The $170 billion in funding going to Miller’s agenda could build more than 7,000 new elementary schools, pay for more than 1.5 million young Americans to attend an in-state public college for four years, or fund the Head Start program for nearly 14 years: open.substack.com/pub/americas...

the greatest danger to the average urban American citizen is whatever lies Fox News is currently beaming into the president’s eyeballs

not like i'm some important predictor of the future, i'm a shitposter, but i sort of thought there might be a climbdown here when i read that neither the pentagon nor the national guard had any fucking idea what he was talking about

The entire Republican Party, now trying to convince the country that J6 was an FBI false flag operation. These people are evil, just straight up evil, and the only way for the country to survive will be for these people to be kicked out of power and the ones who committed crimes put in jail.

The government is truly suppressing speech on college campuses yet I don’t hear virtually nothing about cancel culture from the champions of free speech. That suggests they didn’t mean what they said. They don’t love free speech. They hate certain kinds of speech but were too cowardly to say so.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

The median voter makes the biggest dumbasses you personally know look like Einstein.

Trump gets sanewashed ("oh, he didn't mean what he said"), but he said he's "authorizing full force." "Full force" necessarily includes the same "force" he has repeatedly ordered the military to use off the coast of Venezuela, i.e., killing people on the spot for suspicion of non-capital crimes.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

So I think I've figured it out: "Stephen Miller is a Nazi" (laudatory): Allowed. Free speech. "Stephen Miller is a Nazi" (derogatory): Hate Speech. Straight to jail.

Shorter JD Vance: You are not allowed to criticize ICE. Goes along with shorter Pete Hegseth: You are not allowed to criticize the military's action at Wounded Knee. And shorter Donald Trump: You are not allowed to criticize me. It's full-on authoritarianism, all the way down.

I guess my point here is that MAGA has become totally unashamed to admit that they are racist, but somehow the rest of society has become ashamed to call them racist. Which gives them this incredible advantage of being able to express openly racist ideas and never be called on it

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats. The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

What is he even talking about?

“we did the numbers and most Americans want politicians to focus on health care or whatever” no you didn’t do that. you asked a bunch of people to do a novel-to-them task of ranking priorities for politicians. they did the task. those people did not necessarily assign that task any meaning

Act like a criminal, get treated like a criminal.

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.

There is no longer any rule of law in America. There is only power.

This is replacing my "what matters now is upholding the law" pinned post for unfortunately obvious reasons.

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.

this needs to be hammered into the skulls of every elite individual and institution on every measure - reputationally, financially, morally - you come out better if you fight the guy stand up! it’s the right thing to do and better for you in every way! how often does that happen?

It's been simmering for a while, but I think this ruling finally settles it. There is no rule of law in America. There is only power. Republicans have the power and want to use it to hurt us.

A big hand to John Roberts for shutting down the government in a week.

This is a classic John Roberts opinion. It lets Trump do whatever he wants but doesn't actually rule anything on the merits. By design, the rug can be pulled the minute a Democrat is in office.

Republicans and Democrats are equally committed to liberty. Under a Democratic president, you are allowed to protest the Democrats and under a Republican president, you are also allowed to protest the Democrats.

I have seen this play out for ten years: The thing they accuse you of having “TDS” for fearing today, they will excuse or ignore tomorrow. This is a law of contemporary American politics.

TL;dr? ABC and Disney reminded Sinclair that they can charge Sinclair a preemption fee each time they don't run Kimmel, and can run Kimmel on a different station in that market, and if it's a long-term problem they can cancel affiliations Super Bowl, ABC, 16 months from now

I want to point a very important detail of this: Jeffries is holding a press conference trashing Trump. And only CSPAN is carrying it. And that is the problem with America right now. The only place Democrats get any press coverage are places where no one watches.

BREAKING: Sinclair FOLDS and ends its preemption of Jimmy Kimmel Live! The show will return tonight on Sinclair's ABC affiliates.

Exactly. Why should we believe they won’t do this anyway? It’s in the Project 2025 plan.

Democrats, who control zero branches of the federal government, are not shutting down the government for any reason because we lack that power. If the government shuts down, it's because Republicans let it shut down.

A very big Onion announcement: The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece. It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd. Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Both illegal and (one more) backdoor impoundment. “Non-essential” does not mean that money was not appropriated for this work. If this logic holds, any President who wants to downsize government would simply engineer a shutdown

People should not be fooled by the GW law degree or the smiling headshot, Vought is probably one of the worst extremists to have ever been confirmed to high office.

We don’t call everyone who disagrees with us a Nazi, JD, just the ones doing Nazi shit like: -masked secret police kidnapping people off the street -creating concentration camps -attempting to eradicate trans people -banning/burning LGBTQ/opposing viewpoint books -murdering fishermen in open waters

Wow. From an article in The Guardian.

Reconstruction bros have long understood that in the American context, "socialism" most often means "integration and equality" bsky.app/profile/bren...

This should be the moment where Republicans take stock. Trump is deeply unwell. His health is declining. He embarrassed the country today. He’s not capable of doing the job. We are here now. No bullshit.

1. Jimmy Kimmel’s show is coming back tonight. ABC announced the news yesterday afternoon. What lessons can we draw from it? First, that the president may seem strong, perhaps invincible, but isn’t.

Kimmel is back, but many Americans won’t be able to watch. Two companies — Nexstar and Sinclair — control hundreds of local TV stations and have business deals pending Donald Trump’s approval. They won’t air Kimmel tonight. I’m pressing for answers on potential corruption.

Patty Murray for Majority Leader in '27!

Trump's Big Ugly Bill kicks 15 million people off their health care, and unless Congress acts, premiums will double for 20+ million Americans. Democrats want to solve the GOP health care crisis & keep government open. But Republicans won't even TALK about health care.

If you’re wondering how batshit bananas he has to be to claim, without any evidence, that Tylenol causes autism, let’s not forget his other proclamations: “Windmills cause cancer” “Injecting bleach cures Covid” “UV light cures Covid” “Summer cures Covid” “Covid will get bored and go away”

Just the dumbest man to ever hold the office...

If I didn't know any better I'd say that Republicans may not be completely on the level.

How it started // How it’s going

Mamdani is, if nothing else, far and away the best General Election Candidate in NYC, and elections are a choice, not a purity contest. I think Mamdani is great, but even if you have qualms who do you want to win? The Republican? The sex offender? The pro-corruption guy?