Chris

apart from the MTG-ness of it all, the shadow primary w ambitious GOPers -- after a seeming lifetime of Trump -- will be amazing

The Supreme Court v. Democracy The Nation’s justice correspondent previews the court’s coming term—and explains why it will never stand up to Trump.

"The Supreme Court is not our friend. It has been corrupted and weaponized and functions as an antidemocratic enforcement mechanism of the Republican political agenda." - @elienyc.bsky.social with the grim preview of this coming term.

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

Hi, I’m an Early 2010s Tech CEO I wear the same T-shirt every day, and I have a relatably unkempt haircut. I remind you of the smart kids from high school, so I give you hope that...

"If I told you I would eventually focus my platform on giving Nazis a place to share their real-time thoughts on Disney movies, you wouldn’t believe it."

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Corey Walker: The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealously by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry

It's the logic of authoritarian regimes to reward usefulness over talent

Professions w independent standards--journalists, lawyers, academics, etc--often face repression because their ethical duties can conflict w regime interests

It's frustrating when success depends on compliance, not competence

"canceling" has a rich history

2010s: using shame to withdraw one's support

2020s:
any criticism by a member of a less-powerful group
of a member of a more-powerful group
which provides rationale & moral justification for
the more-powerful person to
loudly attack the entire less-powerful group

There is no budget "deal" to be made President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

this guy's pic always has dax shephard-in-idiocracy vibes

The Supreme Court's Dastardly Plan Makes Court Reform Obligatory If Democrats can't avoid the trap Republican justices are setting, we'll never recover from the Trump fiasco.

Any Project 2029-style rebuilding project that tables confrontation with the Supreme Court will doom itself. www.offmessage.net/p/the-suprem...

i don't know if i can make it through a 2028 gop primary

www.salon.com/2025/10/06/marjorie-taylor-greenes-presidential-aspirations-are-delusional/

Trump’s new IRS ‘CEO’: The head of Social Security The Trump administration on Monday found its seventh leader for the Internal Revenue Service since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term: the head of the Social Security Administration.

"I don’t see how you can do it with the IRS being gutted the way it is, Social Security being gutted the way it is, the massive changes that they’ve got underway, and a massive tax law that you’ve got underway."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Tired: "Throwing $$ at AI won't make sense for investors starting in 2026"

Wired: "Throwing conservatives in every media & social media leadership role won't make sense for investors starting in 2026"

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Meet Smørrebrød, the Best Sandwich You're Not Eating Lined up in café windows, served in specialty restaurants, and packed into their very own lunch boxes, sandwiches are everywhere in Denmark. They're piled high with pickled herring, spoonfuls of sharp...

The gateway drug for me was

www.seriouseats.com/smorrebrod-i...

then I read somewhere about this combination and it forever rewired my brain

Sounds awful but on sourdough, it is drugs

my lunch every day from 2020-2023, blue cheese + pickled herring

MTG going full Arlen Specter for 2026

KMOJ's morning show is *awesome*

Just spent way too long trying to find their theme song, but found this great TPT doc instead youtu.be/2GH0vD3By-g?...

if those folks were serious about reducing violence, they'd have a serious focus on training, crowd control techniques, etc

but those things are barriers to the pretexts needed for further power grabs

i mean, calls for "less *political* violence" should include "politicians" committing violence using soldiers under their control

31 U.S. Code § 5112 - Denominations, specifications, and design of coins

If "no coin issued under this subsection may bear the image of a [...] current President"

but Trump does it anyway and people sue,

Then Trump may pull off a fiat currency version of a "rug pull" crypto-style scam -- leaving holders stuck with a worthless coin #innovation

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#humiliationcurious dems always get screwed

#humiliationcurious dems always get screwed ... yet ro's back for round two bsky.app/profile/rokh...