The whole ruse that the US government has no leverage to get Abrego Garcia out of CECOT is transparently stupid. Step 1 is to ask. If that doesn’t work—and why wouldn’t it?—Step 2 is to threaten to defund the prison. This administration’s major skill is defunding shit and threatening to defund shit.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Dear Leader Trump is apparently well preserved. Just like Dear Leader Kim Il Sung.

I heard they set the first retaliatory tariff rate at 34%, one for each felony conviction.

strange women lying in ponds distributing swords starting to look like a reasonable basis for a system of government

Bread Zeppelin

I'm waiting for the inverted yip curve.

So the Supreme Court’s strategy seems pretty clearly to be forestall admitting we have a constitutional crisis by giving Trump huge victories on narrow procedural grounds. This is akin to having engineers move the Rubicon River closer and closer to Rome to avoid Caesar crossing it.

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

Turns out Le Pen is not mightier than the fraud.

Well formulated piece on how the US administration is using Orban's strategy to became an autocratic kleptocracy.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Trump is making noise about being president for a third, and unconstitutional, term. He claims he has a “method” that would allow it. I take a deep dive into that claim in today’s piece. Link: open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

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I showed my wife, a historian, the Kristi Noem video. She said “holy shit!” It’s a lot. A brief thread on bodies. It begins in the alt text below… 1/

Pete Hegseth Blows Into Breathalyzer To Unlock Phone

"Goldberg is an anti-Trump hater"

What's the difference between than and a Trump hater?

"Using a Signal app like this is hiding what’s happening from the government itself. And that is almost certainly not an unintended byproduct but the very reason for the use."

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signa...

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