This order provides yet another indication that the Supreme Court will (1) let Trump fire the leaders of every other agency, but (2) maintain a lone carve-out for the Federal Reserve that prevents him from firing its members without a good, legitimate reason.

I do wonder when media outlets will get interested in ballooning everyday costs. My family's grocery bill has exploded over the past six months and - unlike when a Democrat is president - this is a non-story.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

“I don’t understand how being rich can make someone such a whore” is the defining quandary of our time.

It should be referred to as a Kavanaugh stop.

Trump and his billionaire donors might be able to determine Adams and Cuomo’s actions. But they won't decide this election. In just over 5 weeks, we'll turn the page on the politics of big money and small ideas — and deliver a government every New Yorker can be proud of.

My general belief is that Dems need to spend more time thinking about what they believe and less about what they think some imaginary swing voters want them to believe. Political strategy will stem from an authentic set of beliefs.

Republicans run the White House, Congress and Supreme Court on the principle that the only role Dems can play is bailing the GOP out from facing the consequences of their own actions. They expect Dems to clean up after them and save them from voters’ blame, and sadly some Dems want to do just that.

LOL wtf kind of total clown shit is this?

ICYMI: SCOTUS let DJT halt foreign aid payment -Money that Congress had already appropriated -In defiance of the constitution -In an unsigned emergency decision -overturning a lower court -Because DJT’s flexibility is more important than any harms caused to the aid recipients -THE ROBERTS LEGACY

the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.

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Here for the Isaac Chotiner discourse

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Some of us do.

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

i don’t buy the “it’s not over, it’s just propaganda to make you give up” discourse. If SCOTUS is not willing to hold him accountable, is in fact dead set on making the Unitary Executive happen, who do y’all think is actually going to stop him?

In December 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to grant cert before judgement to hear Trump’s immunity appeal. The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024. Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

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He’s sincerely the dumbest man to ever occupy the office.

dudes rock

Holy shit

i think everyone needs to get a lot less religious

We don’t celebrate his death, but we won’t hide the truth about his life.

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

fantastic piece.

ACIP just voted to change the CDC's recommendation for Covid vaccination to "individual decision making"

95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires. shame. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

Biggest story in the world, told in the mainstream press perfectly well: AP/PBS headline: TRUMP'S MOVES AGAINST MEDIA OUTLETS MIRROR AUTHORITARIAN APPROACHES TO SILENCING DISSENT www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

Yep. And the money people don't seem to understand that it is the job of Democrats to push people in the middle closer to the left, which is where most actually Democrats are, not to drag the whole party right on the basis that maybe one swing voter might show up for it.

when your wars are too crimey even for john yoo, boy howdy

Orwell wept.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul in her endorsement op-ed goes after Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo without naming them:

Damn. This dude writes for the Dispatch!

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

I’m excited for the next election where the party that is trying to nationalize the means of production calls the opposition “socialist.”

Dems are too afraid of sounding classist in the economic sense to make the obvious observation that the Trump GOP has leaned hard into being the part of trash. That’s their elevator pitch. Are you human garbage tired of being made to feel inferior to basically decent people? We’re on your side!

New ship of Theseus just dropped, but now it has conscious thought

The Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled, in a series of 6-3 decisions, that Donald John Trump is Our Very Special Boy for whom none of these piddling little "laws" or even "the Constitution" can touch.

The Roberts Court is overtly devoted, as a matter of judicial and political philosophy, to supporting the policy agenda of Donald Trump. These are DISCRETIONARY rulings - the Court is ruling, repeatedly and usually without explanation, that EQUITY requires that Trump’s agenda advance.

I mean what on earth are district court judges supposed to do at this point other than get the message from SCOTUS to let Trump do whatever he wants to no matter what the law says.