It's an extension of "guns don;t kill, people kill. Roberts handed unprecedented and unchecked power to Trump so he could say Me, political?--it's all that guy I gave the gun to."
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It's an extension of "guns don;t kill, people kill. Roberts handed unprecedented and unchecked power to Trump so he could say Me, political?--it's all that guy I gave the gun to."
Uniform code of groveling and supplication
Apparently the US can kill anyone it wants to, anywhere, and just say "drugs" and it's all fine?
I don't think there are "epstein files" in the sense that people think, but there is surely a record of rich-guy impunity from members of both parties: insider trading, palm-greasing, sexual misconduct. These things are the foundations of Trump's career: they're the fantasy he sells.
But then who will stop the democratic electorate from getting what it wants?
That's awesome
"Scots Irish" are central to the self mythologizing of the KKK
Classic Finley Peter Dunne column on this from Chicago, 1898
What does he think his job consists of then?
gilded moron is still a moron
I think he's a weird creepy racist and hasn't thought it out!
"Why didn't liberalism stop us?" Just the usual framing where only Democrats have agency in American politics
I think it's explicitly anti catholic, the Catholic Irish. I wrote about this a little in my book. The original irish in the US were mostly protestant They gained status, after the 1840s, by reinventing themselves as "scots-Irish."
He's not counting the native Irish, he's counting the ulster scots who came as colonizers under Cromwell. It's actually kind of amazing and yes, it's the language of he KKK, which claimed the heritage of Scottish clans.
If only someone could have voted against this, Susan!
It's like Republicans enacting the things they claim to fear and hate the most. 100 yrs of "federalism" and which party is now cheering the invasion of blue cities and the militarization of immigration law?
This is exactly right
So feeble.
Great to see Democratic Party members stepping up and showing some spine. Sadly, the leadership is somnolent.
Monkeypox? I missed that
Is now really is the time for would-be elected officials to compare Occupy Wall St with guys in armored vehicles and tactical vest carryng ARs under presidental order? Sure! The brain dead always have time for BothSides.™
This afternoon's proof of life announcement should be quite a spectacle
Our oligarchic media does not want this conversation to take place
Oligarchy is the number one problem facing the world today. Billionaires don't share the goals or problems of ordinary people and they've bent the media to serve up nonsense in their interests.
This guy!
They run this story over and over. It part of the way democratic “centrists” keep the party from speaking to the working class and actual leftists.
Graham Platner is tearing it up in Maine. Susan Collins has got to be concerned
Radio free Europe
She’s bad, but way better than the alternative
Stephen Miller
Why is the bit about the woman who needed help even in there? My guess-everybody’s guess, I’m guessing— is the woman needing assistance and the car rammer are somehow related
5/5 We've replaced “the despotism of fact” with plain old despotism. This is central to Trump’s appeal. As a despot, he’s fact-free, and proud of it.
4/4 Now we see a collapse of the authority of expertise. RFK jr has no medical training: just theories from the internet. Duffy, the sec of Transport, has zero experience running anything to do with Transportation. MacMahon, sec. of Ed., has a BA in French but she’s never taught or run a school.
3/5 There’s a downside here: it shuts out people with practical experience who can’t afford a degree. Credentialed experts can of course be wrong. Progressive Era experts were often deeply racist, for example. Credentials serve a gatekeeping function, which can stifle good as well as bad ideas.
2/5 By @1900 century that had changed. Practicing law or medicine or engineering required professional certification. Jobs in public health and safety required a license: construction required permits and inspections. Professionals weighed evidence objectively and put fact before political favor.
1/5 In the Progressive Era the idea of credentialed expertise took hold. In 1870 the guy building a bridge or sewer system might have practical experience but no degree, or maybe just get the job as a reward for supporting a politician. A dentist might have no medical training at all in 1870.
Stephen Miller frantically testing AI versions of Trump
RFKjr making him drink raw milk
In a free country, you have to do what the President says.
Oh no, calling me out. The house we built together is on fire. Pissing on it would be marginally more useful than Schumer and Jeffries writing sternly worded letters.
The leaders of the Center for Contagious Diseases now have no medical credentials at all--non. No experience treating disease, no degrees. Kennedy invented something he calls "mitochondrial challenges" which he can diagnose by looking. It's the "Age of Irrationality"
The South never stops demanding appeasement. The guy took an oath to the Constitution and broke it, fired on the flag of the US, killed tens of thousands of Americans in defense of slavery, and yet there he is, back at West Point
Everybody dies, I'm told
Bravo!
There is always some element of judging--otherwise what is the point? You can't make an argument of any kind without exercising some level of judgement. There are degrees of judginess and fairness is always a goal, but you have to judge
"Send Me" to jail
He’s getting from vibes, man. Welcome to the new dark ages
That's unprecedented for Collins, way past "concerned." Can a meaningless vote be far behind?
Try not being a fascist enabler, Hannity. You're a disgrace to Irish surnames
Seriously, it's been politicized since forever. I recall when I was a member of the SEIU (A loong time ago) guys paying 17 and 18% mortgages so Volker could stop inflation. Cost Carter the election
Finally the tyranny of expertise has been overthrown
This is such a comically dumb hill to take a stand on
This is a really ignorant take. I mean do you think it was dark because the sun shined less? It was an interpretive, descriptive term, like "the Gilded Age" or "the enlightenment."
It's often observed that Americans really like socialism when it wears a military uniform
ah thank you, makes sense
Most of us don't like groveling--don't even like to see it, much less do it. The trump admin is built around people who like groveling
Why is there a second guitar player on stage
More posters of sandwich man needed
That's awesome! The absurd show of excessive force in the arrest probably cinched the failure. Now watch DOJ arrest the members of the grand jury
In a free market, the President controls all corporate branding.
Also imagine you're in the National Guard and you're missing your kids 1st day at school because Trump wants you to pickup trash on the national mall
Definitely part of the fascist playbook though: "making the trains run on time," imposing order. Liberals want robust public services. Cons hate robust public services unless they where the uniform of coercive authority
somebody tell jake tapper!
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BREAKING: A group of U.S. veterans has begun a sit-in at Union Station in Washington, D.C., protesting what they call the “military occupation" of our nation's capital. We are grateful for your selfless service, past and present.
It's a creepshow all around. The torturing of Abrego Garcia is the most obvious example of the dehumanization at the core of the movement
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Frozen in the 1980s, like some bloated prehistoric megafauna in permafrost
And whether they like it or not!
Republicans are flat out terrified of cities, and they construct a fantasy of urban life that makes them run to daddy
Has he ever actually been to DC?
This is maybe the purest expression of the Trump Adminstration's profound amorality
When the NYT engages in agenda journalism, they show what makes them mad (black lady is president of Harvard) and what doesn't (people getting black bagged to Uganda)
"Mamdani fails to become governor of Arizona, showing the limits of his popularity."
No kidding, this is so true. Jeffries and Schumer have mastered the art of the anodyne, weak-sauce reply, all to make sure big donors don't get their feathers ruffled. Meanwhile Trump is extorting money from billionaires.
Yeah but the subway is terrifying, Cuomo says
He was a poor choice, designed to appease the GOP
Completely useless.
Is that DC police, or one of the 6-8 organizations walking around DC looking for people to harass?
I want to argue that talking about the past has no inherent connection to an idea of progress. I’d want to ask her “progress towards what?”
So it's now apparently forbidden to say slavery was bad. To be fair, you could not say it in the original Constitution either. They forbidden to even use the word. But the framers were politicians, not historians. Historians have a different set of obligations.
I actually already knew that
Do you feel safer now?
Actual "political correctness" being imposed by the government.
As far as I know, George Fizthugh failed to persuade even a single free laborer to accept the warm embrace of slavery
"His lawyers."
Slavery was bad. It was worse than the Smithsonian says, because the museum takes care to be as neutral as possible while still reporting facts. Slavery was brutal and it was the foundation of the American economy. These are uncomfortable facts
This seems like a good strategy for dealing with masked, unidentified thugs
Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...
Why should a free person who has committed no crime submit to round the clock monitoring?" This is insane
That's a great phrase
Trump's career shows Journalists have outstanding bullshit detectors. They smell it, wallow in it, and then publish it
Yeah the peer review process has always been a cool and pleasant breeze, propelling my articles along at a sprightly pace. Silver suffers from terminal "Pundit brain."
I'm sure there are a lot of militia types/MAGA fans among these occupying troops, but also assuming a lot of them are wondering why the hell they had to come all the away to DC to do absolutely nothing to solve imaginary crime problems
Outside Dupont north metro
Why do you hate freedom?
From my book "[the list] reflects a fundamental irony of American life: the constant demand for “race” and the impossibility of defining it with any precision at all."
1/1 I was interested in this 2019 case, which struck down the requirement to give a race when getting married in Virginia
