They're not going to do it because though they won't say it they think Republicans would nuke the filibuster if they used it to shut down the government (probably correctly) and they won't give up the one thing that makes them feel important.
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They're not going to do it because though they won't say it they think Republicans would nuke the filibuster if they used it to shut down the government (probably correctly) and they won't give up the one thing that makes them feel important.
$23 for a can of Maxwell House is supposed to be low?
Yeah, like he will make it out of there alive. Sure, Vlad.
To have federal military forces on the streets in a state without its consent is extraordinary, deeply worrying, a dire situation. But it is something which, under some narrower legitimate circumstances, can be done lawfully. To have *Texas* troops in Illinois without its consent is an invasion.
The irony here is that if anything was driving men into being trans (I don't think anything is), it would be obsessive propaganda from the manosphere saying that Men Must Be This Way and anyone who is not is not a "Real Man."
tx national guard has to be one of the worst guards in the country to join at this point, right? abbott is ready and willing to send you on the worst, most pointless assignments any time he wants, regardless of whether you should be there or not, often in incredibly shitty conditions
I sense that Trump is probing, probing, probing for just the right spark to start a violent confrontation with his own citizenry. Something to give him an excuse to crack down and further solidify his authoritarian control. L.A., D.C., “Alligator Alcatraz”, Chicago, Venezuela.
When this nation was founded, central Italy was still ruled by the Pope! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_S...
Ghost of Christopher Columbus: "What is an 'Italian'?"
"Dear California bar, Ken White called me a fascist on social media for issuing a bar complaint against another lawyer for calling a judge in my court a fascist. This must violate your rules. Plz investigate."
Dammit you're gonna get a bar complaint now
Read about how Francis J. Allman, Chief Judge of Florida’s Second Judicial District, is an un-American censorial fascist thug worthy of contempt.
There is something about the Negro Civic League gathering here in 1918, at a time when segregation was at its peak and Stevens a forgotten nonentity, that makes me want to cry. Because the cause endures, even after death.
What he said….
yeah man, they loved germans in the 1840s and italians in the 1890s. couldn't wait to welcome them in.
Repeat after me: Trump CANNOT deploy the National Guard to Chicago. He does not have the constitutional authority to do so. National Guard troops, outside of DC, are NOT his to command. So Chicago & my home state of Illinois need to tell Trump to fuck right off.
It is striking the extent to which a certain segment of politicians are now pretending that American history ended in the mid-1800s.
I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
"Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up." www.ft.com/content/b86b...
a pretty good summary of the 21st century is that the humiliation of america's defeats in the middle east post-9/11 curdled into a reactionary politics that seeks affirmation in the humiliation of anyone who is an other: liberals, minorities, the global south, china, europe, whoever.
Friends, I'm Catholic and even I think this is a bad idea. Public schools should stay secular spaces. And Ken Paxton should be exiled to a deserted island in the North Atlantic.
Miller is neither smart nor a lawyer, but he is willing to work at least 30 hours a week.
Just a reminder that Miller has been planning all along for the possibility of sending NG troops from red states into blue states. radleybalko.substack.com/p/trumps-dep...
It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all. Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.
It would be fun to see if Thomas and Alito stay consistent on their always-grant-leave rule
I think Illinois can and should sue Texas in the Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction and seek a preliminary injunction against the use of any un-federalized Texas National Guard troops in Illinois.
Ordering an illegal strike using a $20m missile on a single engine speedboat to own the libs.
Trump said the video is AI. But a White House spokesperson told Time magazine it was real.
it's very funny that people don't think using the app designed by a remigration fanboy doesn't shape their brains
Correct.
Imagining a version of CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER where, immediately after the F-18 strike, the President brags about it, and Congress does nothing. Jack Ryan has nothing to do with any of it, he's brushing up his LinkedIn after his CIA tenure was ended by the DNI doxing him on X.
It does bear repeating that if Obama had, say, sent the Illinois National Guard to Texas, Republicans would have had a massive meltdown.
“Film things you see happening…Be loud for America” is quite the rallying cry.
Still think the "well, the colonists woulda just killed you, so it's okay to take away all your rights permanently" argument is not a good evolution of Bruen.
Got some real struggles with causation going on here.
him genuinely watching this video for the first time on national tv is insane
Which is why we've been the richest country in the world while tariffs have been at their lowest levels.
it is wild to me that none of the centrist twitter brigade ever reconcile the fact that they are essentially using the algorithmic extremism app as their main guide to modern politics
Because it's Trump he has to make it dramatic as if he's going to announce a war or nationwide martial law or nationalizing the MLB Hall of Fame or something
I am not going to speculate, but watch if he’s standing or seated.
Wow: 78 year old congressman Jerry Nadler decides not to seek reelection, saying Biden fiasco showed need for "generational change." “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that."
Killjoy
Gee why didn't anyone think about that with Fidel Castro Wait, I'm getting something in my ear...
lmao YOU LITERALLY TARIFFED LUMBER
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
Yes, women should absolutely be taking advice on emotional stability from Elon Musk. x.com/elonmusk/sta...
On the bright side now every majority ethnic Romanian wants to beat him up for calling them Roma
Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
If you count dominating Congress until 1994 yeah. I mean Democrats lost the midterms first thing after FDR's death and Truman had a very competitive race in 48 (EC was lopsided but shift 1% and Dewey wins while losing pop vote). White House flips the election after that with trifecta
absolutely loving the idea of the woke cracker barrel tip line
MAGA got everything they wanted out of Cracker Barrel and they still want to punish the company anyway. Just about the most predictable outcome you could imagine.
the thing that was terrifying to them about FDR wasn't so much the policies themselves (which were, of course, far short of socialism or communism) but that they were incredibly popular and lead to electoral dominance until FDR's death (and even somewhat after)
Yes this is what you post when you're definitely neither dead nor the Antichrist
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
In retrospect, Trump's early move to create a sovereign wealth fund was an ominous sign of his interest in developing a sort of personal piggy bank to hold the proceeds of corporate shakedowns and expropriations [Tad DeHaven, @cato.org]
This goes much more for Trump, where the default is he's as healthy as an Olympic champion.
The media literally hounded him out of running for reelection over health concerns
With a picture taken today by Getty Images; once again: do I know WTF is going on with Trump? I do not. Do YOU know WTF is going on with Trump? You do not All I know is he has never voluntarily STFU for five days since he was born
Second thing would be fire most of the cabinet. Before his unpopularity makes him captured by them.
Anyway, wonder if Vance will try to get John Roberts to swear him in. Since Trump is officially still alive there's time. Maybe a news crew should follow Roberts around to figure out when the official death announcement is imminent.
In fact, that really helped start all of this. I'd think he'd be in trouble if Trump weren't actually at least incapacitated.
Vance filing a quo warranto suit against Stephen Miller to declare Trump dead will make for amazing legal coverage
He was on TV like that a few days ago
They have week old photos!
It's a lie. Stipulating "explicit" carries the implication that he *does* have some other kind of informal, traditional or implied authority over elections, when he does not. Don't print lies in the newspaper.
Surprised he hasn't threatened a 1000000% tariff on MLB gear until this happens. Wait, I'm just seeing something about some obscure court called the Federal Circuit (sounds fake)...oh
Yes. Every former MLB player not voted into Cooperstown should sue the Hall of Fame. This is the way.
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
I'm not saying that they'll actually try it, but if they did they'd claim that's different because nobody denied Powell was duly elected.
They will literally say **ANYTHING**.
The cross-party effort to drive a stake in Johnson's heart is really something.
This was mostly known, but the details are interesting. Things always come out after a monarch dies but don't underestimate Charles's role in allowing them to come out. www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...
The danger here is that he'll try to reject election results from whoever doesn't comply with his demands, e.g. trying to get Republicans to do parliamentary seating challenges for every race they lose at least in blue states.
Well especially since relinquishing power during anaesthesia is voluntary, I assume he just told people he was skipping it.
These people are PURE EVIL
They need to come up with a new term or they need to pay a penalty if they delete it. share.google/hVPAHuGmwXxF...
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
It’s so weird that people latched onto a bunch of mostly bullshit justifications for disliking a technology that has immediate obvious negative societal externalities. It’s made it way harder to teach writing but people scream about imaginary lakes evaporating.
Stephen Manning, this guy’s lawyer, is one of the best in the country. It’s very good news that he’s taken this case.
If you see this post, please DO NOT share it. It makes claims about this Big Balls case that are NOT backed up in the article it links to. Just say no to disinfo.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The mama tiger (a τίγρις) 🐅 is with her other cubs chasing after a hunter on horseback who has taken one in the 6thC CE hunt mosaic from Daphne, near Antioch now at the @worcesterartmuseum.bsky.social
Did y’all hear about ICE showing up at that wildfire and kidnapping (“arresting”) firefighters? This is their statement. If you’re not actively spraying water at a fire, I guess you’re not a firefighter and deserve to be taken to a concentration camp.
The Alabama (!) people chanting "who pays the tariffs? who pays the tariffs" and then turning to "shame! shame!" when their rep turns tail and leaves is a keeper.
youtu.be/tlkgbwmN9mQ?...
He did that yesterday after the tariffs decision
Well it's a seasteading guy so clearly Vance and Thiel. They got a wait until the old man is officially dead from complications due to phlebectomy (really really bad complications) before announcing the oceanic organ markets open
That's the cover story, but since it's Trump they won't even tell you the cover story.
Senior Pentagon official had affair with ‘notorious’ astrologer who stalked him, lawsuit says
"Congress 'alone has access to the pockets of the people.'" — Judges quoting James Madison in a concurring opinion to the ruling finding the challenged Trump tariffs illegal storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
*doing what Trump wants
Always a shot that doing what Trump wins out with the Roberts Court over nuking his biggest liability
