What the ever loving fuck is this shit?!

It's a retrofitted Boeing 747, so the US did, in fact, build it

Republican president Donald Trump has made $1.4 billion from his cryptocurrency business since returning to the White House. But Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh had the funds to pay $12 for Culver's shrimp. Shame on both parties.

Justice Jackson really pointing out the hypocrisy and holes in Thomas' various opinions: "The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."

This sentence is a wild way to start the analysis: "To understand the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, it is first necessary to understand the context in which it arose...." Imagine applying that logic to the recent decisions about executive power.

Trump's birthright citizenship executive order has been struck down. 6-3, the Supreme Court holds that the Constitution says what it says.

Without commenting on the tone of content of Thomas' views on gender, this is a perfect example of how things go wrong when judges are allowed to make up their own facts. The Philosophical Studies paper he cites isn't evidence of binary gender, it is an argument we should treat it as biological.

The Constitution prohibits Trump from collecting unauthorized taxes and spending money that hans't been appropriated. so, it actually should be very straight-forward to identify where each of the illegally-taken tariff dollars is and return it. Unless...maybe Trump broke the law?

Last week, Thomas said that Bolling v. Sharpe (that DC can't segregate public schools) was wrong. This week, we get this, plus the view that the president has more power to fire officials than 18th-century English kings (unless it harms their bond values). These judges are not serious people.

Big surprise. SCOTUS says Trump can fire anyone from independent agencies, except the Fed. For some reason, ungrounded in the Constitution, the federal reserve is unique. (The reason is that the Justices have financial investments and value them.) Couldn't be more nakedly political.

I hope ok. It a physician, I am a functioning human being, and this guy doesn’t seem to be very well, IMO.

A new granite walkway. Refinishing the wall to glue those hideous gold accents. Trump claimed he was paying for all of it. He lied. They’ve been looting the National Parks.

"I run the protection program." It's not even the quiet part anymore. Campaigning on the platform of corruption.

He’s not wrong that Watergate would be a 12-hour story today. But, that says more about his administration than it does about Watergate.

Republicans controlling every branch of government while complaining the elections are rigged.

Note the slip: “We control the…Supreme Court” Not even the Republicans can keep up the pretense that the Supreme Court majority are impartial arbiters of law. They are fellow partisans, and this fact constitutes a betrayal of their oath of office.

Disgusting how these people talk. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

That’s the Secretary of Transportation right there.

i'd been getting ready to write this post as past of my developing project on how to evaluate proposed court reforms. Today's decision in the Hawaii gun case made me finish it. substack.com/@tomsclark/n...

Holy shit. Clarence Thomas is arguing that Bolling v Sharpe was wrong. He's arguing that the Constitution doesn't prohibit segregation by the federal government.

Today's Court decisions expose the real inconsistency in their philosophy. On one hand, judges can't second-guessing politicians (Trump can end TPS). On the other hand, judges can override politicians (Hawaii can't prioritize property rights over gun rights). What explains the difference, you ask?

“Gun rights trump property rights” case from the Supreme Court would be a fun one to troll conservatarians with if I still really knew any of them enough to troll.

Welcome to Trump's America

In a reasonable world this clip will someday be “evidence.”

While this is ridiculous, are we really surprised that the Trump administration is spreading racist propaganda from Praeger?

Failing to understand the meaning of the word "asylum" in context, once again

In 250th anniversary USA swag, there seems to be a good amount of confusion about which document was written in 1776. The Constitution was written in 1787 (took effect in 1789), and the Declaration of Independence was written in 1776, establishing the independence we are celebrating this year.

An underlying logic of unitary executive theory is that the President is an all knowing figure who should be granted extraordinary power, rather than a flawed individual who should be constrained

This is a pretty big deal. It'll probably get stayed in the DC Circuit, and it'll probably provoke our new acting Director of National Intelligence to do something nuts, but here it is.

Not the loopiest thing about this quote, but I had thought the problem with Iran raising the cost of Hormuz passage was that it increases energy costs. Wheeeeeeee

Ozymandias watch: -Airports have three letter codes. LAX ATL ORD, etc -They don't get changed. DC National was re-named for RReagan but remains DCA. -One famous exception: Idlewild, IDL, became JFK in Dec 1963. Now another exception. Palm Beach Internat'l PBI is now DJT. Per Flying magazine:

I’m *pretty* confident the president doesn’t have the power to use our military to just start imposing tolls on international waterways. And, I think that probably meets the definition of maritime piracy. apnews.com/article/iran...

Um, what?

Yes, you all have made it abundantly clear you do not understand diplomacy

So it only last 0.2 Scaramuccis?

Yes, a normal president would try to avoid bribes.

Man looks like a Triangle Shirtwaist fire truther.

Competing with China doesn’t just mean letting data centers hook up Rapidly to the existing grid. Over the past 5 years, China has radically expanded its grid and capacity. How Trumpian to just ignore the infrastructure foundation. apple.news/AGFQQ2VKAROq...

Short version: Trump continues amateur hour government. This just gets you an extra special grifting-and-anti-science angle.

I was a young American man once. Maybe I’m a nerd or something, but I even did college sportsball. None of these things made my top 1,000 of things I want. What are you talking about, NYT? This being “all you want” is loser shit.

Just needs a laugh track. Or Curb Your Enthusiasm music.

It’s in no way surprising that Trump lies. He’s a pathological liar. What is frustrating, though, is watching him get away with yet another smashing of the constitutional order.

Make of this what you will, but Trump has never, ever cared about losing. He only cares about out claiming to have benefited from any confrontation that he provokes. He’s the worst kind of villain - someone without any goals or commitments other than self-promotion.

Classic Trump - file a frivolous lawsuit, collect a settlement (here, he uses his control over the government to pay his friends), and move on.

Elevating the tone

Repugnant

Part of the calculated desecration here isn't just symbolic. It's that there a dozen ways this is already explicitly illegal, black letter no-question unambiguous statutory prohibition, but he can flaunt how nobody's going to tell him no or do anything about it.

Jimmy Carter was forced to put his peanut farm in a trust. Trump uses the White House like a piggy bank.

Kinsley gaffe