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for better or worse, there is no single thing that would do more to solidify the perception that the parties are the same than Dems taking in Elon Musk

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food." "Hmm." "But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things." "Oh, I guess that ..." "And then we go to war with California."

submitted 4 hours ago • 245 comments

“I tried to raid an elementary school but the principal stopped me” ass job.

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

One thing is for certain after this week: Local cops in sanctuary cities—Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York—are working in lock step with DHS and ICE.

submitted 5 hours ago • 124 comments

It'll be coming right after infrastructure week. Just two weeks away.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

the fun version of this is when you’re posting about some nerd shit and someone pops up in the comments like “actually I am a world renowned expert in this field and here’s how this works” easily the best thing that happens on social media

submitted 21 hours ago • 95 comments

so let's be clear, the US Atty Gen and the Texas Atty Gen likely colluded to end a law passed 24 years ago by the People of Texas to allow undocumented children who graduate from Texas high schools to pay in state tuition. Ken Paxon and Pam Bondi are not good at being people or attorneys.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

i'm starting to see some scoldy posts pointing out that we are laughing about a fire on the deck of our sinking ship and i have to be honest once the ship started sinking i decided i would take the laughs where i found them

submitted 2 days ago • 217 comments

The Trump administration sued Texas yesterday in a single-judge division in a suit that took just over six hours to produce a final judgment blocking a Texas state law. If that sounds fishy (and beneath the dignity of the federal courts) to you, it’s because it is. Me in today’s bonus “One First”:

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

The best response to Abundance talk is a single tweet from Ruairi Wood, RIP brother.

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

trans kids are not “a wedge issue” they are children jfc

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every centrist pundit who called me a lunatic for suggesting any Republicans would ever investigate miscarriages should be legally required to supply me with a basket of tomatoes and ten minutes with them in a pickleball court

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Let’s talk for a moment about some of the more subtle ways that the press acts as a mouthpiece for law enforcement. Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime. /1

submitted 4 days ago • 93 comments

Trump has signed an order doubling tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from 25% to 50%. The move hikes import taxes on the metals, which are used in everything from cars to canned food, for the second time since March. This will drive up prices for American consumers on a wide range of products.

submitted 3 days ago • 56 comments

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

submitted 4 days ago • 96 comments

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

submitted 4 days ago • 862 comments

Nothing going on is that hard to understand as long as someone with some credibility has the desire to explain it and the space to do so and I’m glad this NBC station did this for their viewers

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

If you're wondering, I looked it up—this is Pritzker at Chicago Pride in 1993, the year he earned his law degree.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

Retire you decrepit asshole. Your career has amounted to less than nothing, you're not up to the moment, and the country would be no poorer for your absence. Continuing to cling to power with your half dead hands is a tribute to your narcissism and an embarrassment to your loved ones.

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"Last but certainly not least, I endorse Zohran for his inspiration. This guy has brought out thousands upon thousands of fellow New Yorkers into rallies, into meetings, on the streets going door to door. This is a massive operation that I've never seen before." - @liunewyork.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

The Washington Examiner (the conservative news outlet) reports that Stephen Miller screamed at ICE officials: "What do you mean you're going after criminals? Why aren't you at Home Depot? Why aren't you at 7-Eleven?" Kinda blows up the narrative that they care about public safety.

submitted 5 days ago • 203 comments

look I was a debate team kid and an uber nerd so yes of course I learned that Scalia was a beautifully gifted writer so I read a bunch of his writing and my main takeaway was that lawyers thinking this is great prose is a major indictment of the literacy of lawyers

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

antonin scalia is the author of what I consider to be one of the most poorly written and deeply offensive paragraphs to ever appear in the U.S. reports. Two run-on sentences that are almost completely incomprehensible--except insofar as they communicate that their author hates gay people

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Antonin Scalia will be remembered because he was a long-serving justice on the Supreme Court, responsible for foisting the idiocy of originalism on us and a key player in some disastrous rulings. That's his lasting claim to fame. His prose stylings might warrant a footnote.

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

What was done to Israelis on October 7th, and the ongoing detention of the hostages, was and is an atrocity. The ongoing genocide in Gaza was not an appropriate response— it is also an atrocity. Responding to that atrocity with fresh ones, like Jews being gunned down or set on fire? Also atrocity.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

So the woman sitting next to me at a wedding tonight explained to me that NIH is only cutting poor quality science grants like the one trying to make mice transgender. We have lost the communication battle

submitted 5 days ago • 82 comments

It means he’s a Republican.

submitted 7 days ago • 170 comments

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

submitted 7 days ago • 107 comments

Contempt charges, come on

submitted 7 days ago • 112 comments

To be clear: I'd take Justice Jeanine Pirro for the next 3 years over Justice James Ho for the next 30, and if you think I'm wrong it's only because you have no fucking clue how dangerous James Ho is going to be.

submitted 8 days ago • 39 comments

I take back everything I ever said about attorneys not being funny. Darkly, ironically, one might even say savagely funny, but funny nonetheless

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Last week my D&D group — made up of middle-aged men like me — was discussing the dilemma of having the ability to purchase extremely ludicrously expensive but very cool dice but not the energy to deal with the resulting family arguments.

submitted 9 days ago • 89 comments

Last year, a handful of Democrats tanked Joe Biden's impressive judicial nominee Adeel Mangi out of cowardice. Now Trump is ready to fill this U.S. appeals court seat with his pick: his own criminal defense attorney and "hatchet man" at DOJ. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 9 days ago • 58 comments

Great summary of Justice Thomas’ corruption by @leahlitman.bsky.social.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

I cannot envision any world in which Gavin Newsom wins a Democratic Primary.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

The solution to the Democrats messaging problem isn’t to replicate the rw media ecosystem, but to recognize what makes it powerful, including the participatory storytelling and sense of agency it provides to its audiences, and to adapt those dynamics in ways that align w/ Dem/progressive values.

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

People often think they must not understand cryptocurrency or assume it has value because so many people are promoting it. But, it's not complicated. Every argument about the social value of crypto amounts to: it's harder for the government to tax and track than $ in banks. It's about $ laundering.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Deeply abnormal behavior. What the fuck is wrong with people

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

The Wall Street Journal had a piece last night that the Judicial Conference of the United States — the policy making body for the federal judiciary — is discussing whether the Judiciary should have its own armed security force rather than rely on the U.S. Marshals for federal judges’ protection.

submitted 13 days ago • 404 comments

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

submitted 13 days ago • 374 comments