I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.

Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social They need to drop the price at least $1.5m to compensate for the entire remodel prior to move in. Ghastly is a good description Ew.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Just so we’re all clear here, he is saying that Rob Reiner and his wife were asking for it.

This is despicable

The Saudis paid Trump a lot of money this year for what they got today in the Oval Office.

Respect.

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As @mcopelov.bsky.social is known to say, "Who actually was president in 2020?" continues to be the central cleavage of American politics in 20205. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The operative word is "insurance"

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

Fox Propaganda thinks we are idiots, who have no idea who jacked up tariffs on Brazil that made COFFEE prices go up in the first place. Or who eliminated EV incentives that will cause gasoline demand (and therefore prices) to go up.

Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich https://theonion.com/trump-solemnly-lays-wreath-at-site-where-he-would-have-1832907992/

@govpritzker.illinois.gov @jbpritzker.bsky.social Durbin is your senator can you influence him to back away from this terrible CR? What a disaster…

Cheat sheet

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ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant” He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling? Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

I don’t understand camps saying: Dems need to follow the Mamdani model to win the midterms; or Dems need to follow the Spanberger model to win. It’s a big country. Different approaches work in different places. Candidates who connect w/their specific constituencies is the model.

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Patel's girlfriend performed at Penn State last weekend. A government jet arrived at State College Regional Airport, according to its FAA registration, with an address listing the FBI HQ. The plane then flew to Nashville, where his girlfriend lives. All on the taxpayer’s dime. trib.al/TBvPo7A

The most Minnesotan protest sign. #NoKings

I wonder if all the people braying about the "war on Christianity" might raise some objections if it were a *Democratic* administration who had its armed thugs shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and waiting outside Catholic Churches to disappear parishioners?

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Every single DC journalist should be spending this afternoon/evening finding Speaker Johnson & John Thune & asking them why the impeachment/removal has not happened yet, & continuing to hammer them with the same question over & over & over & over again & not accepting the boilerplate non-answers.

goddamn this is good

Do you know how badly things have to be going in America for us to be owned this hard by the Dutch? The Dutch of all people

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I call on media to REFUSE the framing pushed by right wing chaos agents like Cernovitch & Rufo on this act of what appears to be political violence. The Democratic former Speaker of the Minnesota House was assasinated along with/her husband. The killers was hunting Dems. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas

J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.

“[Bill] Pulte got his job in the administration about three years after his wife, Diana Pulte, donated $500,000 to a super PAC backing Trump. The donation was channeled through a Delaware shell company, ML Organization LLC, that Bill Pulte controlled.”

This is 100% correct.

He mixed up Wes Moore, brilliant Governor of Maryland, decorated vet, Rhodes Scholar... with Tim Scott, moron hack maga stooge boot-licking Senator from South Carolina (former VP hopeful who didn't even get a cabinet nom from his boss). Because they're both black.

Multiple firings at Pentagon. @radiofreetom.bsky.social taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-fi...

"Where you're giving someone 'Queen for a Day' immunity ... If there's contradiction between [Ghislaine Maxwell] and trial testimony of the victims, you don't want to undermine this woman's credibility because you want her to say something favorable to [the president of the United States.]"

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

The lack of self-awareness @gavinnewsom.bsky.social has baited them into is incredible. This is easily the funniest thing Hannity has ever said.

“in solidarity with the cities and communities targeted…for our refusal to bow down to unconstitutional threats and unlawful coercion, we affirm our support for each other and for our democracy. Boston will never back down from being a beacon of freedom, and a home for everyone.” -Mayor Michelle Wu

This is Nube. She is a modern piano pawdigy. So good she can play Beethoven in her sleep. 14/10

It's so weird that DC was safe enough for a dictator's military birthday parade and is now a hotbed of crime.

what land is Russia giving up as part of a deal? Ukrainian land they're illegally occupying does not count

If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?

That Trump-Putin Summit in Alaska played out like an episode of VEEP.

No agency insignia at all on their uniforms, so this is likely not DEA or ATF or FBI or Border Patrol. So probably it’s DHS, most likely ICE. And yeah, the comment about “liberal” is really telling. These guys are wildly unprofessional.