This guy is basically the closest thing we have to a real life Captain American *and* James T Kirk all rolled into one and you want to pick a fight with him? Fucking bizarro mentality. "Kelly is public servant and hero. Me hate hero."

I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really

A note for @kaine.senate.gov.

We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

As a wise man once said

The author is contemptible, but a chief editor that chooses to allow his publication to be the press for this is an enemy of liberalism and the fundamental concept of American Democracy and should be treated as such.

THE SWEET RELEASE OF DEATH!

Yoshi is presently warming up… Having pitched a CG last game... Is he secretly the actual anime protagonist!?

As we head to the 18th inning, how can you not be romantic about baseball?…

Wait, are they actually going to pitch to Shohei?!

We're actually all dead, purgatory is real, Dodgers-Blue Jays is actually a form of penance.

@wmata.com You need to close Rosslyn Station! There's a building crush on the upper platform!

Part of the "fun" of being a late-Soviet scholar is seeing the many budding similarities between that period and the present. Accordingly, I can say that it quickly looks like we're approaching a War of Laws.

They don’t see themselves as enforcing immigration laws. They see themselves as deciding who gets to be American

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that "literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument? Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

It is hard to overstate the contempt in which I hold John Roberts. He's the biggest fraud in America. Trump is trash, but he's obviously trash. John Roberts wants us to think he's a respectable thinker. A legal philosopher. He isn't. He's a partisan hack in a robe.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

THE GREEN KNIGHT (2021, dir. David Lowery)

what I want out of the next president is someone who thinks general sherman didn't go far enough

Look, we’re not gonna be able to rebuild this capability in the next democratic admin, this is basically a generational problem to fix now. But, ruining the lives of the people who did this, and everybody who hung onto it to be close to power? Revenge is very much something that we can do.

Mister Rogers never misses

it's not really possible anymore to "get out democracy back" or whatever, absent painful and foundational reforms. we can't govern a nation or participate in the world when every 4 years every institution and every practice can be completely upended. swinging crazily from pole to pole is not viable

grant’s biggest mistake was not hanging lee

I am calling for the immediate debaathification of DHS. We need to establish a CPA and disband the organization.

i also think that it is only a matter of time before this court rewrites section 1 of the 14th to effectively end birthright citizenship. the 14th amendment is the chief obstacle to a legal regime of tiered citizenship and subordinate castes, and they will not let it stand.

this is a good article; these people fundamentally do not have the motivation to better themselves in any appreciable way. and so they take trump both A. promising the one weird trick but B. also promising to make everyone else as miserable as they are

This is, I think, the end of our constitutional order. The Court has, on the shadow docket, expanded the unitary executive theory to its maximum, while carving out The Federal Reserve by fiat because they know it would cause an economic disaster.

When Kai Ryssdal of all people is saying it's time to burn it all down, then… well… it's time to burn everything down.

lol

There was a line from like a fired water quality or some other prosocial fed worker after she moved to dc for the job that'll stick with me forever because it captures america so well. "I would be in a better position if I was a worse person."

FWIW all of modern American conservatism is appealingly simple answers to complex problems for people who want all of the benefits of a society and zero of the sacrifices.

We made a deliberate choice as a nation, until now, not to have a police state. We siloed off federal data and put in place laws, regulations, policies and internal norms to prevent the federal government from putting together everything it knows about you into one place. Trump is ending all that.

we're going to see thousands of stories next year, especially if we enter a recession, about how liberal mismanagement created budget crises in major cities, when the thing that actually occurred was the money was stolen and sent to farmers to "harvest the mailbox"

Before too much longer, I expect "the American Dream" to be popularly understood as the dream of most formerly-middle class American parents for their children to be able to emigrate to richer, more functional countries.

This is absolutely insane

To all those wondering who's going to step up and begin to fix the current situation: it's going to have to be you! No one's coming to save you or anyone else. And we're all going to have to work together if we're going to save society.

This is still beautiful. This is still exceptional. This is still what I get up every morning and fight for. And this is still what I hope one day America will achieve.

The dream of America is beautiful: true multiracial representative democracy striving for goals beyond mere personal or national enrichment. Maybe someday we all can get back to that…

These people are ghouls.

Declaring oneself "the King of America" is a treasonous act in and of itself and the People should freely mete out the sole fitting punishment.

Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.

there is no "more legit crypto"