Michael

Universities considering capitulating to the Trump “conditions” should use this real world example to understand they will simply be destroying their own institution. bsky.app/profile/nich...

this is the third time Donald Trump has shut down the government while his party controls both houses of Congress

until there's a Republican congress and a Democratic president, in which case it will suddenly be very important.

the country cannot function as a real democracy with corrupt, partisan serial liars controlling the Supreme Court; it has to be the first priority of a new administration.

As a side note — if they do nuke it, Dems should, without reservation, fire every single Trump appointee

I think the appropriate answer to Roberts when he flip flops on the bulk of this stuff starting in 2029 is "ok have fun enforcing that from your bench"

It's particularly the case among the Americans who are paid to decide which news is important, and who despite everything still can't bring themselves to accurately describe the fact that the president is serially murdering people and our systems are unable to stop him

Like, listen: it is good & right to denounce political violence, esp bc it is very much central to the ideologically fascist MAGA movement. But you're not gonna catch me expressing sympathy for ppl that would just as soon see all of us dead and have been perfectly fine w violence against many of us.

"America has reached its years of lead moment" Not Berkeley or Charlottesville in 2017? Not when Scalise was shot? Not all the shootings and riots in 2020? Not January 6th or in June when Melissa Hortman was assassinated? Not when armed thugs kidnapped citizens to El Salvador?

Again, the reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from this to Jan 6 to torture to Iraq 2003 to Iran-Contra to Watergate to 1865 - is because there are <never> any legal, personal, or political consequences for those things. We <totally fail> at elite accountability.

"papers, please" is legal and good according to the supreme court now

rotten, broken husk of an institution

Correct. The default Dem position has to be, "I will fire everyone Trump appointed, and everyone hired by anyone Trump appointed, regardless of what any statute or court says."

Anything less is a ratification of Trump's actions that leaves the government broken and filled with saboteurs.

the “be warned, we are taking names” part is what has been missing from most major politicians’ responses

Why Boomers Have More Money Than Everyone Else New research shows a large and growing divergence in net worth between Americans over age 75 and those under 35.

Oh, it's simple, the Boomers got their $10k college education and their $60k home then decided to pull up the ladders and rip up the roots of the American dream by putting in charge the worst people they could find, such as Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump.

trump very clearly sees any attempt to hold a criminal head of state accountable as a threat to his own standing

1. Taylor Swift
2. Waterparks
3. The Script
4. Florence + the Machine
5. Lorde

Two guys kissing and one is completely covered in crj’s discography

listening to carly rae jepsen

Cosplayed as a straight frat guy at the (straightest/whitest) club last night and all I got for my trouble was one (1) compliment for my shirt & one (1) fist bump

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the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

Speak softly but carry a big dick

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Stone cold classic, I’m due for a rewatch

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we didn't get an end of history so much as a private equity leveraged buyout of history that resulted in drastic costs cutting on the core product

Let the record show you participating was the tipping point

Photo of myself shirtless in red briefs

Indulging in a fake internet holiday for no particular reason

What it is going to take is one university after another simply saying, we will not deal. This is not a legitimate way for the executive branch to interact with universities and we will not do it. Full stop.