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Amazing that when they get in courtrooms, all the big claims they make outside the courthouse to the media suddenly go away.

“It’s hard to think of a more anti-conservative figure than President Donald Trump or a more anti-conservative movement than MAGA,” writes @Peter_Wehner. “The Trump administration is a thugocracy, and the Republican Party he controls supports him”:

Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

If morons were idiots, then the name “morons” wouldn’t need to exist. You’d just call them idiots.

In other words, he promised repeatedly during the campaign he had a secret plan to end the war in 24 hours and he was just bullshitting everyone because he doesn’t have the first clue what to do, he gave away all negotiating leverage months ago, and his special envoy is a dope.

Imagine how we would view this if it was happening in another country

this is huge, a major weaponization of federal power, a threat to all of higher ed.

The FDA’s explanation for restricting Covid boosters: 1) The Volk are smart enough to understand age- and risk-based factors. But also, 2) Making the Covid booster available to everyone contributed to the moronic anti-vaxx movement. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-arsoni...

I  know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.

This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.

People are talking as if all other options have been exhausted in a country where only 60% of the public votes.

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

I thought China was going to pay for them. What happened to that?

Trump admits (1) the company thrived during the last year of Biden’s economy and (2) will be bearing the brunt of tariffs in Trump’s economy

Younger folks around here might shocked to learn that once upon a time Bill Clinton let a few campaign donors have a sleepover at the White House & the national media spent months treating it as the greatest scandal in the history of the republic