LYING: It's the Lord's work!

This is a time in our nation's history that will be remembered for all the broken fools who needed so much attention.

worth noting here that the position of the conservative legal movement is that trying to remedy environmental racism is itself illegal race discrimination ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Display of Confederate flags at North East Christmas parade called ‘inexcusable’

I think “speak to your fake dead relative” might be the most evil application of “AI” i’ve seen so far

The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.

Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."

I'd like to see the next Dem candidate for president (and the entire party) run on a platform of immediately recognizing the ICC and supporting its prosecutions of all who violate international law including heads of state promoting murder, piracy, etc. Hold them accountable.

In fact, the evidence is overwhelming that he understands none of that, nor much of anything else that one should know as president. God help us all.

One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.

i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"

main economic message from the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it

the only thing that doesn’t appear to be illegal race discrimination to the conservative legal movement is actual racist discrimination

“Not letting white capitalists poison the drinking water of black communities is actually anti-white racism” is getting about as close as you can get to encapsulating American conservative thought in one sentence

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

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Conservatives have their own "gender ideology" they are pushing constantly, and it's one that's built on coercion and treating women like property.

Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move

“…there’s really no future without it.”

Trump 1 -> catch and kill tabloid stories Trump 2 -> catch and kill entire media corporations

The US govt is screaming—in words, actions, and now a strategic document—that America has switched sides in the world, preferring authoritarians and a transnational white nationalism over liberal democracy. Like Russia, a US foreign policy goal is to undermine the EU. Will Europe finally listen?

Ossoff: "This is so much deeper than the politics. What does it say about the moral condition of this Congress that the thing that has them all tied up in knots is a very simple question: Should people's health insurance premiums go up double or triple? This is a policy choice."

Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too? A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.

In other words, Trump is planning to provide socialist welfare to people who voted for him after he ruined their businesses with his stupid tariffs. But you can't have medicine, food, or ACA supplements.

The SG’s argument also (very oddly) assumes that the President is democratically accountable but somehow Congress isn’t? Jackson got close but, if the people don’t like these agencies, they’ll vote Congress out the same way they’ll vote the Pres out for not “taking care.”

The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!

it is similar to the trick conservatives are trying to pull with the birthright citizenship clause. take something whose meaning is absolutely clear from just a plain reading of the text and transmogrify it into something that says its opposite through obfuscation and esoterica

it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.

Every journalist of color I know would be punished or fired for being repeatedly late on deadline and filing "provocative" expense reports. We are also constantly concerned about layoffs or had direct experience with them. I hate this.

to quote myself on this

and i’ll use @donmoyn.bsky.social’s post here to make the point that the other piece of the unitarian view seems to be that the purpose of the executive branch is to be an extension of the president’s will, rather than a tool to execute the commands of the legislature.

the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.

This by @sifill.bsky.social is outstanding: a must-read and must-act upon piece on the direness of the threat to democracy. And yes, we’ve been sounding the alarms but the level of attacks is intensifying. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory) Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)

Immigrants who come here seeking a better life do the most thankless, physically demanding jobs. They grow our food. Build and repair roads and bridges. Take care of our elderly and disabled. And we are fucking TORTURING them. This regime is really trying to make me reconsider the death penalty.

"We look forward to shooting the reindeer and sending Santa to be tortured in South Sudan."

a *lynching*? huh.

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It’s a great tweet because it illustrates how building clout in the right, as far back as 2015, was so much about being racist that this guy made up a racist tradition to farm likes bsky.app/profile/jess...

Just as Roger Taney didn't believe that "all men" could possibly mean "all men" and reasoned from there, Wurman and his friends don't believe "all persons" in the 14th Amendment could possibly mean "all persons"

Very few provisions on the Constitution have a meaning as readily and definitively discernible from text and history as the Citizenship Clause. All credible evidence leads to the same place. If self-proclaimed originalists can’t get this one right, they discredit the entire project of originalism.

You can only remove universal birthright citizenship from the 14th Amendment by inserting words that are not present in the text, like “allegiance,” then defining them in an idiosyncratic way engineered to produce your preferred result. No one should credit this fundamentally fraudulent enterprise.

During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind

again, it is just arrogance. “there is one true meaning of the constitution and it can only be derived by a special caste of lawyers with a special interpretative lens and once discovered it is binding.”

the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism

You have to be fucking kidding me with this shit! “Americans don’t realize how good they have it.” ~ Scott Bessent on affordability

The EU has slapped a fine on Musk's X because it is untransparent and supports deceptive practices. Nothing to do with "censorship."

Parts of the federal gov't that most people never think about -- research orgs, safety regs, low-income programs, etc. -- are being degraded & destroyed, with no one to notice or mourn them. But every bit of it erodes the foundations of US power & prosperity, carefully laid over decades.