David Giesinger

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Curious what a judge does. Do you hold the leader of a foreign country in custody?

Somewhere, a federal public defender realizes she's on call to do the President of Venezuela's initial appearance on Monday.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Time person of the year cover for 2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

It was literally part of the news coverage in 2016 that Obama met with Biden and told him not to run. Part of Biden’s reluctance to withdraw from 2024 was because of being told not to run in 2016. I agree, this is tiresome. Good bye.

The primary was divisive because the party leadership chose the candidate and that wasn’t who the voters wanted.

Joe Biden and other serious democratic candidates were told that it was Hillary’s turn and not to run. It was far from competitive. The fact that Hillary struggled to defeat an independent was a sign of how weak a candidate she was.

Joe Biden and every other serious democratic candidate was told that it was Hillary’s turn and not to run. As a result the only person that ran against her was Bernie, an independent. If you think that was a competitive primary then I don’t what to tell you.

I think the common thread for democrats losing the presidential elections in 2016 and 2024 was the lack of a competitive primary. The party was told it was Hillary’s turn in 2016 and Biden’s decision to drop out late prevented one in 2024.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Although, as a Gen Xer I can say “whatever”

Jane Charney: Chicago does not feel safe for anyone, no matter our status For the immigrants in Chicago who do not look or sound like me, the stakes aren’t just paperwork; they’re safety, dignity and belonging.

Commentary: When one person’s right to due process is taken away, all of us have lost that foundational right.

Let Them Eat AI-Generated Cake Elon Musk and the coming twilight of the elites.

"You don’t have to be a wild-eyed leftist to think all of this has a pre-French Revolution vibe. It feels like a 'let them eat cake' moment—and that’s to say nothing about the Trumpist kleptocracy that competes every day for headlines with our Muskian plutocracy."

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch — we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! — was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.

Too many Democrats would rather lose and say they were right than win and admit they were wrong.

People all over the country need to understand that federal agents are not in Chicago to prevent violence – they're in Chicago to cause violence.

Welp, democracy and capitalism were good while they lasted.

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it? 

I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism. 

So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

This is how Trump ends democracy The past week has revealed Trump’s road map to one-party rule. Will Americans let him follow it?

“But in the past few weeks, a series of developments have revealed a disturbingly credible policy pathway to power consolidation. We can now see how American Orbánism could take full root before the 2028 elections. We now know how we would get there from here.”

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

I keep typing words and then deleting them because none of them are sufficient to capture how utterly fucked up and unacceptable this is. And yet it won't move a single Republican to give a damn.