Chris Murphy says Dems should lay down a simple marker for Trump: No Dem support for anything that funds his lawbreaking.

"if you want our votes, it can’t be for rampant lawlessness. This isn't a normal time...the world [is] watching to see what we stand for." 2/

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Of all the news in this NYT survey of sitting federal judges - incl 47 of them think the SCt is mishandling its emergency docket - maybe the biggest is that 65 sitting fed judges (37D, 28R), folks circumspect for a living, responded to a NYT survey. Stunning. And a sign that something is very wrong.

Their record is damning
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100 years of standard Obama-Biden tyranny does less damage than 1 year of Trumpist chaos.

IOW: what took a century to build up can be destroyed in short order by lack of vigilance against fascism.

The U.S. Constitution's Army Clause (Article I, Section 8) requires that congressional appropriations to raise and support armies must be for a term no longer than two years.

They feared standing armies.

The Founders were more radical anti-fascists than common knowledge would expect.

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

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Hey @nbcnews.com you could mention this is incredibly illegal and exactly how a totalitarian dictator tries to establish personal control over the military.

Given the rapidly declining U.S. birth rate, this is really bad public policy.

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Using the following definition of the term “politics”:

“[T]he activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power.”

the interpretation and application of constitutional provisions…

Our Jedi Master @markhamillofficial.bsky.social has given us all an incredibly important mission. May the #Frog be with you . . .
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… their side’s collaboration with radical white supremacists.

… manipulate public sentiment.

It makes me suspect that the Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025 was a direct offshoot of a radical anti-liberal ideological campaign that began with Nixon and never died out. If so, it would explain why the RW leaders could so easily rationalize…

I just reading this now.

The stuff about which I was not sufficiently aware was the intricacy of that collaboration between Nixon, Reagan, the entire conservative establishment, and the CIA to undermine the left/leaning movements and the extent to which they were willing to go in order to…

I’m interested in hearing the takes form others who have read the is book.

It seems to me that there is a lot in this book that explains how we got where we are today.

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Trump proposing 100% tariffs on China

The WH press corps sucks but for fuck’s sake, they’ve made the same mathematically impossible claim dozens of times and even fucking once do they even get asked about it????

My god why won’t anyone ask how that’s possible

Again this is how you do it. State universities are entities of their states, and when said states have branches governed by democrats that exercise authority over those universities, that authority needs to be used to protect them from the cowardice of their administrators

"Stalking Horse" Halligan & Animus Filed Trump = "Actual" Vindictive Prosecution of Comey (and, less likely, James)

The Mississippi State Department of Health says it is unable to accept online WIC applications during the government shutdown.

Pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers and high-risk infants can call 1-800-338-6747 to schedule an in-person appointment.