He meets with Mamdani one time and immediately tries to step his swag up

in CA state court we use "demurrer" instead of "motion to dismiss," because CA is still technically a Field Code jurisdiction (though in real life the distinction doesn't particularly matter

i am going to continue to maintain that normal people hate this shit, and people will *especially* hate *this* shit

A thread of clips from the Congressional Record of Jan 10, 1967 – Day 1 of the 90th Congress. Why? Because that was the day the House voted that Adam Clayton Powell, Jr (D-NY), not be administered the oath, even provisionally… eventually leading to the SCOTUS decision in Powell v McCormack. 1/

“Hello, fellow kids. Are you also married and openly banging Corey Lewandowski? That’s cool. But you know what’s not cool? Brown people …”

Did this guy ever get through an entire email without dropping some "by the way, I am a pedophile" reference

Trump did the thing, everyone knows he did the thing, and he's got an entire political party and associated media apparatus trying to cover up his clear involvement in the thing. One of the sickest, most sordid chapters in an especially sick and sordid period of modern American history.

I like how these three guys got themselves into the Guinness Book of World Records by making the world’s largest cigarette

Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You

i've been thinking about this for a few weeks, and i really think that (1) after Trump, the Times freaked out believing they had lost touch with middle America, and (2) attempting to correct course, they lost touch with liberal America, too.

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

It's highly likely I'm biased, but I think we have the best obituary of Dick Cheney anywhere, and it's all in one frame. From the incredible, 2x Pulitzer-Prize finalist @mattbors.bsky.social, who we're lucky to have as our @inthesetimes.com Comics Editor

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

it is not remarked upon enough that these guys just genuinely and sincerely hate america and hate americans

This is guaranteed to happen. And they will post a "TRUMP SAVED YOUR SNAP BENEFITS" message when you log on to the site.

COUNT I Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall. COUNT II The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???

Genuinely what the fuck is going on in Albania

"They don't like me saying it, but I'm saying it. Every Republican is a pedophile. It's so bad, so bad. I call them the Grand Old Pedophile party. They want you to think they're crooks, but look at Rick Scott. He's a crook, very big crook. But also a pedophile, people are saying it more and more."

@wtyppod.bsky.social stop correctly predicting things

Analysis | Graham Platner's Nazi tattoo makes him unfit for the U.S. Senate. He should instead set his sights on becoming Secretary of War.

Honestly, I think the 2024 election was basically viewed as a referendum on public morality by elites and therefore nobody is ever going to apologize for anything ever again no matter how heinous because the American people have spoken.

speaking of the ACA, I'm so old I can remember when Joe Lieberman killed the public option, and Ezra Klein accused him of being "willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in order to settle an old electoral score," and the entire DC media fainted simultaneously

Whooooooo.

This is such an embarrassing way to defend an article. “Here’s our new piece. Being mad at it makes it correct! IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, YOU ARE THE COPS.” Okay, lady, we get it. You like Bari Weiss. That’s legal in America. Nobody is arresting you.

As the administration goes all in on an alternate reality about portland that bears no resemblance to fact and rule of law, continuing radical (and just plain funny, ridiculing) acts of the imagination along with other ways of getting out the reality on the ground may help curb their momentum.

in the Dems underperform next year, we can dust-off our Diebold conspiracy theories from 2004!

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

Worth reading: Judge Immergut’s decision in Oregon v. Trump, granting a TRO enjoining DJT from federalizing the Oregon Nat’l Guard and deploying them to Portland. I link it at the next post in this thread, followed by some thoughts. (1/18)

The Mainstream Media Is Catastrophically Failing To Meet The Moment Earlier today we wrote about Trump's extraordinary admission that he was basing military deployment decisions on old Fox News footage and lies from his advisors. But there's an even more damning story here: how that revelation…

today in “a huge swath of America has completely lost its mind”

This meeting could have been a GI Joe coloring book

They don't want Dem votes because they need them to keep going on a tyrannical crime spree. It's because they're useful to pretend it's all normal and legal, that it's something other than a tyrannical crime spree. They want the appearance of legitimacy. Nothing is worth giving that to them.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

maybe behind the scenes Trump has gone back to ranting about annexing Canada, so they're going to make a show of abrogating the Rush-Bagot treaty as a sop to him

@scotusplaces.bsky.social this from the Ninth Circuit yesterday is just *screaming* for your invention

CHOTINER: Record shows you didn’t post a Chotiner meme until Thursday? ME: That’s correct. CHOTINER: That seems unusual. Wouldn’t you say you usually jump on all the viral ‘bits?’ ME: I’d say so, but I had lots of work to do yesterday. CHOTINER: So, that work is done now?

Trump, pounding shoe: "We will bury ourselves!"

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

Let me let you in on a secret, most federal judges don't believe that other federal judges higher up the food chain are one bit smarter, or any more faithful to the law, than they are. And yet, by and large, they fully accept the legitimacy of review and potential reversal of their decisions. Why?

OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8. Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

this is the thing, from top to bottom. we had maybe the best deal any country has had in history. our decline is a series of people voting to throw that away because they cannot understand that it is a good deal

MOSKOWITZ: Will you be opening up an investigation into the Epstein state for putting out a fake document w/the president's signature linking him to the world's largest pedophile ring? PATEL: On what basis? M: They literally put out a fake document according to the president! P: Sure, I'll do it

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

every single fuentes follower thinks this is a wink wink nod nod message, even if fuentes doesn’t

Coming to terms with the fact that one day I’m gonna open up this app and learn I have 5 minutes before the icbms hit