Oh, bless your little heart. People don't think the Supreme Court is comprised of "political actors" because it makes "unpopular" decisions. They think SCOTUS is composed of "political actors" because it decides cases along predictable political lines & makes decisions that are popular with Trump.

Trump, in his post about Ted Turner's death, claims that "woke" was "everything that he is not all about." Yes, the same Ted Turner who was married to Jane Fonda, wanted universal healthcare, was a staunch environmentalist, called pro-lifers "bozos," and accused Israel of terror against Palestine.

I figured I'd write a short something wondering why Sam Alito said we couldn't force Texas to change its unconstitutionally gerrymandered maps in December because people there need "certainty" but he's happy to help Louisiana change its maps now, even as ballots have already sent...

I'm inclined to a harsher view, but not so much for parsing blame in hindsight. It's about what lessons have we learned and how are we going to do better next time, which isn't that far off. Which mostly amounts to: we must go much harder on accountability and much bigger on reconstruction reforms.

We've gone from regime change and unconditional surrender to permanently ending Iran's nuclear program and support for Middle East militias to pretending the point was always just to trash some Iranian equipment. Losing freedom of navigation and crashing the global economy don't matter. Please clap.

I know we all roll our eyes, but this stuff is really bad. The reason diplomats use dry, formal speech is that they their primary audience is abroad (as it should be). Trump admin shitheads talk like this because they're only speaking for their domestic base.

The Trump regime's desire for authoritarian domination is bottomless, but its capacity is not. In corrupting DOJ, changing it from a law enforcement org into a try to hurt people the president personally dislikes org, they've reduced their prosecutorial capacity to the point of desperation.

I am really struggling to understand the Bert Callais news as anything other than evidence of how the Big Lie ideology has fully taken root. It is no accident that he was at J6, just like it is no accident that the justice writing the opinion flew an upside-down flag that day

Conservatism is always just this: conspiracy theories claiming some other group is oppressing them by doing X, rallying conservatives to seize power and do X as supposed self-protection. A constant, primal fear of an 'other' gaining powers you presume to be yours.

Courts had deemed Republican gerrymanders illegal in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Ohio several months before the 2022 elections. The Supreme Court and other courts let the GOP use those maps anyway, and it handed them the House. Now SCOTUS is doing the opposite thing for the same goal

This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*

Why is it always a problem that liberals are over-represented in higher education or media but it's not a problem that conservatives are over-represented in the military or law enforcement? What's the military doing to solve its catastrophic viewpoint discrimination problem?

Roberts Court doing the judicial equivalent of “we can’t consider a Supreme Court nominee in January, it’s an election year” and “of course we’ll confirm a Supreme Court nominee in October of an election year when voting is already underway.” Deeply bad faith. Liars whose only principle is power.

I don't know why we should judge public figures based on some secret belief that might be in their hearts that they don't act on, rather than on their public behavior and contributions to public life.

I think if you imagine you’re actually talking to Musk, Altman, or Zuckerberg that should prevent you from developing feelings for a chatbot.

On the "don't know how anything works" scale, believing that U.S. bases in Germany are more of a favor to the Germans than a method of American power projection isn't at the very top, but it's up there.

It really is no mystery why conservatives like this guy. He's made a mockery of all their stated policy principles, but none of them ever had any real policy principles anyway! They see themselves in him: seething. Whiny. Endlessly aggrieved. That's the core of it all.

Trump repeatedly bragging about being asked to take the dementia screener is like a work colleague bragging about having to take daily court-ordered drug tests.

DOJ identified 4 green card holders who voted in 2024 in NJ, or 0.00006% of total votes. As I wrote in 2024, noncitizen voting remains extraordinarily rare. Audits find only a tiny handful of cases, most often green card holders who got bad advice from others.

Wait, I thought if 60 Minutes edited an interview with a politician in the slightest, that was grounds for a lawsuit?

Exactly this: “Just as Hitler’s failures led him to resent the German people ever more strongly and destructively, we can expect Trump’s growing frustration to result in ever more nihilistic and destructive actions as his term moves toward its end.” Excellent piece by @davidrlurie.com

That would be bad if that ever happened.

Good to hear that Trump has finally accomplished something worthwhile!

The US Supreme Court is our democracy's most powerful enemy. Because of them, dark money has poisoned our elections and wildly gerrymandered districts intended to disenfranchise people of color and city dwellers will proliferate, resulting in election outcomes that defy the will of our citizens.

Summary of S Ct's jurisprudence: Gerrymandering in favor of whites is a political matter beyond the Court's jurisdiction. Gerrymandering in favor of blacks (and required by the Voting Rights Act) is outrageous racial discrimination well within the Court's jurisdiction.

I’m so glad Trump gave us an update today on the very best granite, onyx and marble he procured from around the world for his ballroom. He cares so much about us. God saved his life for this. For us.

Donald Trump is the crassest, most crude, and needy person to ever do diplomacy.

NY Post: "[Sitcom Actress] Patricia Heaton urges 'friends on the left' to tone down extreme rhetoric after the WHCD shooting."

So the tacky White House Ballroom *isn't* going to be any safer than a Hilton Ballroom, you're saying?

Meanwhile, back in the real world . . . In 2017, at the G7 in Sicily, other world leaders strolled the streets of Taormina together. Donald Trump was too out of shape to join their walk. He had to take a golf cart instead.

Every test for dementia should have this question: "TRUE or FALSE: This is a test of your overall cognitive ability, not a test specifically designed to detect signs of dementia." If the patient answers TRUE, they automatically fail the test.

Clearly a fake, since it doesn't have Trump's name in all caps at the end

L - North Korea R - Miami

Only if it’s someone Trump hates. Then it becomes a felony.

When this guy is through, we will have lost the ability to base our military anywhere outside of the US.

Historians will note this is exactly what millions of Americans wanted, no matter the consequences: to retaliate against the country for electing a Black President by putting a huge racist in the White House who would constantly refer to every Black person he doesn't like as "low IQ."

The unmitigated perverse gall of deciding that the one kind of gerrymandering that has a clear constitutional pedigree— the VRA being clearly authorized by 15(2)— is the *one kind* that the US Supreme Court thinks the judiciary has the authority to *reject.*

Notice how a book can make you gay, a vaccine can make you autistic, a mask can make you sicker, and a poster of the Ten Commandments can make you moral, but guns don’t kill people.

If American history was taught correctly.

DOJ is paying out millions of dollars in taxpayer money to Trump’s pardoned henchmen who were convicted of crimes by juries or after guilty pleas, while indicting the former FBI director for posting a picture of seashells.

“Oh I’m sorry you wanted to vote. That’s not a right anymore. Can I interest you in the right to refuse to bake cake for gay people instead? We’ve replaced voting rights with that.”

it's is obvious that this admin is going to lash out with increasing fervor and panic as its popularity continues to tank. this is all they know. they can't actually articulate, let alone build, a vision of the world that is positive. all they know is punishment, chaos, spectacle, and destruction.

The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I realize this is obvious to most but allow me to rant: At the core of Trump's base love for him is a simmering resentment over their mediocrity and gratitude for him making it permissible to be arrogant whilst mediocre. Everything in this cult can be traced back to that. (thread)

the basic reality is that this court has already destroyed the united states as a functional republic and none of the reforms necessary to rebuild it will survive the court as it currently exists any democrat not committed to expanding the court is not serious about fixing this country

The left’s almost jocular response to last night’s gunfire at the White House Correspondents Dinner stood in marked contrast to the somber tone adopted by Republicans in the wake of the hammer attack on Paul Pelosi

It is incredibly wrong for Jimmy Kimmel to joke about my husband dying. It’s not like he’s Paul Pelosi or Rob and Michele Reiner. by Melania Trump

The guy who incited a violent insurrection against the Capitol wants you to know he thinks political rhetoric has gone too far.