A handful of GOP senators want a half million bucks each because their cellphone records were lawfully subpoenaed by Jack Smith. Imagine how much they’d be demanding if they were actually victimized by government thugs

nothing to see here, just Donald Trump's top henchmen summoning members of congress to a secure room where they can't be record that is sometimes used for ordering people killed in order to persuade them not to release the Epstein files

One reason you hold a meeting to pressure/cajole/threaten Boebert in the Situation Room is so she can't record it.

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

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ICYMI: We secured a preliminary injunction to more permanently stop the violent and lawless tactics federal agents have deployed against protestors, press, and clergy in the Chicago area. Watch the stirring testimony of our brave clients speaking out just after the ruling:

The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.

NEW: Veterans Kyle Miller and Chris Parr remember "our sworn duty to the Constitution and to the American people — of our role as *their* military, not that of an individual or political faction." https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/an-oath-to-the-constitution-not-the

there are a lot of Dems out there who are finally drafting their own dog to play basketball after being dunked on over and over again instead of just complaining to the refs they're just in the states instead of DC

Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.

I wonder if any of them realize that sculptor Anish Kapoor is an immigrant as well.

This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.

How about a private right of action for anyone assaulted by ICE?

Don’t forget how incompetent MAGA actually is. These dingdongs have made countless idiotic errors & lawless choices that are stupendously unpopular. Their attempt to redistrict themselves into permanent power seems destined to backfire too. Stay strong friends. We’re going to win

Public health depends on citizens accepting scientifically-grounded guidance. When official institutions produce politically-determined science and independent verification infrastructure is eliminated, the capacity for evidence-based health policy collapses, writes Renée DiResta.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Reductions in Force not required by shutdowns, have never happened in any previous shutdown, and a judge has ruled they are illegal. The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.

Evil and stupid, but also terminally removed from planet earth. If the administration wasn’t locked inside a bespoke reality of its own making it would be tariffing pitchforks right now

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.

WATCH: Counsel @haydenjohnson.bsky.social breaks down the key aspects of our victory against the Trump admin’s violent and unconstitutional actions in the Chicago area. Threaded ⬇️ If you're in the area & have witnessed misconduct by ICE & other federal agents, report them at tinyurl.com/chicagoTRO

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

VICTORY: Judge Ellis granted the most powerful rebuke of the Trump admin’s immigration enforcement tactics yet — a preliminary injunction to more permanently stop the violent and lawless tactics federal agents have deployed against protestors, press, and clergy in the Chicago area.

We are proud to stand with our brave clients, including associations and unions representing every major media outlet in Chicago, clergy like Rev. David Black, and protesters like 67-year-old William Paulson, whom federal agents have targeted for speaking out.

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Trump and his allies have mused about invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy troops to some US cities. Despite what he has said, it doesn’t give him unconstrained, dictatorial powers. @amandacarpenter.bsky.social and @rlullo.bsky.social cover the facts: https://protdem.org/4hIaYqt

Why end a government shutdown, or even gavel open the House, when you can be podcasting instead?

New from me at Cato: The Trump administration lately has falsely asserted that ICE / CBP agents are immune from state law no matter what they do, and also that citizens have no right to videorecord, photograph or identify the agents. There's a pattern that links these two stories! /1

I’m no scholar but didn’t Pontius Pilate wash his hands, too? biblehub.com/matthew/27-2...

Critically they’re also committing to holding accountable all those who commit or promote political violence. Proud of my hometown Nebraska mayor for being among the hundreds of signatories. www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

“The boat strikes constitute murder,” Eugene R. Fidell told me. He used to be a JAG in the Coast Guard and is now at Yale Law School. The entire operation amounts to “treating the world as a free-fire zone,” he said.

This version of Total Recall sucks.

That theory is wildly wrong (a VP candidate has to be eligible to become president) but why are you tossing him suggestions for how he can violate the Constitution? Who asked this? Is this what we can expect from the new and improved White House press corps?

Debate her, you chump. I triple dog dare you.

Such deranged, casually fascist shit.

In fairness, the Supreme Court’s Republican appointees regularly “hallucinate” bogus facts without using AI. The praying coach ruling shows that Gorsuch doesn’t need a sloppy robot to make shit up that’s directly refuted by the record!

Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute

Public service is inspiring

Rank and file Germans never booed and shamed the Gestapo out of neighborhoods but patriotic and decent Americans do it every day because the alternative is unacceptable. They are braver than most CEOs and basically every Republican in Congress

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In spite of the headline, there is the pesky legal matter that neither billionaires or anybody else can “give” money to “pay troops” or anything else. However, a great compromise would be for billionaires to pay more money into the general treasury through “taxes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

As a reminder, when Biden announced student loan forgiveness—based upon a statute passed by Congress which explicitly said the President could do exactly that—Douthat called it "semi-Caesarist" because it was done "without consulting Congress."

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment. The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult. It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history. Until then, they're all to blame.

Look. These are Nazi talking points. That's not NICE to say, but it's true, and it makes me sick.

That's no ballroom

Alden kills newspapers. Alden kills democracy.

When dressing up as a Nazi for Halloween is even remotely acceptable then you know as a country we have lost the plot. We can never normalize this:

The US military isn’t some Hessian force-for-rent for the president’s oligarch friends. This is illegal, an affront to our founding, and an insult to the troops who serve the constitution news.bloomberglaw.com/employee-ben...

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.