Man he’s genuinely cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs…he’s promoting an ai video of himself (does he know it’s not really him?) hawking the “med bed” health scam. Another upcoming business for the Trump family? A joint venture with RFK Jr., perhaps?

When you give yourself a Department of War, soon enough you are going to find a war to fight.

My dearest Alice: I write to you from a city under siege. The horrors have become inescapable. We are surrounded on all sides by an enemy who has left no corner of this place untouched by its poison. I speak, of course, of our old foe: gratuitous punctuation in business names

So top Portland cops wrote & *testified* that fed agents have been "instigating and causing" conflict. They said agents were firing pepper balls unprovoked and "without any apparent warning" When a Portland chief called a federal agent w/ Qs, the agent hung up. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

lol the nerdy semantic gripe about “co-equal” i love it

Listen to someone who has been through it under Putin.

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

Live from "war ravaged" Portland

I am begging some of y’all to read a book. At this point I will accept literally any book at all.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

We currently have a Supreme Court that seriously claims (with no explanation) that the current occupant of the Presidency suffers irreparable harm by having to follow existing law, the constitutionality of which has never before been in doubt or even questioned.

Always read Farias. Roberts’s “maximalist language in Trump v. United States not only granted Trump a shield from criminal investigation and prosecution, but also handed him a sword to order criminal investigations and prosecutions—even sham ones.”

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say. If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court. I do not say this lightly.

We fought the bloodiest civil war this country has ever seen for birthright citizenship. We amended the Constitution. We have all understood what that amendment meant--from the moment it was debated in Congress to this moment now.

ok youre officially allowed to be happy about this and to regard the whole fracas a big L and self-own by the admin

#copyediting amok and amuck are the same word, natch, in different spellings, but amok has become increasingly more popular, perhaps because it looks scarier and wasn't ever preceded by duck

The current Supreme Court has unilaterally rearchitected our entire system of Government, and done so to favor despotism bsky.app/profile/saga...

Gonna lay down a marker here: if they do in fact rule for Trump here, it will be properly considered Dred Scott II, and will in an important sense mark the end of the Union

ROFL www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

One more time

Kagan: The so-called irreparable harm that the Trump administration says it suffers is merely "the price of living under a Constitution that gives Congress the power to make spending decisions through the enactment of appropriations laws...a frustration any President must bear."

For people who theoretically don't care about liberal feelings or w/e they certainly spend a lot of time being very mad about the fact that liberals don't like them

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

There is no argument against birthright citizenship other than “I am incredibly racist and don’t like it” It is clearly and simply spelled out in the 14th amendment - if you are born here, you are an American citizen.

So many of us came so very unwillingly to this place of viewing the Supreme Court as unworthy of being viewed as a judicial body. Unworthy of veneration, unworthy of respect. So profoundly reluctantly. But, good lord have they earned it.

If someone from another country explained that their president could violate their constitution's plain text but that it was completely legitimate because lifetime judges who belong to political parties said he could on the "shadow docket," you would laugh at them because their country is primitive.

I think if we actually enforced the idea that lying to Congress lands you in prison and ends your career, we wouldn’t have many of the problems we do. Republicans aren’t going to, so Dems need to try even if they think it won’t work

the question to ask the republican majority on the court is “what CAN’T trump do?”

this is normal, now all of this is normal to people who have spent the last decade living in a world where politics means donald trump it is our job to make it abnormal again, to show people that actually it doesn’t have to work this way

I obviously had… low expectations for this year once the election was called but i honestly think the first moment I Knew how screwed we were — as a nation, our politics, or democratic health, our media — was the trump doj Eric Adams scandal just came & went, like it was another thing in the news

“But no one should be surprised that the Trump Administration is pursuing political vengeance against his perceived enemies. They telegraphed their intentions from the outset, and it is time for America to wake up,” Zaid said Friday. www.huffpost.com/entry/its-ti...

Trump demands that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco. Anybody from the party of small government have an issue with this or nah?

This is Trump’s fault but it’s also Democrats’ fault: when the initial wave of resignations happened after the Adams quid pro quo, the next logical step in the ladder of escalation was for the opposition to rain fire and brimstone down on the corrupt admin. Instead… nothing happened. Silence.

You’re probably tired of hearing this but the “unitary executive theory” that the Supreme Court is using to hand Trump absolute control over the government is demonstrably false nonsense cooked up by Republican lawyers after Watergate to create an American monarchy. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Six Republican justices are speed-running our collapse into a dictatorship and they don’t even have the integrity to explain why. (But we all know why.) slate.com/news-and-pol...

I'm just gonna keep reposting this inane BS from Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence on the roving immigration patrol case from LA.

The only people we'll admire from this time are the ones who said "Hell, no."

This is one thing giant movie studios can still do--the crazy big swing that costs a lot of money and is not tied to an algorithm or concern about "viewer retention rate at minute three"--that no other entity can. It is one reason the film ecosystem still needs them.

Taking the L. If you see Trump II as an experiment in what boundaries to push, the result here is that speech restrictions are a losing battle, and nobody has to comply in advance.

“The only moments in our lives that count for anything are those when we do the right thing — when we don’t have to look down at the table but can raise our heads and look each other in the eye. Nothing else matters.” —Russian dissident Alexei Navalny www.treason.io/p/read-why-a...

the case against comey is an illegal, selective, vindictive prosecution. Trump vowed vengeance and retribution; prosecutors concluded there was no case against comey; Trump forced out the prosecutors & replaced them with a loyalist who got an indictment. The case should be dismissed before trial.

OUR BATHROOM MIRRORS ARE VITAL TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY

Not even 20 minutes later and I guess we’re doing 50% tariffs on IKEA for some reason. He’s a man with a plan to make life more expensive and he can’t be stopped.

Stephen Miller's latest method of attacking free speech is falsely claiming that any criticism of authoritarianism incites violence (which isn't even the full Brandenburg standard anyway, but also... is wrong).

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

Also: when a government acts brutally and lawlessly and immorally, but tells you that pointing those things out incites violence and terrorism, that government and its agents are entitled to no respect or credence.

Hard to make a better case for bored decadence than "I am very upset about hearing that the president of the United States had to walk up one flight of stairs, it must be a conspiracy, this is personally victimizing me, I'm a victim."

Trump says "hate-filled rhetoric" fuels violence and must end. Maybe he should talk to the guy who calls his political opponents "sick, sinister, and evil people" who are "trying to destroy our country" because they are "communists," "Marxists," "lunatics," "vermin," and "the enemy from within."

"votied for the dick kicker and not gonna lie, just feels like i'm being kicked in the dick a lot these days" -tim, 34 years old, independent from ohio