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I remember all the MSMers throwing ackahullys about this www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada. Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:

submitted 2 days ago • 1111 comments

For those folks who have been waiting to climb the pole and ring the “constitutional crisis” bell, it would appear we have arrived. Neither Judge Sorokin nor Judge Boasberg believed that he was signing a meaningless order, and both judges demanded compliance that never came.

submitted 3 days ago • 132 comments

Trump indeed learned his lesson: when they don't convict you (twice) for impeachable offenses, you may continue to commit impeachable offenses.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

If court orders are being ignored, we’re having that constitutional crisis that everyone’s been worried about. We’re there, folks.

submitted 4 days ago • 176 comments

The 2 planes Judge Boasberg ordered back, plus a third plane that took off AFTER Boasberg’s order, never returned to the U.S. in apparent defiance of the court order.

submitted 4 days ago • 912 comments

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 6 days ago • 6066 comments

I have to say: Chuck Schumer is a weak man and a fool. This was the one cudgel Dems had. Now it's up to the courts which we new from the beginning were at best going to slow some things down. There's 18 hours left to somehow bring additional pressure to bear. It will be really hard to do that.

submitted 7 days ago • 742 comments

I really do think you have to consider can Schumer survive this

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

"“I had my birth certificate, a change of address from the US Postal Service — everything but my blood type and the kitchen sink — and I was told I could not register to vote,” Spencer said."

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Also you don't have to be Jewish to apply:

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

contempt and sanctions for everyone involved here, time for the courts to get serious if they want to do this then make it explicit by forcing them to directly ignore being held in contempt and make it crystal clear to everyone they have declared the courts have no power

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

NEW from me - Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans who have stopped holding in-person town halls amid the raucous receptions some of their colleagues have gotten across the country. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...

submitted 7 days ago • 370 comments

NEW www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

The fact congressional Democrats have not hired three dozen D&D rules lawyers with oppositional defiant disorder and turned them loose on parliamentary procedure with the goal of maximum obstruction is such a fucking missed opportunity

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

FYI, this has destroyed the careers of every one of these grad students. There are no “can you explain this gap in your resume” considerations postgrad; this has wiped out their academic and professional careers without recourse

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

submitted 8 days ago • 2726 comments

Opposing the majority party is being the opposition party; signing on to what the majority party does makes you the junior partner in a governing coalition. When they succeed you get zero credit and when they fail you share blame. This isn’t hard, nor is it new ground.

submitted 69 days ago • 15 comments

They're going to fucking wreck the university with one of the best hospital systems in the goddam world

submitted 8 days ago • 117 comments

This is a grave and sobering admission: they are not pursuing the “WELL ACTUALLY he broke the law during protests,” they are bragging that they are deporting people for protected speech.

submitted 9 days ago • 97 comments

If ever there was a public policy I understood as little as Donald Trump understands tariffs and the global economy, I would not spend everyday trying to remind people how little I understood about it, as he chooses to.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Musk has now poured $8.3 million into buying the tie-breaking Wisconsin Supreme Court seat for Brad Schimel. That is vastly more than any other single donor—to eliminate a state-level check on his and Trump's power. Help us fight back and elect Susan Crawford: PeopleVMusk.com

submitted 10 days ago • 191 comments

17 Democrats just voted to confirm Trump's anti-labor Labor Secretary. If we have a constitutional crisis (we do), they should start acting like it. www.senate.gov/legislative/...

submitted 9 days ago • 139 comments

Just as they did with the Eric Adams indictment dismissal, they want regular career lawyers to compromise their principles to create the appearance that what they're doing is just part of a regularized process instead of blatant favoritism. Thanks Liz Oyer for exposing the truth

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Since it apparently needs to be said: As a Jew who works on a university campus, I am safest in a country that protects academic freedom and liberal values of due process of law. Anyone who supports extrajudicial detention of students for "wrong" ideological opinions is not doing it for my safety.

submitted 10 days ago • 32 comments

Scoop: Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus says she’s resigning after a column on Jeff Bezos’s Wall Street Journal-like opinion pivot was rejected by Will Lewis

submitted 10 days ago • 391 comments

The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.

submitted 11 days ago • 454 comments

CALIFORNIA WATER UPDATE: The Army Corps knew the water wouldn’t reach LA—but they followed Trump’s orders and dumped it anyway. He wasted billions of gallons for a photo op. Hope farmers don’t ask where their precious water went when they need it this summer—the clown they voted for sabotaged them.

submitted 12 days ago • 212 comments

It's worth making people aware that's what's happening is from a very old and very recognizable playbook. This is a screenshot from It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis in 1935—I realize many were talking about this book eight years ago too but it, as they say, hits different now. Almost done!

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

oh so now the biden economy was "firing on all cylinders" huh? i kinda don't recall that being the tenor of economic news coverage before the election

submitted 13 days ago • 66 comments

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

submitted 13 days ago • 815 comments

(((Globalists)))

submitted 14 days ago • 93 comments

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

submitted 14 days ago • 489 comments

Sweet fancy Moses

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

This is great. Incomprehensible that it isn’t coming from every Dem in Congress.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Colbert nails it

submitted 15 days ago • 193 comments

If you were looking for a unified theory explaining the last 20 years of Supreme Court politics, you could do a lot worse than “Citizens United was a direct reaction to Obama winning, and Shelby County was a direct reaction to Obama winning again”

submitted 17 days ago • 126 comments

THE STOVE HAS BEEN TOUCHED 🚨 THE STOVE HAS BEEN TOUCHED

submitted 17 days ago • 77 comments

i think it's good and cool that the united states is transforming itself into a gangster state that acts little more as a supplicant to putin

submitted 20 days ago • 124 comments

The Iowa legislature just became the first in modern history to repeal a statutory civil rights law by removing protections for gender identity first passed in 2007. They have legalized discrimination against trans people in housing, healthcare, and employment. This is a campaign of eradication.

submitted 21 days ago • 53 comments

Scientists: We may have finally found a cure for one of the cruelest human diseases! The United States:

submitted 21 days ago • 39 comments

RFK at his confirmation hearing: “I am not anti-vaccine” After RFK confirmed as HHS head: - CDC flu vaccine campaign pulled - Childhood vaccine schedule reviewed - Federal funding to schools with COVID vaccine mandates withdrawn - Meeting to update flu vaccines cancelled

submitted 21 days ago • 68 comments

People laughed a few days ago when @jamellebouie.net said we might not have flu shots next year, but:

submitted 21 days ago • 380 comments

BREAKING Project 2025 leader and current OMB head Russ Vought directs all agencies to create plans for large-scale layoffs ("Reductions in Force") by March 13.

submitted 22 days ago • 1093 comments

When you describe the actual agenda of the Republican Party to ordinary people—like this kind of comical reverse Robin Hoodism—time & time again researchers find that they simply will not believe you. They cannot fathom anyone could be this cartoonishly evil.

submitted 22 days ago • 47 comments

House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care. They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely. This won’t just harm people. This will kill people. They own this.

submitted 22 days ago • 230 comments