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S02E13: 'Dershowitz takes his case to the Supreme Court. Cuomo schemes to chair the local school board."

The scale of the high crimes & misdemeanors that Musk & DOGE have committed, & the number of deaths they are now responsible for, is unprecedented in 🇺🇸 history outside of perhaps the Civil War. It doesn’t really matter if they were mostly young idiots. They’re adults & high crimes are high crimes.

Reminder, again, that, yes, while the DOGE-ing was juvenile & clueless, it is vitally important to remain focused on the fact that these people need to be arrested, prosecuted, & sent to jail for a very long time for illegally & unconstitutionally dismantling the federal government.

I’ve been told of multiple instances of ICE officers and other immigration personnel who are ordered to do what some of us here would deem unspeakable things — tearing families apart that are begging them to allow them to self-deport, etc. — and those in officers and agent genuinely don’t want to…

I don’t know anything about this because I am not Bryan Johnson

Conservatives for the longest time believed there was a liberal shadow government pulling the strings of culture, government, and economics and this was the reason they don’t have friends and they were losers. And we’re learning that was not only not real, but that it should’ve been

strictly speaking, true

but I think Mr. Bouie is using "Calvinist" to refer to the end game of Reform Protestantism in America: nondenominational megachurches which don't have creeds or theological training but do have Nationalist political litmus tests

(people who would have horrified Calvin)

appropriate that the calvinists are now moving toward a vision of god as tyrannical leader of a cult of personality

Blustering, performative, sexually aggressive and frequently racist buffoonery has an open spot with Hulk Hogan dead. And then there's the mayoral race. The future lays there before Andrew Cuomo to be taken as he will, like a tipsy lobbyist.

This is a great ex of why Cuomos new strategy of a ton of social media attacks against Mamdani isnt going to work. #1 is bc while he's doing that, Mamdani is actually out in the city meeting voters & #2 voters he meets actually *like* him & he likes them back! He is personable & ppl respond to that.

Complaining about incompetent/corrupt Chicago government is longstanding code for whites uncomfortable about Blacks, making it clear what section of the electorate Cuomo is going for. Of course, people who complain this way about Chicago usually turn to New York next.

It was precisely Watergate that set off a multi-decade effort on the right to protect Republicans from ever again facing real accountability. The experience of facing consequences for their actions was deeply traumatic for them.

As others have noted, he campaigns as if he thinks the suburbs get a vote

Diddy Lawyer Mark Geragos Says Diddy Would Be Trump Supporter If Pardoned Sean "Diddy" Combs would be Team Trump if the President doles out a pardon ... and for a variety of reasons ... so says his longtime attorney Mark Geragos.

I guess it's good we're getting these quid pro quos formalized at least. www.tmz.com/2025/08/09/2...

ah hah i knew it

The FBI director whose prior career was “podcast guest with an enemies list” thinks other people are engaged in “political weaponization”

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

GOP dysfunction in a nutshell: This week, Donald Trump is not appointing horribly unqualified people to federal jobs because Mike Johnson insists on protecting Jeffrey Epstein.

The war on immigration is just all bad in every possible direction.
--It is very expensive
--It radicalizes government agencies
--It distorts US foreign policy
--It is very harmful to the economy
--It is also quite cruel.

There is no second/third order consequence that is positive.

To counter Trump regime attacks on their public university systems and other institutions, states should issue bonds, hold ballot initiatives, or related measures.

University of California system debt has an AA rating. Resist Trump abuses, support higher ed, and a fairly safe investment all in one.

@aelkus.bsky.social @faineg.bsky.social KJU is totally is on someone’s weaponry Discord, arguing about specs and trying not to give away that he has an entire army.

Fingers crossed someone unmasks him.

Tech world’s messaging on AI is practically optimized to produce public backlash.

Especially due to consistently hideous practical advice given to both consumers and businesses for the apparent purpose of juicing short-term hype.

They learned this from cryptocurrency scams and never unlearned it.

Gotta imagine that the moral at these institutions is in the fucking toilet these days

they're also just way too unfocused to carry out a sustained military operation

i mean look at Iran, they bombed Fordow and then literally did the 'cool guy walking away from explosion' meme. There's no interest in that from them anymore! zero!

I was hiking in Orange County NY with my buddy and we encountered two Obvious Tourists From The City with giant cans of bear spray on their hip

And we were like bros, if you do encounter it’s gonna be a relatively acclimatized black bear. Just yell at it and it’ll run away

I'll tell you what, assuming any meaningful opposition party survives the next four years, the GOP has no fucking idea what they've got coming. The next generation of Democratic leadership is going to come into power and start hosting The Joy Of Retribution community workshops.

Issuing a correction to one of my previous posts, regarding Soviet era weapons design. You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to them.

“Amerimaidan began after the administration tried to drone strike beloved cartoonist Parker”

How is this different from when a Communist government confiscates private property?