put lina khan back in charge of the FTC but this time give her an air wing

We have to get members of Congress inside these facilities to report on what’s happening. It’s essential for human rights reasons - this surely isn’t good - and it’s also good politics, because whatever they find is going to be bad enough to further tank support for immigration enforcement.

oh goodie, we're back on the "gov't mandated speed limiters in every car" discourse it's a bad idea on the merits & it would be disastrous politically i stg does no one remember the backlash a national 55mph speed limit caused in the '70? this would be even worse

imagine a democratic party that was gutsy enough to try to steal the position of Speaker by peeling off a handful of disaffected republicans if we lived in that world congress could clamp down on a lot of the harm being inflicted on the country

the white house threw out matt gaetz because he was TOO qualified

the opponents of term limits don't give enough weight to the way that elected officials who spend decades in office become completely detached from the communities which they are supposed to represent

The only reasonable implication of saying this is he must be removed from office. That's a binary yes/no. To explicitly say no would be insane. To studiously avoid saying either way makes the allegation seem cynical and insincere. There's no splitting "he's a child rapist" from "he must be removed."

the real winner tonight is the New York Jets front office, completely validated in their choice to draft Sam Darnold

[tapping the sign] remember nancy pelosi's comment about the US needing a strong republican party? she said that because she thinks the GOP should be as aggressive at denying their voters the policies they desire as she is at denying progressives the policies we desire

the democratic party's current leadership has no more interest in stopping the campaign of terror in minneapolis than they did in stopping the genocide in gaza

let's be real; dem leadership ain't interested in stopping the goons terrorizing minneapolis DHS's lawless thuggery will only stop if dems force it to stop the only way to get dem leadership to confront DHS is to primary so many incumbent dems that the party starts to fear & obey their voters

The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps" The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"

remember that list of demands dem leadership rolled out last week? the one they said would stop all this lawlessness at DHS? well the dems didn't even call for the CBP agents who murdered Alex Pretti to be identified, much less demand that DHS employees who killed Pretti & Renee Good be prosecuted

Federal agents arrested for committing murder on video: 0, still.

the senate is an institution with lots of silly, antiquated rules—did you know all beverages but milk & water are forbidden on the senate floor?—it's only natural we're not familiar with all its intricacies the rules of the senate give the minority significant power dems refuse to exercise it

Notably there hasn't been a single impeachment article introduced in the US about Epstein.

it's insane that minneapolis continues to be an occupied city but the dems in congress continue to act like things are mostly normal instead of treating this situation like the emergency it is & a crisis which demands an extraordinary response, some of which is outlined here

i'm gonna be very skeptical of any senator who runs for president the track record of the senate is wretched & i haven't seen the likes of kelly or warnock any of the others who are clearly positioning themselves for a white house run do more than the absolute minimum from their lofty perches

every united states senator has their brain poisoned by being in the senate, the longer they hold a senate seat the more brain poisoned they become

wut

There is no reforming an institution like this. Abolish and prosecute ICE, and may fifteen generations shudder at their sentence

just a reminder that the united states is essentially operating a network of torture camps holding individuals in arbitrary detention, without access to appeal and rarely to counsel.

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

'anti-anti trumpers' are the sort of centrist reactionaries who if a leftist warned them that drinking gasoline is dangerous would respond by chugging a jerrycan just to spite them

the tl;dr is that the elites in politics, media, etc. hate the left so much that they would rather let a fascist burn down the Constitution than admit that the left was correct about trump

our elites were pushed to the brink when they got on social media & discovered that people would mock them to their face when they said dumb shit then our elites our elites went over the edge when Me Too came along, terrified by the thought they might face punishment for molesting their secretaries

sure, yeah, obama was better than the politicians we have now but how much decency did obama display when he authorized the extrajudicial assassination of a US citizen? when he kept gitmo open? when he kickstarted police militarization? refusal to hold our favs accountable is fatal to democracy

trump so senile now that the only economic ideas he can think of are from crank right wing economist from the '90s who predicted the shit like "Dow 36,000" more than two decades before it actually happened

shades of the time dianne feinstein told a bunch of kids to fuck off when they asked her take action on climate change

thinking again about how the democratic party went out of their way to staff the harris campaign with advisors from keir starmer's labour party

move over Hanford Integrated Nuclear Disposal Facility, your new name is the Donald J Trump & Jeffrey E. Epstein Memorial Nuclear Waste Dump

the state of florida has made it illegal for universities to put in their classrooms the radical, hateful, anti-american tenets of *checks notes* sociology

USPS blue mailboxes are stamped with year of manufacture. This is one of the oldest ones I've seen in a while. I am lots of fun at parties.

words without action are pretty much meaningless jeffries words are good but where are the actions he will be taking in response to trump publicly posting this gutter racism?

this isn't a hyperbolic claim; in the not-so-distant past a senator could kill their career with just a single incident of being publicly racist in 2006 sen. george allen called an indian "macaca" & it was such a scandal that he lost to a dem even though allen held a 2-1 fundraising advantage

"Aha!" the democratic senator exclaims. "Trump has finally gone too far—all the good Republicans will now surely stop him." *five minutes later* "Ah, well. Nevertheless."

2020: woke brandon runs for the presidency, wins the race with the highest turnout of any presidential election since 1960 2024: harris loses after campaigning with liz cheney & talking about owning a gun, millions of 2020 voters stayed home

look! they're not wearing masks! chuck schumer got exactly what he wanted!

the next dem president needs to treat every federal agent hired after Jan 20th, 2025 as presumptively a trump loyalist unfit for public service until they can prove otherwise

tomorrow: Jeffrey Epstein was responsible for the rise of reality television & advised the Coca-Cola company to replace sugar with high fructose corn syrup

lmao, incredible Ace Greenberg hired the teacher at his kids' school who had a rep for creeping on girls as a trader at Bear Sterns then decades later Jeffrey Epstein cashes out a highly leveraged fund which in one swoop leads to the death of Bear Sterns & kickstarts the Great Recession

I just dropped off $400 worth of groceries at a food bank in Fridley because people are still scared to come out of their homes and nothing Schumer and the Democrats are doing does anything to stop that.

Trump was "reaching out to the leader of the minority party, hat in hand...a clear-cut authoritarian in the critical stage of consolidating his regime signaling to a weaker rival that, in fact, some cards remained in his hands." "So what did Schumer do with this unearned leverage?" "He caved."

ted lieu voted 'present' on impeachment

I cannot stand the "this is a good start" discourse. The Democrats in Congress do not want to abolish ICE. They have proposed a series of bog-standard reforms regurgitated by a think tank. Everyone knows they do not work. The Democrats supporting this do not care. They just want to move on.

steve bannon is out there talking about how he's going to use ICE to steal the next election and this progressive organizer is slapping chuck schumer on the back for a job well done because he politely asked ICE to sometimes wear masks

biden got a republican senator to basically write their border bill for them only for the republicans to look at the lankford bill and say "lol no," because the GOP will always prioritize denying democrats political wins over any other consideration

colin powell is rotting in hell for telling the world lies that lead to the death of hundreds of thousands of iraqis

"The vaguer Ron Wyden is, the worse things are. And yesterday, Wyden released maybe the vaguest warning I've ever seen him release." yeah, the last time this happened the DNI perjured themselves in sworn congressional testimony (of course james clapper faced no consequences for his lies)