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It drives me crazy that we hardly talk about how Trump seems to have no idea what executive orders he’s about to sign. Do they not brief him before these signing events? Or is he too lazy or forgetful?

Arguing “respecting people’s rights is a way to lose elections” is bad, actually. Like VERY bad. These people are not serious or smart as they believe. Due process is for EVERYONE, even people you don’t like.

And they're starting to realize that they've already lost.

Yes.

"people are being grabbed off the street and being sent to foreign prison camps and it could happen to you" is not even remotely an exaggeration if that's not a fight worth having, what is

So I’m running under the assumption that by January 2029 Trump either is in the grave or a dementia ward, wondering (assuming a Democratic president) how many people in this admin get brought up on felony charges though

Yeah. No one is in charge. You have a couple of competing power centers, but they're all run by idiots.

I wanted Lamb to beat Fetterman.

cable news is like if you went to a baseball game, they kept the bleacher camera on the entire time, and the announcer talked about it constantly ignored the game except when someone on the bleacher camera was reacting to it

amazing how grasping this seems in response to someone doing something, how much he needs to be able to rewrite what you saw. the lesson is to do more things

I think its easy to mistake UK transphobes as being opposed to "men" in women's spaces but what they really oppose is trans women and trans femininity specifically, and the biggest tell is they speak to and about trans women in a way they never would a man

Contranyms are fun.

WOW. The Trump administration's efforts to punish immigrants by abusing the Social Security database ended up leading to a U.S. citizen being kicked off of Social Security because they accused him of being undocumented!

This is not about one man. MOST of the people Trump disappeared have NO criminal record. Yet they had no due process, and have no outside contact. Merwil—reportedly grabbed by mistake. Arturo—a musician. Andry—a makeup artist. No record, no explanation.

Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take

Trump's approval rating on inflation/cost of living has declined 23 points from +6 to -17.5 since "Trump take egg" was posted for the first time 🤔 Trump take egg

It is impressive how often powerful accounts post through it and demand that you cannot suggest they're mad on the internet.

self dox is a power move that those of us with an ability to do it should be prepared to pull the trigger on if it comes to that for us

As I've said, Trump may want to go full fash but he will not succeed if he is despised, and he is.

The takeaway from this is *resist* because his authoritarianism may just keep coming but will be made much more difficult if he is politically weak.

Covid leaked from a lab and we did too much to limit it.

The thing is that due process rights exist even when they're inconvenient for the government. Indeed, if it's too hard for the government to do something without shredding civil rights, that may be a sign the government should not do it.

With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.

I imagine the Supreme Court will be interested in this tweet.

Me every time I've read an Yglesias thesis in two decades

Whaaaaaat the entire fuck

I don't normally watch CNBC -- was this Sara Eisen person a visitor on a tour who was selected for airtime in some kind of contest? Because I can't imagine someone this deeply misinformed about basic facts is employed as a news anchor.

Visits to the U.S. in March fell nearly 12 percent year-over-year, government figures show, the first significant downturn since early in the pandemic. Analysts say Trump's visa revocations, detentions, deportations and tariffs are pushing tourists away www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

It's like they looked at individual bureaucratic errors and thought "how can we use technology to bring this to scale?"

"Convicted felon Donald Trump thinks we should eliminate due process for everyone but him."

I continue to be absolutely incredulous and horrified at the apparent trend in the USA for *Catholics* to refer to Protestants as "Christians" as a point of distinction with themselves. Just heard an Italian-American friend of my wife describe someone "converting to Catholicism from Christianity"!!

This is a false choice. Both issues are rooted in Trump's power-mad quest to become a dictator. But beyond that -- the public is *outraged* over the deportation case and Trump is flailing. If your instincts are to push that aside rather than harness it, you should get the hell out of politics.

Either we are all free or none of us are free.