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Terrible headline: “The Supreme Court won’t hurt America by striking down the tariffs”. More accurate: Supreme Court striking down tariffs won’t hurt America. First version implies the Court won’t strike down tariffs.
October 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Terrible headline: “The Supreme Court won’t hurt America by striking down the tariffs”. More accurate: Supreme Court striking down tariffs won’t hurt America. First version implies the Court won’t strike down tariffs.
Pete Buttigieg on Rebuilding America After Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...
Opinion | Pete Buttigieg on Rebuilding America After Trump
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Pete Buttigieg on Rebuilding America After Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...
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July 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
A good idea for planning a 2028 run.
I think a great platform for a 28’ presidential race, is to take each line item of Project 2025 and not only reverse it but strengthen it.
Oh cuts to education and weather services? Nope we bring those back and double their budget!
Oh tax cuts to the wealthy? We’re gonna tax their asses off!
Oh cuts to education and weather services? Nope we bring those back and double their budget!
Oh tax cuts to the wealthy? We’re gonna tax their asses off!
July 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
A good idea for planning a 2028 run.
Here’s what the Senate bill will do to taxes.
The Joint Committee on Taxation is up late and busts out this striking distributional analysis of the Senate bill on taxes:
July 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Here’s what the Senate bill will do to taxes.
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I have literally never seen a graph like this once in all my years of being an election sicko
18-24 always lags, always, it’s just a natural law of politics
and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!
18-24 always lags, always, it’s just a natural law of politics
and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!
June 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I have literally never seen a graph like this once in all my years of being an election sicko
18-24 always lags, always, it’s just a natural law of politics
and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!
18-24 always lags, always, it’s just a natural law of politics
and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!
When you have one minute left and should just sit down.
Omg
I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.
June 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
When you have one minute left and should just sit down.
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This is like someone asking me, "What is constipation?" and I then vividly describe an endless fountain of diarrhea.
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 21, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This is like someone asking me, "What is constipation?" and I then vividly describe an endless fountain of diarrhea.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court blocks the Trump administration from carrying out Alien Enemies Act proclamation deportations from the Northern District of Texas.
Thomas and Alito dissent.
The 7-2 court roundly rejects the current AEA proclamation notice.
More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
Thomas and Alito dissent.
The 7-2 court roundly rejects the current AEA proclamation notice.
More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
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May 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court blocks the Trump administration from carrying out Alien Enemies Act proclamation deportations from the Northern District of Texas.
Thomas and Alito dissent.
The 7-2 court roundly rejects the current AEA proclamation notice.
More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
Thomas and Alito dissent.
The 7-2 court roundly rejects the current AEA proclamation notice.
More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
Amazing how incompetent the remaining DOJ lawyers are.
So, uh, it certainly looks like DOJ intended to file a letter to Judge Liman in MTA v. Duffy, but….it accidentally filed a letter containing its legal advice to the Department of Transportation instead
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 24, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Amazing how incompetent the remaining DOJ lawyers are.
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This is fucking vile.
Pledging to defend the Constitution right before the country you were about to become a citizen of unconstitutionally detains you
April 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is fucking vile.
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If I were Judge Xinis, I would order the government to produce, in her courtroom, officials who were in a position to answer her questions and to do so under oath.
Letting DOJ continue to prevaricate and deflect responsibility in written submissions seems ... insufficient at this point.
Letting DOJ continue to prevaricate and deflect responsibility in written submissions seems ... insufficient at this point.
April 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If I were Judge Xinis, I would order the government to produce, in her courtroom, officials who were in a position to answer her questions and to do so under oath.
Letting DOJ continue to prevaricate and deflect responsibility in written submissions seems ... insufficient at this point.
Letting DOJ continue to prevaricate and deflect responsibility in written submissions seems ... insufficient at this point.
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Of course, his method is to keep the tax rate the same while zeroing out the capital gains.
April 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Of course, his method is to keep the tax rate the same while zeroing out the capital gains.
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Maybe we shouldn't have deleted those Navajo Code Talkers from the Defense Department after all.
March 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Maybe we shouldn't have deleted those Navajo Code Talkers from the Defense Department after all.
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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
Pm Private GIF
ALT: Pm Private GIF
media.tenor.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
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Important thing about this jaw-dropping story is that even if Jeff Goldberg hadn't been invited into the chat, Hegseth was sending out detailed military stuff over a civilian app that *even the other people in the conversation probably didn't need to know about*
"Need to know" means "need."
"Need to know" means "need."
March 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Important thing about this jaw-dropping story is that even if Jeff Goldberg hadn't been invited into the chat, Hegseth was sending out detailed military stuff over a civilian app that *even the other people in the conversation probably didn't need to know about*
"Need to know" means "need."
"Need to know" means "need."
I’ll be referring to this as the Trump/Musk Recession.
This is the Atlanta Fed warning us of a big economic contraction. Trump owns this.
March 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I’ll be referring to this as the Trump/Musk Recession.
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In rare Saturday ruling Federal Judge finds Trump's firing of Special Counsel was unlawful
"The Special Counsel is supposed to withstand the winds of political change and help ensure that no government servant of either party... faces reprisals for calling out wrongdoing."
bit.ly/3EXyD75
"The Special Counsel is supposed to withstand the winds of political change and help ensure that no government servant of either party... faces reprisals for calling out wrongdoing."
bit.ly/3EXyD75
Judge rules that Trump's firing of whistleblower office chief was unlawful
Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of Special Counsel, sued President Trump last month after he was fired.
bit.ly
March 2, 2025 at 3:29 AM
In rare Saturday ruling Federal Judge finds Trump's firing of Special Counsel was unlawful
"The Special Counsel is supposed to withstand the winds of political change and help ensure that no government servant of either party... faces reprisals for calling out wrongdoing."
bit.ly/3EXyD75
"The Special Counsel is supposed to withstand the winds of political change and help ensure that no government servant of either party... faces reprisals for calling out wrongdoing."
bit.ly/3EXyD75
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Zero Democratic votes for the Republican budget made to cut programs like Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and food stamps to pay for billionaire tax cuts. Reject being the minority, embrace being the opposition!
Jeffries: "Let me be clear -- House Democrats will not provide a single vote to this reckless Republican budget. Not one. Not one."
February 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Zero Democratic votes for the Republican budget made to cut programs like Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and food stamps to pay for billionaire tax cuts. Reject being the minority, embrace being the opposition!
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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
February 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
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First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.
NEW: The USDA acknowledged that over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak.
The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.
The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:28 AM
First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.
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I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.
February 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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You cannot fire so many people and shutter so many agencies and services and not expect things to start to go very bad very quickly.
Our job is to highlight not only the chaos and cruelty of the firings, but also the devastating consequences.
The public must turn on this madness and soon.
Our job is to highlight not only the chaos and cruelty of the firings, but also the devastating consequences.
The public must turn on this madness and soon.
February 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
You cannot fire so many people and shutter so many agencies and services and not expect things to start to go very bad very quickly.
Our job is to highlight not only the chaos and cruelty of the firings, but also the devastating consequences.
The public must turn on this madness and soon.
Our job is to highlight not only the chaos and cruelty of the firings, but also the devastating consequences.
The public must turn on this madness and soon.
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1/ OK, Democratic members of Congress in the US Senate. It’s time for some tough love.
I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like “the American people want us to work together” and “ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.”
I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like “the American people want us to work together” and “ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.”
February 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
1/ OK, Democratic members of Congress in the US Senate. It’s time for some tough love.
I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like “the American people want us to work together” and “ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.”
I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like “the American people want us to work together” and “ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.”