Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism.
They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

It never was. They only ever believed in whatever increased their own power and privilege at any particular moment.

Sure, Mike 🥴

Idaho’s “modern” GOP has binders full of unhinged pet projects they are excited to unleash on those of us with connected brain cells.

While leaving untouched the unconscionable “unintended consequences” from the last few sessions 😒

#idleg #idpol

The way you know that Labrador is full of crap is that he would be outraged if the Oregon National Guard was deployed to Idaho without the permission of Gov. Little. These people are beneath contempt and they are betraying their oaths to the US Constitution and tearing the country apart. #idpol

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

If a high ranking Democrat ever said "the NFL sucks" it would be looped endlessly on the news as proof of how out of touch Dems are for the next 40 years.

If you understand the history of American coinage, you understand just how much of a full-circle betrayal of American values this represents. Here's a small thread to explain. 1/x

I spend the whole dang first part of my career saying that comparisons between the modern United States and the late Roman Republic are often misleading and facile, and then...he just mints it right out...

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics.

They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.

the amount of raw, unadulterated fear that many Americans have of even small cities is never going to stop being darkly hilarious to me

this is a lesson that is omnipresent in pop culture and yet lost on a subset of centrist pundits

The fact that we're on social media arguing about whether the U.S. is a dictatorship means it's not a dictatorship yet. I'm pretty fucking pessimistic about where the U.S. is but the doom from white liberals is exhausting. Pull up your big kid pants you babies

“the number of Democrats and esteemed American institutions that have engaged in the mainstreaming of Charlie Kirk demonstrates that espousing open and explicit bigotry no longer relegates one to the fringe of political discourse, a phenomenon we have not witnessed since the civil rights era.”

Ezra Klein has been speaking a lot on red states and rural Democrats and here’s the thing…he shouldn’t.

He has no idea what he’s talking about.

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We need to stop spending so much time worrying about how to label what is happening and more time figuring out how to document it, stop it and help people affected by it.