I don't even know where to start with the illegal...The Executive does not have the constitutional power to raise revenue. The Executive does not have the constitutional power to make decisions about expenditures. The Executive does not have the power to privatize the functions of the US Treasury...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Someone tell Brady he has now exceeded the maximum allowable uses of “twitchy” for one broadcast.

His fear of being booed is the most likely reason, but his stated reason may suggest that time zone travel is increasingly taxing for him physically. Or perhaps the timing isn’t good for whatever treatment he’s getting that causes those hand bruises.

It is just like dating—when the woman you want to date is not even remotely interested, is happily married, and your “argument” for why she needs to be with you is that you have more guns than her husband and you’ll die without her. Just your standard feel-good rom-com. These people are idiots.

Trump‘s pre-World War II foreign policy notions take for granted that the US is playing “Uncle Sucker“ if it spends a dime defending territory over which it is not sovereign. Small-minded, and ultimately self-defeating and stupid. But that’s Trump in a nutshell.

The evidence is really piling up that Trump has made an explicit spheres of influence deal with Putin and Xi.

Trump is turning Venezuela into a US protectorate. This is Theodore Roosevelt foreign policy.

A reminder that James K. Polk also offered to “buy” California from Mexico, and when Mexico refused to even meet his envoy, sent troops into disputed territory, provoked a war, took the territory, and then paid Mexico $15 million for the territory he stole so that he could say he bought it.

Denmark has made clear that it will not voluntarily cede Greenland. Therefore, the only way the US takes possession of it is by the threat of military force. He may be right that there would not be a military response to such a US action. But it would destroy NATO, Putin‘s greatest strategic goal.

I think what Trump did in Venezuela was reckless and portends, an even more reckless larger foreign policy, but all of these people suggesting it is at odds with “America first” foreign policy simply don’t understand what “America first” has always meant.

US foreign policy is now an episode of The Apprentice.

I think that’s right. This is at least as much about Putin envy and wanting to make a statement about hemispheric dominance.

What Trump did today is much bigger than Venezuela. It shows he has really turned to a pre-World War II, spheres of influence version of America First foreign policy. byrnesms.blogspot.com/2026/01/trum...

Whenever I teach about US foreign policy in Latin America, I always note the US tendency to refer to the western hemisphere as “our backyard.“ Your backyard is your property. Treating a foreign leader like a criminal in your country is asserting American sovereignty over the entire hemisphere.

Maybe he’ll bring all of the possible candidates to the cabinet room and see which one kisses his ass best.

It's like someone said "what would have happened if the filibusterers of the 1850s had a 21st century military and a president?"

It is becoming increasingly clear that Putin and Trump have a private spheres of influence agreement. The only principle underlying it is that great powers get to do whatever they want in their sphere. Putin likely told Trump to take Greenland in return for Russia being allowed to take Ukraine.

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My favorite part is at the end, where he says that it’d be a mess to clean up so SC wouldn’t do it. So the argument is “you have to allow us to do unconstitutional shit b/c it’s too big a pain in the ass to undo unconstitutional shit.” No, dumbass, that’s why you don’t do unconstitutional shit .

This is, of course, nonsense. What this does is establish a bogus casus belli for the 19th-century style wars Trump’s unprecedented western hemisphere military buildup has been leading to. He can’t wait to imitate his hero, Putin.

“Guilty people claim to be innocent, so we have no choice but to randomly arrest innocent people.”

This is undeniably true, and has been for decades. More than 25 years ago, someone at one of the elite liberal arts colleges in the country told me that without affirmative action for men, their students would be 2/3 women.

And if you do it for Donald Trump, you get a pardon.

This is just my opinion, but I don't think departments need to change their strategy for reading or grading student work. Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.

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These goons with the guns look like they belong in the streets of Iraq in 2005, not the streets of America in 2025. These thugs are the ones I’d like to see arrested and deported. They’re certainly not acting like Americans.

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Would like to thank whoever first tossed a scrap of food to a wolf. Really can’t imagine how I’d be getting by if you hadn’t taken that first step.

Hey NYT— The appropriate word is not “urging.” It is “order”— the fact that presidents are not supposed to issue orders to the Attorney General doesn’t mean that this one doesn’t do it on a regular basis. If you’re a news organization, call it what it is.

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

This only strengthens my sense that Trump’s deal with the dictators (maybe informal, maybe not) is that Putin gets Europe, Xi gets Asia, and the US reverts to the 19th century version of the Monroe Doctrine.

It seems clear to me now that the play here with the shutdown was to put on a big show of being fighters before the election in order to get the benefit from that at the polls. Having gotten the benefit that they were looking for, they shut the whole thing down.

I don’t have much good to say about Ingraham, but I’ll give her this: she does not hesitate here to let Trump know that she thinks what he just said is flat-out stupid. I wish journalists would do that. 

Raise your hand if your life’s dream is to go out and negotiate your own insurance. He’s such an idiot.

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

@schumer.senate.gov You either approved of this capitulation or were powerless to stop it. Either way, you need to resign as Democratic leader. Coming less than a week after dramatic electoral victories, this is a pathetic surrender.

This seems so bleeding obvious that I’m amazed that anyone has to say it out loud to what are supposed to be professional politicians.

Ok, genius. And when they buy health insurance with the money given them, who gets that money? The self-same money-sucking insurance companies. He is so damn stupid.

So the game later today is Game 5, right?

Maybe Scherzer should’ve yelled at Schneider again.

So now we need a halftime show in the middle of World Series baseball games too? Good Lord. Stop this madness.

I’m in my 60s, and I can do this.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... “now you can outsource thinking itself.” Labor-saving devices have been a great boon to humankind. But the one essential labor that cannot be outsourced without producing mental rot is personal thought. Outsource that, and we’re doomed.

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There was a lot of good trouble in Columbia today:) Thank you to the Capitol police and everyone at the South Carolina Dept. of Public Safety for keeping the peace.

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If only everyone who voted for Trump because they were mad about inflation had listened to those of us saying his tariffs would increase inflation.