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If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1962...

submitted 2 days ago • 79 comments

Although many hoped otherwise, we do not seem to be returning to a world in which the center left and the center right compete over tax rates or budgets. Every election is now existential www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

No. Absolutely not. He's a nazi. He smashed the federal government and stole our data. He put USAID and USIP in a wood chipper, leaving hundreds of thousands of children to die. He's not welcome in any party I belong to. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 3 days ago • 1035 comments

In January, @pkrugman.bsky.social highlighted the “real threat of fake numbers” and the possibility that the public might start thinking twice about the integrity of federal data. Five months later, these questions are suddenly a bit louder. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Why doesn't Trump just go to Congress to get legal authority for his tariffs? In part because he believes checks and balances are all fine and good — until they get in the way of him doing what he wants to do.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

"To hear the president tell it, the process of making laws and policy the proper way is overly burdensome..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 6 days ago • 143 comments

The first time Trump and Republicans targeted the Affordable Care Act, it was a disaster for the party. As Republicans try again, Dems would be wise to let the public know what the inaptly named “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” would do to the ACA. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

“Imagine if, 15 years ago, as Republicans peddled “death panels” nonsense while attacking the Affordable Care Act, Democratic senators responded, “Well, we all are going to die.” If you’re thinking that it’d be a rather major development, you’re right.”

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Maybe Iowa’s Joni Ernst genuinely doesn’t understand why her “we are all going to die” line was a problem. Or maybe she’s doing an excellent imitation of someone who’s easily confused. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

scary to contemplate (and too daring for captive, timorous corporate media to recognize) that Trump and minions are nuts . But the evidence is all around us. The Trump regime’s endemic nuttery should provoke fearless, aggressive reporting and lend urgency to the task of consolidating opposition

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

open.substack.com/pub/contrari... important to acknowledge these people are fucking nuts

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submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

In any event, I did actually write about tariffs this week, from a LEGAL perspective. The tariffs were unconstitutional, then they weren't, but they will be again, until it gets to the Supreme Court. It's confusing but I explain it in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

This is striking. We now have two Trump-appointed judges directly knocking down Trump's power to simply create emergencies by decree and then assuming extraordinarily sweeping powers on that basis. This is the thing to watch. It's key to their dictatorial project. newrepublic.com/article/1959...

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

The Heist By @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 11 days ago • 55 comments

Who will tell the president what the Constitution requires? Certainly not Attorney General Bondi. And certainly not this nominee for the Office of Legal Counsel.

submitted 11 days ago • 309 comments

Looking forward to your response, Ed!!

submitted 12 days ago • 31 comments

"something has happened to him"

submitted 13 days ago • 69 comments

Yes let’s have an extension every week for the next 3 1/2 years so we have breaking news tariff extensions automatically built in

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The political world needs to pause, reassess, and come to terms with the simple fact that there are no actual Republican moderates on Capitol Hill. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 16 days ago • 34 comments

⁦‪⁦‪⁦‪Trump‬⁩ is a Commie directing how and where American companies produce stuff! Planned economies and production demands are the stuff of Communism. As are attacks on individual rights, reprisals against opponents, corruption to enrich the loyalist strata.

submitted 16 days ago • 74 comments

50% tariff on EU! I like Irish butter. How the hell we supposed to make Irish butter in America? But here I’m trying to throw logic into the equation when it’s just the whims of a turd.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

This nails it

submitted 16 days ago • 29 comments

It looks like SCOTUS has just created a new “we’re not going to spook the markets” doctrine to protect the Fed while placing all other independent agencies under the direct control of the president. Need to look at the argument but cannot think of what the constitutional or legal argument …

submitted 17 days ago • 41 comments

The 3-Justice Kagan dissent is devastating. But the unsigned majority has carried the day, not by force of reason or precedent but by fiat. Congress’s power to create independent agencies hangs by a thread. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 17 days ago • 42 comments

Georgia high school production of "The Crucible" is canceled after parent complaints that it "was demonic and disgusting." @hesherman.bsky.social: "the play about witch hunts, about the persecution of people out of hysteria...had provoked the same moral persecution it portrayed as unjust."

submitted 17 days ago • 72 comments

As the dust settles, keep in mind that the GOP was presented with plenty of compelling off-ramps. - The CBO said the bill was a disaster. - The bond market said the bill was a disaster. - The public said the bill was a disaster. 215 Republicans voted for it anyway. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

I really don't care, do you?

submitted 17 days ago • 162 comments

Pete Hegseth apparently wants a renewed conversation about his handling — or in his case, mishandling — of classified information. What a good idea. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments