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I know this people are too stupid to argue with but it’s a very simple explanation: -expanded social security and Medicare (good) -Reduced immigration and population growth (bad) -Much lower tax rates (bad)

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

New rule I encourage others to follow: No dunking on anyone speaking up or out. None. No ironic detachment or knowing eye rolls. Nada. All antiauthoritarianism is good antiauthoritarianism

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

While DC descends into chaos, we’re staying focused on what matters: making CA more affordable. We’re taking on big challenges, rejecting the status quo & fighting Trump’s agenda every step of the way. With some bill deadlines coming up, here's some of what we’re working on:

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 7 days ago • 5664 comments

Stand with @apnews.com!

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

Between the Bove fiasco and the FTC nakedly trying to bully the ABA (of all institutions), there's a real feeling that these people are pretty far out over their skis. They seem to believe they can strongarm everyone into submission. Not sure it's gonna go so well! www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Conflicts of interest go both ways. The only explanation for Elon Musk's behavior is that he thinks Democrats will never again be allowed to control federal government contracting. If that doesn't scare you, it should.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt. Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires? We have our answer. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 8 days ago • 136 comments

I wonder why the richest man on the planet would want to gut IRS enforcement?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Total nerd-dom, but this is one of my favorite pieces ever👇

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Has the Federalist or Claremont Review of Books published a piece on the wisdom of this dual presidency by comparing to the dual Roman consulate yet

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Punitive actions against ret. Gen. Milley & Adm. Fagan (and a reported external board to review active-duty four-stars) undermine civil-military relations and threaten the military’s apolitical integrity, write five former service secretaries and flag officers. www.military.com/daily-news/o...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Where are the other news outlets on this?

submitted 8 days ago • 147 comments

With all due respect, Chip Roy is either a moron or a coward. My piece this morning on why: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-purse-...

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

👇🎯 Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

This is quite possibly the most corrupt thing that has happened in the history of the modern DOJ

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DOJ leadership has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with 1 hour to decide who will dismiss Adams indictment or else all will be fired. Sending them strength to stand by their oath, which is to support the Constitution, not the president’s political agenda. 🇺🇸

submitted 8 days ago • 1065 comments

And you better believe this is as much a letter to both Kavanaugh and Roberts as it is a letter to Bove.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

One of the most 👀 lawyer-letters ever written. Wow.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Scotten was a Kavanaugh (DC Cir) and Roberts clerk ...

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

“If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.” Damn. static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

submitted 8 days ago • 267 comments

It gets worse, if you can believe it!

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 9 days ago • 439 comments

every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake

submitted 9 days ago • 221 comments

Holy shit. This is fucking nuts.

submitted 9 days ago • 147 comments

This is like if the mob got to fire every federal agent investigating organized crime bsky.app/profile/make...

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

Very normal country we have now

submitted 9 days ago • 54 comments

Personally I’m just glad free speech and academic freedom are protected again, and we’ve gotten rid of all that political correctness www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

READ Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Pam Bondi, via @nytimes.com: "Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

submitted 9 days ago • 396 comments

I really wish all these people who want to be ruled by a king would just fuck off to a country that has one. Thailand’s pretty and has amazing food. They’ve even got lèse-majesté laws to stop people from upsetting your bootlicking souls.

submitted 9 days ago • 112 comments

This entire thing is almost comically corrupt

submitted 9 days ago • 488 comments

Anyway here's how it played in the press last time anything went this far, just for reference

submitted 9 days ago • 227 comments

The @apnews.com is vigorously standing up for themselves and the First Amendment against Trump's censorship. Reminder that they are a nonprofit. If you want to show your support, throw them a couple bucks: apnews.com/donate

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

literally no other journalist should be going to these in basic solidarity with the AP at this point.

submitted 9 days ago • 66 comments

I remember when Obama mildly criticized Fox News, the entire journalism world -- hey there, @jaketapper.bsky.social -- rose to its defense. Now Trump is excluding the AP from briefings & all the other media quislings are lining up for their slop without a word of protest.

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

At this point, there are only two options: A) Elon is so dishonest that he is willing to peddle obvious lies to score PR points B) Elon really is this stupid

submitted 9 days ago • 317 comments

Looking at the security strategy that moved Europe from millennia of devastating interstate conflict to almost a century of practically bucolic peace and integration "Well, THAT was a mistake"

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"Let's build for the folks who don't live here now." Not a message you'll hear from many politicians, but it's right. Read @yappelbaum.bsky.social's terrific new book, previewed in the March issue of @theatlantic.com. 1/2

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

“These stories should concern all Americans because they are our family members, neighbors and friends. No American can be proud of a government that carries out change in this way.” The American Bar Association speaks out. Please read and share. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 12 days ago • 249 comments

The structure of the executive branch is power flows from POTUS to Senate-confirmed principal officers (e.g. Cabinet secretaries) to inferior officers created by law (who can be, only if authorized by law, appointed w/o confirmation). This isn't optional. Constitution requires it, no exceptions.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

I watched a fair amount of this rally online today and, back in the day, I covered a decent number of union cattle calls and this was different. When speakers were demanding that Trump and Elon "stop lying about us and our work" that hit me as something very real. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhfw...

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Huge credit where credit is due here. This is the obviously correct answer and every member of Congress should say the same.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Pretty much exactly what we talked about last week when we covered Tump's growing censorship regime www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/trumps-eff...

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

We're seeing this asymmetry in so many ways. When one side is willing to break rules and weaponize their power but the other isn't, the apparent net incentive is to stand up to the rule followers and appease the rule breakers.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE's data exfiltration is a privacy nightmare - the impact from which we might not reckon with for decades to come. My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91276537/dog...

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