This is one those things you see and you think "how much longer can @schumer.senate.gov let this guy go on?" but I actually think it's too late to stop him.
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This is one those things you see and you think "how much longer can @schumer.senate.gov let this guy go on?" but I actually think it's too late to stop him.
Aside from how Obama is remembered, it's striking that Obamacare is basically the last serious presidential legislative agenda that wasn't just trying to contort an annual budget bill to fit in everything you can crowbar into it.
The enemy is the visa regime. It is beyond ridiculous the amount of paperwork required for an American to visit China or a Chinese citizen to visit America, let alone work or study, and this artificial separation imposed by our governments leads to artificial separation among our peoples.
among other things that whole thing was a glimpse into why you could not pay me to live in a tiny, middle of nowhere town
watching this UNKNOWN NUMBER doc on netflix and i have to say i clocked the likely culprit about 15 minutes in.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
they are basically saying, “don’t you know that you lost?!? believe something else so that you can win!”
i think it is interesting that this view appears to come primarily from people who cannot imagine believing something for non-instrumental reasons
Yep a good-faith critique of learning loss would lead to proposals for a massive, New Deal-scale investment in public education. The people pushing the narrative are doing precisely the opposite.
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
hell i wish brands would post garment dimensions rather than vague sizing charts
Hard agree! sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/07/comp...
I think what I mean is perfectly clear and I am not going to entertain a conversation where we insert meanings that are not there.
Of course Trump can attempt to leverage funding and whatever limited, existing authority he has to try to coerce political actors into doing his bidding, but then that’s just politics.
If the distance between compliance and non-compliance is a function of the willingness of the targeted actor to say “yes” or “no,” then it seems that my basic point — Trump cannot force anyone to do anything on the question of voter ID — is correct, and you’re just quibbling with details.
I think it is interesting that the examples you use here are of institutions voluntarily complying with unlawful demands. I think it is also worth noting that there were just as many institutions that ignored the administration’s unlawful demands.
Yeah. “You didn’t consider that Trump could break the law” is a non-sequitur.
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
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What if most ppl arent actually still seething about an event from five years ago and the only ppl that are are extremely online weirdos and the reason why a lot of our news media & our political class cant see the forest for the trees on this is bc they too are way too online?
anyway my brave take is that Bluesky isn't really working because you just can't launch a text-based social media platform in the era of Big Video And Picture Slop and expect it to flourish, most people don't really want to type or read
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
what
making some pita bread for a greek-themed potluck with friends
Benny Johnson, a right-wing podcaster, is among the new media figures who enjoy rare access to the Trump administration in exchange for their promotion of the White House’s agenda to millions of online followers. He stands out for his record of plagiarism and promoting false claims. nyti.ms/4gb5yn1
Gentrification is what we call it when demand exceeds supply. It is not caused by bike lanes. The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.
say more?
question, who runs elections in this country?
you can live your life like a coward then
okay, you can let them intimidate you if you want
the plan is to behave like you are a free citizen
what do you mean "get away with." there's no legal force here! the executive order does nothing! it's just words!
i don't think any of you actually knows anything about how the american system of government works
he'll send ICE to intimidate us. if i see an ICE agent at my polling place i'm going to walk right past him.
ICE can barely handle the duties it has right now. oh no, he sends 2 guys to stand around near a polling place. okay?
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
no, quite literally, the old congress no longer exists on january 2nd 2027, and a new one has to constitute itself. it has nothing to do with what scotus thinks
the problem with this is that a new congress constitutes itself, so the current majority wouldn't have any particular authority to act
under what authority can the administration tell congress how to organize itself?
the supreme court did not order the state of florida to throw out ballots. it ordered it to stop counting. if ossof wins a comfortable reelection, who tells georgia to throw out its ballots?
"oh nothing matters because mr. trump won't let it matter" shut up
who is they and why would it matter?
a bunch of you really believe that trump is the unstoppable god king who can do whatever he declares and it is dumb as hell
how would this work, exactly? let's say jon ossof wins reelection next year. who forces the state of georgia to throw out the ballots? bsky.app/profile/jmb0...
the administration also does not have "hordes of armed sociopaths that follow their orders"
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
there is nothing, for instance, that can trump can say or do that would force the colorado secretary of state to mandate voter ID or restrict mail-in voting
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
the boy and i legitimately could have spent an hour shooting that cannon
no nobody wanted mealy, rotten apples
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they had an apple cannon
spending the afternoon at a sunflower farm
It’s that and a classic bad dad/no dad i must dominate others to account for my feelings of helplessness
He blames the country for his mother’s dysfunction and the way it ruined his childhood, and relishes the thought of making others feel the way he did.
Vance is filled with pathological self-loathing that he wants to inflict on everyone as a kind of punishment for making him feel this way.
going back to the founders it would have been recognized as an act of gratitude and patriotism to dedicate one's life to service of their adopted country, but Vance rejects the fundamental ideal of America in favor of crude blood-and-soil Nazism that he learned on the internet five years ago
They should do this to Stephen Miller when It Happens
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
A Democratic candidate for prosecutor in Virginia wants lawmakers to ban ICE agents from operating while masked or while concealing their identities; she says she’d then prosecute those who don’t comply.
i really think jd vance is the fakest politician i've seen in my lifetime. there is nothing sincere about him.
RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
"public health has always been authoritarianism with a stethoscope"
Super important piece on how states can help fill the gaps created by RFK's anti-vax policies. We desperately need RFK out of the job, where he's doing immense damage to public health, but Dem Governors can take effective steps here if they want to. (So can R Governors! Not sure they'll want to.)
More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.
yo this guy is cooking
i’m killing the step game today
I do think there's an element of the cost of living crisis that is psychological. And Ella Tummel makes a good case that some of that is built on dirt-cheap fast fashion, where the illusion of affordability masks an industry built on overconsumption and pushing people to always find something new.
Oh. abovethelaw.com/2025/08/inte...
human nature!
listen, this lady tracked me down. it was after i had given a talk. she wanted to argue with me!
i was told that trump’s modest improvement with black and hispanic men meant that racism had nothing to do with MAGA. oh well.
it was wild!
it is a combination of affective dislike for democrats and goo goo “all money in politics is bad”
she said that “black” with a hard r
thus reminded me of how i once had a british lady — after explaining how she understood america better than i ever could — tell me that january 6 was no big deal
Lot of people not familiar with RFK’s fucked up brain so let me translate: he thinks he can walk around and see how many kids are autistic, and he thinks vaccines caused it. Pretty much that simple
"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out" "A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding." 🎁🔗 Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege
i have to imagine that vance said “god forbid” with a huge wink
Schmittian constitutionalism
it is a real problem that none of the people who interview these guys are equipped to ask a question like, “what gives this president greater legitimacy than a law passed by a democratically-elected legislature, signed by a previous president and affirmed by subsequent legislatures and presidents?”
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In which we sing the praises of the World Cinema Project, Martin Scorsese’s film preservation initiative (which is among the treasure troves on the Criterion Channel): crookedmarquee.com/the-vital-vi...
"RIP to vaccines; long live Lysenkoism, miasma, and black bile." defector.com/rfk-jr-is-ma...
the amount of gear he's on and the way he still can't do a push-up
ever notice how rfk’s head is crooked?
Put another way, it's as if someone made a real life version of AI-slop in an effort to align reality with the slop.
"The spectacle that falsifies reality is nevertheless a real product of that reality, while lived reality is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle and ends up absorbing it and aligning itself with it."
Because the thing is, this is real but also, it's not real. This image reflects the reality that Trump *wants* a total state in which he is the unquestioned leader, but we do not actually live in that state, at least not yet.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
One more time, shout out to the very serious people who suggested that RFK had some really good points about public health. No way to have predicted how things would turn out, except to look at his past record and everything he said about vaccines.
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
