Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

I found this very helpful in understanding what President Miller is trying to do in connection with the National Guard deployments and potential invocation of the Insurrection Act.

For more, read the entire special issue we did about this last year.
prospect.org/coldcivilwar

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

if you post something like “thats just life in the TURD reich” under strangers’ unrelated posts, a band of 12 oompa loompas armed with assault weapons should immediately halo jump into the top of your house

The real question is whether the black bar is Adrian or Josh.

Thanks, New Yorker

As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

amazing
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/n...

One thing to understand about what's happening now is that on Oct 1, the deportation machine's budget increased dramatically: $170 billion in NEW funding, averaging to $42.5 billion per year. That's just below the Israeli military's annual budget. It's the equivalent of 13th biggest army on earth.

ICYMI: One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since Charlie Kirk’s murder is a panel of abortion “abolitionists” — extremists who want women executed for ending their pregnancies.

jessica.substack.com/p/turning-po...

Lol but Spirit Halloween is good

We should probably think of CBS News as if it were one of those once well-known brands that has been passed around in a series of corporate transactions which now produces cheap crap and slaps the old logo on it.

okay, that’s enough. let’s take the rest of the week off.

Sarah Harris is of course a major exception and I'm with you on people not thinking elites of her stripe would be so committed to the administration program.

The authoritarian immigration stuff is largely the work of Stephen Miller's office in the White House and DHS. The lawyers doing that work are, for the most part, low-intelligence chuds. (See my running joke about this administration being the Bad Legal Takes account with the power of arrest.)

I'm not sure if I'm with you. The sabotage of the administrative state is being led by Vought/DOGE, and to the extent there are lawyers there, they seem largely to be hacks who aren't that connected in the professional world.

Amazing

Instead of issuing corrections for factual inaccuracies the network will be posting “debate me!” under every story

So I spend a lot of time with these people and I guess I don't think they have any special expertise in how quickly constitutional regimes can shift. The few who do work in comparative conlaw. Thre are just a handful of them in the legal academy and they're largely unrepresented in the profession.

My hypothesis is that the electorate is fundamentally backward looking. Because law sort of constrained Trump during his first administration, people thought they'd get the same thing again.