I think this point--that SCOTUS made this a reality by saying if the president does it, it's immune from legal consequence--needs to be in EVERY article about every action this admin takes.

My favorite part of writing this was when my wife asked if they're planning to make bombs out of babies or if it's that babies will be making bombs newrepublic.com/article/2004...

Just pierced my wife's ears at home, and I'm not going to lie, I kind of feel like a super hero now lol

Ugh I'm going to be on so many lists lol. And I'm just a cishet white guy. I can't imagine the repression headed toward communities of color and LGBTQIA+ folks jfc, it's horrifying

Please, please, PLEASE convince the Supreme Court that illegal pardons are a thing before you leave office lol I'd trade Biden associates losing some money to lawyers defending bullshit charges that won't go anywhere for Trump's pardons being meaningless any goddamned day of the week

And it wasn't enough! Now a national day of mourning like we didn't watch him spew hate and repression for the last ten years. And now it's not just Lamont here in deep blue CT--it was every member of the delegation other than Jahana Hayes (my own rep, thank God)

We really lucked out on largely ending the GWOT juuuuust before FPV drones became a universal insurgent and infantry weapon so to hop back into Afghanistan with a handshake agreement that the Taliban won't fuck us the first chance they get is WIIIIILD.

Turns out @repjahanahayes.bsky.social is the only member of the Connecticut delegation willing to stand up for their constituents that Charlie Kirk dedicated his life to destroying. Very cool blue state we've got here

This will certainly be must-see TV that will not hurt their bottom line at all

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

I don't know when it's going to happen, but someday we will get back to a Hague, truth and reconciliation, or some other kind of process for dealing with these assholes, and it's going to be hilarious for the prosecutors to go through the social media and public appearances of dipshits like Vance

Can't say emphatically enough how the Supreme Court is very much a part of Trump's fascist project newrepublic.com/article/2001...

Definitely one of the better lines I've convinced an editor to let me publish, and if it lands me in speech jail it will be worth it

The court has, in effect, created a special legal zone around the presidency—as well as executive agents writ large—in which actions, even when blatantly illegal, are immunized from consequences: @skennedy2504.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com

A good piece, and also slightly eyebrow-raising that this made it through editing Half-staff flag for Kirk a baffling gesture ctmirror.org/2025/09/13/h...

The flag down the road from Sandy Hook flying at half staff for the man who demanded that conservatives defend Alex Jones after survivors' families prevailed in their lawsuit against him 🙃

The reason they keep talking about Valhalla is that regular Christian heaven sounds suspiciously woke and pussified to them.

In my experience, courage is usually the product of love and/or solidarity. When we are deeply invested in each other, we are more likely to take risks that we wouldn't take out of mere principle, or for the sake of people we feel disconnected from. Our alienation mass produces cowardice.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

These people are on another planet.

“the recent event is justification for what we are already doing”

Oh no, the people who were threatening to deport or murder me yesterday on social media are threatening to deport and murder me today.

crazy how the "savvy" position was to cave on funding the govt in march, and part of the reason was "SCOTUS will make Trump honor appropriations, strengthening the Dems' hands in Sept negotiations," and now we're here, that didn't happen, and the savvy position is to cave on funding again.

Imagine intentionally releasing a video of yourself completely misunderstanding something in college and it makes national news. Apparently this is something that right-wing dipshits aspire to? I guess I'm old, but that feels like a nightmare from before my frontal cortex was fully formed

Exactly right, and tracks with my Indian Law class with @bethanyberger.bsky.social. To me, it was largely a history class focused on legal doctrine, but when you actually thought about it, may as well have been a legal realism class. It always ends in, "Ehh, fuck it. This is what we (the US) want."

Amazingly, SCOTUS through the shadow docket has developed an even more corrupt mechanism for overturning the law than the 1990s Argentine Supreme Court "per saltum" doctrine, which allowed them to immediately review any ruling they didn't like.

April of this year: Matt Yglesias Tweets his support for a national ID system that allows the government to demand you prove your citizenship at any given time. Yesterday: Matt Yglesias finally realizes the downside of this fascist policy when he realizes this could apply to him too

"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself." Wittgenstein

SCOTUS refusing to explain their rulings is, constructively, indistinguishable from rule by fiat

How is The Mitchells vs. the Machines not recognized as the best kids movie out there? Travesty

we're so past "impeachable" on the list of offenses that we're into "beheadable"

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

So many things wrong with this, but I'm legitimately offended that soft-handed Donald Trump is a turret gunner in this weird poster. I have a lot of regrets about my time in Iraq, but being the person on the ground at the front of our convoys is a proud spot, and that dick wouldn't last a day

Uh what the fuck? Is a former CIA analyst, now a moderate Democratic US Senator, seriously mixing up the WWII Manhattan Project with the Cold War space race? Lol sure, let's follow the moderates into war against literal fucking fascism when their priors can't hold up to basic history

Same people who cried bloody murder over changing base names from Confederate traitors to actual US military heroes. Now they're not only changing base names back to barely disguised Confederate honorees, but they're also changing DOD to some shit that we evolved from almost 100 years ago. Fun!

Wild combination of conservative enlisted post-9/11 veteran plus the MBA-ified language of the GWOT officer corps gives you the wildest word soup of a mission statement, but he's got good (?) hair, so fuck it?

Can I take this ridiculous moment to call out Trump like the WWE extra lowlife that he is? Has to be an undercard since we're both horrifically out of shape (some of us worse than others 😉), but for real, one on one to show what a pathetic worm he is before the entire country

There is zero chance that Trump's buddy Dana White isn't lining the fuck out of his pockets for this jfc

Wrote about this case a while ago, and as a scientist turned lawyer, it's horrifying newrepublic.com/article/1884...

Still experiencing cognitive dissonance over the fact that "performative male" seems to mean "guy reading a book and drinking matcha at a coffee shop while minding his own business" and not "guy taking videos of himself doing deadlifts."

This is all great, and Osita is one of our best thinkers on these issues. Also, I only recently learned that William F. Buckley grew up like 30 minutes from my house, and I think I'm just going to come up with a nice, personal way of desecrating the POS's childhood home

This has been bothering me all day, but I finally got it: our HHS secretary is recounting the resolution of the Andromeda Strain as if it's real life. Deadly viruses mutating into less harmful strains that we can just forget about doesn't happen outside of fiction where humanity is the protagonist

McConnell and Trump feel like a modern day golem story. As much as I hate the guy, I don't think McConnell quite realized what he was unleashing

The @nytimes.com ran a whole story about the murder of Venezuelan civilians on a ship as if it were a military matter and we were at war with Venezuela. It was a crime. The story never mentioned that Trump ordered a criminal act and the Navy followed an illegal order. This is a major event.

Florida man launches literal incubators in public schools! I can't wait to see what epidemics come out of this exciting new venture

Leftist veterans, now is our time. We should have crowds of combat vets jeering these dipshits at every hiring event

Mike Wishnie leading the way, as he often does, despite never giving himself that credit. Someone please give us money to start organizing faculty--we can start right here in CT!

One of his techbro backers uploaded him to the cloud

That being said, some guy was wearing a "Trump Was Right About Everything" hat and picked up a tail of 17 year olds asking him what exactly Trump was right about, culminating in a question about how he could dare wear a Trump hat to a Labor Day parade when he's killing workers' rights lol