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IDEA: Stop covering politics like its a fucking sporting event. The GOP spending cuts don't provide an "opening" for Democrats to attack. They are either going to harm people or not. Journalism is supposed to be about informing people.

submitted 15 hours ago • 127 comments

Look, all I know is that if Joe Biden had clearly fallen asleep at the state funeral for a pope, it would have dominated media coverage for days and been covered by political media as a scandal detrimental to the reputation of our country.

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

It's not just Vance - the sense of unearned entitlement is a defining feature of this administration. People who know their careers are built on a grift respond by self-righteously demanding deference and respect. "Did you even say thank you?"

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Illustrating once again the Trump team’s distinctive mix of arrogance, ignorance and incompetence.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Still wrapping my head around a President with 34 felony convictions snatching people off the street if they have a speeding ticket on their record.

submitted 6 days ago • 150 comments

The same Court that rejects the idea that religious discussions and displays can be coercive to non- and other-believers will likely rule that discussions and displays of LGBTQ+ existence are coercive to religious objectors. This is incoherent, results-driven doctrine.

submitted 6 days ago • 42 comments

Trump admin claims: Thursday: Abrego Garcia is a top MS-13 terrorist Friday: Abrego Garcia killed JFK Saturday: Abrego Garcia is the head of ISIS Sunday: Abrego Garcia piloted all 3 planes on 9/11 Monday: Abrego Garcia ran the Fyre Festival Tuesday: Abrego Garcia beat Riley Gaines at a swim meet

submitted 11 days ago • 109 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 14 days ago • 1330 comments

Welp, got an answer to this question: Apparently the answer is no tariffs are being collected. Trump broke the system www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...

submitted 17 days ago • 381 comments

Paying an extortionist -- where do you think it ends? Do you think he honors his side of the supposed "deal"? Really? Meanwhile, as Big Law ill-advisedly pays the protection racket, there's a huge need for lawyers to help regular people Trump is illegally targeting: www.cm-life.com/article/2025...

submitted 17 days ago • 151 comments

The cowards at Paul Weiss own this most of all, but they are joined in disgrace by Milbank, Willkie Farr, and Skadden. Trump suggested there are other firms that have agreed to debase themselves, but did not reveal the names.

submitted 19 days ago • 321 comments

Media challenge: try writing headlines without using the word "antisemitism". Stop using Trump's framing for his authoritarian actions. "Trump administration now monitoring immigrant social media" would be shorter and more accurate, since no-one really believes this is about anti-semitism.

submitted 19 days ago • 167 comments

It's incredible how often we're now seeing top Justice Department officials going to court, arguing cases and signing motions that no career lawyers sign onto. The department didn't work like that ... three months ago.

submitted 20 days ago • 21 comments

Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death

submitted 20 days ago • 545 comments

I'm writing away, but — If you're going to be dismissive about your colleagues in a United States Supreme Court opinion, you should damn well have to put your name to it. This being in a per curiam is ridiculous.

submitted 21 days ago • 65 comments

For "One First," me on the good (a commitment to meaningful pre-removal judicial review); the bad (making relief for those already removed much harder); and the ugly (throwing Chief Judge Boasberg under the bus) in #SCOTUS's 5-4 Alien Enemy Act ruling: www.stevevladeck.com/p/140-the-di...

submitted 21 days ago • 101 comments

I think the Supreme Court got the law badly wrong tonight. But beyond that, it’s just incredibly ominous that Roberts would throw Boasberg under the bus and hand Trump this big win when his administration has conducted this case in EXTREME bad faith from the start. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 21 days ago • 216 comments

Every time I get a journalist call for comment now I close my remarks with “members of a government that believes it is not bound by the rule of law are not entitled to its protection.”

submitted 48 days ago • 37 comments

Translation: We're making this up as we go.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

For the second time in the last 24 hours, Trump suggests that he thinks he will be putting tariffs directly on fentanyl smuggled into the United States illegally.

submitted 26 days ago • 398 comments

The administration says that criminal immigrants can be deported to a foreign forced labor prison without a hearing that could determine if the person is actually a criminal or actually an immigrant and that if it makes a mistake it can’t be rectified because the person is now outside their control.

submitted 27 days ago • 93 comments

The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

submitted 27 days ago • 964 comments

"Roberts’s immunity ruling not only gutted Smith’s case against Trump, it also sent a clear message: If Trump won the election, he could freely engage in even more egregious crimes. As later events would demonstrate, Trump got the message loud and clear." — @davidrlurie.bsky.social

submitted 28 days ago • 273 comments

Meet the new WH press corps! From Friday: OAN REPORTER: What has made you and your team so effective in finding, locating, apprehending, and deporting these violent illegal migrants? TRUMP: I love this guy. I wish more people would ask questions like that.

submitted 28 days ago • 98 comments

This is horrifyingly correct.

submitted 29 days ago • 108 comments

Opinion | In my new post at the Pentagon, I will lead the charge to end DEI and bring back the meritocracy. by Pete Hegseth’s Brother

submitted 30 days ago • 59 comments

"The vice president’s boss, President Donald Trump..." Fun fact: The president is not, in fact, the vice president's boss, we the people are. If the president were the vp's boss, Trump would have fired Mike Pence. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 30 days ago • 35 comments

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

submitted 31 days ago • 2524 comments

Interestingly, if you take out oil & gas, we’ve actually had a trade surplus with Canada for over 15 years.

submitted 32 days ago • 14 comments

A DHS staffer accidentally sent email to a reporter in January with unclassified info about an upcoming Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation. But unlike Waltz and Hegseth, she was put on administrative leave and told last week that the agency intends to revoke her security clearance

submitted 32 days ago • 13 comments

Bukele agreed to accept hundreds of suspected gang members living in the United States. In return, he wanted the U.S. to send him less than a dozen MS13 gang members in U.S. custody. Why was he so intent on getting the MS13 guys? Via WaPo:

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.

submitted 32 days ago • 1325 comments

For the record: A protest at a car dealership is NOT an insurrection.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Important thing about this jaw-dropping story is that even if Jeff Goldberg hadn't been invited into the chat, Hegseth was sending out detailed military stuff over a civilian app that even the other people in the conversation probably didn't need to know about "Need to know" means "need."

submitted 35 days ago • 489 comments

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

submitted 35 days ago • 3122 comments

Exactly. The chat shows there is no question that, at the highest levels of the Trump admin, people are deliberately and routinely avoiding the use of secure government channels of communication. That's not a bookkeeping issue. It's mens rea, it's consciousness of guilt.

submitted 35 days ago • 38 comments

Circling back on this…

submitted 35 days ago • 2015 comments