in many languages, the slang word for testicles is "eggs". so you can see the Trump Take Eggs thing has hit Congressional Republicans particularly hard.
the UK thrashed around in years of controversy over retrograde plots to ship migrants to Rwanda, while in a matter of weeks the US starts shipping migrants to camps in Central America with hardly a whiff of scandal.
i’m sure conditions at these rushed camps will be stellar. i’m ashamed.
can we just call him Benedict Donald?
i wake up, feel stateless, naked, vulnerable. maybe i’m too online, too connected to the news. but the supposed normalcy seems feigned, fake, forced, doomed. which of us are being irrational? it feels like we are in one of @pkrugman’s wile-e coyote moments. some of us have looked down.
Why isn’t MSM covering this story?
the real freedom fries are poutine.
He's not uncovering corruption. He's murdering people. It's not read only. He shut down USAID and people died.
Is Musk the head of DOGE or not? In court they said no. Trump's executive order said yes.
Did they really fully comply with all procedural requirements to delegate power before in those first days accessing all our bank information, if they did?
These are terrible people doing terrible things while pretending to "uncover corruption".
@Phil If the reporting that they've accessed confidential files is false, well, great. DOJ can investigate and find nothing happened. I don't know. You don't know. But if the reporting is true that they, say, insisted beyond procedure, very early on, to access detailed files of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, including SSNs, bank account numbers, etc., well, we are off to the races.
@Simplicator No one runs for anything other than getting rid of or at least utterly cabining these bastards. Imaging state-level democracy can be business-as-usual while the nation and the world burn is delusional.
@Phil I know that's your view. But it's wrong.
On privacy violations alone, I think all of Musk's billions would be gone. And there is so much more.
I am looking forward to it.
I continue to oppose the death penalty. One must stick to ones principles even in difficult times.
Suppose the President and Vice President and Speaker of the House were impeached and removed.
Under a somber President Chuck Grassley, there comes a change of leadership at DOJ, eager to restore rule of law, and to vigorously hold to account people who violated the law from positions of trust. 1/
With an assertive DOJ looking at violations in labor law, classified material handling, privacy law, etc, how many years of prison, how many dollars of fines would Elon Musk + his young minions, former cabinet secretaries + their deputies, other advisors and political appointees be liable for? /fin
impeach, convict, remove, rinse, repeat.
impeach, convict, remove, rinse, repeat.
impeach, convict, remove, rinse, repeat.
impeach, convict, remove, rinse, repeat.
impeach, convict, remove, rinse, repeat.
i find it a bit weird how little we hear from Kamala Harris or Joe Biden. Biden is old, i guess. but Harris could be at the rhetorical ramparts.
i think it would help. the quiet of the people we supposed our leaders is devastating.
thank you aoc, pritzker, bernie. more, more, more.
not long 'til blue states start making an official holiday of the ides of march.
why do voters mistrust Democrats? despite all the talk about bread and butter issues, why do many working class people feel like Democratic electeds just don't get them, might sell them out without even knowing it? why do they find it hard to get excited and turn out?
Screenshot of tweet from Variety. "Former Vice President Kamala Harris has signed with CAA for representation in all areas, with a focus on speaking engagements and publishing."
look. before i made the promise you advised me not to make the promise. so why are you acting like i'm doing something wrong if now i break the promise?
Fukuyama's end of history was kind of the magazine cover curse, but for a centuries-long historical cycle rather than years-long business cycle. It marked a top. I hope we don't have to wait centuries for the bottom.
@BenRossTransit @Alon @adamkotsko what you are calling the right wing has controlled the party, from an external perspective. the Harris campaign, for example, fell into this trap. describing the world accurately has to take that into account.
it’s an important project to try to reform the Democratic Party into something that could command a, well, moral majority (or else to build something else that could). but i think that’s a step beyond this analysis.
@BenRossTransit @adamkotsko i think he’s not drawing distinctions within the Democratic Party, but suggesting (accurately) that, in recent years, overall the party has defined the normative by past practice and legalistic intent, and sought to protect those “norms” from flamboyant and dangerous violations on the right. but sapped of their own calling out to deeper forms of legitimacy, its an ouroboros that eventually deprives itself of moral oxygen.
@BenRossTransit @adamkotsko i think you are right this was not true of New Deal and Warren Court Democrats. but i think he is right that, overall, “liberals” as defined by the Democratic Party have backed away from this kind on courage in insisting on the preeminence of a normative beyond legalism.