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Did you frequent Kevin Drum's site? Your handle looks familiar.
He made the Albania mistake elsewhere recently as well (and his latest target, Seth Meyers, mocked him for confusing Albania and Armenia). Now he's still making that mistake and pushing to get Meyers canceled.
Yeah, yeah, whatever. But Biden was old!
If they can't win on misdemeanor charges how are they going to win in felony cases? I want to see DC sandwich guy take his case as far as he can. I'll contribute to his defense if needed.
This is what I was talking about below... bsky.app/profile/fint...
Didn't Trump say something along the lines of "now is not the time to press Putin"?
Isn't Trump threatening to kill it?
There are no mirrors in WaPo.
I was like: damn, he looks young and has hair! Only, I was thinking of Jon Lovitz. Shows you how old I am!
The Commonhealth of New England.
Rich and populous! Easy to do trade with all those ports and airports!
You know the answer is going to be something along the lines of "there were foreseen circumstances that prevented Khan from attending". TBF though is it common practice to invite the Mayor to all State dinners?
Starmer should be asked about this repeatedly till he confirms or denies the claim
There's no "group." Antifa as an organized group does not exist.
So anyone can be branded a terrorist, and go bankrupt trying to prove otherwise.
We'll have to take drugs we don't want or need just to get paid!
simplistic solutions for complex problems is the literal pathway to fascism
Whenever I see stuff like this, or surveys asking the public their opinions on a complex matter I'm reminded of this:
Hi Stephen!
Great example of Tech Bro Policy: • Boundless overconfidence • Zero real knowledge or expertise • “This one stat I learned yesterday can solve everything” • Cruel, retrograde ideas spun as NEW! • Basic factual errors (bail & three-strikes are different things) • Easily duped by white supremacists
Why stop there? How long before they get to "one strike"? Too expensive to put them in prison, so let's execute immediately after sentencing. Except for white-collar crime. Or white crime.
It's good, but can they do this in soundbites instead of paragraphs that most of our "journalists" are not capable of reading, let alone understanding?
If we don't study biologic diversity how else would we tell white men from everyone else? (hint: there's not a whole lot of genetic difference between "white" and everyone else, assuming you could even agree what "white" means)
Trump is going to fire Pence, isn't he? Never mind.
But Biden was old!
These letters are FREE. Click the ‘no thanks’ to read or subscribe and select the “0” box. Or when reading, ignore the upgrade to pay. Every one must get energized by our history. End white supremacy rule, support free speech.
No matter what he cancels he can’t cancel himself off the Epstein list.
A great way to recover from aches and bruises!
PSA: A "Major Terrorist Organization" (MTO) is not a thing. The Immigration and Nationality Act *delegates* power to the State Department to designate *FOREIGN* terrorist organizations (FTOs) based on certain criteria. It doesn't apply to domestic orgs. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
I this they got the order mixed up.
Good thing he can't get fired because this is unacceptable speech to the hard right.
Also can't be charged by DoJ on trumped up (see what I did there?) charges because of immunity. Thanks, SC!
“because we don’t know who the hell we are blowing up.” AND "we don't care as long as we look manly to our dwindling base"
Trump's Inauguration and Trump's Inauguration, Again
WTF is FLOTUS wearing?
I have first-hand experience in listening to the radio, and using the Internet. Can I be nominated to head the FCC?
Shorter lesson: "I don't have kids in school, why should I pay for schools" is not a good approach.
Wait, I thought blowing up innocent people in international waters is the new drug-interdiction program?
Also, there's no peer-reviewed evidence immigrants deflate wages. And BTW, immigrants also pay taxes.
Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be https://theonion.com/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-consti-1819571149/
"We don't like the views you're expressing so we'll cut off funding" Sounds vaguely familiar. Any ideas on other places where we are seeing this now, or have in the past?
I don't know. Sounds like some rationalization going on here. 😀
Information Theory! Damn, that brings back (painful) memories from 45 years ago.
Republicans: see, Obama is being divisive!
NEW: At her confirmation hearing, Joyce Meyer, President Trump’s nominee for the next under secretary of commerce for economic affairs to oversee the Census Bureau, avoided directly answering whether she agrees the president is unable to conduct a new census before 2030 unless Congress passes a law
Which means automatic confirmation by GOP toadies in the Senate, right?
That was a motivation technique, GOPers will say.
Cassidy, like most others in the GOP was afflicted with a sudden case of spinelessness in January 2025. Some may say it was an epidemic. If only we had a public health agency that would investigate causes of epidemics.
He must not have been paying attention when they went over Peloponnesian history in school.
Even amazing lawyers can't change the fact that deceased individuals (or their estates) cannot bring defamation lawsuits.
More people have been arrested for this Epstein protest than for the Epstein child sex ring.
Fellow Dems, higher prices/inflation/tariffs are the most important basket of issues to voters and the place where Trump performs the worst. Opposing them simply must become central to everything we do. A memo to the family 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/some-refle...
I agree with this. You can show up to protest without putting your name on a list that can be subpoenaed and without flagging for ANYONE where you intend to be. PS. I do this all the time.
As a practical matter, I'm sure some reporters are doing that anyway.
"If the CBS lawsuit was the functional equivalent of a gun inside a brown paper bag, this complaint is just the bag." This lawsuit is just astonishing. 1/2 www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-laws...
You could have stopped at understanding.
I'm loving this infighting
2. But then he goes on to say that what Pam Bondi suggested regarding hate speech is no different from what has led a “huge and horrifying percentage of young people [to think] it’s okay to shoot people you disagree with.”
And Trump is in several criminal enterprises. Oh sorry, wrong guy.
Isn't there a Protestant equivalent of nuns? I went to a boarding school run by an Anglican diocese and I swear there were women in black robes who enforced discipline. Long time ago and I was there for only one school year.
$600 exemption at border for stuff you bring back yourself
There's a lot of great food in France for sure, but it's an uphill battle when you have England, Iceland and Greenland to counterbalance
DoJ: the meaning of the word "facilitate" depends on the context. If we cross our fingers and close our eyes when the detainees are rendered by contractors hired by a third party whose names we don't know are we really facilitating?
It may be cheaper to fly out and pick it up in person, and enjoy a holiday to boot.
Off course. The Irish have a cuisine I don't know about?
That's pretty much how it is right now. Serious question: what value is a realtor adding in this process?
I think it should be a yellow ribbon to honor his support for the LGBTQ community
Yes, release the Epstein files!!!
I know it may be an n-dimensional chess thing but this kind of auction pricing seems inefficient to me.
A and B. Yum yum yum. Who doesn't enjoy whale blue and seal meat?
I'm not sure the Dems pushing it were played.
Presumably. What this tells me is that the "deal" is being pushed through to give Trump something to claim as a success, details and national security be damned.
Waiting for the consultants and focus groups to finish their work. Maybe by the end of the year?
The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.
Somewhere in the charging document is a witness statement to the effect that the accused's politics had taken a "lean more to the left". IANAL, so what can defense counsel do with that statement in court?
The messages on the cartridges in the indictment:
IANAL, but it seems to me it would be hard to show in a court what "lean more to the left" means in practice.
Fat boy? Is it hate speech if the words are accurate?
Soon on social media: how dare other countries examine our human rights record? That kind of judgement is reserved for us, the citizens of the greatest country in the world!
The “Invest-in-America” playbook is working out great. @washingtonpost.com @mollyjongfast.bsky.social #Hyundai www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
"Credible" doing a lot of work here.
Not outside my realm.
Joe must be an originalist (or whatever they're calling themselves now). TBF reading a newspaper aloud in the town square is not the same as a news broadcast, because we didn't have those at the time of the First Amendment.
My home is my castle, so I should be able to build towers on each corner of my property. But others dare not block my views with their towers.
CARR: “.. I think you can draw a pretty clear line, and the Supreme Court has done this for decades, that our First Amendment, our free speech tradition, protects almost all speech.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
But Biden is old.
Nothing makes more clear how Trump defines "hate speech" than him applying the term to a super bland question from a reporter
Winning!
The law, if that matters anymore, says that TikTok must relinquish Chinese control over the algorithm. After nearly a year of delay, China is still going to control the algorithm. www.ft.com/content/550e...
Trump has filed a $15 billion lawsuit against @nytimes.com and several reporters for articles exposing his finances. The suit is part of the Trump admin's broader and rapidly accelerating assault on press freedoms. www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/m...
I'm looking forward to discovery, especially about his finances, should it go that far.
I’d like to see the judge dismiss and grant rule 11 sanctions. That’s not a stretch here. We do, after all, have a 1st Amendment and a constitutional republic, not a monarchy/dictatorship.
Like I said after the first one, if you are out on a boat in the gulf fishing, Trump may blow you up and kill you. Then he will say you had drugs on board. Maybe you did, maybe you didn’t - what he says is what goes and that’s the end of it. bsky.app/profile/atru...
And Congress and the mainstream media appear to be unconcerned
this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers
Important point from @asharangappa.bsky.social on our pod: If Trump and Stephen Miller turn the FBI loose on the liberal left, it will require violating a whole lot of rules and norms that have been put in place to prevent a return of FBI to its dark Hoover days: newrepublic.com/article/2004...
I think Kash Patel will go on Fox tomorrow and reveal that the Utah shooter had a quarrel with Miller over the dolls, and he took his disappointment out on Kirk.
Trump said he's asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to "look into" charging protesters and agitators under federal racketeering statutes after people yelled at him in a DC restaurant last week. www.rawstory.com/trump-267399...
They want their followers to see them as strong and powerful, so why are these people so thin-skinned?