The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

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So infuriating.

Repeat after me: An executive order is not a royal edict; it is not law. It is a direction to the executive branch as to how to carry out the law. Also: Key parts of Trump's last EO on elections have been stopped by federal courts, ruling that the President has no role to play in federal elections

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

Robert Downey Jr. is the correct answer, but this question is no longer a fun one for anyone who graduated from my high school in recent years

Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.

Maybe this goes without saying at this point, but in any other presidential administration, this one thing, by itself, would’ve made headlines for weeks, prompted multiple investigations, and been a potentially presidency-ending scandal.

In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint www.wsj.com/business/med...

The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill

Total crickets from Ezra Douthglesias & the rest of the Do An Abundance Of Moderate Populism crowd. Expectations & demands, but only for Democrats.

This proposed act is so evil.

In the old stories, the convention was that the troll demanding ransom for safe passage had to live under the bridge in question.

[Charlton Heston voice, in a fit of agony]: Lays is Potatoes!

The Unitary Executive Theory arguments in the new Schedule F rule really are some of the most terrifying words ever recorded in the Federal Register. The kind of thing future historians will point to if the shit really goes down. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...

The energy & tech industry are working hard to secure "permitting certainty" legislation. Such legislation would prohibit future administrations from rolling back Trump's plans in expand coal mining in New Mexico through 2068-2136. This is the policy logic wrought by "Abundance."

On one side of the family, fleeing pogroms. On the other side, fleeing Nazis, including their neighbors who turned their backs or helped their more active persecutors when they turned up the level of horrors.

Getting away from nazis — which worked, for a while

A judge ruled that the Trump administration's preposterously fake climate science panel violated federal law, flouting public meeting and open record requirements: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @hayleysmith.bsky.social

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

"The solution to technology is not more technology. The solution to loneliness is each other, a wealth that should be available to most of us most of the time." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in @theguardian.com with a must read www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

The Justice Department’s prosecution of the reporters Don Lemon and Georgia Fort is “best understood not as law enforcement but as propaganda,” Quinta Jurecic argues: theatln.tc/fcStyVnv

In Maine, masked federal agents stopped a car that contained a baby, and smashed a window. "Glass sprayed over the baby’s car seat." They took the baby's father who was driving, leaving the mother who does not have a driver's license alone in the car with the baby. On video:

President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A few hours ago the msm unquestioningly repeated the White House spin that Trump had changed his “tone.”

The “horror of the Holocaust” was made possible by Germany’s Nuremberg Laws *legalizing* (& socializing) depriving Jews of civil & human rights and removing them from all aspects of public life. “Abiding by the law” is not a moral test, & suggesting it is a moral test cheapens the horror of Nazism.

Hard to imagine any imaginable reason they would choose to publish this, when they just could have not expressed an opinion—besides rage bait for clicks.

I just want to point out that Bovino's response to Bill gives away the underlying worldview: Sympathizing with (black and brown) immigrants over (white) American citizens makes you a (race) traitor, which makes you a part of the "problem" (and thereby deserving of same treatment as the immigrants)

Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

The execution of Alex Pretti is playing so badly because you can look at his actions and life story - his last act was helping, boy scout, athlete, health care worker to veterans - and compare those to the men who killed him and know which you would want to be your son, brother, father, uncle.

I recommend Carol Anderson's book "The Second" if you want to understand this history, and how we got 2A in the first place. It was decidedly NOT about making sure that future Alex Prettis could protect themselves from racist ICE agents who came on a Somali fraud pretext and started killing.

An article about a county maintained road that connects to a non-county maintained road that provides access to very valuable homes. And inverse condemnation. And sea level rise. Sounds kind of like a property law final exam question if you ask me. www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...

My friend wrote this about Alex. She was his last nursing student. He taught her lessons we all need right now.

If you only read the opinion journalism in elite media over the last decade, you would have been convinced that wokeness, and not fascism, were the greatest threats to American society. Now some of those authors are retconning by trying to relabel fascism as "the woke right."

Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.

The left didn’t make the men you ordered to occupy the city for no reason shoot a man in the back. The left didn’t tell a bunch of masked armed yahoos that they had “total immunity” and you would let them get away with murder if it came to that.

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose

No one has been righter on the political impact of Trump’s immigration terror campaign than Elliott. When know-it-all pundits were demanding Dems shut up about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, he pushed back with hard data and has been utterly vindicated every day since. Dems need to listen to Elliott.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It’s clear now that the inconsistency & hypocrisy are a feature, not a bug, & Willhoit’s law is the correct analysis. Right-wing ideology and practice consists of one main idea: there are in-groups that the law protects but does not bind, and out-groups that the law binds but does not protect.

Facts don’t care about our feelings or preference for ignorance. “climate change is not an environmental ideology. It’s a risk management challenge already reshaping insurance markets, mortgage lending, municipal bond ratings, and reinsurance markets…” www.forbes.com/sites/billfr...

For some reason this video really hits me. That’s a good exhibit; it’s unusual to see one so substantive in an open outdoor park. This is the right’s response to Americans taking down Confederate monuments: take down any record of slavery itself. After that they aim to put the enslavers back up.

Democrats needing to message on affordability as the country endures a brutal authoritarian takeover is tragic. Take it from someone who lives in occupied Minneapolis. Our problems go deeper than prices.

Thread worth reading. Completely lawless action by DHS.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...