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No king. And no chain-saw wielding jester.

submitted 3 days ago • 170 comments

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

submitted 13 days ago • 1605 comments

insane.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Like ngl. Significantly less worried about autocracy after Elons interview at CPAC. That dude is gone.

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

I don't think people really get how these employee purges are just going to break the culture of public organizations for a very long time.

submitted 20 days ago • 103 comments

periodic reminder that 1. the formalist argument against Humphrey’s Executor proves more than even Scalia could swallow, and 2. tenure limitations on executive offices and enforcement of federal law by people the president cdnt control both go back to the founding of republic

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Easy to miss this amidst all the chaos, but it's important and disturbing—not least of all because seizing control of the arts is a classic authoritarian tactic. This does not bode well for free expression.

submitted 29 days ago • 22 comments

one of the things that drive me crazy about the defense of impoundment is that it is in such obvious bad faith. like, of course congressional appropriations are directives! why would congress have oversight powers if the constitutional expectation was that appropriations were advisory?

submitted 30 days ago • 39 comments

Not for nothing, but announcing that the US is taking over Gaza the same week you’re neutering the FBI’s entire counterterrorism program isn’t that smart from a security perspective.

submitted 35 days ago • 220 comments

I'm sorry I ever doubted you George Lucas for thinking trade taxation would lead to an evil empire.

submitted 39 days ago • 53 comments

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that “Just Following Daddy’s Orders” is a valid defense.

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

It struck me today that every work of dystopian fiction I've ever read involves a future without books. Maybe that's all it takes.

submitted 40 days ago • 105 comments

First two weeks of the Trump administration have been so slapdash that I’ve wondered what Miller, Vought, et al. were doing at those think tanks for the last four years: newrepublic.com/article/1909...

submitted 40 days ago • 11 comments

It has now officially been confirmed. We have reached the singularity

submitted 41 days ago • 351 comments

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

submitted 42 days ago • 991 comments

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

submitted 42 days ago • 55 comments

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

submitted 42 days ago • 1029 comments

Really hard to find hope in humanity when so many are so openly cruel yet they are cheered on for it. The devil's work of dehumanizing our fellow humans to normalize mass death and suffering has been wildly successful. The world we inhabit today is one that is intolerable for those with empathy.

submitted 44 days ago • 42 comments

There is simply no plausible argument that the president has the constitutional authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds because he doesn’t like how the money is being spent. The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.

submitted 43 days ago • 275 comments

Now, more than ever, it's important to not confuse your cynicism for political savvy

submitted 50 days ago • 7 comments

From what I am seeing today it really seems like for the years and weeks they had, for all the Project 2025 stuff...they really have no idea what they are doing aren't they, they seem completely lost.

submitted 49 days ago • 26 comments

Fall Semester 2025

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

What a dark time to have a brain.

submitted 49 days ago • 33 comments

Demanding that we all wallow does not help. Fight back, or if you won't, get out of the way and don't complain when we choose not to join you in the nihilist void. Believing in a better world and working to force people to do their jobs and live up to the values they profess is not naivete.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

The Hour of Fucking Around has ended. Now begins the Great Finding Out.

submitted 51 days ago • 10 comments

Hard not to think ruefully today about Mitch McConnell and the Supreme Court.

submitted 50 days ago • 102 comments

It's so funny that the senators call the senate "the world's greatest deliberative body" when the one time in the last decade they had a non-choreographed vote they all went "wait no, not like that" and gave up

submitted 99 days ago • 7 comments

That Musk is now threatening people with imprisonment and/or execution for non-crimes but rather being a person who he disagrees with should be the end of that pathetic website.

submitted 105 days ago • 190 comments