Jerry Mayer

3) 6 in 10 Republicans (62%) and white evangelicals (56%) agree that the federal government should place immigrants who are in the country illegally in internment camps guarded by the U.S. military until they can be deported.
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It makes sense, and it would be a good idea. A tax on the transactions in markets, at the least. Unless that would just push it all underground or to other countries? I guess I shouldn't have instant opinions about things I know fuckall about.

Oh, wait, Trump is president. It's mandatory!

I suspect Trump is underestimating the possibility that the military parade will backfire in terms of his consolidation of power and popularity.

I would imagine a lot of policies are grounded in that fallacy. Politicians don’t study stats much.

The stupid is a feature not a bug.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Trump speculated today that he could pardon Diddy.

I'm so tired of typing some version of "imagine for a moment the hellstorm of criticism on Fox if a Democrat contemplated this"

But yeah, just imagine.

It would be relentless, epic, traumatizing.

It might end a career.

Sigh.

What is a nation supposed to do when its leader is publicly committing impeachable offenses on a daily basis and the impeachment process is utterly broken due to slightly more than half of the nation's Congress being members of a cult dedicated to destroying rule of law

I was warned months ago by someone who travels high in GOP circles that Noem was known by insiders for being catastrophically stupid.

Turns out that was true.

Our Homeland Security Secretary, sent to Capitol Hill to TALK ABOUT HABEAS CORPUS--did not know what it was.

Dumb don’t get much dumber.

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

Wisdom from @rotimia.bsky.social

America in 2025:

Habemas papam

Non habeas corpus

Trump takes credit for first American Pope in 3…2…1…

Hauled off to a detention center WEARING CHAINS AROUND HER WRISTS AND ANKLES and she'll be held there FOR A MONTH before she gets to see a judge, all because she made an illegal right turn on red. Jesus.

And remember -- that ugliness is the due process that the Trump folks whine is too much.

Very much deserved. The students love you!

Best sign from yesterday.

This is legal gangsterism by the FBI.

If a Democrat did this, it would lead Fox News for months.

The guy who did the hard but right thing and conceded an election that may well have been stolen has to hate Trump with a rage hotter than the sun.

Someone should ask Homan if it would be ok to send him to a gulag if a completely different white guy he has nothing to do with commits murder bsky.app/profile/atru...

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

Because I’m DOOooom…Doomscrolling!

(To the tune FreeFallin”)

Fun Tariff Facts: during the depression the US lost access to many imported paper products. They were replaced with an unusually tough paper stock made of hemp from the Philippines (then a US colony, and tariff exempt).

Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders /
envelopes.

I assume it’s a bold mashup of coding and David Bowie?

Political science is getting interesting.

i have no doubt that senator van hollen was genuinely concerned for the safety and welfare of abrego garcia BUT ALSO this is what i'm talking about when i say POLITICAL AMBITION. van hollen may well make himself a household name and nationally recognized political figure with this move

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

I'm saying this with love, but delete your account.

I mean, butt delete your account, like accidentally sit on your keyboard and find out you deleted your account.

Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.