instead of on 2x like my usual podcasts.

100%. For example, the bathroom bills, where even if you think it's morally wrong for a penis to exist in a women's space, it takes about five seconds to realize enforcement involves grotesque privacy invasions on random people. Being pro-grotesque privacy invasions is bad outside of trans issues!

Gov. Walz to MS NOW: "Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system … is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic. "The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her."

Watched BWC footage today from a rural Virginia county. An ambulance pulls up and for some reason it has the goathead Sabres logo on it? Even weirder? I'm wearing the same logo on my sweater today. I called my coworker to come see because I needed somebody else to experience it.

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"Worse than Bush after Katrina" is a polling benchmark that I thought that partisan polarization had made impossible

See, I was getting a different message from "Alabama has no OBGYNs in many of their counties."

This is the second time I am going to write this today: IF you support this, or find ways of rationalizing or sane-washing this, get off my list of Followers now, because we are not friends unless you condemn this in no uncertain terms. This has Stephen Miller written all over it.

“ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do” played over video of ICE engaging in acts of violence should be the wall to wall DNC media strategy right now

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

Every time I see someone yammering about abolish ICE / policing and how DEEPLY UNPOPULAR it is, I want to remind them that the GOP abolished Roe v. Wade and that was also deeply, deeply unpopular, and here they are, in charge of everything still.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

"we can just do it" needs to be the governing motto of the next Democratic administration

This is one of my fave stories. The traitor's battle flag was captured by the First Minnesota Infantry at Gettysburg. 3/4 of the regiment died that day. Va has repeatedly requested its return. MN gov Jesse Ventura notoriously responded, “Why? I mean, we won. We took it, that makes it our heritage.”

An underrated part of this is that he is so not legitimate law enforcement that he has to ask his buddies to call 911

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

This is why I want us to think about sexism as disqualifying. It should be enough to do it based on treating half the population as lesser but that's never convinced men so I want to point out gutter misogynists love killing and harming men too

MATTIAS SAMUELSSON FOR MVP

Lotta people get mad at me when I criticize Democratic messaging but THIS IS HOW DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE TALKING. Like normal people using normal language to communicate normal human emotions about the fucked up situation. THIS.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

it is true that it *should not* matter that the murder victim was a white, middle-class, U.S. citizen mother, but it is also true that it *does* matter and that the story reaches people who might not otherwise be reached as a result.

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

We need more of this kind of truth telling.

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

Johnson lies knowing Capitol hill media will dutifully repeat his lies. Like below They all know they are being lied to. And that they repeating lies But they see that as their job - even when they can see it for themselves

ICE murdered a woman - there’s no ambiguity here. I hope local and state leaders do everything they can to hold the perpetrator accountable.

Had a zoom call with (male) co-counsel. Warned him I had to take it from my car. His immediate thought was that I was dealing with school drop off? Sir, I was on my way to a hearing. C’mon.

We’re trying winter sowing this year. Yes they need something under the dowels to support them. Working on that. 🌱

If we keep this shit up, eventually someone is gonna try to stop us, and we’re not gonna like it

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

If Nicolás Maduro stands trial in the United States and gets convicted of 34 felonies, does that mean he’s qualified to be our next president now? Just checking what the standards are these days.

you don't need to add caveats agreeing that the head of state abducted is a bad guy before opposing abduction of a head of state by military force. If the rule was any head of government is fair game then the entire world would be a series of decapitation strikes and show trials in foreign courts.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

The Buffalo Sabres have been on an absolute heater. 🔥

This is a brilliant line that should make a lot of folks…in both parties…very uncomfortable. Yes. Good.

It sounds like something you’d read on Wikipedia about a 17th century monarch

"we're here to inspect your daycare center"