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This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
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The Louisiana argument is essentially that you CAN use race to be racist but you CAN'T use race to ameliorate racism.
October 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The Louisiana argument is essentially that you CAN use race to be racist but you CAN'T use race to ameliorate racism.
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I did not expect this kind of fire from Eliot Cohen, but he has Hegseth absolutely pegged www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
October 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I did not expect this kind of fire from Eliot Cohen, but he has Hegseth absolutely pegged www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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the premise of a lot of commentary is "how do we make trump unpopular" and my guys he is unpopular, it's just that the Washington Generals are throwing the game anyway
September 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
the premise of a lot of commentary is "how do we make trump unpopular" and my guys he is unpopular, it's just that the Washington Generals are throwing the game anyway
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
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This point from Sotomayor: what Kavanaugh is proposing to shift administrative burdens from the state to the individual, with the widely-agreed upon expectation that the burdens will fall heavier on some groups more than others.
September 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This point from Sotomayor: what Kavanaugh is proposing to shift administrative burdens from the state to the individual, with the widely-agreed upon expectation that the burdens will fall heavier on some groups more than others.
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Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
September 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
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“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the PROPOSITION that all men are created equal.”
This man takes aim at Lincoln’s words because he’s working for the same league of traitors that took aim at his skull.
This man takes aim at Lincoln’s words because he’s working for the same league of traitors that took aim at his skull.
man.
September 3, 2025 at 3:30 AM
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the PROPOSITION that all men are created equal.”
This man takes aim at Lincoln’s words because he’s working for the same league of traitors that took aim at his skull.
This man takes aim at Lincoln’s words because he’s working for the same league of traitors that took aim at his skull.
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Anyway...Dems need to break out of the impulse to see 200 white people protesting against Covid restrictions as "the voice of the people which we must heed" while seeing 10X as many people protesting racist police violence as "a niche special interest group that's out of step with real Americans."
September 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Anyway...Dems need to break out of the impulse to see 200 white people protesting against Covid restrictions as "the voice of the people which we must heed" while seeing 10X as many people protesting racist police violence as "a niche special interest group that's out of step with real Americans."
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holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
August 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
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When you read about the unspeakable things new federal appellate judge Emil Bove is going to do—he’ll make Jim Ho and Stuart Kyle Duncan look like bleeding hearts—remember that it is *Democrats* who held the seat open for Trump to fill. Not Republicans: Democrats.
Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.
The Cowardice of Senate Democrats Made Emil Bove’s Confirmation Possible
Senate Democrats could have confirmed Biden nominee Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit last year. They caved to a disgraceful right-wing smear campaign instead.
ballsandstrikes.org
July 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
When you read about the unspeakable things new federal appellate judge Emil Bove is going to do—he’ll make Jim Ho and Stuart Kyle Duncan look like bleeding hearts—remember that it is *Democrats* who held the seat open for Trump to fill. Not Republicans: Democrats.
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Yup. As I’ve said before, the right’s constant sense of grievance even as they control every branch of government stems from the fact that the base doesn’t really want specific policy reforms. They’re angry about cultural trends the government can’t really do anything about in a free society.
This is a great example of how conservative grievances are with society overall rather than government. It’s not even like a teacher told her; another student did! The only way around it is to police society so much that no child anywhere could learn about lesbians from anywhere and tell their kid.
This entire story is just so batshit insane
“my kid learned about lesbians so now I’m gonna go and commit war crimes”
“my kid learned about lesbians so now I’m gonna go and commit war crimes”
July 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Yup. As I’ve said before, the right’s constant sense of grievance even as they control every branch of government stems from the fact that the base doesn’t really want specific policy reforms. They’re angry about cultural trends the government can’t really do anything about in a free society.
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It gets more galling everyday that Justice Amy Cooney Barnett lectured Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on not replacing an Imperial Executive with an Imperial Court. An Imperial Court does not apparently feel the need to explain itself with an opinion at all.
Yet another seismic decision fundamentally reshaping our system of government issued on the shadow docket with not even a single word of explanation.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
July 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
It gets more galling everyday that Justice Amy Cooney Barnett lectured Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on not replacing an Imperial Executive with an Imperial Court. An Imperial Court does not apparently feel the need to explain itself with an opinion at all.
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This is a great thread. If you want to feel good about things, click it and scroll up. Then come back here. Because I have my own short thread as a follow-up and a warning.
It is this: Do not underestimate these people. There is no bottom. There are no atrocities they won't eventually aspire to. 🧵
It is this: Do not underestimate these people. There is no bottom. There are no atrocities they won't eventually aspire to. 🧵
ICE is fighting (and losing) a classic low-grade insurgency in LA.
The administration has to appear strong. The people do not.
The administration has to appear strong. The people do not.
July 8, 2025 at 5:54 AM
This is a great thread. If you want to feel good about things, click it and scroll up. Then come back here. Because I have my own short thread as a follow-up and a warning.
It is this: Do not underestimate these people. There is no bottom. There are no atrocities they won't eventually aspire to. 🧵
It is this: Do not underestimate these people. There is no bottom. There are no atrocities they won't eventually aspire to. 🧵
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By popular request, linking Mikie Sherrill's "3 kinds of incompetence," which is also superb. Best part is she dings him for his Fox News tactics and then ... those Fox News tactics fail. Second best part is this kicks off her Gubernatorial campaign against a MAGAt.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fup...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fup...
Mikie Sherrill Asks Pete Hegseth About 3 Areas Of His 'Incompetence' As Secretary Of Defense
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
www.youtube.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
By popular request, linking Mikie Sherrill's "3 kinds of incompetence," which is also superb. Best part is she dings him for his Fox News tactics and then ... those Fox News tactics fail. Second best part is this kicks off her Gubernatorial campaign against a MAGAt.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fup...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fup...
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At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.
www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts
At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.
www.mesoscalenews.com
May 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.
www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
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I am heir to 2,400 year old living traditions of self-government and historical inquiry, which have weathered two millennia of setbacks and long nights.
They are heirs of a 10-minute old rebrand of a murderous 20th century ideology that failed almost immediately when tried.
So, yeah, contempt.
They are heirs of a 10-minute old rebrand of a murderous 20th century ideology that failed almost immediately when tried.
So, yeah, contempt.
As much as people like to dunk on liberal elitism, “these Nazi punks are crass idiots and I refuse to bow to my lessers” is, for me at least, necessary for morale and stiffens my backbone when I feel like giving up.
May 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I am heir to 2,400 year old living traditions of self-government and historical inquiry, which have weathered two millennia of setbacks and long nights.
They are heirs of a 10-minute old rebrand of a murderous 20th century ideology that failed almost immediately when tried.
So, yeah, contempt.
They are heirs of a 10-minute old rebrand of a murderous 20th century ideology that failed almost immediately when tried.
So, yeah, contempt.
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If an administration can get away with falsifying social security records to target individuals, then there is no bottom. There's also no such thing as a "citizen" because that can be changed with a couple button presses too. Mark your SSN and passport as dead then ship you to El Salvador.
what must be understood is that once *some* people can be declared legally dead because they are undocumented, *any* people can be declared legally dead because … well for anything
Exclusive: Two days after the Social Security Administration purposely and falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, Maryland, headquarters.
April 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
If an administration can get away with falsifying social security records to target individuals, then there is no bottom. There's also no such thing as a "citizen" because that can be changed with a couple button presses too. Mark your SSN and passport as dead then ship you to El Salvador.
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“The customs official canceled Ms. Petrova’s visa on the spot and began deportation proceedings.” One way to understand Trump effect in govt: an ever widening circle of people, like low-level customs officials, get to make categorical decisions abt lives of others. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...
She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her
President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“The customs official canceled Ms. Petrova’s visa on the spot and began deportation proceedings.” One way to understand Trump effect in govt: an ever widening circle of people, like low-level customs officials, get to make categorical decisions abt lives of others. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...
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We are seeing a very clear pattern of banning things that make Trumpists and their kids feel bad:
- Books about colonialism, slavery and segregation
- Challenging ideas about gender
- Protests against genocide
- Science generally
It's a blanket ban on hard feelings. They called us snowflakes.
- Books about colonialism, slavery and segregation
- Challenging ideas about gender
- Protests against genocide
- Science generally
It's a blanket ban on hard feelings. They called us snowflakes.
April 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
We are seeing a very clear pattern of banning things that make Trumpists and their kids feel bad:
- Books about colonialism, slavery and segregation
- Challenging ideas about gender
- Protests against genocide
- Science generally
It's a blanket ban on hard feelings. They called us snowflakes.
- Books about colonialism, slavery and segregation
- Challenging ideas about gender
- Protests against genocide
- Science generally
It's a blanket ban on hard feelings. They called us snowflakes.
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this is however a common mistake. you don't want a larger more powerful army if you're Trump. You want powerful extensive unaccountable cops. And he has that.
typically when you are preparing to invade another country in order to annex it by force and also to potentially crush civilian dissent, you want the military to be bigger, rather than smaller
(taps sign labeled "brutally slashing state capacity is fundamentally incompatible with fulfilling an expansionist and authoritarian vision of governance") www.military.com/daily-news/2...
April 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
this is however a common mistake. you don't want a larger more powerful army if you're Trump. You want powerful extensive unaccountable cops. And he has that.
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1/ I wonder if there's a complement to Mettler's _Submerged State_ thesis: the successful state thesis. In brief: American government has *in many ways* been so successful for so long that Americans have forgotten why they need it, making anti-government rhetoric more appealing.
March 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
1/ I wonder if there's a complement to Mettler's _Submerged State_ thesis: the successful state thesis. In brief: American government has *in many ways* been so successful for so long that Americans have forgotten why they need it, making anti-government rhetoric more appealing.