Tomorrow from Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias: the Democratic Party will never win elections again unless it stops listening to its far-left extremists like Bill Kristol

The fact that 12% of federal judges are Black shows the corruption of DEI. The fact that 67% of Supreme Court Justices belong to a small legal cult called the Federalist Society shows the power of meritocracy.

Ro Khanna used a phrase on O’Donnell: “the Epstein class.” We should use it for all who think they are masters of the universe such as Larry Summers, Henry Rosovsky, & Alan Dershowitz of Harvard; Ken Starr of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Baylor ; the Clintons; an Israeli prime minister & many others.

But his emails!

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Appalling. I noticed this immediately. And the NYT page website buried it low in the front page. I will wait to see how the print version looks.

Are Democrats working on a Project 2026 and Project 2028? They had better be doing those. Failure would be dereliction of duty.

I offer this teaching video to Ron De Santis and his Florida teachers for their “classical” curriculum gender lessons. Watch to the end. This is a second century CE Roman copy of a second century BCE Greek original.

Interesting idea actually

I have never heard of anyone getting offended because someone shared MLK’s or Lincoln’s or FDR’s words online. Weird to be offended when your hero is simply being quoted.

I've followed the F-35 story for almost two decades. This is a humiliating setback that would have been impossible to imagine—back before an ignorant prez and a vengeful MAGA began humiliating what had been the closest and most reliable (previous) US allies.

This video is 100% worth watching. Could be straight out of Red Guards at nadir of China's nihilist Cultural Revolution. "What you are saying is illegal, because it goes against the views of Our President." Remember when today's MAGA fans professed to bleed and die for cause of "free speech"?

It’s almost cartoonish how villainy Mamdani’s opposition turns out to be—and how much they seem set on helping him win. “Joker, Penguin, and Riddler Weigh In Against Mamdani as Gotham Leader, Say ‘We Will Have To Abandon Life of Evil Criming If He’s Elected’”

A great question. #nyc #nyclife #newyorkcity

If only his two former bosses had not been totally invisible in fall 2024, when loudly & publicly telling people that reluctantly voting for the Democrat was the only democratic option left for lifelong, pro-democracy Republican voters might have made a difference.

I pray that Trump gets the best health care that RFK can provide.

CHICAGO…

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion

I am inclined to believe that the all-black-and-white versions of the American flag are the fascist flag. Why would I be wrong?

A major obstacle for folks attempting to defend democracy is that a perfectly accurate description of what Trump is attempting sounds like hysterical conspiracy theorizing to a lot of people. We default to “c’mon, that can’t happen here”—which is exactly why it can.

Stand your ground! No identification, no warrant? Legitimate to assume it is a criminal assault.

As a DC resident I'm firmly in favor of a jury strike during this occupation. If you're on grand jury duty, refuse to indict. If you're on trial jury, refuse to convict.

Why did the chicken cross the road? RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

Of course: Texas DA once paid for abortion — then charged a woman who had one with murder, court filing claims www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely. Here's why.

What about The Beatitudes?

"Since the first messenger who told Tigranes that Lucullus was coming had his head cut off for his pains, no one else would tell him anything, and so he sat in ignorance while the fires of war were blazing around him, giving ear only to those who flattered him." -- Plutarch, ≈ 100 A.D.

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If there's a hell, it will be filled with people who claimed faith in Jesus, while trying to strip the sick of care, the terrified of refuge, and the vulnerable of protection, and reveled in it as if it were a righteous victory. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/republican...

Cause NATO to beef up its defense spending because it sees the US as a potential enemy invader? Impeach, Convict, Remove.

Threat to deprive US natural born citizen Rosie O’Donnell of her citizenship? Impeach, Convict. Remove.

Tariff on Brazil to support its criminal ex-president! Impeach, Convict, Remove.

Yeah, kids DOLLS never DOLLS had make-believe DOLLS friends DOLLS before, amirite?

There are no moderates in the GOP. There are only scared MAGA and proud MAGA.

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

I believe that allowing churches to keep charitable status while expressly endorsing candidates is so that billionaires and other GOP supporters can turn churches into PACs and deduct their political contributions as charitable donations. I am pretty sure the GOP has wanted that for a long time.

I grieve for all affected by the Texas floods. I’ve noted that almost all references to Camp Mystic call it a “Christian summer camp.” Why do reporters or editors describe it that way? Does the Christian aspect matter? Are we supposed to care more? Or feel irony that God “allowed” the disaster?

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.

The GOP Budget Bill is a tragedy for the American people and a complete moral failure. Donald Trump and his MAGA enablers are ripping care from cancer patients, meals from children, and money from working families — just to give tax breaks to the ultra-rich.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Republicans did this. Not a single Democrat voted for this in either chamber. Republicans did this. Call them out.

*Republicans* did this. Republicans.

One of Germany's "benefits" from canceling citizenship & deporting Jews was taking their homes, businesses and property. How many folks seized & deported by ICE/CBP have been forced to transfer their property for little or no compensation?

#Mississippi's infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's, and that island is sanctioned. Every pro-life organization in that state are committing a fraud on those citizens. Most definitely.

And Mississippi’s life expectancy is shorter than Bangladesh’s.

This is the kind of tripe the GOP sends out by text.

There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details