...did people forget that Joe Lieberman got the public option pulled out?
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...did people forget that Joe Lieberman got the public option pulled out?
Courts still matter.
He’s missing “federal corruption indictee”
lmao YOU LITERALLY TARIFFED LUMBER
Mary Shelley wrote an entire book trying to warn us about extremely arrogant nerds who create things irresponsibly and take no accountability for them for when they wreck society, by the way.
the judge is now basically checking every couple of hours to make sure her directions are being followed to the letter because she is dealing with lying liars who lie astounding how much credibility the government has burned with the courts
My other controversial Bond opinion is A VODKA MARTINI IS NOT A GODDAMN MARTINI, YOU COWARD, IT'S A KANGAROO (wanders of grumbling about gin wimps)
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
me after the tariffs are struck down as illegal
It is of course extremely important to put front and center that Robert E. Lee was literally a traitor and he was a traitor on behalf of the institution of slavery which he strongly supported. But in the battles we have over public memory - which is what the statues and portraits and base names ...
For all the talk we have about Democrats' need to "be authentic" or whether Kamala Harris was "authentic," the next big thing in the GOP is a guy who compared his boss to an opiate and said he risked becoming an American Hitler before he changed his mind on everything.
Also Portillo’s Italian beef sandwiches didn’t come with enough hot peppers but it was still a good late night meal.
I spent the past two days in Chicago and the only thing that I had any complaints about was the confusing layout of the Chicago Institute of Art.
If this oleaginous haircut thinks local crime rates merit a federal military intervention, then he should be leading the armored column down to his home state of Louisiana, which is one of the worst in the nation.
imo the 1AM should be about securing the foundations of democracy. as such i think core political speech is entitled to the most protections, nearly limitless. and the further you get from that, the less protection. a bot that tells you don’t let them find the noose, let them find your body? lmao
Lisa Cook was confirmed twice by the Senate - who, last time I checked, were elected - after being nominated by the President. What Trump wants is to reverse a legitimate democratic process here.
It’s easy to say that this is all RFK Jr., but Trump was talking about vaccines and autism at least as far back as 2014. We have to assume that Trump fully supports this and wants it.
Update: it got funny again
This is indeed remarkable, because it's all on video and it's very difficult to believe that he didn't technically satisfy the elements of the offense. What this is, is a "fuck you" to the prosecution, and there's nothing they can do about it
re-upping this old scalia clip: “if i were king, I would not allow people to go about burning the american flag. however, we have a first amendment…”
not that it matters anymore but "not able to indict the guy who threw the ham sandwich on video and then was like I did it! I threw the ham sandwich!" really illustrates how much the concerns over jury nullification during a trump trial in DC were probably way over blown
I don’t think cabinet secretaries groveling to the President for 3 hours is the same as transparency.
Corporate America’s Newest Activist Investor: Donald Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b... @nytimes.com what is this bullshit? There’s a word for this - a hallmark of state intervention into the private sector for state priorities in the way Italy and Germany did in the 1920s-1940s - fascism.
he literally thinks he is a king. i mean, this entire media blitz for when he signs executive orders is meant to create the impression that they are royal decrees
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social please bring back the Automat restaurants to NYC.
judgment at nuremberg from 1961 is a really interesting movie. spencer tracy and max schell are standouts in a cast with greats like richard widmark, burt lancaster, marlene dietrich, montgomery clift, and a precocious william shatner. quoted post is accidental and i cant figure out how to remove it
can we get to the midterms and/or actual primary before we all sentence each other to the mind gulags
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
So this is the President of the United States reacting to being criticized by saying we should revive a defunct and well outside the statute of limitations criminal investigation against the person offering the criticism.
the fuck
>right wing nationalist government that’s cracking down on domestic opposition is implementing corporatist economics
normal people don't say "triggered" or "heteronormative," they say they gave their life to christ in a cracker barrel parking lot
You should be mad about the FBI raiding John Bolton’s house not because you love John Bolton but because you’re opposed to Trump using the FBI to intimidate his critics
You do not have to like John Bolton to see this for what it is.
Why do they all talk about bland restaurant chains changing logos like they're Winston Churchill standing before Parliament in May 1940? It's a little unbecoming.
Plenty bad to say about James Dobson, but perhaps the most self-serving and despicable thing he did was helping a near-to-death Ted Bundy try to launder his image in a nationally televised interview in which Dobson helped Bundy blame his actions on being a victim of pornography.
These people forever ruined Steak ‘N Shake for me and it’s that which I cannot forgive.
truly from the top rope here stuff by KBJ
the reason that the right believes that the left is entirely astroturf funded by USAID and USIP is that this is how their own institutions work
Well, you know the streets of DC are truly dangerous if they're letting the president go out at night for a photo op.
Do not give the Gestapo a moment's peace. Do not let them believe for a second they will ever be respected, trusted, or seen as anything but invaders.
I’m in awe of the reasonable prices
when they're done unwinding the great society, the victories of the civil rights movement, and the new deal, they will simply move on to unwinding the political resolutions of the civil war
Americans in 2017 Americans in 2025 🤝
the Trump 2.0 project is best understood as a national reimposition of Jim Crow
This should be the litmus test. If you aren’t willing to sit with her you have no place in public service. Public service requires sacrifice - if you have families and other obligations, the sacrifice you make with those things by being in public office is what you sign up for with open eyes.
The whole confederacy is getting in on it.
“the states are an agent of the federal government” is the most substantive thing here and even i, someone with dim view of state sovereignty, understands this to be false.
what Americans seem to want is to be able to buy whatever product they want without government interference but also an ironclad guarantee that all store-sold products are safe, and we just need to recognize that these are contradictory ideas and we're gonna have to make people mad about the former
The thing about Newsom is that I don’t want him to be the nominee for policy reasons, but it’s dispiriting that others I like for policy reasons (except for Pritzker) aren’t taking the fuck you no prisoners approach. That is going to be the litmus test and so many others are behind the ball.
I thought this was an Onion article.
cannot emphasize how much this is not happening to areas with worse violent crime rates in states Republicans cynically need
sometimes a conservative will be like "i was ostracized in campus social life for my conservative views" when the reality is that there is an entire official social structure for conservative students called "fraternities and sororities"
These sad little men. (I’m glaring at you, DeWine.)
164 years later, South Carolina finally occupies Washington.
[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
I’m going to have a stroke.
DC Sandwich guy, don’t talk to law enforcement without an attorney present
What is wrong with you people? Do cry about fascism but you don’t want people pointing out how the laws are being broken? You object to people explaining to the public the lawless? You don’t want folks who don’t know why things are bad the illegality of it all? The authoritarianism? Wake up.
The thing that everyone said would happen is happening
So many to choose from, but I watched Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for the first time a few weeks ago. I’m still thinking about it. So many pointed layers to the dialogue. Maybe an odd case since it’s adapted from the play extremely closely, but I think it deserves mention as a movie in itself.
On a whole host of issues, like every single one of them, these people are anti-data.
What a banal way of describing the march toward fascism.
Both corporate taxes rates & overall taxes on the wealthy are as generous to those demographics as they’ve been in my lifetime. How’s that been working out for all the incentivized help? This dude is trying to remix trickle down economy. I think shit would work better if we just took your money.
FDR's fourth inaugural address was the shortest given by any President and he still managed to fit in that the Constitution wasn't perfect and that Americans should be citizens of the world, beastmode
Jamelle, this is god-tier content
Attorney General James took on Trump's fraud and the NRA's rampant corruption—and won both cases. So it's little wonder that Trump's politicized DOJ is now coming after her. The people of New York stand with their lawyer and champion.
What, pray tell, is there to be proud of about the Confederacy?
At an event commemorating the 200th birthday of the United States, a sitting Supreme Court Justice was invited to celebrate "the memory of the Founders and the document they drafted in Philadelphia." Justice Thurgood Marshall declined
"Unlike the left, we don't believe in erasing history" says the guy renaming ships and purging any mention of like the navajo code talkers, tuskegee airmen, black medal of honor winners, etc
kennedy is going to kill a lot of people
Feel like its a bad sign about the health of the republic that Pritzker has to talk about TX Dems like they’re the Polish government-in-exile in London
Did I…..did I say my experiences in rural Ohio were like Deliverance?
I couldn’t agree more. Something happened during that time that a lot of the younger ones, especially men, haven’t recovered from and they don’t want to try. The resentment, entitlement, and willful ignorance is off the charts. Their COVID experiences made/makes them lean into their worst impulses.
Before they remove her page, here is Dr. Erika McEntarfer's BLS bio page. She's a 20-year career official PhD labor economist.
between this and moving Maxwell to a low-sec prison, something's up
That has exactly been my experience on the backroads in Ohio. I can count numerous times where I was sure I was about to be driven into a ditch because a truck driver with a suped up truck and a bad day felt that my going only 10 miles over the speed limit was too slow.
Twice in five years? I’d take those odds.
Speaking as someone who unfortunately just barely cracks into the first couple years of Gen Z, I hate so many of us personally.
So we’re doing line down again?
I just spent three months living in NYC. Not once did I ever have an encounter where I feared for my safety. It’s a massive city with a lot of people - sometimes it’s uncomfortable and you see some weird shit. You know where I’ve felt unsafe? The back country roads of Ohio near where I’m from.
The hall of mirrors at Versailles is about 8,000 sqft; the largest room in the palace, the Gallery of Great Battles, is like 16,000 sqft.
Trump, it should be noted, offered a paid endorsement for a line of "God Bless the USA" Bibles that included an "Inauguration Day Edition" that was embossed with his name and the date of his inauguration. religionnews.com/2025/01/06/t...
we do in fact want to discourage people like that from holding office
I’m done with the football analogies for every single thing.
Reminder that Emil Bove's seat had been left vacant in 2023. Biden announced he would nominate Adeel A. Mangi that year, but CCM, Rosen, and Manchin all opposed him after a smear campaign that started with Republicans trying to tie him to Hamas and accuse him of being a radical.
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
Bove’s bound to be short-term on the Third Circuit is going to be littered with horrific rulings. His near certain nomination for either Thomas’s or Alito’s seat is going to be even worse.
Not to mention the federal appellate and district courts are a creation of Congress. President gets to nominate officers to these courts, but Congress has a good bit of leeway in their makeup, and the Senate in particular given its unique role.