I . . . am going to close my eyes and pretend really hard that this is a parody web site. trumpcard.gov

Like, even theoretically, what did he do? Unless I'm seriously misremembering law school, I'm pretty sure that you need to allege that some law was violated if you want to indict someone. bsky.app/profile/kyle...

At some point, sanewashing shades in to actual deception. There is no way that Trump's speech could be reasonably and in good faith described in the terms Reuters is using, and readers relying on that for information about Trump's speech are dangerously misinformed. bsky.app/profile/owil...

After observing the last nine months it took a petulant, rambling version of Trump's demented campaign speech at the UN to bring you to this conclusion? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The fact is that anyone who listened to any speech Trump made in 2024 should have understood that he is intellectually and morally unfit to lead anything. But thanks to the American press, most voters never heard a full Trump speech. And here we are. Thanks for noticing. bsky.app/profile/ronf...

Sunstein is not stupid, so this is just contemptible intellectual servility. But one nice thing about the legal profession is that there are thousands of highly intelligent lawyers who have no interest in flattering the Supreme Court that will point at this and laugh. bsky.app/profile/shar...

Yossarian squinted at her uncomprehendingly. 'They're what?' he asked in surprise, and laughed uneasily. 'What does that mean?' [...] 'It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?'" www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

And obviously you should be willing to make decisions affecting the life of your child based on how the man who suggested research into the injection of bleach to fight COVID feels about it. bsky.app/profile/atru...

There’s no hiding the political retaliation and weaponization. It’s all out in the open.

Seems that Biden's policy of "restoring the independence" of the DoJ - which led A.G. Garland to slow-walk investigations into Trump out of concern that the DoJ be seen as pursuing a political prosecution - has not been fully continued by the Trump administration. bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Maybe I'm living a delusion, but I just don't think that the Republican Party can convince Americans at large to go along with the public beatification of a low rent online racist that most people have never heard of. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/20/oklahoma-republicans-charlie-kirk

Trump is on a serious Mad Emperor kick since returning from Britain. Among the many laudable things Biden did, extracting the US from the Graveyard of Empires deserves special mention. Would be industrial-grade stupidity to go back. bsky.app/profile/maks...

It's like you distilled the Platonic essence of corruption and venality, then poured it into a badly tailored suit and awakened it, knowing nothing beyond the urge to fulfill its nature And then, for some deep and ineffable reason, you spray painted it orange. bsky.app/profile/just...

My condolences at the death of the NYTPitchbot. It was the mirror in which US elites saw their true selves. And, horrifyingly enough, many of them thought it was kind of cool and stole story ideas. Please send donations in its name to alternate or independent local media bsky.app/profile/nytp...

Trump has not "made" or "earned" $3b in crypto. Trump has accepted $3b in bribes in the past 12 months, most of which has been laundered through really obvious sham crypto transactions. And he has done it with complete impunity. That is the story. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

This mostly just means that ignorant people now have a new internet gambling option. But the bigger point to emphasize about the weakening and subversion of the New Deal financial regulation is that opacity makes efficient capital markets formally impossible. bsky.app/profile/leno...

Code check: many academics and people with an economics education believed in "free markets," but for the wealthy people who financed propaganda to make this a "national consensus," it was always sophistry to justify their accumulation of wealth and power. bsky.app/profile/zach...

How useful is it to study institutional political science? Scott Greer predicted how ICE would respond to the incentives imposed by Stephen Miller when they were first announced. bsky.app/profile/scot... www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

The retail-level gamblers who view sports betting, crypto speculation, and securities day trading as essentially the same activities are tragic, and many of them will end in poverty or meet darkly ironic ends, but these marginal people do not create systemic risk. bsky.app/profile/annm...

Like our concentration camp cosplay DHS Secretary, the rest of Trump's cabinet views politics as viral content creation to drive engagement numbers among their incel subscribers. Which is not surprising when you are a con man who has stocked his cabinet with podcasters. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Yes sir, you are - just like always! Your lawsuits are the very best, sir! All the attorneys say that they've never seen anything like it! <Get the sedatives, quick - he's going off again. And don't screw up the dose this time.> bsky.app/profile/atru...

At this point, Trump is nothing but a bundle of resentments, encased in grievances, surrounded by outrage, wrapped in entitlement, and smothered in milk chocolate. All packaged in severe cognitive decline. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Am I more disturbed by (a) the factual delusions about both the magnitude of his victory and the degree of media bias in his favor or by (b) the conceptual inability to distinguish between popularity and legality? The answer, of course, is an exhausted, terrified "yes." bsky.app/profile/atru...

Like our concentration camp cosplay DHS Secretary, the rest of Trump's cabinet views politics as viral content creation to drive engagement numbers among their incel subscribers. Which is not surprising when you are a con man who has stocked his cabinet with podcasters. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Firing government attorneys who fail to prosecute his enemies. Ranting that no one on television is "allowed" to criticize him. Demanding that the Supreme Court let him fire Lisa Cook. Pushing federal charges for anyone heckling him. Trump really moved up the Mad Emperor Leaderboard today.

William Kristol citing Umberto Eco to publicly identify and deplore a Republican President as a fascist. Crazy world. bsky.app/profile/bill...

This is a very big deal. Europe can beat Putin's Russia fairly easily without the U.S. if they are willing to pay the price. Seeing Germany realize that the price will be higher if paid later is heartening, even if they should have realized it 3 years ago. bsky.app/profile/maks...

Sure it is a dire threat and a sign of fascist consolidation, but at the same time there is something petty and absurd about Trump using state power to silence late night comedy shows. I mean, yes they indirectly report the news more honestly than cable news, but still.... bsky.app/profile/tvmo...

Wow, speaking of freedom of the press being contingent on concentrated wealth . . . I guess Democracy Dies in Public, at the Hands of Mickey Mouse. bsky.app/profile/fint...

The thing to remember about the framing story of Plato's Republic is that Socrates never addresses Thrasymachus' claim that 'justice' is nothing but the interest of the stronger. But Marco Rubio, at least, is totally cool with that. bsky.app/profile/gtco...

1.) Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one. 2.) The one slightly comforting characteristic of American fascism is that its leaders are absolute morons who suffer from terminal, high-on-their-own-supply brain rot. Assuming their effectiveness is unwarranted. bsky.app/profile/karl...

Though Professor Lipton may be right - in a broader sociological sense, a large group of people having their belief that they personally should be rich without effort constantly validated online by scammers could produce bad unintended consequences for society as a whole. bsky.app/profile/exil...

The retail-level gamblers who view sports betting, crypto speculation, and securities day trading as essentially the same activities are tragic, and many of them will end in poverty or meet darkly ironic ends, but these marginal people do not create systemic risk. bsky.app/profile/annm...

How useful is it to study institutional political science? Scott Greer predicted how ICE would respond to the incentives imposed by Stephen Miller when they were first announced. bsky.app/profile/scot... www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

If you are a Republican President and John Yoo won't sign off on your extrajudicial murders, you can be pretty sure you're doing war crimes. bsky.app/profile/carl...

"I have already done much that you will find it hard to mend or undo in your lives." -Saruman, The Scouring of the District of Columbia bsky.app/profile/ronf...

"Space-X branded cocaine." Well, I suppose that the mystery of Soace-X's profitability is at least partly solved. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Code check: many academics and people with an economics education believed in "free markets," but for the wealthy people who financed propaganda to make this a "national consensus," it was always sophistry to justify their accumulation of wealth and power. bsky.app/profile/zach...

Good - the American government has behaved shamefully and deserves to be publicly shamed. Thousands of undocumented people who are subject to kidnapping and arbitrary imprisonment also deserve to have their cases investigated, but they lack the power, so go S. Korea. bsky.app/profile/chri...

Murderous rogue. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Ignore what this doofus is saying - the amazing thing here is that someone has created a live action Tom Tomorrow comic character. bsky.app/profile/numb...

Sure, you'll say that it's just nostalgia talking, but I used to really like skipping stones from a riverbank - but once big money got into it, the culture changed. Since the cheating scandals, organized crime has taken over and I just can't enjoy the sport any more. www.bbc.com/news/article...

When the next guy says that we need to run government more like a business, remember that this is what they mean. bsky.app/profile/kenv...

The fracturing of the Federalist Society between the oligarch wing that has used it to successfully seize control of the Supreme Court and the broad membership, some of whom actually believed its legal sophistry, is interesting as a study in the role of ideas in politics. bsky.app/profile/kyle...

This mostly just means that ignorant people now have a new internet gambling option. But the bigger point to emphasize about the weakening and subversion of the New Deal financial regulation is that opacity makes efficient capital markets formally impossible. bsky.app/profile/leno...

No, he's not "making a major bet on the future." He's just running another scam, and you are promoting it to prop up his company's share price. Remember the "Metaverse" hype cycle? Yeah, this is almost as stupid, but with a vaporware physical product. www.cnn.com/2025/09/15/t...

I know it's obvious, but neither the current owner of the Washington Post nor the managers he's hired to run it are interested in "fight[ing] against government overreach." You must understand that. Hard to judge a man's marksmanship unless you know what he is aiming at. bsky.app/profile/donm...

"For your Thoughtcrime of conservative beliefs, this court sentences you to 2 years of political reeducation at Pine City Vocational College, where you will also get your certificate in refrigerator repair!" Propaganda that is not aimed at you always sounds really weird. bsky.app/profile/thed...

Gnawing away at the 1933 Act, as people engaged in massive securities fraud logically would. The political crisis of fascism is obviously much more important, but as a political economist I have to admit that the financial crash that is coming almost interests me more. bsky.app/profile/kair...

Republicans are winning battles that they were too embarrassed to admit they wanted to fight in the 1990's. Their program to smash the New Deal will hurt more people, but their program to destroy the America created by the Great Society will be ugly. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...