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This thing summarizes the entire decade in just a one minute video.

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Today in “Things that 🇺🇸/🇪🇺/the G7 should have done in 2022” bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.

The transcript of the MN hearing where an AUSA said “This job sucks” is remarkable for more reasons than that. It’s a searing portrait of a crisis perpetrated by depraved & oblivious high-level officials. Read it all. ... 1/7 www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

If the Democrats in oversight actually focused like this, rather than trying to score cheap political points when almost no one is watching, it would likely help a lot. Let the journalists who have more credibility anyway what a disaster of illegality this Venezuelan oil heist was.

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

Using aviation safety as a political instrument is a fresh level of 🤡. #$BBD

Much to be revealed still, but this deal looks rather shrewd from the democrats side. By splitting off the funding for DHS, they have raised the credibility of their refusal to fund that agency considerably. A win for D bargaining power in the negotiation to come.

Radley is so on the mark zeroing in on this: the creation of new "privacy" rights for federal police. The right to be anonymous to the public. The right not to have anyone know why they shot someone and tried to hide the evidence. "right to privacy" fascism addition.

Deep cut.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Am I recalling correctly that the White House made a deliberate choice last fall to give CPB (and thus Bovino) the lead role in blue state surges because it wasn't getting the results it wanted from ICE? @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

His exit comes as some other Republicans have started to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.

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They are so on the back foot. Bessent is either committing absurd messaging malpractice or playing some really incredible 3d chess against the more hardcore maga faction by attacking a guy for using his 2nd amendment rights while using his 1st amendment rights.

What does this even mean? The voter file is public? What records are they trying to get?

This is really something. Mark Warner, one of the more moderate and cautious senators in the Dem caucus, says he'll vote No on ICE funding:

Damn straight

There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

A great experience and highly recommended!

He’s got a point.

The world is healing. The young disapprove of Trump again.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Trump has committed to not using force in Greenland. Cue the return of the Epstein story in 3, 2, ...

Hey look, an international law meets natural law crossover episode

Agreed, it was a really interesting speech and worth reading.

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

This is really bad

people really need to consider the liberation day events in assessing how election stealing would play out. The regime showed it cannot handle a 10% hit to S&P. Actually failing to cede power after a legitimate election would be devastating. I mean what is the value of a US bond at that point?

How to understand where we are now

www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-is-grea... How LLMs will probably make science more generic.

Accomplice liability for the rest of these guys too?

They’re calling it the most divorced anyone has ever been

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Bingo. Also the Epstein distraction cannot be underestimated.

My husband was on the 2 train and a guy started braying about how Renee Good deserved to die and her "lesbian lover" did too. My husband got pissed and said, "You're absolutely disgusting." "Fuck you!" the guy said. "Fuck YOU!" my husband said. The guy left. See? We just need to talk to each other.

The Sim

What does “could” mean in this sentence? There is 0 chance of this happening. McConnell led the caucus, he is a hardcore partisan, and the rest of them will also never do this Thune and Senate Rs growing a spine on this issue alone at least seems like it could happen, although also prolly won’t

Here is the CBS Sunday Morning piece for which I was interviewed about findings from my book Coverage Denied. Health insurance barriers ration health care by inconvenience, imposing hurdles to get prescribed care with administratively burdensome appeals many can’t navigate. youtu.be/SRPOoPDN-7w?...

Hootie or the Blowfish

Wild to see People magazine doing this when the nyt headlines read like state propaganda

There are really four levels to what happened last night: US, regional, global and Venezuela. I'll go through them in that order, as it moves from easiest to hardest in terms of making sense of them. 🧵