Trump's plan to send ICE to the airports makes it clear that ICE isn't really an immigration enforcement force. It's Trump's personal Gestapo, his goon squad ready to act out the dictator's fever dreams, no matter how reckless and stupid.

Publicly announcing the intention to do war crimes should immediately end American presidencies

www.reuters.com/business/ene... They gave Trump a whole plane and now look at them.

Our system of elections on a fixed schedule is the worst part of the Constitution nobody thinks much about. Just imagine how much better and less oppressive our politics could feel instantly if the elections were called and then held 1-3 months. 90 days vs *literally interminable*, tough choice

Impeach.

she looks like someone’s big toe made a wish to be a real girl

A wonderful comment by Emory's John Lysaker about teaching close reading. Thinking in terms of techne, or method, is "fatal." What we are really practicing are several important virtues: patience, empathy, humility, curiosity, attention, noticing. These are our true purpose; not teaching "skills."

Things are not okay.

That moment when you realize the essays are late because students keep running out of tokens for the campus AI tools.

What a paragraph. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Brian Stelter posted a December 9, 2017, quote from the New York Times: "Before taking office, Mr. Trump told top aides to think of each presidential day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes rivals." Stelter wrote: “I think about this quote a lot.” "

‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."

I would simply not go golfing while the nation's sons and daughters were fighting a war.

My entire teaching philosophy revolves around giving students the support, context, and tools to just kinda fuck around with stuff and get a feel for how things work. Play is critical.

For the love of God Republicans.

Just reaffirming my message: IMPEACH.

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

The pale Usher—threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars

JFC. Impeach and remove this lawless man, you fools.

Hello from Minnesota

The Trump administration could really restore confidence by getting the entire Cabinet to ride a tanker through the Straits of Hormuz to show everyone how safe and easy it is now. They could bring along a lot of MAGA influencers and Fox News hosts to broadcast it all live!

Let's make a deal where we give the Iranians Trump and Hegseth and they open the Strait of Hormuz.

How many US officials have typed in "How to fix strait of hormuz" into an AI chat this week?

We're going to need a whole new field of gender analysis called Hegseth Studies.

It gets better. Here's Vance and Rubio in the Oval Office...

I love how we illegally attacked another country and have killed scores of innocent people and the conversation is all about "the pain at the pump."

Eat shit, time change.

Dunkin is getting political.

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

The consequences of this war for Americans will be bleak and take decades to unfold, but it will impoverish and provincialize them in ways that would have been unimaginable ten years ago

Should I pay my taxes this year?

I will never again believe in this country if Donald Trump and his cronies don't spend the rest of their days in prison.

One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Reporter: Did the US bomb an elementary school and kill 175 people? Trump: Based on what I’ve seen, it was done by Iran. Reporter: Is that true Mr. Hegseth? Hegseth: We’re investigating. Trump: They are very inaccurate with their munitions. It was done by Iran.

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal. Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit.

Me, waking up every morning.

Bye

Good speech. Most US press got bamboozled by Bill Barr's scheme. Trump's collusion with Russia was always real, continues to be. www.youtube.com/live/ylvTFvJ...

Are you not entertained?

Basically: "No one is pointing and laughing at my pee pee now."

Judge Murphy: “Is it your position that is totally ​unreviewable? If [RFK Jr.] said instead of getting a shot to prevent measles I think you should get a shot that gives you measles, is that unreviewable?” Department of Justice: Yes www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Horrifying. Jesus Lord in heaven.

Here's what I believe: no more business as usual in the Senate. We shouldn't be voting to proceed to normal legislation until Republicans schedule a debate and a vote and on a declaration of war against Iran. Let's see if Trump has the votes to authorize war. I bet he doesn't.

THIIIIIIIIIS. And not just here. All over the place. Like, I’d love a future Dem President to say “I’ve scoured the Constitution and can’t find a ‘major question’ rule anywhere in it. So I’m just going to ignore that effort to arrogate power to yourself. That imbalance? Checked.”

Somehow, in despite 10 years of increasingly deranged behavior from Trump and co, they find creative new ways to surprise me with their depravity.