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i am once again saying that if you allow polling to define rights, you don't have any real rights at all

submitted 12 hours ago • 20 comments

the thing about chasing what you think is public opinion is that if and when things turn you will have made a bunch of statements and taken a bunch of stances that you’ll have to disavow. probably a better strategy just to say what you actually believe and stand by it. anyway, this guy sucks.

submitted 18 hours ago • 878 comments

Just restating the simple point: President lacks the constitutional authority to close a department created by Congress. Full stop. Both the creation and on-going funding of these Depts are LAWS not suggestions. This is criminal conduct. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ

submitted 1 day ago • 219 comments

The judges are going to love this one.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

reporters stop writing entire articles premised on the idea that musk is in charge of DOGE without also mentioning that the government has claimed in court that he’s not in charge of DOGE and that he’s not even an employee of DOGE and that he doesn’t have any decision-making authority challenge

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

Republicans in Congress are reportedly asking Musk’s permission to hold votes

submitted 19 hours ago • 528 comments

The idea the president alone can levy taxes on a whim and spend it as he pleases without any congressional approval is the kind of thing so beyond the pale it's not unconstitutional, it's anti-constitutional. It is overturning in starkest terms the central rallying cry of the American Revolution.

submitted 1 day ago • 209 comments

Trump thanked John Roberts on his way out of the state of the union because he sees John Roberts more clearly than Roberts sees himself www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 97 comments

why is this not a gigantic fucking scandal that we're talking about 24/7. an unelected billionaire is fueling threats against federal judges and he just keeps on with his wanton destruction of the federal government

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

Only five votes on the Supreme Court for Article I of the Constitution of the United States bsky.app/profile/stev...

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

I think one major problem with contemporary legalists is that they are completely unaware of the stakes of Evil Law, or what law like this would do to millions of Americans going forward.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Who could’ve imagined that the solution to high rents is building more housing

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

A disgusting and abject betrayal by the US. A decision that will save the US approximately zero dollars and will very directly kill countless Ukrainians

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

This is a Nazi speech with Nazi policies, delivered by a fucking Nazi.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Oh that's interesting, the President just said that DOGE was headed by Elon Musk, even though the administration told a federal court that he was merely an adviser to the president, and some rando who was on vacation in Mexico was actually the leader.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

TV Off: State of the Union edition

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

dressing matching to present a "unified front" except it's 4 different colors so no one will even notice is like, the ultimate Democrat move. i couldn't write something this perfect

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

warner is 72 and has been serving in the senate since 2009. get him out

submitted 2 days ago • 1328 comments

It's going to be a leaseback scam.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

There’s a real way in which — from defense to public health to foreign aid — a measurable increase in preventable human deaths and suffering is a central pillar of this administration’s policy agenda.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

I'm starting to think of elite rationalizations of Trump's insanity as a kind of highbrown qanon. It's the fantasy that things can't be as fucked as they seem and that in reality there's a secret plan being carried out by competent patriots

submitted 2 days ago • 136 comments

NEW: Some DOGE operatives are volunteers. Not all of them are, though. Some are making as much as long-tenured career civil servants, and at least one is making $195,200—as much as a civil servant can legally make. This is by @knibbs.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Personality predates ideology. They were making excuses for these men long before Trump, and they will keep using them.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

this is why 'centre-left' politicians conceding 'legitimate concerns' on immigration are so dangerous

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

At some point the opposition needs to say what is happening here: Donald Trump is a tyrant in the full sense of the term, an American fascist dictator who believes the law flows directly from his command. And he is also a deeply unwell, unfit, and criminal man with nonsensical whims

submitted 2 days ago • 118 comments

We've been, correctly, beating them up for not doing anything. Today they did something and they deserve credit. Nice job, Dems. More, please.

submitted 3 days ago • 77 comments

i think it's great that the nazi zoomers are systematically — and again, illegally — destroying our ability to do anything useful

submitted 3 days ago • 112 comments

bathroom bills were considered a hugely bigoted overreach a decade ago and the backsliding on trans rights is the result of a sustained propaganda campaign by elites the pendulum can swing back the other way if you try, and anyone who is not willing to do so is showcasing their own bigotry

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

Osama Bin Laden dramatically reimagines Manhattan skyline

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

Aside from everything else about this, "if we just don't CALL it a recession then the economy will be fine" is just another iteration of "if we weren't testing there wouldn't be so many cases"

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

My take is that we should persecute these people mercilessly by any legal means necessary.

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

we basically just watched the president do what javier milei is currently under investigation in his country for doing

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

AP headline about “No Other Land” winning an Oscar VS Politico headline for the very same AP story about “No Other Land” Absolutely shameful

submitted 4 days ago • 59 comments

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

submitted 4 days ago • 290 comments

good for sean baker for using his third speech of the night to shout out the theatrical experience!!!! king shit!!!

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