Hutson Hayward

FDR would've felt incredibly vindicated by all of this. A core proposition of the New Deal was that the country's ruling class was incapable — at best — of defending the Constitution, and that it was up to a dissident vanguard of intellectuals, in conjunction with workers and farmers, to do it.

this has been one of my central arguments the past ten years. the theory underpinning the anti-democratic elements of the american constitutional order is wrong!

If I was running for Congress, I would promise to appropriate money for USAID, b/c as far as I am concerned it remains an agency as no-one repealed the statute that created it in 1998. It blew my mind at the time that we were like, yep, sure, we will just close an agency without authorization.

Opinion | Nancy Pelosi Is an American Political Giant

i think this is a pretty good take on pelosi, who is unquestionably one of the most consequential house speakers in the history of the institution

high salaries and robust public funding for elections

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

all of this is also true for sexism. you tell me you think women are biologically less smart and i’ll suspect that i could probably convince you to drink your own piss

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

I’m pretty sure winning a slam dunk lawsuit against this criminal extortion would have been cheaper than dropping $60m during a bad budget crunch. They didn’t cave to pressure. They collaborated with the regime and sold out their students and staff.

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

"Beneath its humdrum requests, every email said more or less the same thing: Can you explain how reading certain things can turn a person into a socialist—and, possibly, a terrorist-sympathizing antisemite?" lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

it’s not only a recipe for corruption, it’s a talent issue - we lose a ton of talented folks who would do fantastic work in public service to the private sector because of the salary delta, which most people don’t have family money to make up for

these are important jobs that should pay well

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

he’s saying exactly what we’ve been saying, he’s absolutely right, and any colleagues of his should listen to him

every part of the country that could just told Donald Trump to go to hell and we demand our elected representatives follow suit

Telling the people who voted for you that you are going to pass the policies you ran on is not a "shift" from a "mollifying tone"

When Republicans win elections: The people have spoken, we must let them implement their agenda.

When Democrats win elections: This totalitarian FREAK must be prevented from implementing the policies he ran on
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But just how low is the bar for assault if you're protesting against the Trump administration, not protesting in support of Trump's claim that his election was stolen? It is easy to anticipate how the triumphant calls of "so there" from this administration might extend beyond mere hoagie-hurling to other ways of running afoul of law enforcement. Hoagie-Or Hero? The jury takes upwards of seven hours to find Sandwich Guy not guilty. The length of time in deliberations, along with the multi-day trial, proves the judge's claim wrong. The case isn't simple.

Or Sandwich Guy could be all of these things. His escapades are a form of protest simultaneously righteous and ridiculous-their ridiculousness rendering them, in the face of overzealous prosecution, even more righteous, like the inflatable dinosaurs boldly marching before militarized law enforcement brigades at anti-ICE demonstrations nationwide. Of course, his antics are also illegal, which is why they had to go to the jury at all. The defense's Rule 29 motion for dismissal as a matter of a law failed. You actually aren't allowed to throw a sandwich at a cop. And it is the prerogative of the U.S. attorney's office to determine that this is a crime which society simply cannot tolerate and for which a person will therefore have to answer to a sometimes-giggling jury. But no matter how you see Sandwich Guy, the government's message in forcing 12 citizens of Washington, D.C., to decide his case even after a grand jury had rejected felony charges is clear: Mess with this government, and it will mess with you.

I think this take on the sandwich guy trial is correct. our system is built assuming that prosecutors will show appropriate restraint. the sandwich guy case went on for way too long and that in and if itself should be raising alarm bells www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sand...

Vance on judge's ruling:

"I have contempt for this court."

to be clear: the government's claim - validated by the Court - is that it would *irreparably harm* the president to not misgender trans people

Nope

jury nullification is a very effective response to fascism.

Cool, cool, cool. How's SAG feel about a new blacklist?

Jefferson is the most American framer, imo, in that he simultaneously articulated and instantiated some of the noblest ideals ever articulated — which are part of the very foundation of this country, and its best hope — while behaving with a level of decadent hypocrisy that bordered on nihilism.

Comic. [Person sitting at desk with laptop with machine labeled E-21 making “click click” noises on the floor behind] VOICE FROM LAPTOP: Hey all! Does your E-21 humidifier make an annoying clicking noise? Mine did, but I finally figured out that there’s an easy fix, so I made this video in case anyone else… PERSON AT DESK: Oh my god. Yes. *Yes.* [caption] I know there’s more important work in the world, but I feel like these people deserve, at minimum a statue.

Repair Video

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three sheets of paper are taped to the outside of a building. they have the words "The Oval Office" in gold script

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Interesting...Pope Leo cites Matthew's gospel, "Jesus says very clearly, at the end of the world, we're going to be asked, you know how you did you receive the foreigner? Did you receive him and welcome him or not?"

hmm. do we know anyone who has been blathering lately about getting into heaven?