If Biden, as president, had fallen asleep at the Pope’s funeral, it would have been the top story in America for days.

Trump falling asleep at the Pope’s funeral today won’t be, because our media is broken.

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

Want a great slogan for midterms?
"If you FAFO and are struggling because of Trump policies, we understand. The Dems are here for you. Tell us how we can help you "

You get the point.

FAFO will be the theme. Be the solution.

we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

I have never heard of a more DEI hire than a drunken, National Guard domestic abuser being elevated to run the entire military...

very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman

Let me be clear. Generally, law profs & PhD historians get along swimmingly. We fill in the puzzle together in the best ways. I love learning from legal scholarship. But originalist law profs? It's like you exist solely to insult our discipline and the work we do. Oh. And you're wrong. All the time.

I’m not sure it even counts as a conspiracy theory, but one theory I totally believe is that MAGA Washington is held together by a network of mutual implied blackmail. Hundreds or thousands of sex criminals who all know each other’s secrets.

Excellent headline from USA Today

Big congratulations to Republicans on their first big victory of the Trump era: empowering President Musk to strip funding for childhood cancer research out of the budget.