Mike Milford

In every way, Trump demands fealty to himself—and to his whims, wholly untethered to law—over fealty to federal officials’ oaths of office. So again: Are you effing kidding me? What Dems did here was patriotic. They forced the debate we need over Trump's lawlessness.

newrepublic.com/article/2035...

What about Trump's corrupt orders to DOJ to prosecute his enemies? Here it's complex, but there are scenarios in which these orders could be illegal. His lackeys might be breaking the law in carrying them out.

Legal expert @kristyparker.bsky.social explains here:

newrepublic.com/article/2035...

It's also very clear Trump or someone very close to him might have given unlawful orders when the admin defied a court order against deporting migrants to an El Salvadoran gulag. Same on the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case.

Details here:

newrepublic.com/article/2035...

What's weirdly missing from coverage of the Dem video is any discussion of this Q: Is it reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal orders, or not? The answer is, yes, of course it is.

On the boat bombings, for instance, evidence is extensive. Here's a look at it:

newrepublic.com/article/2035...

Is Trump Giving Illegal Orders? Dems Just Blew That Question Wide Open From the boat bombings to deportations to prosecutions, the evidence mounts. And the speaker of the House could get to the bottom of it if he wanted to. Yeah, right.

The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders.

The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...

I said this in my most recent @theatlantic.com article: The lawmakers had to make that video because it's so likely that Trump is, in fact, giving illegal orders, as @gregsargent.bsky.social discusses here.

I thought Walter Isaacson had a great line about this on TV the other night: That line in the Declaration wasn't a fact, it was a mission statement

The most important thing to remember about all this fantasy-engineering of the Constitution is Madison's warning: If we suck as a people, no clever constitutional schemes will save us.

Yep. There's a reason "no fanatic like a convert" is an old expression.

Cool to see a couple of hysteric progressives can get the the pope to slander the Vice President

lmao they're really fucking mad

Catholicism as identity politics and excuse for discrimination, rather than as a religion that revers Jesus' teachings.

So they hate the Pope because he says things like "help the poor" and "be kind to strangers," and treats Latin American and African Catholics like they have value.

Very mad.

Twitter post by agreybee: Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses."

Forever undefeated.

The problem the converts eventually run into is that, regardless of whether it's Catholicism, Protestantism, or Orthodoxy, Jesus is never a deified Rambo. He always instructs his followers to love their neighbors, to not judge them, and to turn the other cheek.

"We swear loyalty to the Pope. Not that ponce Francis or that communist Leo, but good Popes"

Tradcaths join the chat.

Where you evidently can call a Pope not a “real one,” as if you’re a bloody Lutheran

Orthodox Church Pews Are Overflowing With Converts

As an Orthodox Christian, I should have found this article encouraging. But it makes me more...concerned. Faith is not therapy for masculine insecurities.

(If your comment is to trash religion, I'll just block you.)

cc @shoutingboy.bsky.social

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This, this right here, this is the thing. "We needed a candidate who could excite us and was aligned with us on Gaza and student loans and spelling reform and boat safety issues"

Or, you know, just vote for the non-fascist

I think everyone involved in this needs to be vaccinated multiple times

Every time I watch FSU play I have to remind myself they beat Alabama. By multiple possessions.

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO ‘CUSE GETTING WATERBOY’D 🏈☘️

I don't know but it went pick six, punt return TD, and pick six for Notre Dame

Notre Dame showing Syracuse that PTSD is just Defense, Special Teams, and Pain spelled backwards

oh this is SOMETHING

It's 35-0 at Notre Dame, and we're not out of the first quarter yet.

Otto's getting squeezed.

Notre Dame has possessed the ball for 1:28 and somehow has 35 points

Jesus multiplied fishes and loaves, so there's precedent.

Did we transfer some of our power to Pitt?

Ya know, that’s way more reasonable than I imagined it would be

I would say I bet there are students figuring out how to game the system but it’s probably easy to keep track of the ten people in the student section.