This is correct. The people who accept pardons won’t be evading justice; they’ll just be waiving their due process rights.

Man, the media has really become a thing hasn't it.

So that’s what the current strategy bought us - 2.5 points in the handful of states we could deluge with ads. What did it cost us? Running a campaign shorn of anything controversial or aggressive and being forced to say nice things about the donor class, a group nearly all voters despise.

This is 100% the correct (and obvious) move by Dems and they need to do it Every. Single. Time: counter Republicans strongarming companies/schools by openly and directly saying "we will be in charge in like a year and will absolutely make this cost you." www.semafor.com/article/12/1...

Stopped clocks and all that, but this is entirely on the level.

Seems…what’s the word I’m looking for here? Weird.

I'm usually a "prioritize winning elections over winning factional fights" guy but that goes out the window with anything these group chat psychos touch. We have to crush them or they'll turn the Democratic Party into Labour

Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.

This is good stuff, but until it’s enforced by arresting agents who violate it and detaining them, preferably at Homan Square, it will be interpreted by the administration as the political stunt it is.

"Needy Amin" still ranks among the banger nicknames for Trump.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

This thread and the subthreads are my politics distilled. Hell, it’s 80% my religion too.

Ezra Klein even like "well we can agree 'birth tourism' is a problem," and no, I cannot. My group texts are about sports and kids.

There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.

Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.

My policy agenda is revenge

Over/under on how long until he gets his pardon?

Tom Cotton’s endorsement today of the military shooting unarmed airstrike victims floating at sea may shed some light on the debate over what it meant when he called for troops to pacify disorder in U.S. cities in 2020

Ah shit Will just polarized centrists and leftists against the Honda Fit at the same time.

Next up - why the upcoming CA gerrymander violates the constitution on another 6-3 decision.

So…why? Is it because Nixon was a better person? Unlikely - as Bouie implies, Nixon absolutely said this stuff behind closed doors. So why not be public about it? Maybe it’s not that Nixon was less racist than Trump than he was dealing with a different press and a different Democratic Party.

i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.

Welp they’ve got no choice other than to give him the Nobel Peace Prize now! It’s the United States Institute of PEACE!

There’s something to this, but I tend to think it makes the opposite point Matt’s usually going for. The GOP tends to do their own thing and basically ignore public opinion, counting on the fact that thermostatics will eventually put them back in power, and thus moderating is counterproductive. 1/

Most interesting topic for 2028 candidates, followed by what they'll do on immigration. You can't say "we have Medicare for All now" with an executive order. But you can declare emergencies, browbeat companies into lowering prices, all stuff the Tea Party pretended to be against.

Exactly. It hit radar altitude *because* there was a shot, so the fact that there was a shot in the first place cost us the shot, despite what some slow, boring trolls might have to say about it.

This is so fucking stupid. If they didn’t see survivors why the second strike? Target practice?

Seconded. That last line hits hard.

This is basically just the assholes who hunt wolves from helicopters taking it up a notch.

Wilhoit everywhere, always.

@profanity.accountant well, this seems like it could be fun; hit me.

Thread. If we want to enforce accountability (and if we want you preserve the republic, this is paramount) we need to have a plan. It’s not impossible. But we need to have a plan.

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

In the absence of any additional information, a friendly reminder that folks join the National Guard to help flood and wildfire victims, and almost certainly don’t want to be away from their loved ones, cleaning up litter in D.C. over Thanksgiving.

oh boy. hold takes on this until we know more imo

I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.

Every American should have this in their wallet:

I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.

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Vogons Azgoths of Kria RFK Jr. Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings IYKYK

Purcell lol

For everyone who is still on Twitter because it’s still the place to reach the general public.

Yup. They need to be punished for what they tried to do. Make them squeal until they beg for a nationwide non-partisan redistricting system.

Honestly well played by the GOP. House doesn’t have to take any tough votes, Senate can bottle it up indefinitely since that chamber doesn’t have a discharge petition, and even if it somehow makes it to the president’s desk he can use Bondi’s ongoing investigation to justify selective releases.

Wooo hoooo!!!

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

the scramble for GOP hopefuls to distance themselves from Trump as the ship goes down is going to be crazy and the most important thing to do is sink all the lifeboats none of them are allowed to escape his legacy

8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"

It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.

Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject