Abe Connally

The Supreme is not happy with the Lying Thief's tariffs

Arguments keep coming back to the fact they are taxes against US citizens

A President cannot raise taxes without approval of Congress.
That's what tariffs are, an import tax paid for by citizens. The shutdown is partly about millionaire taxes

The fuckers got away with it.

The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them.

They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬

The single biggest question in American law today is:

Are lies a get-out-of-laws-free card? Can the government simply lie to grant itself new powers? And is everyone else under an obligation to act as if obvious lies are true, or at minimum, that they might have merit and deserve respect?

Trump taking a victory lap because Walmart made their Thanksgiving meal smaller and crappier (and hence cheaper) is such a perfect encapsulation of his hucksterism

NYT INTERESTING TIMES Did Women Ruin the Workplace? And can conservative feminism fix it? By Ross Douthat and Victoria Chamberlin

the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from

It's so funny that the White House has decided, since Tuesday evening, that its big focus will be costs — after eight months of splattering gold paint all over the White House and after a big Roaring '20s party at the private club the president bought from a Post cereals heiress.

ICE got $29.9 billion (with a B) over the next four years to use for purposes that include recruitment. The amount of money that they can shell out right now for this kind of stuff is enormous, so you can expect to see this more and more.

Miserable weirdo who can’t even define “drug use” thinks he should be able to sentence people to death. It’s always the most ignorant and willfully stupid people with takes like this.

lol, are we still pretending like Karl Rove knows anything?

Steve Scalise: "When we won the majority last year, we ran on very specific things ... get energy prices under control -- we've done that."

Trump officials keep acting like conditions worsening and Americans suffering on their watch reflects badly on the opposition, and the public will get mad at people without power, because those are the people who care about Americans and want things to run well.

I don’t think that’s how it works.

Update: The precinct with the most students in Blacksburg gave Gov-Elect Spanberger 91% of the vote and flipped the local House of Delegates seat from red to blue. Thank you @megynkelly or Kelly Megyn or whatever your name is!

the latest in the social media postings of Virginia state Senator Louise Lucas:

Are there actually Christian prohibitions against going to dinner on Friday evening?

Against breaking bread with Jews?

Against sitting politely while others say blessings and prayers before eating?

Or is this guy just weird?

Trump is locking people in concentration camps right now

The timeline has shifted. Can you feel it?

Everything will be alright.

The Election Was a Rebuke of Trump and Not Only Because He Has Failed to Deliver Economic Relief Its lesson is that Democrats should vigorously attack his economic record and his tyrannical agenda

My odd-year election roundup @theunpopulist.net :

the republicans are in a tough spot because on the one hand people hate the shutdown but on the other once the government is open we could see undeniable proof their party leader has raped children

Cuomo could still win the election for NYC mayor if only Mike Pence has the courage.

188. Five Questions About "Extrajudicial Killings" There is no obvious legal argument to support President Trump's expanding campaign of strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. And the implications are even scarier.

The Trump administration’s military strikes on alleged drug boats are “blatantly unlawful as a matter of U.S. domestic law—and a quickly spreading stain on whatever is left of the executive branch’s commitment to the rule of law.”

Me on “extrajudicial killings” in the latest issue of “One First”:

lol, Trump wishes he was as popular as GW Bush

not the majority

3 times in a row, the majority of Americans voted against Donald Trump

Just show a chart of prices rising in 2025. That's literally all you need to do/say, over and over and over and over again.

JUST SHOW PRICES RISING

The New York Times chose to go to bat for Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo against Zohran Mamdani and a clear majority of New Yorkers.

Backing losers is a choice.

Democrats won big. If it holds through 2028, it's going to be interesting to watch all the tech giants pretend they're not a bunch of MAGA fascists.

From Virginia to New Jersey to Georgia, Democrats dominated across the country last night.

Republicans keep pretending everything’s fine and that they can just call us socialists. The real story voters rejecting extremism, demanding action on cost of living, and flipping seats everywhere.

Friends are sending me the interior, which is also Very Good

The ADL has decided to treat fascists as allies and progressives as enemies. For a group that is tasked with protecting American Jews, that is a world historic fuck up.

I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.