They plausibly feared that some politicians would want to pay the rebels reparations. That's why they forbid it in the Constitution.

Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.

Google was once so good it became a verb and now is at best an inconvenience

Must be nice to have figured out the One Neat Trick to avoid Congressional appropriations. Just sue yourself, direct yourself to settle for billions, and agree with yourself that you can put that money wherever you want.

The paragraph defining "Lawfare" as the "sustained use of the levers of government power by Democrat elected officials" in an agreement describing a settlement of Trump with himself so he can give his allies $1.8 billion is rich enough to make my eyes bleed

they know there's nothing like a new york slice in da big apple babey.....

The entirety of the allegations against the prosecutor are: she emailed a DOJ memo marked "Internal DOJ Use Only" to her Hotmail and Gmail accounts. According to the indictment, this consistutes theft (2 counts), obstruction, and removal of court documents. Ridiculous.

Me, when digging a well in the middle of a road: ah, you see, someone planned to do this 100 years ago, but never did, so I don't need any permission to do this.

Now that we know Trump's "settlement" with IRS will nix audits, potentially saving him millions, Jamie Raskin's push to force Repubicans to vote on this whole fiasco looks more urgent. Make Rs defend this with Trump 31 points underwater on the economy: newrepublic.com/article/2106...

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

HUGE NEWS: ICE’s courthouse arrests have been STAYED by a New York district judge. That means that ICE will have to stop arresting our immigrant neighbors on the spot when they show up to court at places like 26 Federal Plaza, 290 Broadway, and 201 Varick. (1/2)

I would like Democrats to come out and say that anyone receiving assets from this new slush fund, or profiting any of the other corrupt acts from this candidate, will have 100% of their assets seized the first chance we get. Even if they get pardoned.

Ring the bell because for the first time ever: Jim Cramer is stunned silent. Just like the rest of us, he’s seeing the President commit insider trading right in front of our very eyes.

Blatantly illegal and unconstitutional. Be enraged. “January 6th insurrectionists were arrested and convicted for actually breaking the law. But now they get to ask Trump for money, and the evidentiary standard appears to be “trust me, bro” and a red MAGA hat.” Pitch perfect @masnick.com

Unappropriated taxpayer money is being routed through a board of Trump loyalists, into an account the government has explicitly disclaimed responsibility for. The “settlement” framing is just the bow on top. The $1.776 billion slush fund for MAGA’s worst is the point. Great @masnick.com

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

Every Democrat needs to hit a microphone right now to say this is gross corruption, we're paying attention to who gets paid off here and we'll do everything we can to claw it back.

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

That’s right it’s … time to invade Cuba!

Reworking my "AI is awesome and you should unquestionably embrace it" graduation speech after some feedback

seeing these smug bastards having to experience how everyone feels about them brings me so much joy

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

please remember all of us who will dislike Nolan's Odyssey for non-chud reasons.

possibly the worst lede you could have written about you www.404media.co/are-we-datin... via @sarahjwh.bsky.social

Just noticed that @kenwhite.bsky.social predicted sanctions in the "Am I Dating The Same Guy" lolsuit over 2 years ago.

This is one of the best things I’ve ever read and I’m only halfway through

Funny (not funny but you know) that a substantial number of people in this country can't accurately assess what's going on because they can't bring themselves to believe that someone could be this stupid, let alone the president

Oh right, we're in Hudson News now! Supplement your $7 bottle of water with The Onion.

There’s definitely at least one person in the room pitching hot older lesbian james bond, and I’m rooting for them. Someone is saying Gillian Anderson Bond right this second.

Lovely video of a beautiful animal, the whale shark (Rhincodon typus). Let's learn something about the unique visual adaptations of this graceful creature that lives in warm tropical waters but paradoxically travels to dark & cold depths to follow plankton. Whale sharks can see in the dark. 🦈👁️🧪

I didn’t believe this was actually real when I heard about but he’s doing the “how will I feed my family without insider trading” bit for real. 😭

If you feel like you need to bring a progressive view to a set of arguments that are foundationally pro-pedophilia and make you sound like a bunch of farmers talking about how to increase the yield on your land - there is no plausible progressive tilt to that

On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today.

When a Democrat is president, the press only cares about the swing voters who oppose him. When a Republican is president, the press only cares about the conservative voters who support him.

The Iran war has a 70% disapproval rate in the U.S. What possible journalistic purpose is served by rounding up members of the extreme minority for featured interviews?

I love it! What a great idea. David Letterman has gotten quite entertainingly ornery in his old age, and somehow even funnier. Here's the entrance of Letterman on Colbert's show. Such a great time! 😊😎 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzd1...

Stephen Colbert and David Letterman throwing things off the Ed Sullivan Theater. Colbert: “Anything you’d like to say, Dave?” Letterman: “In the words of the great Edward R. Murrow to CBS: ‘Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.’”

ffs this isn’t about her BELIEFS. this is about her ACTIONS. it’s called “conspiracy to commit” for a reason. i BELIEVE some people are assholes. is it now ok if i help others who want to kill them?

So when Trump pays off the J6 insurrectionists out of the treasury does that include the ones back in jail for subsequent crimes?

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

this should end his career

This is when I started to feel my spirit leave my body.

We all have occassion to say this a lot in this era, but seriously this is the craziest goddamn thing I've read in a very very long time abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

Some very good news out of a Texas federal court: Alex Jones doesn't have standing to appeal a Bankruptcy court order that placed InfoWars' assets in state receivership, meaning they can be licensed or sold to us. More to come, obviously, but we're almost there.

Freedom is a scheme to undermine fascists

I don't think the NYT other mainstream papers literally have a hole on the front page with a label that says "INSERT NEGATIVE MAMDANI STORY HERE" and then just search for whatever is the best story they can find that fits it, but if you assume that's true you will predict a lot of their coverage.