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My mom would say "These idiots are cooking some books."

“Seeking friendlier data”? Seriously, NYT?

Imagine being so wedded to a certain style of horse-race political analysis that you "nothingburger" away the very likely possibility that the current President of the United States *raped children* and is using the vast and powerful apparatus of the government he controls to cover it up.

Brilliant.

I'll believe this when Trump says "Don Jr is a hockey puck. Once he and his girlfriend lit the house on fire when I was asleep and Eric said Fuck your couch."

Three months ago …. In DC

this whole video is incredible because it’s part Go Off King and part Watch Whiteness Work

Performative tough guy chest thumping from a guy terrified by brown and black folks.

I'll say it out loud that I would welcome a SecDef that is not a consummate asshat.

Zohran is not in a rent controlled unit, you doofus. He is in a rent stablized unit, and if you don't know the difference, you don't have any business running for mayor.

Almost every "norm" should have been a goddamned law.

172. "Federalizing" D.C. Like any federal enclave, the federal government has plenary power over the District of Columbia. But Congress has delegated most of that power to local officials; it would take new laws to undo that.

Congress has given the President the power to take control of the D.C. local police for up to 30 days "for federal purposes," and to deploy the (tiny) D.C. National Guard.

As today's "One First" explains, that's the full extent of what the President can do to "federalize" D.C. without new statutes:

Rep. Jake Garn from Utah had space sickness so bad that the astronauts began to describe theirs in terms of Garns in the 1980s and 1990s.

These are the people who lock their car doors if they see one too many black people outside, who express concern for your white safety if you tell them you live in cities. It’s simple white supremacist bullshit rearing its head again, and you know how little those phrenologists care about reason

This is the way. Mock mercilessly.

USATODAY running laps around elite media

That's no sickness. That is a healthy search for knowledge and connections!

Here was Ashley Parker, spreading a WaPo editorial at a time of near historic D.C. crime lows, all to get Biden to overrule local democracy and overturn local D.C. elected officials. The story I tell about this in my book are shocking.

This is a valuable description of an absolutely brutal crime wave.

Deporting 4% of the population will not cause the wages of the native-born to rise, it will crash the economy, spark inflation, and raise unemployment.

It makes my skin fucking crawl. Like that David Spade office guy from SNL in the 1990s.

Folks: Stop saying that the Metropolitan Police Dept. is under "federal control." The Home Rule Act allows the president to declare an emergency and make requests of the Mayor for MPD services. Chief of Police Smith continues to report to Mayor Bowser. code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/counci...

This is a really important corrective to a lot of reporting today. Trump did not—and cannot—federalize MPD. The police force remains under the ultimate control of the mayor.

Obergefell v. Hodges made me believe in the whole "arc of history bends towards justice." In the 90s, I didn't think gay marriage would be legalized in my lifetime because homophobia was so deeply ingrained. We would have never gotten here without the decision and now it may be overturned.

Everybody’s gonna learn this lesson the hard way: anything even adjacent to this chan culture dogwhistle shit is deeply unpopular. Like the incels they’re catering to, you and your brand develop permanent stench from being around any of it.

I have been personally banned at CPAC from receiving a press pass, but yes, you’re right: I’m no different than Trump who spoke there.

I think about this post several times a week

We used to call this security theater - but in this context it’s authoritarian theater

i thought the line was that this was a democrat hoax?

That is fantastic!