Pressed by Laura Ingraham about "folks on the right" who want to see Barack Obama investigated, Acting AG Todd Blanche says "these investigations have to be done in secret"

Hope John Roberts, who assured us that absolute immunity would prevent presidents from going after their predecessors, sees this

If you look at X after a Supreme Court argument, it’s almost always bubbling over with right-wing influencers suggesting that Ketanji Brown Jackson is stupid (usually based on a misinterpretation or a misleading clip of something she said during arguments). They also often just call her “Ketanji”

I'm confused who are we celebrating, here?

Republicans in the states are redistricting early at the behest of Donald Trump. The response by Dems in Virginia, California, and elsewhere to counter-balance is being triggered only by a blatant plot to steal the midterms. This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom.

Jay Bhattacharya falsely accused people of “censoring” him for years — including Stanford Internet Observatory. He has his job because of pretend censorship — he parlayed being a fake victim into a government appointment. Here he is suppressing a paper because he doesn’t like its conclusions.

SARA EISEN: The president is just expressing what he wants in terms of monetary policy ELIZABETH WARREN: I'm sorry. Is that real? You think it's not different to say 'here's how I read the numbers' and being the president and employing the DOJ to bring criminal charges against someone?

look, republicans set the rules of engagement that literally any bureaucratic trick is fair game and they just never thought dems would agree to those terms

KASH: “I’m like an everyday American who loves his country, loves the sport of hockey, and champions my friends when they raise a gold medal and invite me in to celebrate.” He . . . he doesn't actually think the U.S. men's hockey players are his "friends," does he?

Just a random token of how bad this stuff sucks, Andy Kim co-introduced this, not Warren, and there is no "Senator Roger Ricketts"

You can’t do that to rural voters! What are they, black people? bsky.app/profile/coll...

Here’s the very simple truth. We should ban all Gerrymandering. Until then, to unilaterally disarm is political suicide and malpractice.

Oh wow a decent performance by a reporter. I'm honestly surprised.

The message of the Right reacting to Virginia is the same as the message of "2020 was rigged": no victory by anyone but us is ever legitimate. We are the only ones allowed to win. These people are cartoon villains entitled to no respect and no trust. Rabid dogs.

Two things can be true: Congress should pass uniform, national legislation reining in partisan gerrymandering; and Until that happens, or every state adopts an independent redistricting commission, neither party is going to (or, frankly, should) unilaterally disarm.

Just Google Alan Dershowitz and Jeffrey Epstein to see why no one should want Dershowitz in their political party. The WSJ opinion page is a bad joke.

Republicans have always believed it's cheating for Democrats to fight back in any capacity, not least because so many Democrats agree

it is very funny how these people are so accustomed to essentially bullying democratic politicians that they meltdown when met with appropriate pushback. in any case, the process to amend the virginia constitution has multiple stages where, at any point, an amendment can be defeated.

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–" yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

"America once didn't try to fight Nazis. Now look at these hypocrites."

I'm sure Alito is fuming about the Virginia vote and itching to strike down the rest of the Voting Rights Act as petty revenge. But Democrats are likely retaking the House, maybe the Senate, no matter what SCOTUS does now. Killing the VRA would just be a final insult that speeds court reform.

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

Not only this, but I think he does this for OTHER words, too. I think he's genuinely very book-stupid.

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And everyone will watch movies at home on VHS and every house will share one phone on a really long springy cord.

Wow 🤯 I honestly don’t see how the USA will survive the moral bankruptcy, democratic wreckage, and loss of international credibility caused by Trump 2.0

Honestly it would have been fucking hilarious if she asked a question to get him to brag about how independent he'll be and then went straight into this.

Scenes from a personalist regime: A nominee to an independent federal body refuses to acknowledge that the President ever lost an election.

Thom Tillis still refuses to blame Trump for anything: "The problem I have is that some US attorney or assistant US attorney with a dream thought it would be cute to bring Chair Powell under an investigation ... the boss said he didn't know anything about it"

So here's my brilliant idea: Troll him with his own store. Print up a shirt that says "Just 'cause you wear my shirts don't mean you're me." Every time he says something about this fiasco print up a new shirt.

He killed over 160 young girls at a school and threatened to end their entire civilization out of respect and admiration

I mean yeah, you definitely mislead people but I don't buy your hurt feelings a damn bit aside from maybe you being sad that more Jews aren't being killed.

If he meant any of this he'd just retire from commentary because that's the only rational response to getting it this wrong, but instead he's just gonna endorse Vance next year because of under-the-hood articles about how he opposed the war

First, stop it. We are <constantly> looking in the mirror & if you haven’t done any of the trainings or gone to any of the talks/meeting about that, I can’t help you. Second, we don’t have time. We’re constantly meeting about how to survive as 25% of our budget is illegally cut off by the fascists.

i would like just one of these guys to spend even 5 minutes teaching at a regional public or community college before they pronounce Zimmerman is Columbia, Hopkins, NYU, Penn

How the fuck do you keep this asshole on the show...

I for one would enjoy it if journalists stopped pretending this dinner is anything besides a chance to source up their contacts list and flatter government officials. One of the ickiest rituals in Washington, imo, and that's not a Trump-era thing.

Exclusive: Microsoft is reducing rate limits on GitHub Copilot, removing Opus from $10-a-month subscriptions, and plans to move users to token/API-based billing some time later in 2026 in a sign that it's looking for way to cut costs for its AI services. www.wheresyoured.at/news-microso...

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House Judiciary Dems will soon launch an investigation on this. Stay tuned.

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Posting this in the hopes it can be manifested: Palantir's greatest source of profit comes from underpaying its so-called "forward-deployed engineers." They are paid well, but only a fraction of their value to the company. They should be encouraged to unionize.

"Wow, Trump has 100 percent support among MAGA!" Terrible analysis, terrible punditry. "LOL! The best MAGA can do is brag about Trump's 100 percent support among MAGA." Correct, contains crucial insights. www.offmessage.net/p/maga-is-ea...

"Elon Musk cooked his brain online. Marc Andreessen and others seemingly struggled with being in virtual spaces where their ideas and status were challenged, and rewired their political beliefs as a form of cope." Good deep dive into tech broligarchy madness: