David Solimini

Core questions for anyone running for federal office:
1. Why was it so easy to break things?
2. How should the broken things be fixed or reformed?
3. How do you hold the people who broke them accountable?

No serious candidate can ignore these questions.

Senators don't know how to deal with the Attorney General lying and attacking in a hearing. Members aren't equipped to handle it -- they look weak and old. If the House or Senate changes hands, they're going to need some new tools for hearings, starting with a witness mute button.

Tiny. Drunk. Sociopaths.

someone needs an editor

Does this mean *trucks being imported* will be tariffed at 25%? Or that tariffs will be applied *to the goods carried by medium and heavy-duty trucks* that are crossing the border?

If Portland and Chicago are really in the grip of an insurrection against the federal government's enforcement of immigration law, what do we call what Cliven Bundy did?

IANAL, but I think when the judge prefaces their questions by reminding you that you are an officer of the court, that's probably a bad sign for you.

So I presume the Texas call up is why this hearing is delayed.

(1) Agree (2) Also note how argument has publicly shifted from US needs to send in military PROTECT the CIVILIANS from crime (supposedly committed by immigrants), to US needs to send in military to protect ICE officers FROM the CIVILIANS (so they can safely commit crimes against immigrants).

Notice how Miller reframes opposition to Trump policies as "designed to nullify the results of the 2024 election" as if winning means no one can oppose Trump or protest against him.

It's all so laughably hypocritical. Obviously he took exactly the opposite approach under Biden.

This is Nobel Prize week, & on Friday Trump is going to realize he didn't win, so brace for whatever horrors come out of that spiraling.

"There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

In one sense, this is the Admin recklessly undermining basic norms of liberal democracy.

In another sense, this is the sweatiest flailing around since Giuliani was giving conferences outside a landscaping shop. It's just blindly groping around for any lever of power, regardless of how dumb it is.

Not just reporters

Retribution Week! Can Kimmel, Prosecute Comey, and say the left are "terrorists."

The war in Ukraine turned to drones (in part) because neither side has effective (traditional) air power. Stable lines and attritional fighting probably lend themselves to small FPVs. Not sure we know what their role is in large unit maneuver conflict where either side has airborne precision strike.

I have no insight or speculation, but a meeting of 800 generals and admirals on a weeks notice without agenda specified is newsworthy for sure

Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.

SecDef Hegseth has summoned every single general and admiral in the US military to meet in-person at Quantico on a week's notice. No one knows why. And no one I talk to can remember anything like it happening before.

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Why is everyone making rapture jok--- ya know what, nevermind. Don't want to know.

Your TLDR of the "Antifa" EO: The "order" invents an organization that does not exist (Antifa), says it is in a category that has no legal meaning (domestic terrorist org), cites no authorities (wut are laws?), and orders the government to do things it already does all the time (investigate crime).

These people are dangerous charlatans.

My dad worked in pediatrics for 30 years; the only word of caution I heard from him Re Tylenol was to be careful about dosage because an OD can cause liver damage.

Every parent has given their kid Tylenol. Pediatricians recommend it constantly. For toddlers w/ a fever, alternating Tylenol & Ibuprofen is common. Cue every pediatrician in the country preparing their "Tylenol is very safe" speech.

Can you imagine being Tylenol's general counsel today?

Notable

The president says writing and saying things he does not like is illegal.

We need bipartisan clarity against this.

2/ do I think that I’ll mostly agree with @sykescharlie.bsky.social or @radiofreetom.bsky.social or @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social or @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social or @igd.bsky.social if we survive this assault on our liberties? No. But let’s get to a future where we can freely argue over it.

1/ I really want to urge people to understand that relatively minor differences: too far/not far enough left; abundance vs monopoly; bad headlines or blind spots in last few MSM cos doing good work; your ideal candidate vs not that—all irrelevant compared to uniting against authoritarianism.

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