I’m going to say it again: members of Congress need to draft articles & talk publicly & loudly about the case for treason. Trump told generals on camera in person: the campaign in U.S. cities is a WAR. The military needs to hear it laid out for them, how serious this is. Write for them, not the GOP.

Things are going great when you're pointing the finger at someone who has been out of office for 25 years.

I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.

East Wing built to provide office space for Office of the First Lady- specifically Eleanor Roosevelt. Trying to erase the entirety of the New Deal.

In many historic homes and historic districts in the United States, there are steps one needs to take--permits that need to be approved by governmental bodies and sometimes even public hearings--even to change out a window.

Trump destroying Eleanor Roosevelt‘s legacy (the east wing) feels a little on the nose.

someone already replied with the gist but basically it's when you demand something but it's purposefully as vague as possible so you can reject anything the person gives you in return and continue to demand the vague thing. this is the treatment mamdani is getting re: "reassuring" jewish voters.

The Supreme Court announcing that a president cannot not be held criminally liable for virtually anything he does in office based on nothing in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution was extremely bad, IMHO

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Dems, I bet of you, STOP VOTING FOR TRUMP JUDGES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

On Bluesky, when I angrily and randomly denounced a Black journalist and became irate defending a candidate's totenkopf tattoo, they mocked me. That's why Bluesky is poisonous to the Democratic party. --Later today on Twitter

Gang it is so easy to not get or defend Nazi tattoos

Lindsey Halligan is a fucking moron.

FEATHERS MCGRAW MENTION THIS IS MY CHRISTMAS

interesting that both the nyt and chicago trib chose to run these the day after millions of people turned out to protest one particular side

Rule of law is not in effect if they can violate your rights and then just lie about it

“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” -Article 1, Section 8, US Constitution Not a "norm" violation. A legal and constitutional violation.

Whether it is constitutional for Democrats to govern or have any influence in government at all seems to be a defining question of our time

Perfection

@recolston.bsky.social makes some great points about the overall framing, the implication that the Israel-Palestine context is something like two functionally sovereign states fighting over an internationally disputed territory that both have legitimate claims to but neither has control over it.

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Lmao 'test of ceasefire' is funny. They broke the ceasefire. AP has gone from sanewashing and passive voice to outright not understanding the definition of words in the dictionary.

As a reminder to everyone, a key part of the Bari Weiss origin story is her livetweeting editorial meetings. In the institutions she critiques she treats leakers (including herself) as principled dissenters. In the institutions she controls, she expects loyal silence.

Testing the ceasefire by breaking it (again)

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

This should be an Iran-Contra level scandal and I don’t even know if it will make the front page in this news environment

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

“the president is less popular than the Vietnam war” should be a simply irresistible headline

Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?

Vance is very much the "little brother with the unplugged controller" of politicians

A big lesson of the civil rights movement was that everyone has their own activism and we support each other. If you're a radical activist, you can draw fire away from peaceful protestors. If you're a pacifist and you see radicals fucking shit up, no you didn't. You didn't see a damn thing.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Trump isn’t even trying to hide the fact that the DOJ is completely politicized and the rule of law no longer applies federally

everything in here is correct--it *is* counter to the rule of law to basically decide someone is a 'criminal' first and then come up with a 'crime' later--but it also is always a lil darkly funny when some of these statements are like, 'more and more people are being treated like people of color'

Like I've been saying, why should reporters bother treating Johnson like the Speaker of the House when he's effectively disbanded the House.

They always want to post the Ten Commandments in public spaces, but never The Beatitudes

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Not a lawyer but 2 things I think are true: 1. Under the doctrine of command responsibility, a combatant commander has a duty to follow the law; 2. There is no statute of limitations for murder. So Halsey was right IMO to "raise concerns about the mission" & resign rather than continue to go along.

On this day: in 2018, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad tweeted "With a hard work ethic Inshallah the U of M will return to its glory days." in 1994, I was born. in 1946, 10 of the worst war criminals of Nazi Germany were executed. Just 3 equally interesting facts for you all

the amount of time conservatives spend thinking about childrens genitals is legit crazy

If the partisan shoe were on the other foot, removal of the OMB director would be a central demand for ending the shutdown

Every time you see Mike Davis do Mike Davis things, think about Gorsuch reportedly helping land Davis a job at DOJ, then choosing him as a clerk when he was on the 10th Circuit, then choosing him as a clerk when he was on the Supreme Court.

roberts thinks it is an affront that a community of upstanding citizens can not do as it chooses when it comes to voting. if that means that they might discriminate against a racial minority, he has no problem with that either as long as it is facially neutral.

"The situation Tuesday is the latest incident in which federal agents have brought aggressive immigration enforcement techniques to a Chicago neighborhood"--come on now, @chicago.suntimes.com. What laws are being "enforced"? How do you know ICE is legally within their authority here?

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.) Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear. But… no “kids”!