Ossoff: "They are building the libertarian, the conservatives' worst nightmare of a Leviathan federal government that is totally unaccountable that acts outside of the Constitution, and a society in which individual rights are not protected."

In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law.

The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:

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DUCKWORTH: If it's true that we are not at war with Venezuela, will you advise the president to rescind his invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act?

RUBIO: That was a mechanism to remove people from our country that present great danger

D: It's a wartime act. Are we currently at war?

R: No

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:

"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

Why aren't there more support for Republicans among academics and scientists? We may never know.

As if this week were not bizarre enough: Mount Pleasant residents tell me a group of federal agents gathered for a photo-op near a pro-immigrant banner, pictured below, then tore it down.

In its place, they left a dildo. A neighbor's Ring camera captured the whole thing...

Scoop: Putin demanded Ukraine withdraw from Donetsk region as condition for ending Russia’s war but told Trump he could freeze the rest of the frontline if his core demands were met.

w/ FT comrades Amy Mackinnon @maxseddon.bsky.social @chassnews.bsky.social
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You’ve got to say this about wannabe dictators and their acolytes: They keep moving forward step by step, undeterred by setbacks, unfazed by embarrassment, while my fellow liberals spend perhaps more time than they should finger-wagging rather than fighting and finding silver linings on dark clouds.

The VISIBLE Act would require federal agents to wear visible ID and ban their use of ski masks and other non-medical face coverings.

Urge your members of Congress to support this critical bill at aclu.org/pass_visible.

This is a demand for unconstitutional, arbitrary power. There is no offense against the United States here. The FBI has no role to assist the State of Texas in becoming an authoritarian enclave.

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I do admire the branding of Lunchables where it doesn’t promise a child a good lunch, it promises an item that has the ability to achieve lunch

More of this, please.

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

This is your occasional reminder that Rose O'Neill, creator of the Kewpies, first published female cartoonist in the United States, and among the first cartoonists to build a merchandising empire on their work, turned out some absolutely baller, romantic-feeling size-difference monster art.

Check out my ANTIFA BLOCK PARTY playlist! From Leftover Crack to Todrick Hall, perfect for your anticap BBQ!

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