Matt Samberg

YouTube video by Adult Swim This Deal's Getting Worse All The Time | Robot Chicken | Adult Swim

youtu.be/WpE_xMRiCLE?...

YouTube video by Adult Swim This Deal's Getting Worse All The Time | Robot Chicken | Adult Swim

And still one of my favorite Robot Chicken moments ever. youtu.be/WpE_xMRiCLE?...

We’re going to have a lot of work to do identifying and punishing every single one of these criminal thugs with the full force of the law.

And when (not if!) things return to normal, we need to dedicate resources to finding and prosecuting every one of them.

I’m no expert, but I feel like revolutions have started over less.

Imperial Wars Always Come Home There’s a person I think about from time to time.

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I mean, I’m fully expecting this week’s pod to just be a deep dive into TLoaS Easter eggs.

They’re moving quickly because they get less popular every day.

They’ll never be more popular than they are now and they are extremely unpopular.

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

you! are! a! lawyer!

I fear that the legal community will act like Trump admin's lawyers are normal lawyers--like they'll get nice firm jobs and their law schools will invite them to talk to students, etc--but the lawyers facilitating Trump's lawlessness should be professionally and socially shamed

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

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And the Secretary of “D”efense…

(Putting aside that this focus on originalism has allowed originalists to create an entirely false narrative of what the constitution and 14th amendment meant to the framers. Once again showing how liberals get hoodwinked into playing a rigged game with dishonest opponents.) 4/3

It’s like the bit in the Passover Seder where the wicked son asks “what does this holiday mean to *you*?”, and you have to lecture him that saying “you” and not “us” he has excluded himself from the project of freedom. (3/3)

where the goal of constitutional interpretation is ascertaining what the constitution meant to *them* – those that wrote it. The real question is what the constitution means to *us* (2/3)

@jamellebouie.net @sifill.bsky.social @strictscrutiny.bsky.social I liked your explanation that we need to enunciate a clear view of what the constitution means to us on the left. I feel like democrats have been hoodwinked by Scalia et al. into adopting a form of originalism (1/3)

It’s why he has all those crusader tattoos. Can you imagine how much that dude would have loved the crusades? Hanging out with bloodthirsty failson knights would have been his jam!

In this thinking, if the GOP had run a “normal” candidate (if those exist anymore in the GOP), how big would the margin have been?

I think what distresses liberals is that it was even close. On one side you had Trump, the Worst Person in the World, an insurrectionist who doesn’t believe in democracy or freedom. The fact that it was even close (let alone a loss) was a blow to a lot of psyches.

In the DOJ’s defense, it’s not like anything outrageously unethical happened here, like, I dunno, Melania having an informal conversation with Pam Bondi.

If Vance, Hegseth, Noem, Patel, and the rest of the gang have cable news shows in 10 years instead of being behind bars, we will have failed.

The gap between what the right thinks happens on college campuses and what actually happens is absurd. I had some great students and some awful ones; we talked about some difficult topics, from sexual violence to capitalism to exploitation; it was fine. Nobody lost their shit, because we're adults.

Question is - can Bari keep up with her persecution complex when she's running CBS news? (Though Republicans being in control of all four parts of the federal government doesn't seem to prevent them from claiming persecution....)

“Milo Was Practicing Politics the Right Way”

NYT | M. Tullius Cicero

Tbf, I’m not sure the “Catiline is the devil incarnate and let’s execute him without trial” approach worked out much better (for either Rome or Cicero)

My sister listens to Tides, and my nephew (age 9) apparently loved the prehistory seasons, even if he didn't follow all of the science. So you'd definitely have a listener there!

The paper was born from a frustration that scholarly discussions of democracy often appeared to be talking past each other, because it was clear that one person had a deontological worldview and the other a consequentialist worldview, and they somehow didn’t recognize the fundamental disagreement

And a consequentialist view of democracy, where there is a goal of human self-actualization and non-subordination, and democracy is the best means to that end. The former view gives you the same absurd consequences as Kantian morality; the latter allows for richer politics. 2/3

@patrickwyman.bsky.social Replies are muted in the Elias Isquith thread, but this is an underappreciated distinction. In law school, I wrote a paper in a legal philosophy class criticizing the deontological view of democracy, where democracy is the duty, and any deviation from it is suspects. 1/3

Family MarioKart parties FTW!