It seemed like many Mainers gave her the benefit of the doubt and benefit of her service when they voted for her over Gideon. If Graham can reach everyone, that benefit may not be in play this time.
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It seemed like many Mainers gave her the benefit of the doubt and benefit of her service when they voted for her over Gideon. If Graham can reach everyone, that benefit may not be in play this time.
There is video. He plainly steals — swipes — the hat and studiously ignores the child asking and gesturing for it. The guy is a disgusting lout, who should simmer in the hot oil of his actions. Please, fuck you.
Thanks Anna and Lawfare. Really appreciate this work. Any sign that Ensign is wilting under the heat of his employer’s disgraceful efforts to kidnap and remove people of color?
CIVICS EDUCATION!!!! Sorry to shout.
The press is on to diminish the vote, suppress the votes of people of color, and encourage people to stay home. The GOP wants to choose who votes. Support voting rights organizations before it is too late. 2/2
The Voting Rights Act gutted by the Court. Nuclear Gerrymander in red states. ICE and DHS at polling places in blue states and cities. Court challenges to mail-in votes across selected -- blue -- areas. 1/2
Go to Greenfield, NH in October, for pumpkins thrown by a trebuchet.
We are terrorizing people of color. We are kidnapping legal residents and, sometimes, citizens. We are not carefully identifying "criminals" or "gang members." Our government is engaged in nationwide and serious racial profiling. The shame may never wear off.
Maybe he is actually a beagle. No, I love beagles.
Jesus. I rest my case: the beard makes this guy somewhat presentable. In this video, he is the kid who got picked on in middle and high school.
I think we knew her all too well. Adios!!
Umm, his beard really hides his jowly face and weak chin? Did I do it right?
Rao is always auditioning.
Yeah, for me — and I’m lucky; married, nice kids, retired — being outdoors with the dog is the silver bullet to keeping my brain steady. Love the photos, mate.
Interesting; I can see this Court majority telling the lower courts, "oh, gosh, we cannot look at the motive of the unitary, powerful, single Executive." His motives are only for the electorate to evaluate, only after he destroys the federal reserve system and a lot of other important institutions.
This is when you know you’ve hired a skilled lawyer: when he or she and the Court are having a seeming conversation about the authorization, the policy underlying it, and the words then used to define the standard.
Columbia and Paul Weiss, pillars of power and prestige in their respective lanes, showed the way, neutered themselves, and emboldened a tyrant. The definition of anticipatory compliance. Ignominy.
Thanks DOCTOR Bill Cassidy. Really well done.
If I lived in Texas, and had a daughter, I’d move. Simple as that. Always wondered if Professor Vladeck left Austin for Georgetown in part because he has daughters.
Doubtful that TAA plays. Dani is going to lead Madrid just like he has every healthy year. Should have stayed with the scousers.
Just list the infamous shootings by venue: elementary schools, high schools, colleges, private Catholic schools; synagogue; Walmart; grocery stores; places of employment; concerts and festivals. Nowhere is safe. Very happy your family is OK. But the reality is that none of us is OK.
The answer is yes: he is dumb, senile and a pathological liar. The trifecta as President. And lotsa help from John Roberts.
It's not a cabinet meeting; it's a gross pander en masse. And Dear Leader loves it.
Anyone notice that Bessent -- who with Gabbard I thought won the sycophant award yesterday -- was reading from and referring to pre-prepared notes? They know that overt, obsequious toadying is an absolute requirement, and each of them fulfills the mission.
Nichols is right. We forge a coalition or the Republican is gone in November 2026. We need not all agree.
Adrian Vermeule, there’s your cue. Adrian?
This is a near total lack of self-possession, a quiet, effortless “oh fuck off” to anyone thinking otherwise. Dogs do not understand that they are dogs. It’s beautiful.
Whenever you listen to this, consider that the Senate could have literally insisted on basic competency, and some measure of truth to power. That was its constitutional duty. Today’s GOP is whatever this Moron wants, in the moment.
Do they distribute knee pads for appropriate supplication before these meetings? And nothing important appears to be discussed; it is instead a televised roundtable of panegyric for a vulgarian.
And a Horst Wessel song.
Wow. I think I felt a little burst of hope.
I'm all ears.
These people have no idea what they are doing. Our 250 year experiment is ending at their hands.
Hah1 Muscle memory!!
Absolutely heart-stopping to have watched this in real time. The beauty was Dom letting the ball from Mo go through to Rio, who punched it home. Just freakin' glorious, and crushing for a valiant group of Magpies.
I think it requires, you know, a majority of the House. So, I see a problem. It's 2026 or bust.
Aubrey, I totally get why you’d think that. And maybe you’ll be proved right. But the setup is dire: Xinis has laid a clear and unambiguous ruling; Ensign has acknowledged it and its force. He is screwed if Kilmer is moved.
Her question is intended to place Ensign at risk of contempt and losing his license to practice. They almost certainly will not move him. Fingers, of course, crossed with these MoFos.
Notice: Call for “Eva Braun” auditions is now closed. We’ve found our performer.
Finally. Jesus. The he statute provides explicit authorization to visit when they want to, in their discretion. And still, it has taken this long to do this? Democrats really really need to up their game.
They are just terrorizing this guy and his family. The cruelty is a feature. The question is about us as a nation: are we better than this…or not?
This quote, taken by Don from the article, is known as the Pam-Blanche Effect.
Thought they had a half-life of like 2,000 years
I really enjoyed the Matthews books, the first of three of which is Red Sparrow. Just a good ride with an utterly authentic air throughout.
A year old; the sweetest girl.
Sonny Jim? Jumanji??
To be called out by this largely irrelevant, yet extraordinarily loathsome, man is an accolade of a lifetime. Well done George. Keep up the terrific work.
With a venality and cynicism special to the Right. They care only for themselves.
Risorgimento. Duce!! A disgrace to the memory of every service person who fought the Nazis, to every citizen who cultivated a victory garden, and ego rummaged their cupboards for excess pots and pans to be made into war material. This is what you get when combine a lack of knowledge of history
Music to accompany the humbling beauty and activities of nature. Thanks so very much from New Hampshire.
Joe is rapacious.
Make DC safe for white folks from the prairie states!!
And gloves. And shoes. JFC, what a pack of morons. The self-harm done to this country is just staggering.
I remember when campaign adornments in the White House would have sent Republicans into a performative rage. It was all and always bullshit
Hard to believe that Mike Collins interpreted this statement incorrectly and in doing so gave it the most extreme interpretation. Who’d a thunk it?
Looks like a war zone. We gotta get the Vermont National Guard down there, stat!!
She sounds like she’s 14. No offense to 14 year olds.
Excellent.
"No man ever steps in the same river twice"?
Why does CNN insist on interviewing these morons? I think Burchett and "MarkWayne" are on two or three times a week, and just fill the airwaves with lies and dissembling and racist talking points. Find guests who don't lie, and actually have some brainpower FFS.
"Copy" and "parody" are really, really different things...and this is, of course, shooting right past the Fox "on-air personalities" and their drooling audience. Big sigh.
It is hard to convey how sophomoric this letter is.
Oh. Major international trading agreement not really memorialized. So totally on brand.
The audition debasement, which, of course, still might just work for Ho.
You are an essential resource, Aaron, for the times in which we are living. And I say that as a retired lawyer who tried cases for 35 years. Really appreciate your work, your devotion, and your insights. Thanks.
Sleeve length is wrong on both Zelenskyy and (though less so) Starmer.
Was the Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee there? Just asking the question.
I can feel some pity for Jim. But the warnings were loud, clear and extraordinarily numerous. The tariffs, the extortion of our trading partners, and his gutting of the EPA were all plain as the orange-painted nose on his face.
But the Solicitor General says I’ll lose my “savings.”
Trump; it has a special kind of stupid to it.
I feel the same way about the Aubrey-Maturin books by Patrick O’Brian, although there I am one soul aboard ship awaiting my grog and the beat of quarters. Big John Sandford fan too; these Minnesota cops are old friends. Thanks for letting me think about it.
It is exactly that: a meeting of old friends at the brownstone, Saul’s apartment, Lily’s penthouse, Lon’s office, and a room with Cramer or the DA. I have paperbacks from the 1970s in a state of dilapidation with which I cannot part.
Mix a cocktail of Bobby Jr. and Florida, drink up. Take a second. Now do you understand?
Bela Fleck? No, too talented: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWeS...
Ukraine, Europe, the United States and the rules based order got no benefit whatsoever. This was much worse than the simple embarrassment in Helsinki. We invited a war criminal and aggressor and enabled all this. Just an absolute fucking disgrace. 2/2
Respectfully, Putin got his American fighter escort, red carpet, eager flash and from our Moron, his photo opportunity, and the effective whitewashing of his myriad war crimes and no sanctions, through an invitation from the country formerly the “leader of the free world.” 1/2
Auditioning, again.
Schoodic?
Guy reminds me of another Pennsylvanian — Joe Namath. Nice work.
JFC. TRUMP IS SENDING LEGAL RESIDENTS AND EVEN CITIZENS OF OUR OWN COUNTRY TO OFF-SHORE SLAVE LABOR CAMPS. PLEASE GET A FUCKING CLUE.
This is about the midterms. The economy is going to leave millions of their supporters behind, so the gerrymandering, vote suppression, and fear will be needed at election sites in so-called blue states and cities. Bank on it.
If he’d done that, he, his friends and relatives and political allies wouldn’t have been able to game the market through insider knowledge. This Administration is about profiting personally, nothing else.
Great article. Work at Abbe Lowell’s firm, or Marc Elias’s, or Mark Zaid’s. There are places that will not be silenced. Good luck!
Great shot. Lubec.
That was all bullshit, all of the time.
Led Weight.
Excellent; thanks very much. Wishing you joy in every landfall.
Can you tell me about the two volume Ship of the Line??
You know what? No one thinks the plaintiff will get a fair hearing. We all are now conditioned to expect sophistry from a Court many of us once revered, to a “unitary,” immunized and wildly emboldened Executive monster. So, I’m staying tuned, and expecting the Roberts Court’s further debasement.
And Americans need to vote in astounding number to overcome vote suppression, gerrymandering, and plain old intimidation to remove these enemies of constitutional freedom and government. Resist or succumb. 2/2
Just outstanding. Americans need to know that Trump is unraveling the country with declarations of emergency — his serialism Reichstag moments. Americans need to know that the feckless toadies of the GOP majorities in Congress are the willing co-conspirators in giving Trump “de jure” cover. 1/2
People should be queuing up to film all of these assholes and their staff members enjoying restaurants in DC. “Hi, sorry to interrupt your ceviche, but where are your armed guards? Are you wearing, you know, Teflon?” Go on offense for fuck’s sake.
Horst Wessel stuff: Rittenhouse, Babbitt, and this guy. A movement needs heroes about which to sing drunken songs.
Or, with the peculiar exception of Maxwell, “nasty.” He “wish[es] her well.”
And we get fucked.
I’ve never seen a board allow its brand to be shattered so thoroughly by the antics on one man or founder. Hard to believe that the institutional holders haven’t sued the board.
Huh. I gotta believe that the “goose” au buerre noir was preceded by a long and tedious debate in the kitchen of the old brownstone.
Sometimes, I think Archie actually prefers cards with Saul, Lon and Fred.
A US Senator asks the Federal Bureau of Investigation to detail agents to strongman a state political deadlock. He knows this action is a gross jurisdictional overstep. But he also knows the FBI is now aimed and armed for coercive action against political enemies. That’s where we are.
