This is the smartest thing I have read in a while.

Reputation is a coin more easily spent than earned, and not all who trade it find a willing market again. Wealth may fund a game, but it cannot redeem the source from which it flows.

Rep. Salud Carbajal to Pete Hegseth: “Mr Hegseth You’re the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to incompetence.”

@millydogood.bsky.social has written powerful truth here.

When a Constitution is read to protect power more diligently than persons, it is not the text that has failed, but the reading of it. Facially "neutral" injustice is still injustice, only better disguised.

How can they Not Zee it?

I have long found that the most curious scenes are those in which everyone behaves just a little too calm.

Thou shalt not bring back firing squads. It’s needlessly evil, but that’s who they are, isn’t it?

There is a difference between resolving a question and avoiding it with elegance. The former instructs the public; the latter leaves it to wonder. A law that survives by procedure alone has not thereby earned the confidence of the people, only their continued smoldering.

It is the peculiar vice of our age to build first and consider afterward. Yet prudence, though less celebrated, is the better architect. A pause is not opposition to progress, but its safeguard. What is built in haste is seldom governed in time.

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a new music video for her remake of "All You Fascists Bound to Lose"—featuring Barbara Hershey, other celebrities, and crowds from the No Kings protests in a joyful, powerful show of resistance. You have to see this.

Good People, it is ever the habit of power to describe its arrangements in the most flattering terms.

Dearest Readers, there is a peculiar efficiency in opening investigations for spectacle and closing them for convenience. Thus is justice performed, though seldom practiced. Indeed, some investigations are not meant to find truth, but to occupy attention until polls reach inconvenient lows.

Alliances are not accounts to balance in anger, but trusts maintained over time. A nation that remembers only what it gives, and forgets what it has received, will soon find itself short of both friends and credit. Gratitude is a poor currency in some governments, spent rarely and remembered less.

We just wanted to say thank you! 💚

WELL SAID, Milly!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. Liberal DJT

It has long been the habit of those who would pass a measure without scrutiny to conduct their business while others sleep. What cannot endure the daylight is thus hurried through the dark.

Dearest Readers, to fault the takers of wolves for the use of hounds is a delicate conscience indeed. When the instruments used against manifest wrongs are made the scandal, it is rarely the instruments that trouble us, but the success.

They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files. Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas. You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.

Confidence in courts is a delicate coin; once clipped, it seldom rings true again. Justice must not be seen to keep political time. When departures are calculated, judgments are suspected.

Excessive markups are but a tax without a legislature. Commerce ought to reward ingenuity, not concealment. The public is best served when prices are plain and profits proportionate. A just price needs no disguise.

If there be two things known by Virginians, as descendants of the British yet among the first to act for U.S. Independence, those are: queue and vote.

If misconduct is alleged, the remedy lies not in departure, but in full accounting. Leaving office is not the same as answering for it. When responsibility departs as swiftly as power, suspicion is left to linger.

I suppose that leaves the door open for Kevin Warsh to be his finger, hand, string, rod, or shadow puppet.

Independence in a steward of credit is not a luxury; it is the guardrail against our own impatience. When power over money and interest is gathered too near ambition, temptation does the rest. A pliant Fed may please today and punish tomorrow.

When a cause is weak, comparison is made its crutch. To answer a question of war with a statistic of crime is not argument, but evasion dressed as concern. The suffering of one city should not be employed to justify the suffering of another.

When belief is made to follow allegiance, it ceases to guide. One may change their profession of faith, but ought not pretend the change was required rather than chosen. When faith yields to politics, it is politics that has been worshipped all along.

Thank you, @mblue.bsky.social, for including me in such a diverse and equitable group of earthlings! Happy Earth Week!

Thank you, Sassy (@filosia.bsky.social), for this wonderful Super Sunday Pack! So many amazing new and old friends!

Nothing is made “swimming” by drowning the People. When a grave matter is treated lightly, one must inquire whether the speaker misunderstands it—or merely wishes others to.

Just because Caitlyn Jenner is an objectively horrible person doesn’t mean it’s okay to deadname her. Please don’t.

There are errors made by mistake, and there are policies made to exploit them. The former are few; the latter are industrious. They have discovered no great fire, yet insist upon flooding the house. When proof is scarce but purges proceed apace, the target is not fraud but voters.

Many now profess an exceeding love of free speech, provided it arrives pre-approved, well-screened, and incapable of inconvenience. They cherish liberty much as a host cherishes guests: only the agreeable ones. Devotion to free speech must not extend exactly as far as the next unscripted question.

It is now reckoned an outrage, Dearest Readers, that a man entrusted with the highest powers should be asked to show he can manage his own mind. In lesser employments, this is called a minimum qualification--that, and not doing anything done in the Epstein Files.

Dearest Readers, we are told to trust a system that pursues the messenger, doubts the witness, and flatters the accused. If this be justice, it is of a kind that requires no truth to sustain it.

Does the Pope think he's God's spiritual emissary on Earth or something? Oh, wait...

When figures are modest, prudence recommends modest descriptions. Precision in language is the companion of truth.

Popular support is no warrant for haste that disregards the checks designed to preserve freedom.

Thank you, Tricia (@thewelshdm.bsky.social), for such a wonderful booster pack! We are, by nature, creatures of company; and in mutual aid, we find both strength and satisfaction. To be well connected in friendship is to be well provided for in life.

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Laws that hinder honest voters do more harm to liberty than good to order. The ballot is the voice of the people; it should not be stifled by contrivances that favor convenience over fairness.

Commerce flourishes best where prices are plain and dealings open; artifice breeds distrust among the people.

A policy that flatters the ear while burdening the hand is but a poor bargain for the laborer. To call one independent while denying the rights of an employee is a species of misnaming unworthy of honest government. Justice in commerce requires that those profitting by labor bear the obligations.

Justice often asks us to oppose the powerful when they err, and to defend the weak when they suffer. The test of a free people is not in comfort, but in their willingness to side with equity over advantage. When conscience is clear, popularity need not be consulted.

The surest way to weaken a republic is to spend abroad what is sorely needed at home. When the price is counted in both blood and bread, prudence demands a careful reckoning. The strength of a nation lies not in endless conflict, but in the well-being of its people.

WOW!!! BOTH Scumbag Eric Swalwell and Terrible Tony Gonzalez announcing they will be OUT of Congress!!! TIME FOR THEIR DEAR LOSER TRUMP TO GET THE HELL OUT!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter! Future Inevitable President BOSS BEST

EVERYONE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT THIS: Conflict of interest doesn’t even begin to cover it. Chad Bianco really seized over 650,000 ballots based on conspiracy theories that don’t even hold up to basic scrutiny. No credible fraud. No real discrepancy. 🧵

Hey Rep. Tony Gonzales, what’s the delay?

When a policy requires explanation before it requires evidence, it is wise to examine the explanation most closely. Declaring oneself both strong and peaceful is easy; demonstrating either is the harder work. Peace is not proven by proclamation, nor strength by repetition.