This path leads to chaos.

The fact that Polis didn't immediately rule this out is incredibly alarming. If he actually caves to Trump's demand, he could be impeached.

Imagine if news programs invited on relatively unknown subject matter experts and we learned something from them, instead of listening to the same professional talking heads talk about everything under the sun for a living.

Well “I Wool Survive” wasn’t inspired by Gloria Straightnor

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

planned economy but it's just the president dictating what he wants to see on his television

JD Vance and Peter Thiel are running a sustained operation out of the White House designed to acquire Greenland, either voluntarily or by force. Thiel has laid out plans for what he intends to do with the island nation in past writings. It doesn't entail the consent of the Greenlanders for anything.

America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.

"It seems to me that America is constantly reinventing what ``America'' means... I think it's really closer to the truth to say that America has assimilated as much as her immigrants have. It's made for a delightful diversity, and it's made us a stronger and a more vital nation." Reagan, 1984

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

I’ve said this every month for a year.

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If this cheese sells a pilot before i do, i swear to god

Nick Offerman has now demonstrated the widest range ever for playing presidents of the United States.

Coloradans gathered for three special moments today where the power of community was on display. Each was thanks in part to the generosity of your Word of Thanks microgiving campaigns. If you have a moment, I’d like to take you to each.

From a high school game in Utah. This may be the best interception I’ve ever seen.

Me: Don’t expect too much, it’s not like the emails will have a smoking gun. The emails: Please see attached smokinggun.pdf.

I stole this joke and I am 100% unrepentant

yo mamma’s kerning so bad, all her hyperlinks say “dick here”

As a reminder, there is no legislative backing to this. Exact change is still required. It's just that everyone will be struggling to find enough pennies to do it correctly. And we'll all have to muddle through haphazardly.

COMMENTARY: It appears Rep. Lauren Boebert did a brave thing today and deserves all our thanks. #copolitics

i dont think there’s ever been a point where corporate america has had a sincere sense of morality but it is probably a sign of the times that the culture at most major firms does not even pretend to encourage ethical behavior anymore. the transformation is really stark in tech.

Bar discipline is one of the most important fora for this fight. It's really important to make it clear to the next generation of would be Eastmans and Chesebros that if they do this stuff they probably will not practice law again.

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name He did this six times Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

It’s crazy how the entire national platform from discretionary spending to diplomacy has become a series of make-a-wish projects for a senile octogenarian.

NEW: Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky has conceded. A stunning defeat for a MAGA media fixture who built a national profile on claims of a "complete gang takeover" of Aurora that led President Trump to visit and falsely proclaim the city "conquered" by an immigrant gang

AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

Trump, holding the GOP in front of him as a shield from the bullets

American left-wing patriotism is Jewish guys signing Christian anti-slavery hymns about the first Muslim mayor of New York and I think that’s beautiful

An overdue takedown of one of the nastiest and most dishonest Republicans in Congress.

Democrats: Important to pick the precise dollar amount of minimum wage increase that’s most popular lest everyone get mad at us Republicans: hahah yes, a Gatsby party at the president’s luxury resort at the exact moment benefits expire for millions!! Voters: I like you roughly the same amount

"Masih Alinejad is often described as 'fearless.' She is brave almost beyond belief. But no human being is immune to fear. Masih and I have discussed this. Of *course* she is afraid. But she does her work anyway." That is a key ingredient of heroism.

just reading the bylaws and the 40 millionth user has to fight dril AND derek menswear guy??

It is sad that immigrants who are desperate to do things right — go to court, pay a bill— are getting targeted. We are now a society that rewards people who break rules and punishes people who try to follow them. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle. And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

A story in three parts

When this regime is over and buried, I don't want to hear about oh it's not worth the money or it's too petty to worry about. The order to bulldoze this illegal and unconstitutional monstrosity should be signed on Day 1.

Court reform is the only way out of this authoritarian trap. Expand, restructure jurisdiction, channel, new courts—the works.

Not a word of congratulation to the person who did win. It's all me, me, me, forever about me.

Yes, @joshtpm.bsky.social gets at the heart of the constitutional crisis / crisis of democracy — the abject corruption & unchecked power of SCOTUS. And, yes, reforming the court to check its abuses must be the core premise and promise of opposition politics: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-c...

You know who I block? People who write incendiary takes threatening mass blocks.... and then shut off comments liikr a coward. See ya.

Our cities aren’t war ravaged. They’re ICE ravaged.

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.