"You never get to work for the government ever again" is the moderate option for accountability, for the ones who don't belong in prison, as many of them do.

Just another day of “Is the Trump Administration’s incompetence outweighing its malevolence?”

The stupidest fucking people are running the country. They're cruel and heartless, but they're also just really stupid.

Also, at no point should we lose sight of the face that this problem could easily be solved by calling the House back into session, pass a bill for military pay, send it to the Senate, etc

Mike Johnson won't do that bc he doesn't want to seat Rep Grijalva bc she will be the final Epstein files vote

Feels like the United States has been invaded by a hostile force and we are getting the equivalent of de-Baathification domestically by the Trump administration which is treating its own government and blue states as enemies.

This is THE best wedding cake cutting thingy I have ever seen.

I love it! Juuuust brilliant.

It’s a Watergate-level crime every damn day in this administration, and Congress is appallingly unwilling to exercise its Article I obligations to check executive branch power.

Reprehensible, inexcusable, and indescribably dangerous.

Remember, though, it will hurt Kristi Noem's feelings if you call them secret police.

Mayhew taught us that members of Congress are “single-minded seekers of reelection.” We are now learning that if reelection conflicts with exercising power, they’ll choose reelection. Single-minded indeed.

Worse than Taney since Roberts is not just dividing the US but destroying democracy

Hunter Biden says wtf

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

It's of course against the constitution but given that the entire national Republican party views their lives and careers as subservient to the goal of permanent Trumpist rule, barring external pressure there's not a clear mechanism at the top level to stop it. Fight is in lower courts, states

Trump’s first-term foreign policy was riddled with one failure after another. Almost everything he attempted either fizzled out or blew up in his face. Don’t let this garbage revisionism stand.

One thing we should take away from all of this:
getting degrees from Harvard or Yale may actually not be an indicator of intelligence after all.

You could in theory have a Court that was very conservative, even way too Trump-friendly, but that wasn't like this. As it stands, there's no hiding that these just aren't very bright people and they don't really know what they're doing.

When political leaders in eroding democracies seek to turn the military into a partisan ally they often pay off its officers w/ cash for favored weapons & new organizational prerogatives (e.g., autonomy to run things as they like).

They give $ to the troops.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Mamdani belies all kinds of stereotypes. That he is so clearly and powerfully pro trans at this moment is just so moving www.instagram.com/reel/DPqzCVp... Hey, Dems, you know this guy is doing politics really well, right? Imitate him!

Sure, but Gen X has it worse (although it is our fault for electing the Mad King) as our retirement savings won't rebound by the time we retire in a few years. Yours probably will, if, you know, the US returns to democracy at some point.

What's wrong with the Supreme Court?

That is, despite corruption, illegitimately packed, its Calvinball approach to precedents, its fealty to the Mad King (immunity? wtf?), and its Chrisitian nationalism?

Everyone Opposed to Me is the Antichrist

- by The Antichrist.

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

If I lived in Portland I’d be filming daily videos of the reality there and sending them to every single person in my contacts.