“Hello Congress?”

Danish comedian Huxi Bach spells out the current situation. Hilarious and scarily precise at the same time.

www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

It's pretty easy to have better policing by focusing on who you hire to be police. New Zealand figured it out, as @brianklaas.bsky.social wrote.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

we need to replace the gadsden flag our own. i suggest yellow field (as homage). a spider in the middle of a web. motto? it’s our web. web in your face. we trap invaders. our network is vast. don’t even try. many eyes, many legs. we are legion. tyrants will be trapped. tyrants can’t escape.

Someone inside DHS leaked the names of 4,500 ICE and CBP officers to a nonprofit that tracks ICE. About 80 percent of those name are active.

www.rawstory.com/ice-agents-d...

A concept I've been meaning to float to make sense of what's happened to the US Constitution is an idea from the British constitutional tradition: "implied repeal."

It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.

Trump now threatening to kill Delcy Rodriguez if she doesn't do what he says. Uh oh, he big mad. Is he realizing he got played for a fucking fool yet again?

Remember this from last year? This has "Ric Grenell's drug deal" written all over it.

www.wonkette.com/p/your-lates...

My second piece from Liberal Currents! Here I try and lay out the ethos that I think Liberals should adopt towards the criminality and corruption of the Trump Administration, and what virtues we should model while we work to turn the tide.

On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”

@strictscrutiny.bsky.social maybe I suggest we(you) give the shadow docket a more appropriate name? I would suggest the dictator’s docket. When the dictator needs something, he makes his request thru the dictator‘s docket, and the supremes dutifully comply.

90% of elected Dems do not know how to fight, do not want to fight, did not run for office to fight, and are not smart enough or principled enough to fight. They entered office so they could fiddle with policy and feel important, they want to hide until it blows over, and will find excuses to do so.

@raskin.house.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social where are your article of impeachment. you swore any oath and the constitution is under threat. where are you? an administrative coup is happening now. wtf?

every single elected democrat should be posting like this

The EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, says Russia has learned how to influence elections through new technologies.

Sorry I’m in the camp with let him have whatever appointees he wants bc whoever goes in is going to be there to wreck the place and there is no changing that. The old political pressure rules don’t apply to trump. We must save our energy to fight the actual policies. Educate the public on those.