Q: Do you support defund the police A: No Q: Do you support defunding the police A: Yes

One of the absolute bottom line things I want to see in a Democratic politician now: a commitment to prosecute the crimes and criminals of the Trump regime. Absent this, the United States will never recover from this nightmarish, depraved, corrupt administration. Game over, man.

The theory that Democratic Congressional candidates should offer voters Republican Lite has been tried. One example: in 2014 the advice was to run away from Obama. Didn't work. Because why would people who vote based on disliking a Dem president vote for his party rather than the opposition party?

Have we ever had real medical groups come out immediately after a presentation by HHS and correct misinformation? No. But I'm glad they did.

Trump humiliates the US on the world stage

trump’s UN speech is indistinguishable from the type of shit your lunatic fox-watching uncle says that gets him disinvited from family functions

The New York Times does a 24 paragraph story on Larry Ellison buying up new and old media properties and doesn't so much as HINT, anywhere, at the obvious goal of leveraging this properties to conduct right wing information warfare, or that this kind of consolidation is bad for the public

Important to note that Congress has never passed any law giving the President authority to designate anything as a “domestic terrorist organization.” As a result, this would appear to have no direct legal effect beyond acting as a statement of policy for the Executive Branch.

trump gave a rally yesterday saying he hates the opposition. his deputy chief of staff said he would wage war on the left. his fcc is pressuring to fire comedians. he's suing the media. he's trying to throw opposition members in prison. the two highest ranking democrats are meeting him to chat.

Boycott Sinclair and its advertisers.

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

Disney reverses course on Kimmel. Lessons: -Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular -Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact -Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones

"Reactionary" is too mild to describe MAGA ideology. They don't just oppose progress; they derive their positions from seeing what their enemies like and then attacking it, even if doing so has no purpose beyond causing misery. Hence the hostility to solar/wind, the Hyundai raid, and so forth.

"Politicians are all the same" is by far the most common political belief among Americans and Democrats should spend way more time convincing those people "no, they're not" than trying to position themselves as representing a middle that doesn't exist.

Gendered administrative burdens academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

Some important context for all of the "why are liberals refusing to engage in respectful debates with their conservative colleagues 😔" articles floating around.

Of the 2 developments in the conservative drive to control American culture, Trump moving to silence criticism in the media is almost less impactful than MAGA-aligned billionaires buying major media outlets & moving them to the right. Paul Starr with a great essay: prospect.org/power/2025-0...

Things like this used to be satire :/

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

Expand the court, yes, but also make the court into rotating terms drawn from the circuits, panels of 5-7 justices that are determined after cert is granted so petitioners don't know their judges in advance and so can enforce ethics recusals.

The first time Trump made the national news was 1973 when Richard Nixon's, (Richard Nixon's), justice department said he and his dad violated fair housing by having managers write C for colored on rental apps, so they would know not to rent to blacks or Latinos.

The guy pushing Leucovorin for autism (Frye) works closely and repeatedly with the guy who pushed heavy metal chelation for autism (Rossignol), a practice that has actually killed children.

The operative word after today’s spectacle is “weird.” Use it incessantly. Don’t relent. Don’t let anyone get away with calling any of this normal. It’s not. It’s freakin’ weird.

if they’re gonna treat this like a WWE event then someone really should’ve whacked him with a folding chair

Raskin: "He wants to condition the public to the idea that it's completely legitimate for the president not only to be ordering prosecutions of particular people over the objections of prosecutors, but he wants to condition the public to accepting the idea he can do that in public, openly."

It's absolutely surreal to watch national politics be shaped by the death of a guy who was basically just an unremarkable bigot

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

Setting aside the perpetual confusion about who was president when, Trump wasn't banned by social media platforms because of political bias or to "censor" him. It was because he directly used their services to incite actual deadly violence. He committed literal violent crimes using their websites.

While ppl are boycotting Disney a reminder that Sinclair and Nexstar are also the problem. They started this. Canceling Disney subscriptions hurts Disney but does nothing to Sinclair/Nexstar. We also need to boycott companies that advertise on Nexstar and Sinclair stations.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Trump's corrupt prosecutions of enemies as "retribution" for legitimate fact-based prosecutions of him are really about the core authoritarian goal of erasing the very idea of legitimate guilt and innocence. This new firing is all about that. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

These pundits have the object permanence of a 6-month old and the historical memory of a mayfly. I don’t understand why people listen to them.

After the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk, it was natural that his allies, including Trump, lionized him as a patriot, free-speech advocate, and activist. Here’s the problem: Kirk built his movement with falsehoods. And his advocacy was laced with racist and bigoted statements.

Minorities are always the bellwether. It is a straight line from kicking little girls off soccer teams to firing Black Admirals to firing white TV hosts. This is why the only way we can defeat fascism is to defeat it. We can't go back to having a little bit of fascism just for minorities.

In the oral argument in the immunity case, Trump's lawyer's answer to the question, "What would be the check on the President just using his officers to break the law?" was, "People will not follow illegal orders." We're about to find out whether that's true.

Other people may have other experiences but I followed the instructions here and it took about three minutes, two of which were clicking 'other' on cancellation reason and typing my reason, and that I would return after a Kimmel reinstatement and apology. Super easy.

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

“Disney is run by human beings. Some of those human beings are cowards. Those cowards don’t want to be named and shamed, and if you do that effectively, they will shift their behavior.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social Cancel fascism and reinstate Kimmel: indivisible.org/government-c...

Getting your defamation lawsuit struck under Rule 8 is roughly analogous to getting sent home early on the first day of school because you decided not to wear pants ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

8am: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? TELL US, GODDAMMIT 9am: Pete Hegseth's Warfighting to the Oldies 10am: K.A.$.H. 11am: Quack Tales with RFK Jr. Noon: A Charlie Kirk Remembrance (no quotes allowed) 4pm: The Most Dangerous Game ft. Brian Kilmeade 5pm: Sean Duffy Cries on the Subway

I will as well.

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

I think this comparison is largely right. Yes, it’s a replay of McCarthyism’s ugliest aspects but that was fueled by a widespread sense that the country faced dire external dangers while this is about a deeply unpopular president’s grudges.

And again, why are these agents kitted out like they are going into Mogadishu?

The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more. This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line