Is it an FCC violation to quote the president verbatim? Asking for a friend

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

Gas is now over $5 gallon on the US West Coast, on its way to $6. www.gasbuddy.com/gaspricemap

It’s days like today where I’m grateful that a) they’re incredibly bad at this, and b) there are still some challenges to jurisprudence that even the hackiest of hack judges won’t touch

He's either getting recruited to run for office or join a state policy think tank once his streak is over, count on it

A crazily unconstitutional effort to seize control of elections from states by seeking to have the USPS put in place rules to ban the transmission of mail-in ballots that don't form to standards the Trump admin puts into place and for people the Trump admin hasn't verified as a citizen.

was just reminded that tomorrow is april fool’s day and especially this year can we just… not, please

"why your protest aesthetics should utilize the most median established sentiment and visual language"

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When twitter was perceived as liberal it was a bubble and people should not take it seriously. But now that it's a cesspool of right-wing propaganda it's the Soul of America and the libs ignore it at their peril

Hi, political scientist here, this isn't funny! Prediction markets only do this when they're in extreme distress

given the modern conservative fascination with Sparta it's at least a little funny that they've engineered a situation in which Persia is able to level a dramatically uneven battlefield by forcing the conflict into a narrow pathway

WTO: The disruption to global maritime trade following Iran's announcement of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz on 2 March 2026 has resulted in outbound traffic from the Persian Gulf tracked by AIS coming to almost a complete halt. Tracker: datalab.wto.org/Strait-of-Ho...

A normal Congress would simply pass the bill, have the President veto it, and then override the veto

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

The anger I have right now is unreal.

*sigh* Yes, married women is by far the largest individual group of people who have changed their names and so would face procedural hurdles to vote under the Act. But they're not the only people who have changed their names. My husband, for example, took my name when we got married.

Fun to see how the erroneous predictions line up with how the crypto super PACs were spending. I've spoken before about how Polymarket — despite its PR claims about being more accurate than polls — is often a better signal of what crypto holders WANT to have happen.

not sure why everyone thinks this is such a big problem when an obvious solution exists

There was a pundit class determined to insist that Trump had presided over a durable political realignment, because realignments are sexy. Unsurprisingly, it turns out to have been the normal political pendulum, which pundits hate.

This video shows real smoke over Tehran from Israeli strikes on oil depots & fuel facilities last night—confirmed by NYT, AP, Al Jazeera, Times of Israel. Black clouds from burning hydrocarbons—not normal sunrise.

Bernie’s people and the Pod Save guys need to take the L here. I’m not super jazzed about Mills, but the GOP will have a field day with Platner if he’s the nominee.

it’s only an echo chamber when it’s the left. when it’s the right they call it some bullshit like the Agora or the Town Square

I stuck a Torchwood ID badge to that bad boy in 2010 and it blows my mind that Mermaid Quay put up with nerds mourning a fictional character for 17 whole years RIP Ianto’s Shrine 🥲

Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war

"No stupid rules of engagement" means no Geneva Conventions or other international humanitarian laws, which the U.S. signed and supported for more than a century. Hegseth and Trump are pro-war crimes.

-Zero Congressional consultation or approval. -Zero preparation of public for need/consequences of war. -Zero evidence of thought about "OK, what might the other side do?" Next month. Next year. -Zero mention of anti-nuke agreement Trump voided, or Trump claim last year that nukes "obliterated."

Really having trouble getting past the rage I feel thinking about the same people who use women’s sports as a political cudgel against trans folks also using them as the punchline for their jokes.

Just walk out

One of the first things we were taught at Quantico was that there is never a moment in which you are not representing the Bureau; but, then again, we earned our place there, and weren’t granted its directorship as a sinecure for partisan malfeasance and a willingness to disregard the constitution.

I finally picked up the phone for a political survey and my current working theory is that it was testing Newsom's chances of consolidating East Coast support for a presidential run lol

Currently locked in a battle with a scammer impersonating one of my Facebook friends who keeps friend-requesting me with increasingly ridiculous misspellings of said friend's name

It’s hard not to get choked up watching this. His story is a barometer of how much the tide is turning in this country. This needs to go viral.

Terrorizing families. www.instagram.com/reel/DUt7lFk...

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

If anyone has any evidence that folks doing the kind of activism and observing that Pretti and Good were doing when killed were inspired by *elected officials,* I'd love to see it. Because from my reporting in Minneapolis, exactly zero people cited elected officials as inspiration.

If I stare at the NYT NJ-11 results page hard enough, will the vote totals update

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Current state of Republican Party politics: The president posted an image of the first black president and First Lady as apes; no one at the White House will publicly say that is not appropriate; the most likely person to face consequences is the party’s sole black senator — for calling it “racist.”

if you spend any significant amount of time on X the everything app, your brain is being cooked

The race among Democrats hoping to replace Gov. Mikie Sherrill in Congress is a nailbiter. Analilia Mejia leads by 486 votes out of more than 61,000 ballots tallied. About 6,000 ballots remain to be counted. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/n...

I am closing up my takes factory. I no longer wish to toil in the takes mines. My only take left is that my takes are useless lol

NJ-11 has yet to be called, but it's *really* striking how similar the current dynamic looks when compared to the gubernatorial primary results

Unfinished. #LiamRamos

We should focus on the fact that when names surface of people deeply enmeshed in Epstein pedophile world in the UK, Italy, Slovakia, Canada, they are forced to resign public office in shame. When when names surface in the US, absolutely nothing happens, because they are protected by Trump.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

I somehow managed to forget how emotionally punishing phonebanking can sometimes be

Senate Dems split almost down the middle on tonight’s appropriations bill. Remember, folks: They have never secured a guarantee that a single dollar will be used as appropriated. Here are those that rightly voted no.