Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

Excuse me what the fuck

A crippling Duke meltdown and choke 2 years in a row?

This will not be the first time the SCOTUS has amended the Constitution by fiat, but it will be the most unambiguous amendment they’ve done.

This episode underscores an essential lesson about political power in the American constitutional system as currently organized: bad faith, ends-oriented, politically motivated legal argument can be more powerful than winning elections, more powerful than 2/3rds votes in Congress & 3/4th of states.

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

Authoritarian regimes do not want contradictory sources of knowledge. Only authoritarian leaders know, none else.

Hard agree, this is exactly the wrong line to take on every level. It should be “We have offered 7 bills, one of them unanimously supported in the Senate, to pay TSA and Trump and the GOP have decided they’d rather break the law instead, as usual”

Gotta admit, picturing God stamping “return to sender” on all of JD’s shifty, hypocritical prayers did amuse me

Reuters: Pope Leo said on ‌Sunday that God rejects the prayers of leaders who start wars and have "hands full of blood", in unusually forceful remarks as the Iran war entered its second month. www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.

Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran. (Photo by Pooria Hatami)

NEIGHBOR [peering out window]: looks like WaPo is interviewing that unfuckable tent guy

Again, this one rally in Minneapolis alone nearly has as many people at it as the 750 different Tea Party protests combined, and yet No Kings will generate a tenth of the news coverage bsky.app/profile/indi...

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

Seeing a million people turn out and snake through a large city is very cool, I won’t deny that but my favorite genre of post during these protests is “small town in a red state with the biggest crowd anyone has ever seen”

So many people! Amazing

not a big Hillary Clinton fan but the way the media is protecting the public from the details of Kash fucking Patel's personal emails is impossible to ignore

I think about this tweet more and more each day

I hate to do this but imagine if Hunter Biden had been on calls with Ukraine. Would the NYT describe Biden as “choosing his own path on this matter” because Hunter had “business interests” in Ukraine? I mean COME THE FUCK ON

My 8 yo asked me when she could get her first phone and I said, cheerfully, “Hopefully never! It ruined all our lives! I wish I could throw mine under this passing bus!”

CENTCOM told me Iran keeps hitting their high-value assets so I asked how many they have and they said they just go to the Pentagon and get new ones afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding high-value assets to the Iranians and then INDOPACOM started crying

I think about this ALL THE TIME.

Do we think the crack Ivy League minds in this admin have given any thought to what happens to the petrodollar when these tolls are paid in yuan

Two of the journalists assassinated in South Lebanon this morning by Israel were Lebanese correspondents Ali Shoeib and Fatima Ftouni. They become the 252nd and 253rd journalists killed by Israel in the last two years. Unprecedented. (📸 Cradle Media)

A very Trump 2 sequence of events here: 1. Trump creates problem 2. Senate resolves problem, exercising constitutional authority of Congress 3. House GOP rejects solution 4. Trump takes unlawful steps to "solve" problem, seizing the rightful authority of Congress with the assent of the House GOP

It's just rinse repeat of the "pay the troopies" bit from last year There's no authority for it, it's a blatant ADA violation, and Dems should (but won't) promise to prosecute each and every individual involved in moving the funds/processing the payroll, down to the GS-12s in FM land

As established, I am but a lowly political scientist and no military strategist, but if for some reason I was running DOD (and you know what? Fuck it, I probably could. Definitely couldn’t do worse!) I’d try to avoid losing something expensive that can only be replaced by something 2x as expensive

Turns out when the elites bitched that “nobody wants to work anymore” by “nobody” they meant CONGRESS because I stg

Seriously though: come for the excellent headline, stay for the excellent analysis. I was agog, I tell you

All of this is quite astonishing. One of the persistent, nagging questions I have is why SBF faced A Consequence when so many equally sociopathic grifters have not

It’s still hard to believe that tens of millions of Americans thought this guy should be put in charge of a nation, a military, and a nuclear arsenal

We are currently circling Miami Airport so the president can fly from Miami to Palm Beach to spend tomorrow doing this

The correlation between being a Jan 6er and being a pedophile is incredible, it must be like several standard deviations outside what you’d expect just based on chance

Elizabeth Warren’s 2021 wealth tax would have raised $3 trillion over 10 years. Because billionaire wealth has grown so much since then, her new wealth tax proposal would raise $6.2 trillion. Still wondering if we should tax the rich?

Never understood why this didn’t get fixed under Obama

We are in a magical legal setting where we must have shutdowns because it would violate the Anti-Deficiency Act otherwise, but also the President can ignore the Anti-Deficiency Act to unilaterally fund favored agencies when he feels like it. Seems better to just give up on shutdowns altogether.

Never ending stupidity.

Good thread.

if i were a graduate student seeking a degree in the next 3 years i would strongly consider Challenging the legal definition of "graduate" versus "Professional" degree in court

Remind me again why putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill was somehow a years-long bureaucratic process

Might as well point out that this is illegal. Congress created and appropriated funds for the Kennedy Center. Trump is supposed to execute the laws that Congress passes.

They're looting the federal government

i wish some of you had the opportunity to ask your great grandmother what she would have done with access to birth control, education, a living wage, and access to her own checking account. you still think marrying paw paw curtis would have been her priority?

The kind of insightful analysis that can only come from an Ivy League education

“Government can do good and NASA is proof” is a message I don’t really see that often from Dems, and that’s disappointing.

No.

Standards have fallen, the discourse used to be "stop reading Hunger Games and read Dostoevsky you philistines" and now it's "please for the love of God read the Hunger Games, read Divergent, read anything, just stop watching subway surfer videos with weirdly-racist AI commentary for five minutes."

Every time Trump opens his mouth he is saying “I am the dumbest and most dishonest motherfucker alive and you are all idiots for putting me in charge of anything that affects other people.”