Lol

It's illegal for the president to relieve student loan debt. It's completely fine for the president to unilaterally decide to have the head of a foreign nation black bagged on foreign soil.

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

They're still fighting over who gets the 20th Century, and they're burning the 21st Century for fuel to do it

we are going to have to put Ellison in his son in prison and they are both going to have to die there

The @hurricanexyz.bsky.social signal has been lit

I think we need curb weight restrictions on new passenger vehicles in addition to vehicle homologation reciprocity with Japan/EU/etc to make this work, but it could be so good

That being said I desperately crave a Honda N-One RS youtu.be/oYhIKlYna-8?...

Almost using a monastery like a shell corporation bsky.app/profile/patr...

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

Median voter update

Full piece. I won’t hold my breath for any sort of mea culpa from the editorial boards or the likes of Daniel Bessner. www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...

I’ve seen enough: if the Republic survives, this man will be president at some point in his life

I don't want our wins in 2026 and 2028, which I consider more or less inevitable at this point, to teach people the wrong lesson. We will win in spite of half the media becoming right-wing propaganda, not because of it, and it will be the duty of the next trifecta to fix this.

I hope everyone understands that CBS becoming state TV matters. Musk owning Twitter matters. Fox News has always mattered. WaPo going right wing matters. That's not meant a statement of doom. I think we're going to win the midterms and again in 2028, which is why I think it's important to say this.

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

just realized i don't remember how to do the macarena. i'm finally free

The Democratic Party needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. This is pathetic. The calcified establishment is not up for this.

It’s bad, but it’s bad because Republicans in Congress are failing and John Roberts wants a King to crush the 14th Amendment once and for all. DoD has fatal cancer of the bone but this one may not have presented a strong option to call an order illegal. Wait for more.

Don’t worry, we already are calling you that; because you are

If the PSL sex pests are the ones who take up the anti-war mantle by default, we are more fucked than I realized

Thinking about this again

It’s Instagram clout posting and that’s it

It’s why they’re openly jacking off about sending the army in to kill Americans, they don’t have a plan, they don’t want to wirld power, they just want to see videos of big guys cracking skulls. It’s why they have 50 ice dudes to snag one guy who isn’t even resisting. It’s entirely for aesthetics

It’s not a distraction they’re just fascist Hitler didn’t invade Poland to distract people, he invaded Poland because he wanted to occupy Poland Begging even good Democrats to call a spade a goddamn spade

Understanding the history of Manifest Destiny is also critical

Because oil executives have object permanence

“SCOTUS concurred with the latter view 6-3”

We can keep updating this video for each new Republican presidency in the same way The Onion keeps recycling that article on gun control until the end of time.

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RIP American soft power

i hate this stupid timeline and i hate the elites that treat this government like its normal

merrick garland and joe biden you will fucking burn for this

Conservative politics in America is just terrorism

The administration’s MO is to do something any sane person would interpret as massively escalatory to the point of war and then go “Oh that yeah we don’t care about that anymore” and immediately pivot elsewhere. This is surprisingly effective and likely remains so, until it very suddenly does not.

Days after his third dementia screening in six months the president of the United States, who is an open pedophile, abducts a foreign head of state

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

Nuremberg is the moderate position

Are you fucking kidding me

"...if you’re for peace and democracy, then a solar panel is a valuable tool (and a valuable symbol, a peace sign for our age). Every one that goes up incrementally reduces the attractiveness of the oil that underlies so much conflict and tyranny." Via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

We should get Trump addicted to VH1’s “I Love the 80s!” and see if that distracts him for awhile

AI can never make art; it can only cobble together delusions

Instead, the informal practices & observed norms have changed drastically in the 21st century, effectively reshaping the US Constitution into its present autocratic form. Article I has been repealed by implication of the way those heading Congress have abdicated its constitutional authority.

Again, if you think of constitutions as *mainly* limiting govt power, this will seem bizarre. But constitutions *always* are doing many things at once (as I argue in this linked article) & one thing they do is *effectuate* govt power by organizing & authorizing its exercise via different offices.

A concept I've been meaning to float to make sense of what's happened to the US Constitution is an idea from the British constitutional tradition: "implied repeal." It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.

Wait this is where the Discourse is at already?