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This is empirically true at this point

submitted 9 hours ago • 22 comments

the only way kidnapping and illegally detaining lawful permanent residents (or citizens!) in foreign concentration camps "plays out" is we all live our lives under fascism or the fascists are jailed and many of them executed. that's it. read a fuckin book.

submitted 11 hours ago • 30 comments

The Liberty Justice Center and I just filed our case challenging Trump's gargantuan "Liberation Day" tariffs as an illegal usurpation of legislative power. We represent five US businesses that import from affected countries: libertyjusticecenter.org/pressrelease...

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.

submitted 1 day ago • 108 comments

The LAW determines how the money of this country will be spent, i.e. the appropriations bills passed by Congress. The president has a constitutional DUTY to faithfully execute those laws. In fact, he swears an oath promising to do so. He has zero authority to deviate from those laws.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

This is a really important point about how the NEH and the Perseus Project has made the ancient world open to all. The cutting of funding this past week continues to break all of our hearts but also to put the walls and silos of traditional academia back up.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Someone go tell Yarvin the national CEO thing is working out great, bitch

submitted 5 days ago • 38 comments

The dean, faculty, and students of Georgetown Law have shown great courage and defiance in the face of Trump's relentless, targeted assault on the First Amendment and academic freedom in particular. Super proud of my alma mater.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

this is a good post and "decadence" is a good way to think about a lot of things. true decadence is, eg, thinking you could let an insurrection go unpunished and the country would just keep chugging along nbd

submitted 12 days ago • 65 comments

What this actually is is a disastrous consequence of the Supreme Court’s decision in INS v. Chadha, one of the worse decisions of the second half of the 20th century.

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

My evening thought is that I suspect a great many Americans, in the period after 1989, grew very used to a world in which it didn't matter that much who they elected (to them). They had the rule of law, the most prosperous economy in human history, the long peace. But it always mattered.

submitted 12 days ago • 83 comments

BREAKING: I'm placing a hold on President Trump's nominee for U.S. Attorney in DC. For the past few weeks, Ed Martin has been a one-man wrecking ball. Threatening political opponents, firing public servants, and using his office to chill free speech. His nomination must be blocked.

submitted 13 days ago • 1303 comments

1/ I wonder if there's a complement to Mettler's _Submerged State_ thesis: the successful state thesis. In brief: American government has in many ways been so successful for so long that Americans have forgotten why they need it, making anti-government rhetoric more appealing.

submitted 14 days ago • 112 comments

the constitution isn’t is a word game and the fact that you can abuse the language to produce an outcome does not mean the constitution allows that outcome. the 22nd amendment was ratified to restrict a president to two terms in office, period. that is what it does.

submitted 14 days ago • 242 comments

The government admits the thing I’ve been banging on about, which is that there is no habeas for these people, despite what they told CADC.

submitted 14 days ago • 100 comments

very helpful to democrats that one of the most unpopular people in american politics is front in center in the administration, allowing them to make the very easy case that you should vote for democrats to check elon musk.

submitted 20 days ago • 88 comments

VERY IMPORTANT to label this as what it is, The Police State Executive Order. it's not an exaggeration. This is the inner wiring of a police state.

submitted 23 days ago • 119 comments

Not to lib out but he's literally doing everything in this stupid document

submitted 24 days ago • 67 comments

By the end of this administration there might be like a half dozen agencies sitting in a quantum superposition of "legally existing" and "functionally abolished" and unless SCOTUS protects them they will just forever operate only when Ds are in charge and disappear when Rs are

submitted 25 days ago • 10 comments

I've said it before, but the main right "parents' rights" discourse seems interested in is the right to decide over life and death. Call it the unitary executive theory of the family: These parents ultimately claim the seigneurial right to be family annihilators, if they so choose.

submitted 24 days ago • 80 comments

both because it's the right thing to do and because restoring the government's credibility with its own people and other nations will require us to forestall this ever happening agin

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Baseball media: if you do not loudly report on this I do not want to hear a goddamn thing from you about Jackie Robinson on April 15. bsky.app/profile/fbih...

submitted 27 days ago • 65 comments

The touchstone of most authoritarian regimes is not the kind of total control that most people feel in their day-to-day lives. It is that the regime is only selectively bound by law, producing constant low-grade anxiety as to whether, how, or against whom power will be exercised.

submitted 27 days ago • 46 comments

Along with all of the other things that this is, it is also the direct & inevitable consequence of the failure to put a lot more senior executive branch officials in jail for a very long time for Watergate, Iran-Contra, torture, & all of the other things in the last 50 years.

submitted 28 days ago • 34 comments

So the Admin has defied the order of a federal judge. www.newsweek.com/rubio-touts-...

submitted 29 days ago • 734 comments

Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now

submitted 29 days ago • 137 comments

one issue with tech people, and i've run into this working in biomedical research my whole life, is that they think any hard problem that your field has thought about throughout all its history is just missing Tech Insights. and that once they grace you with their genius it will be solved.

submitted 68 days ago • 5 comments

I’m increasingly convinced that abandoning belief in the dignity of the human person—even the fundamental sacredness of life itself—in favor of edgy nihilism or political pragmatism will lead us nowhere.

submitted 31 days ago • 22 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 31 days ago • 5965 comments

whether they’re retiring or not this should be the last term for each of them

submitted 31 days ago • 368 comments

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

submitted 31 days ago • 4174 comments

The provision of the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court unanimously wrote out of the constitution existed for a reason. Its drafters knew what would happen if you allowed insurrectionists back into power.

submitted 31 days ago • 642 comments

Universities: We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately

submitted 31 days ago • 28 comments

these people are literally trying to destroy america’s future

submitted 31 days ago • 229 comments

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 32 days ago • 5208 comments

If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.

submitted 32 days ago • 48 comments

i am absolutely here for the house declaring war on the senate

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.

submitted 32 days ago • 823 comments

Yeah this is what I’d say. I don’t think you can in conscience vote yes on cloture knowing that amounts to singing off an anti-constitutional putsch. And but it’s also the case a shutdown is risky and could be bad! But what grown up politicians should do is publicly, transparently communicate this.

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