This seems like a practice that will lead to failures to maintain government records.

Again it would be great to for someone to ask who is this against

Nothing to see here.

Ugh. I wish this point didn’t need to be made, but it does.

HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

The tush push has broken out of NFL containment. Can the spread be stopped?

When he sees this Ezra Klein is gonna be JACKED

"Trump babies." But don't call them a creepy cult of weirdos.

It'll be weird if Ted Cruz is drummed out of the GOP by a new faction, for being too moderate. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Masked agents of the state who disappear civilians from street corners and classrooms are *never* on the right side of history. Which side of history do you want to be on? Act accordingly.

Hear me out. Johnson seems not to want to do congress'ing. maybe he's being sincere here and is looking to lose the next election?

Listening to oral arguments in the tariff case makes something clear. The Administration has a combination of a bad argument and a bad advocate. It will be a miracle if Trump wins this. But, never count Trump out at SCOTUS.

There will now be 10,000 new ICE agents & 100,000 new detention beds--and few safeguards protecting people from constitutional violations by the feds. Time for states to pass laws allowing people to sue fed agents. Read about it these "converse-1983" statutes here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I’m old enough to remember the GOP carrying on about the importance of the dignity of the office of the president. www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/

This is a page on the official White house website right now. www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/

It’s fun thinking about how police would react if someone walked into the station claiming they’d been assaulted because someone threw a sandwich at their chest, and about how other cops think about this one acting like an assault victim because of a sandwich impact right on his bullet proof vest.

Hi could have seen this coming?

I thought Trump sued CBS for editing an interview with a politician.

Another one bites the dust. Trump fired yet another inspector general (IG), the FHFA’s Acting IG, Joe Allen, after Allen apparently gave exculpatory information to the DoJ lawyers prosecuting NY AG Letitia James, as required by the constitution & basic fairness. www.reuters.com/world/us/wat...

The history Supreme Court decisions is littered with premises that rest on false representations of the facts. And, one thing that history teaches us is that the justices just don't care. They make up a world and then devise legal rules that work in that world. There is no chance they revisit this.

Here’s the BY Times defining a team as something other than the ability to work together to accomplish a goal. I guess that explains a lot.

It’s a Kavanaugh shooting.

Either of the only two possible reasons for him giving this answer requires his immediate removal from office

Anonymous billionaires funding the army and the police should be a leading story in the US. It seems less than alarmist to say these are signs of oligarchy.

Experts warn this aggressive approach will likely fuel greater abuses of civil and human rights, heighten public anger and lead to more warrantless arrests, straying far from the previous stated focus on “the worst of the worst.” “Spectacle, not security.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/02/b...

Is it me or does this have a real Peace Prize vibe?

I mean, if you’re going to decline to tap into the SNAP emergency fund, you really should host a Gatsby-themed party, right?

"People"? With no qualifiers? So, like, anyone? Foreign or domestic, citizen or not a citizen? Under this administration, with this language, we're absolutely going to see the government kill people on American soil.

Using his powers to extract tribute from foreign countries, "donors," etc. and then using those extraconstitutional slush funds to bypass the Constitution and the rule of law. Literally the opposite of originalism and a profound threat to the continuation of constitutional democracy in this country.

Imagine fighting the Revolutionary War, thinking "once we can elect our officials, they'll be harder to remove from office than these kings and princes we're going to be free from." apnews.com/article/king...

So many own goals. Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product

Also it is objectively unhinged that Mike Johnson has simply chosen to freeze an entire branch of government by refusing to call it into session. He’s the second most powerful person in our government and is treated like he has no obligations or responsibilities.

Haven't read the indictment, etc, but this episode does make me wonder whether the criminal side could use some sort of counterclaim device

When we're clear on the other side of this we're going to have to rethink a lot of things about how our government operates, and one of them is the power vested in a single individual to dissolve Congress for most intents and purposes.

This is an extremely important point.

In an autocracy, you must stick to the party line or face consequences. In the US, referring to the Jan 6 insurrection as a riot gets you removed from your job as a government lawyer. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Just incredibly, unnecessarily cruel. And I’d be shocked if there wasn’t wanton corruption going on here, too.

Everyone should be getting paid, and the government should be open. That having been said, the key difference here, which should be the headline, is that it is illegal to pay the military, while there exist funds that can legally be used to extend SNAP benefits. apnews.com/article/gove...

Were democracy to die in America, I would have guessed it would be at the hands of cunning evil geniuses, not shitposters and trolls.

Exclusive: The White House fired all of the members on the independent federal agency that had expected to review some of President Trump’s construction projects, including his planned triumphal arch and White House ballroom.

SCOOP The admin is making it harder for male vets w/ breast cancer to get their care covered The admin cites Trump order: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” I got the memo laying it all out www.propublica.org/article/vete...

Forcibly removing undesirable people and placing them in an involuntary camp. That’s not exactly what I’d call a policy of “freedom.” It’s especially dark when you get into the details and realize there’s no funding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

We live in an episode of Veep

Among the highlights, Bovino is to appear in court every day at 6pm to recap the day’s events. And ICE is to submit all use of force reports and details of every person detained, every 24 hours.

What a stupid time to be alive. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/h...

The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟

I guess it’s not worth pointing out yet another Hatch Act violation.

1. Last week, there were 3 Trump corruption scandals in 4 days that would define any other presidency. Most people are probably not even AWARE of all three scandals. 🧵

Alarm bells are going off everywhere.

Under a normal free press regime, there would be an addendum that notes the earlier failure to not the explicit COI.