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There are people who will turn themselves into pretzels trying to find a legal, logical through line on big scotus decisions and others who will decry that there is no logic to what scotus says. Both are incorrect.
Holy shit this back and forth between Kagan/Alito/Jackson/&the SG.
Kagan: Doesn't your logic mean a whole raft of other agencies must be invalidated?
SG: Yes, but that's not being litigated right now
Kagan: So what?
Alito: What if we just want to say "but maybe don't apply our logic elsewhere?"
Kagan: Doesn't your logic mean a whole raft of other agencies must be invalidated?
SG: Yes, but that's not being litigated right now
Kagan: So what?
Alito: What if we just want to say "but maybe don't apply our logic elsewhere?"
December 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
There are people who will turn themselves into pretzels trying to find a legal, logical through line on big scotus decisions and others who will decry that there is no logic to what scotus says. Both are incorrect.
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Witch: You will be one of the most famous Chief Justices ever.
Roberts: Wow!
Witch: Oh, not in that way.
Roberts: Wow!
Witch: Oh, not in that way.
December 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Witch: You will be one of the most famous Chief Justices ever.
Roberts: Wow!
Witch: Oh, not in that way.
Roberts: Wow!
Witch: Oh, not in that way.
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
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Remember, according to John Roberts, the president can publicly call for members of Congress to be killed with impunity
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Remember, according to John Roberts, the president can publicly call for members of Congress to be killed with impunity
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Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now
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i do think vance is mostly just regurgitating the half remembered ideas of dead slaveholder extremists but also this gives off the unmistakable scent of “i’ll say whatever you hogs want me to say,” which is fitting coming from america’s premier hogman
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
i do think vance is mostly just regurgitating the half remembered ideas of dead slaveholder extremists but also this gives off the unmistakable scent of “i’ll say whatever you hogs want me to say,” which is fitting coming from america’s premier hogman
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Trying to think if there’s anything this administration could do that publications like TFP wouldn’t treat this way.
Once you’re creating Overton space for extrajudicial executions, I’m not sure there’s much left.
Once you’re creating Overton space for extrajudicial executions, I’m not sure there’s much left.
October 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Trying to think if there’s anything this administration could do that publications like TFP wouldn’t treat this way.
Once you’re creating Overton space for extrajudicial executions, I’m not sure there’s much left.
Once you’re creating Overton space for extrajudicial executions, I’m not sure there’s much left.
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Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
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Wemby just authored one of the grossest minutes of basketball, on both ends, I have ever seen, and we're like half a game into the season.
October 23, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Wemby just authored one of the grossest minutes of basketball, on both ends, I have ever seen, and we're like half a game into the season.
This right into…
October 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This right into…
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One of the pillars of the 9th circuit opinion allowing the National Guard to deploy to Portland is that the remedy for presidential overreach in the use of military force against civilian populations is and has always been the political process. Not just a bad argument, but bad history. /1
October 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
One of the pillars of the 9th circuit opinion allowing the National Guard to deploy to Portland is that the remedy for presidential overreach in the use of military force against civilian populations is and has always been the political process. Not just a bad argument, but bad history. /1
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They fired a top-level commander, the top of the chain of command but for SecDef and POTUS, because the wanton murder spree on the high seas as it's been conducted so far wasn't enough for them.
And there you have it. These strikes are clearly not legal. Pete will push commanders aside until he finds one who won’t question these extrajudicial killings. #SOUTHCOM
October 17, 2025 at 1:44 AM
They fired a top-level commander, the top of the chain of command but for SecDef and POTUS, because the wanton murder spree on the high seas as it's been conducted so far wasn't enough for them.
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Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
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Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!
Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
October 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!
What Klein is saying only makes sense if 75% of political violence wasn’t caused by 1 side of political divide. Understandable to fear of how to live together now. To which I think the American project as constituted is lost and rather than hold the frays together, something new must emerge.
"I had friends say to me, look, we can oppose political violence without whitewashing this guy. I spent some time thinking about that over the weekend...and my reaction honestly is that it is too little to just say we oppose political violence."
September 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
What Klein is saying only makes sense if 75% of political violence wasn’t caused by 1 side of political divide. Understandable to fear of how to live together now. To which I think the American project as constituted is lost and rather than hold the frays together, something new must emerge.
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A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
The capitulation is so much faster and worse than I could’ve imagined tbh. The fact that it is self-serving makes it worse but the sign of the times. I’d like to think that it is also myopic but for that to be true the next time the other side takes power they have to punish the capitulators.
After Trump’s FCC chair, demanded ABC take action against against Kimmel for his comments on Kirk, Nexstar, the largest operator of ABC affiliates announced it would pull Kimmel from its stations
Then ABC said it was taking Kimmel off the air
Nexstar is seeking FCC approval for a $6.2B merger
Then ABC said it was taking Kimmel off the air
Nexstar is seeking FCC approval for a $6.2B merger
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Enters into Definitive Agreement To Acquire TEGNA Inc. for $6.2 Billion in Accretive Transaction | Nexstar Media Group, Inc.
Enhances Nexstar’s Position as a Leading Local Media Company Preserves High-Quality Local Journalism and Diversity of Opinion Strengthens Ability to
www.nexstar.tv
September 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The capitulation is so much faster and worse than I could’ve imagined tbh. The fact that it is self-serving makes it worse but the sign of the times. I’d like to think that it is also myopic but for that to be true the next time the other side takes power they have to punish the capitulators.
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After Trump’s FCC chair, demanded ABC take action against against Kimmel for his comments on Kirk, Nexstar, the largest operator of ABC affiliates announced it would pull Kimmel from its stations
Then ABC said it was taking Kimmel off the air
Nexstar is seeking FCC approval for a $6.2B merger
Then ABC said it was taking Kimmel off the air
Nexstar is seeking FCC approval for a $6.2B merger
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Enters into Definitive Agreement To Acquire TEGNA Inc. for $6.2 Billion in Accretive Transaction | Nexstar Media Group, Inc.
Enhances Nexstar’s Position as a Leading Local Media Company Preserves High-Quality Local Journalism and Diversity of Opinion Strengthens Ability to
www.nexstar.tv
September 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
After Trump’s FCC chair, demanded ABC take action against against Kimmel for his comments on Kirk, Nexstar, the largest operator of ABC affiliates announced it would pull Kimmel from its stations
Then ABC said it was taking Kimmel off the air
Nexstar is seeking FCC approval for a $6.2B merger
Then ABC said it was taking Kimmel off the air
Nexstar is seeking FCC approval for a $6.2B merger
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•ABC: fires Kimmel for mocking Trump
•CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump
•ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller
•MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions”
•FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people
•CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump
•ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller
•MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions”
•FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people
September 18, 2025 at 2:48 AM
•ABC: fires Kimmel for mocking Trump
•CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump
•ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller
•MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions”
•FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people
•CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump
•ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller
•MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions”
•FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people
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Like JOHN YOO calling out the Trump strikes in the Caribbean as criminal, KARL FREAKING ROVE is now out here calling out a political witchhunt. Please I lived through the Iraq war, my brain cannot process such things.
WSJ editorial: "Using Charlie's murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it."
www.wsj.com/opinion/they...
www.wsj.com/opinion/they...
Opinion | ‘They’ Didn’t Kill Charlie Kirk
It insults his memory to blame political opponents for one man’s heinous act.
www.wsj.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Like JOHN YOO calling out the Trump strikes in the Caribbean as criminal, KARL FREAKING ROVE is now out here calling out a political witchhunt. Please I lived through the Iraq war, my brain cannot process such things.
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every single day, at least one member of this administration says something in public that's absolutely disqualifying for public service or civil society, which is what makes all of the condescending admonishment from people like klein so hard to take
Vance on Trump's strikes on boats: "I wouldn't go fishing right now in that area of the world."
September 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
every single day, at least one member of this administration says something in public that's absolutely disqualifying for public service or civil society, which is what makes all of the condescending admonishment from people like klein so hard to take
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there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
September 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
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Nancy Mace acting on disinformation that the shooter was trans: goes off on tirade against "trannies"
Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."
Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."
September 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Nancy Mace acting on disinformation that the shooter was trans: goes off on tirade against "trannies"
Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."
Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."
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Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened
The flags were lowered last night around the base by order of President Trump after the killing of Charlie Kirk and will stay at half-staff on this U.S. outpost in southeast Cuba until sunset on Sunday.
September 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened