i have appreciated (from afar) his largely positive and future oriented messages, and i also like to see a puncher connect a fuckin’ haymaker once in awhile

Modern American conservatism is about two things: Keeping power by all means necessary, and trolling everyone and everything that isn't modern American conservatism.

Religion Is Next Lo! Another mountain beckons...

Religious freedom for a few.

Bending the knee for the rest of us.

Religion Is Next
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yeah they are going to decide this and give republican states enough time to draw new maps

adrian vermeule's research program insists that the constitution is a blueprint for a catholic theocracy, which is the legal academic version of a tenured english professor whose entire research program is insisting that the x-men are in canterbury tales

it's crazy how we just take for granted now that the president is a deranged racist

How much more in taxes are the American people willing to pay to support a totalitarian state? Donald Trump's fascism is expensive.

here in Real America (Mike Johnson's District) ATV street wheelies don't even make The Local Discourse on account of the roving packs of vicious wild dogs and the on-going debate over whether police can arrest meth heads who keep trying to burn neighborhoods down

which is why I always feel squishy about "polarization" as only one side of the spectrum is spinning off of the edge of reality.

How much of an economic impact do colleges and universities have on the Lehigh Valley? New study reveals numbers Private colleges and universities in the Lehigh Valley contributed more than $2 billion to the economy, generated more than $119 million in local and state taxes and supported more than 15,000 jobs…

“Private colleges and universities in the Lehigh Valley contributed more than $2 billion to the economy, generated more than $119 million in local and state taxes and supported more than 15,000 jobs, according to a new study.”

Very few media orgs that are fighting the good fight are Pro-Publica, Tech Dirt Wired, The New Yorker, and sometimes The Atlantic along with assorted independent Bsky academics, journalists, and attorneys.

This Ohio Farm Community Is a Mecca for the ‘MAHA Mom’

A couple scattered thoughts about this article [gift link].
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

I am a *lawyer who practices federal law.* Several times a week I see a headline that makes me think "there's no way the President can do that, right?" and I look into it and it turns out that maybe he can because Congress ceded some of its power in the What's the Worst That Could Happen Act of 1983

US SOLICITOR GENERAL: “.. If the United States were forced to unwind these historic [tariff] agreements, the President believes that a forced dissolution of the agreements could lead to a 1929-style result.” 👀

YouTube video by muttley16 these are the days-intro

By June 2026, we'll be thinking "Gosh, you know, 2025 wasn't so bad..."

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Collins & Murkowski wish they had the veto power that Manchin & Sinema had.

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

🚨NEW: This is what all networks should do!

MSNBC fact checks Trump live during his press conference.

The REAL crime stats are put on screen as he reads out his made up figures.

And that come from California and other blue states

Nobody Cares That White Supremacists Are Calling the Shots Now Darren Beattie, a speechwriter for Trump early during his first term, posted the following in October 2024, a month before Trump would win re-election: “Competent white men must be in charge if you wa...

"Equally damning is that the Times, the Post, the Wall Street Journal.. haven’t chosen to make one singular story the dominant framing device of the past 6 months: The Trump administration is teeming with despicable gutter racists and President Trump and his cabinet are having them call the shots.."

We live in an era of democratic backsliding. But the terminology of "backsliding" isn't up to the task of making sense of the deep crisis of liberal democracy around the world. I've just finished a working paper that lays out what I think is going on.

tl;dr it's about the state and society

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In this way, the Court has forgotten the meaning of separation of powers. It has turned a tool into a fetish.

The piece builds on work by @jdmortenson.bsky.social, @kexelchabot.bsky.social, Nick Parrillo, and @jackbalkin.bsky.social, among others. Special thanks to my great editors at Penn! (3/3)

Importantly, in this scheme, separation of powers did not operate as a shibboleth; it was always functional.19 Separation of powers accomplished specific goals, and its ultimate goal was the creation of a complete government. But in fulfilling that goal, separating powers helped secure liberty. Keeping those goals in mind helps make sense of the flexibility of separation of powers in the early republic. In some cases, creating a complete government while securing liberty might require a firm division of powers, but in other cases not. The guiding question would be what arrangement would best advance the twin goals of completeness and security. Within this worldview, maintaining a formalistic separation of powers for its own sake would have seemed a foolish rigidity.

The Court’s approach is highly rigid and categorical, which it justifies by appeal to the Founding. But new scholarship shows that Founding Era separation of powers law was neither rigid nor categorical; it was highly functional, aiming at a “complete government” that secured liberty. (2/3)

Where was this?

Is this in Ireland and is the guy an American?

Or is this in America and the poor clerk is from Ireland?

No mystery why there’s no comment from Trump about the domestic terror attack in Atlanta yesterday. It was a black police officer who was killed in the line of duty and CDC employees who were targeted.
Worst POTUS in history.