Mollie Wilson O'Reilly

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.”

Where Is the Line? On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America

"The idea that if a political movement garners mass support, it can’t possibly be extremism...is utterly implausible and historically illiterate." That's @thomaszimmer.bsky.social talking good sense, as always. I subscribed (on Steady, not Substack). You should too! steady.page/en/democracy...

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Yeah it's not like anybody's been grabbed off the streets by masked agents for publishing an op-ed or anything

A judge saying the President doesn’t have the power to invade states is not asserting that power for himself, obviously.

The regime’s rhetoric that it’s a judicial power grab when it is exactly the opposite, a thwarting of their illegal power grab, is textbook authoritarianism.

Opinion | Someone Tipped Me Off About a Crypto Story. What I Found Was Crazy.

Yet another interesting story about crypto's primary use case — to do, and have done to you, crimes

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Cardinal McElroy:

Periodic reminder that Peggy Noonan wrote an acclaimed column arguing for this very position during Obama's 1st campaign. She was more elegant than Vance, but just as confident that only white Americans can be trusted to have the right feelings about America. www.commonwealmagazine.org/obama-other

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military.

They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

Fascistic and absolutely unacceptable rhetoric from the unmoored little man who is basically running the federal government right now.

This was my internal monologue when I saw Wicked on Bway many years ago. Takes all kinds, I guess!

Journalists are powerless against this one weird trick (talking out of both sides of your mouth)

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Yes, and they're coming for the National Parks too!

I do point out to my sons (tiresome feminist that I am) how many of these lofty sentiments about building the character of youth and forming them for leadership are addressed, either implicitly or, as in this case, explicitly, to boys, because why bother forming character or leadership in girls?

We used to be a country

OUT: quoting "the man in the arena"
IN: "I want to see you gentle and tender"

Text mounted a marble wall, under the heading "Youth," unpunctuated, in grand inscription style: "I want to see you game boys I want to see you brave and manly And I also want to see you gentle and tender Be practical as well as generous In your ideals keep your eyes on the stars and keep your feet on the ground Courage hard work self mastery and intelligent effort are all essential to a successful life Character in the long run is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike Theodore Roosevelt"

The entrance hall of the Natural History Museum in NYC features excerpts from Theodore Roosevelt's speeches and writing, and I think everyone who talks about traditional American masculinity should have to read this. (My sons, for their part, mostly thought it was funny that it says "game boys.")

This attempt to censure Cupich is wild. I'm old enough to remember when the USCCB was seen as too liberal (i.e., not in complete alignment with the Reagan administration), and it was the conservatives who were always pointing out that the USCCB doesn't have any real authority, so there

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

Thank you for highlighting this! Very nice to hear!

Donald Trump and Russ Vought of Project 2025 are using this shutdown to inflict as much pain as they can.

They're withholding federal money that has already been approved by Congress to target and punish American communities.

This is illegal.

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If I wrote columns this vapid for a living, you wouldn't catch me using the expression "There's no there there," that's for sure

Is there no abuse of power too grotesque for Republicans to swallow? Don't any of them have any pride left at all?

Best I can do is a paper of record that waits for him to reemerge and then smugly reports on all the dummies who thought he was dead because of Bluesky or something

Journalist Mario Guevara Deported After Reporting on Anti-Trump Protest Human rights organizations have condemned Mario Guevara’s deportation as an authoritarian attack on the free press.

Emmy award-winning journalist Mario Guevara was deported today to El Salvador – a country he fled over 20 years ago — in retaliation for filming law enforcement activities. Officers arrested him while he was reporting at a “No Kings” protest against Trump, even though he was wearing a “PRESS” vest.

the cross necklace is because she thinks crucifixion is cool, just a fan

We should probably worry
less about what counts as pro-life in American discourse
and more about what counts as neo-paganism.
I’d start with the systemic vilification of compassion and mercy, all of which affects the poor and vulnerable, from the unborn to the abandoned elderly.

This was also news to me (as it were)