Sarah H

This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Lake Superior whitecaps

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called 'gitche gumee'
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy

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yup, it's a non-ideological cross-cutting campaign that can help dems perform well with people aligned with them on an axis other than D vs R (this is also how trump won in 2024, just with prices)

This is a lie: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

The rapid decimation of traditional media is both travesty & opportunity for the left. Opportunity in that the left had become over-reliant on these outlets & now has to reckon w/ the need for infrastructure to tell their stories & to contest the right’s reconfiguration of reality, politics, values.

I know a thing or two about SNAP because President Biden appointed me to work in the office that oversees that program at USDA.

You should know that people are going to go hungry this month because the Trump White House deliberately chose to withhold their benefits.

When he says “hit it, Joe”, I don’t think first time viewers are going to be prepared for just how hard Joe hits it.

ask every republican in congress whether they think the treasury should pay donald trump almost a quarter billion dollars while federal workers are in their third week of not getting paid

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

russ vought saying "no, its a three year term" when Biden asks for his resignation on the naval academy visitors board

Your occasional reminder that Russ Vought, who is claiming the right to fire civil servants for whatever reason he sees it, once refused to quit a political appointment position even after Trump had lost.

Joni Ernst’s lifelong legacy for women serving in the military from her time in the Senate is Pete Hegseth.

Every woman denied promotion, denied a job specialty, sexually harassed, or forced out for bs reasons, owes it all to Ernst and the Republican Party.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Vought’s threat all but calls forth Lincoln’s searing argument at Cooper Union:

“Plainly stated … you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”

Dead on.

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Constitutional calvinball

the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile

This drives me nuts and it's so frustrating that it is completely something under their control that they could do more effectively if they chose.

14. I arrived at the FBO Sun Valley Airport in Harlingen. I could see two of the ICE transport planes parked on the tarmac. The stairs had already been pulled away and the door to the plane, which I had been informed had the children on board, was already closed. I went to the building at the tarmac. I could see officers inside. I knocked on the door. I told the young man who answered the door that I was an attorney, that I had clients on the plane, and that I had a court order stopping the plane from leaving. I asked to speak to his supervisor. I gave the same message to every person who badged in the locked door. I told them they were all complicit in violating a federal court order if the plane left. The young man came back out and told me that he had advised his supervisor who was trying to contact ICE. I explained again the federal court order and the importance of stopping the plane. Another agent came out and physically pulled the young man back into the building. I could see the other staff members through the glass. They were jeering and laughing. I repeated that they were all complicit in the violation of the judge’s order. 15. Around 10:30 am, while I was standing outside the FBO airport building, I saw one of the planes begin to move. I identified it as the plane that I believed ProBAR’s clients to be on. I knocked on the door again. I watched the plane taxi away from the building. About 20 minutes later, the plane taxied back and parked again. I stayed watching the plane with the children on it. It was hot, sunny, in the upper 90s. I thought about the children on that plane and how hot and stuffy it must have been, how tired they must be, and how scared and confused.

A lawyer on the ground on Sunday morning saw just how close things were, and how the flights were only stopped because a federal judge moved at light speed to halt the Trump admin's illegal operation.

She saw the plane begin to taxi to take off, only to turn around at the last second and come back.

not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.

fucking christ man

And the way to explain it, sadly, is that political principles are entirely pretextual among a certain kind of political actor. When what's driving someone's politics is a categorical rejection of the legitimacy of the other side's right to rule, any hypocrisy or abuse of principle is justified

Reminder: It does not matter if Lisa Cook filled out a form wrong or if the raid finds some document in a file folder in John Bolton's house. These actions are wrong no matter what because they selectively target opponents of the government. The rule of law is under attack.

Here is how the media should be reporting this morning's news.

As part of a growing pattern of political retribution, Donald Trump's FBI has raided the home of a prominent administration critic. In this instance it happens to be John Bolton. The pretense is largely irrelevant.

It's so weird how LLMs know so much about things I don't know anything about, and yet make fundamental and basic errors about things I do know anything about. Oh well, I'm sure that's a coincidence.

Again, this is weaponization of information that Americans are required to provide to the government (much like tax returns). It should be reported by the mainstream media as the actual scandal here.

As people in DC experience occupation, here are some tips to know your rights:
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(1) you do have rights; neither the White House or law enforcement can take them away — know them

(2) you can remain silent if you are stopped — you can say nothing and say that you want to speak to a lawyer.