Dave Weigel
@daveweigel.bsky.social
National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
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My favorite response is “oh how are you gonna feel when it’s your president? We’ll see then.“
I wish every president got impeached and removed. I’d throw a fucking party every time it happened.
I wish every president got impeached and removed. I’d throw a fucking party every time it happened.
The popular idea is that removing a president to replace him with a non-criminal president from his party, and usually elected on his ticket, is a coup.
Do governors/mayors get replaced by number 2s all the time? Yes. There's poli sci work on this, the power of the presidency blinds people.
Do governors/mayors get replaced by number 2s all the time? Yes. There's poli sci work on this, the power of the presidency blinds people.
December 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
My favorite response is “oh how are you gonna feel when it’s your president? We’ll see then.“
I wish every president got impeached and removed. I’d throw a fucking party every time it happened.
I wish every president got impeached and removed. I’d throw a fucking party every time it happened.
This is what I meant w my NYPost take. This is how they cover Dems they don't like: Just pound him for anything and wreck his image. Stuff like de Blasio's chronic lateness became nationally famous (repeated by Dems!) bc the Post made it famous.
But he didn't have shooters like Mamdani does.
But he didn't have shooters like Mamdani does.
socialism is when your former landlord raises the rent after you move out
December 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This is what I meant w my NYPost take. This is how they cover Dems they don't like: Just pound him for anything and wreck his image. Stuff like de Blasio's chronic lateness became nationally famous (repeated by Dems!) bc the Post made it famous.
But he didn't have shooters like Mamdani does.
But he didn't have shooters like Mamdani does.
Also, in 2027, a Dem Congress's electoral priority will be making the 2028 GOP ticket unelectable. The models: Rs pounding Clinton in 2013-2015 and finding her server, Rs probing Biden's family in 2019-2020, which clearly aged and weakened him.
They'll want to drive down Vance's numbers, not Trump.
They'll want to drive down Vance's numbers, not Trump.
I'm on sabbatical til mid-February, so not talking to Dems as much. But my recent sense is that they are punch-drunk from the first-term and Biden-era probes of Trump either being ineffective or backfiring. "Impeachment" isn't even a threat anymore.
Probes of Hegseth et al? Sure, but Trump is safe
Probes of Hegseth et al? Sure, but Trump is safe
Once you decide there's nothing bad enough the president can do to warrant impeachment you're kind of done. You're relegated to holding a bunch of hearings which is a PR battle for the subsequent election, but in the meantime you're stuck with a criminal president
December 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Also, in 2027, a Dem Congress's electoral priority will be making the 2028 GOP ticket unelectable. The models: Rs pounding Clinton in 2013-2015 and finding her server, Rs probing Biden's family in 2019-2020, which clearly aged and weakened him.
They'll want to drive down Vance's numbers, not Trump.
They'll want to drive down Vance's numbers, not Trump.
Problem is with impeachment power in a partisan Congress. It's a gun with no bullets; the idea that the electorate empowered a sovereign for four years, and it is anti-democratic to remove him, is so powerful (and so dumb) that you can never really crack his party and get the votes for conviction.
All time most incompetent political party
December 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Problem is with impeachment power in a partisan Congress. It's a gun with no bullets; the idea that the electorate empowered a sovereign for four years, and it is anti-democratic to remove him, is so powerful (and so dumb) that you can never really crack his party and get the votes for conviction.
I'm on sabbatical til mid-February, so not talking to Dems as much. But my recent sense is that they are punch-drunk from the first-term and Biden-era probes of Trump either being ineffective or backfiring. "Impeachment" isn't even a threat anymore.
Probes of Hegseth et al? Sure, but Trump is safe
Probes of Hegseth et al? Sure, but Trump is safe
Once you decide there's nothing bad enough the president can do to warrant impeachment you're kind of done. You're relegated to holding a bunch of hearings which is a PR battle for the subsequent election, but in the meantime you're stuck with a criminal president
I’ve seen no serious engagement from senior Dems about what, exactly, they plan to do in terms of reasserting congressional power, as in identifying the available tools and thinking seriously about ways to use them to dig us out of the current state of total constitutional collapse.
December 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I'm on sabbatical til mid-February, so not talking to Dems as much. But my recent sense is that they are punch-drunk from the first-term and Biden-era probes of Trump either being ineffective or backfiring. "Impeachment" isn't even a threat anymore.
Probes of Hegseth et al? Sure, but Trump is safe
Probes of Hegseth et al? Sure, but Trump is safe
Funny/depressing @toddintheshadows.bsky.social recap of the year’s worst pop. I’d forgotten TS’s execrable Charli diss track youtu.be/41A5knAYlaE?...
The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2025
YouTube video by Todd in the Shadows
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December 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Funny/depressing @toddintheshadows.bsky.social recap of the year’s worst pop. I’d forgotten TS’s execrable Charli diss track youtu.be/41A5knAYlaE?...
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me doing the criterion closet thing:
this one, Heat, is really popular. lots of people love it.
ohhh this one yep. gotta have this. lord of the rings fellowship of the ring. yeah i brought it with me
this one, Heat, is really popular. lots of people love it.
ohhh this one yep. gotta have this. lord of the rings fellowship of the ring. yeah i brought it with me
December 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
me doing the criterion closet thing:
this one, Heat, is really popular. lots of people love it.
ohhh this one yep. gotta have this. lord of the rings fellowship of the ring. yeah i brought it with me
this one, Heat, is really popular. lots of people love it.
ohhh this one yep. gotta have this. lord of the rings fellowship of the ring. yeah i brought it with me
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jeremy strong in the springsteen movie looks like they made an oscar bait minions adaptation
December 27, 2025 at 6:50 AM
jeremy strong in the springsteen movie looks like they made an oscar bait minions adaptation
The Post was around 50% as deranged in its de Blasio coverage, but he didn’t come into office with the massive outside force that Mamdani is bringing. Gonna be a test of the paper’s influence; it beats him up every second but he’s got a posse saying “shut the fuck up.”
Insane NY Post column suggesting that the new First Lady who is sad about leaving her longtime neighbors in a not fancy NYC neighborhood is an ungrateful brown woman
December 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The Post was around 50% as deranged in its de Blasio coverage, but he didn’t come into office with the massive outside force that Mamdani is bringing. Gonna be a test of the paper’s influence; it beats him up every second but he’s got a posse saying “shut the fuck up.”
Fifty of my most interesting 2025 reads - fiction on left, nonfiction on right.
December 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Fifty of my most interesting 2025 reads - fiction on left, nonfiction on right.
Bumpin’ that youtu.be/7onIN6IwIeQ?...
The Posies - Golden Blunders
YouTube video by ThePosiesVEVO
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December 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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It is not just the corruption of Trump pardoning someone who was making him richer. It is also a two-tier justice system where the rich can buy freedom.
Binance paid the lobbyist $800K for the pardon, and were offering lobbyists success fees of up to $6 million.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Binance paid the lobbyist $800K for the pardon, and were offering lobbyists success fees of up to $6 million.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
December 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It is not just the corruption of Trump pardoning someone who was making him richer. It is also a two-tier justice system where the rich can buy freedom.
Binance paid the lobbyist $800K for the pardon, and were offering lobbyists success fees of up to $6 million.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Binance paid the lobbyist $800K for the pardon, and were offering lobbyists success fees of up to $6 million.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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🧵 I've been trying to articulate this for some time. Definitions matter. Each small precedent leads to the next and snowballs. This started with naming cartels terrorist orgs. Then drug runners "terrorists." reason.com/2025/12/26/j...
Justice Department says filming immigration raids is 'domestic terrorism'
A leaked Justice Department memo directs federal prosecutors to press “domestic terrorism” charges against individuals who record immigration operations.
reason.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🧵 I've been trying to articulate this for some time. Definitions matter. Each small precedent leads to the next and snowballs. This started with naming cartels terrorist orgs. Then drug runners "terrorists." reason.com/2025/12/26/j...
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Weirdly most of the people angry about today's NYT lookback at Trump's past year seem to be saying that the Times should have printed something more honest... like this article that they all ignored last week www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
December 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Weirdly most of the people angry about today's NYT lookback at Trump's past year seem to be saying that the Times should have printed something more honest... like this article that they all ignored last week www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
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Matt Taibbi is suing @eoinhiggins.bsky.social in a very dumb defamation suit.
If claims this nonspecific and broad were actionable under defamation law, Taibbi would be financially bankrupt in addition to intellectually bankrupt.
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If claims this nonspecific and broad were actionable under defamation law, Taibbi would be financially bankrupt in addition to intellectually bankrupt.
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Complaint – #1 in Taibbi v. Higgins (S.D.N.Y., 1:25-cv-09511) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against BOLD TYPE BOOKS, Eoin Higgins. (Filing Fee $ 405.00, Receipt Number ANYSDC-31994120)Document filed by Matt Taibbi..(Garson, Robert) (Entered: 11/13/2025)
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December 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Matt Taibbi is suing @eoinhiggins.bsky.social in a very dumb defamation suit.
If claims this nonspecific and broad were actionable under defamation law, Taibbi would be financially bankrupt in addition to intellectually bankrupt.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
If claims this nonspecific and broad were actionable under defamation law, Taibbi would be financially bankrupt in addition to intellectually bankrupt.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
My favorite Dean Martin songs? Gotta be "That is Love" and "Kiss Me Many Times."
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
My favorite Dean Martin songs? Gotta be "That is Love" and "Kiss Me Many Times."
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Wes Moore agreeing to do a Bari Weiss CBS town hall basically got no backlash, we're a long way from the Great Bernie Sanders-Joe Rogan Podcast Debate of 2019
www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...
www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...
CBS News and The Free Press launch series of town halls and debates: An early look at what's ahead
"Things That Matter," a series of planned town halls and debates sponsored by Bank of America, will launch early next year.
www.cbsnews.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Wes Moore agreeing to do a Bari Weiss CBS town hall basically got no backlash, we're a long way from the Great Bernie Sanders-Joe Rogan Podcast Debate of 2019
www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...
www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...
Bumpin’ that youtu.be/ifvf0vmXsy0?...
Automatic Teller
YouTube video by New Bomb Turks - Topic
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December 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Bumpin’ that youtu.be/ifvf0vmXsy0?...
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Dec 26th - After spending Christmas day with his new #Ted, John makes a wish that Ted could really talk. John wakes the next morning to see that wish has come true.
📽️📅 Ted (2012)
📽️📅 Ted (2012)
December 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Dec 26th - After spending Christmas day with his new #Ted, John makes a wish that Ted could really talk. John wakes the next morning to see that wish has come true.
📽️📅 Ted (2012)
📽️📅 Ted (2012)
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true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
December 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
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Din Tai Fung in Times Square is closed today, which seems like a MBA case study in an international company lacking local cultural competence
December 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Din Tai Fung in Times Square is closed today, which seems like a MBA case study in an international company lacking local cultural competence
Probably not easy to see first-run Russian movies these days, but Igor from "Anora" leading a Pushkin biopic? Maybe I should stop skipping those VPN ads in every YouTube video
December 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Probably not easy to see first-run Russian movies these days, but Igor from "Anora" leading a Pushkin biopic? Maybe I should stop skipping those VPN ads in every YouTube video
Seeing Christmas photos from people who’ve mounted their TVs above fireplaces
December 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Seeing Christmas photos from people who’ve mounted their TVs above fireplaces
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Started excitedly describing this article to my partner over coffee. She let me finish and politely said "No part of that was interesting to me" www.ilm.com/how-to-build...
How to Build an X-wing: 50 Years After ILM Completed Its First ‘Star Wars’ Model
Take an extensive deep dive into ILM’s creation of the original X-wing fighter miniatures for Star Wars: A New Hope.
www.ilm.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Started excitedly describing this article to my partner over coffee. She let me finish and politely said "No part of that was interesting to me" www.ilm.com/how-to-build...