It's being reported that the Pentagon is authorizing military lawyers to serve as immigration judges. This is a threat to the Constitution. Don't say we didn't warn you. From the archives:
Something meaningful, will let you know when I figure that out
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It's being reported that the Pentagon is authorizing military lawyers to serve as immigration judges. This is a threat to the Constitution. Don't say we didn't warn you. From the archives:
Let us be clear: there is no emergency in Chicago that warrants the President of the United States deploying the military. I joined Senators Duckworth and Durbin and 10 Members of Congress from IL to demand that Trump & the Pentagon suspend plans for the deployment of military personnel to Chicago.
“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.
Unless he makes his own
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.
“A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Great, but don’t accept their framing of the debate. They call clean energy “woke” to incite - so we stop talking about the billions in subsidies given to fossil fuels www.imf.org/en/Topics/cl...
Ummm, or you could kickstarter this platform for $2mm threshold and see what happens?!?
Now here’s a Guy who GETS IT
The game theory for her is obvious: tell the truth, you’re stuck in a shithole indefinitely. No other President would consider a pardon. Flatter Dr. Evil Orange, and you’re back in the game.
President Macron says that if nothing happens by Monday’s deadline, Putin will have once again played Trump. I like how that 'once again' remark openly says that Putin plays Trump like a fool.
But how does it end!?
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
I can think of no better leverage that Denmark has over the United States re: Trump's Greenland fixation than withholding LEGO shipments to the United States.
Its just never felt so right.
Why does shitbird just fit so well here?!
You sure are, shitbird. They are either going to skyrocket or you are going to direct employees to fake the data. Or both.
I’ll be real with you: not even a Cybertruck owner deserves this
No, the next Democratic administration should ignore the culture wars and figure out what democracy + capitalism should look like when robots are doing 53% of the work. We need to stake a new territory, one that matters, and stop rehashing the old ones
“This is disgraceful conduct which has broken the morale of the intelligence community,” one recently retired intelligence officer told me. “It looks like an effort to eliminate truth-tellers.” wapo.st/4mHZMvB
Disgraceful
Disgraceful.
Sorry friends in the Old World. I know 10-15 degrees is a lot, but we’re kinda having a family fight and can’t really talk about this right now… :/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
But that historical wedding, IMO, doesn’t mean that we should wholesale eject or deride liberalism: individual rights, consent of the governed, rule of law, free speech/religion. They would be better if capital were distributed more fairly. Our current form of capitalism is destroying Liberalism
Enjoyed the read! It’s important to separate historicism from the normative judgement. Yes, it’s impossible to separate the history of Liberalism and capitalism. Or to use Hegel’s words (ish), “Philosophy is holding one’s time in thought.”
Its interesting that Virginia unemployment rate is structurally better than the national average by about 1% (now like 0.5%) and DC is the opposite. Anybody know why?
Just as Trump is a caricature of himself.
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.
Kowboy Karma
A 10-year-old child is on CNN talking about how he saw his friend got shot in the back. This country is so broken.
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
It’s gotten to the point that I don’t even like sending my kids to school anymore. We don’t have to live like this.
November 2026 can’t come fast enough
Russian tanks are now flying the American flag. Disgraceful.
So burning the flag gets you a year in jail but if you beat officers with the flagpole you get a presidential pardon???
This metaphor works perfectly for just about everything right.
Its all bologna
At what point here does belief in basic Liberalism (free press/speech, rule of law, independent judiciary etc etc) make me a Conservative?
That pan I let soak in 2022 still needs more time…
Pretty sure its levitating the bubble. You got it backwards thats ok
Except when they are 😬
Someday I am going to write a book about how America managed to create a strain of Christianity that is completely antithetical to, well, Christianity.
Anti-pluralist buddhism. Thats confusing to me as I understand buddhism. (Ok, I should have said “ideological” spectrum).
The political spectrum is so confusing
Right, there is nothing new acute risk other than deployed weapons of fascism. But I respect people saying that cities still feel dangerous, regardless of the trend. Comparatively, those vibes are not wrong.
This whole thing has been a dream for CB publicity. They basically changed nothing, and got way more than something.
How do I handle the struggle between cheering for interplanetary technology and inadvertently validating Elon’s ego?
The Trinity is literally everything and nothing.
What? What is it?!?!
Just 1 degree hotter each time… 🐸 🔥 💧
Like any other religion can?
Meeeooooowwww
Everyone and no one.
The bullying is mostly priced in now.
At 0.257, he’s not that appealing though
The Buddhists say both are right. (Mic drop)
Yes yes thats better
Also they’re not wrong. The US is still a violent country. That doesn’t justify facism, but we can’t all or a sudden pretend like our violent crime problem disappeared
Its almost like they didn’t have access to reliable information?!
Ughhhh culture. (Dusts shoulder)
Its a brutal cycle
Yeahh!! And they make so much money!! Those overpaid idealists should have been a stronger, better organized backbone against the fall of democracy!! (Really? You’re gonna blame them?)
Ohhhhh!!!! So thats why they’ve been doing that for like 20 years!!! I thought it was just the NI-CD lobbying interests lol
Best thing I’ve read on this platform all day
Yep. Just like ABC paying off Trump $15mm for survival. Its working great…
At risk of being a pedant, I think its like the 1,079th crack.
Ok tbh though he knows mortgage fraud like REALLY REALLY WELL
You forgot about the means of production *cough* intel *cough*
Both are validating.
Gavin Newsom would like a word please.
Idk you FIGure it out.
They did sometimes. Ish. It’s partly why they’re being destroyed.
AI-triggered employment crisis in consulting (services). ChatGPT has supplanted Judge Judy as America’s great legal mind
Beautiful word. It’s like farting a room with one other person, and blaming them. That’s real courage.
Does anyone remember the little MS Word paperclip? Way ahead of its time…
Wait, haven’t we known this for at least 10 years?
I didn’t have this on my bingo card 10 years ago: m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bio... #maga
In retrospect, Mitt Romney’s dog scandal wasn’t that big of a deal.
We agree, on the hole.
Mind your abyssmess
Dont forget: also because militants are present at hospitals. OFC they are!
Fine. I agree he has tolerated a lot of MAGA garbage over the past decade. But can we at least agree that he wrote the best book review ever written? delong.typepad.com/egregious_mo...
Talk about feeling the Burn… Also Bernie2028 LFG!
Taibbi generally doesn’t agree with things. Thats just not what he does. Except with Bernie Sanders - he really does like that guy.
Anyone who follows Taibbi’s career. He’s a contrarian - so much so that he was sadly willing to given MAGA time of day. He thought they were funny but not dangerous. He was obviously wrong, but now that Trump has consolidated power, I fully expect Taibbi will become a pain in his ass.
Appeasement’s a bitch.
Total coincidence. 🐸 💧 🔥
One degree at a time. 🐸
True. Also this concept feels like three levels of abstraction over what the electorate is capable of processing
I wish that were so. But truth does not always survive oppression. We just forget when it doesn’t.
Not all prudes are Nazis. But any politician who spends $$ banning books instead of guns, while refusing to pay teachers living wages, is extremely dangerous.
In this case, it appears to be homophobes. Not mutually exclusive, of course, but perhaps a slightly different motivation www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Jesus Trump somehow manages to not be a socialist here, even though he was definitely never a socialist … wtf is even happening
I think this is a form of Economic Nationalism. Which is what most people on the right call Socialism. Which is why those people say they hated Obama. Im confused.
Wait on Netflix or Hulu?
Thank you for your service
Simple. Because they didn’t commit any crimes.