Inside the Founding Fathers’ Debate Over What Constituted an Impeachable Offense If not for three sparring Virginia delegates, Congress’s power to remove a president would be even more limited than it already is

Mason thought the president could become a tyrant as oppressive as George III. Treason, he warned, wouldn’t include “attempts to subvert the Constitution.” He, Madison & Edmund Randolph set down a vision of when Congress should remove a president from office. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/insi...

Database of Court Filings Shows ‘Startling Pattern of Abuse’ by Federal Agents Against Citizens in Minnesota | Common Dreams A new database of sworn affidavits filed by the ACLU shows masked agents detaining citizens based on race without warrants, ignoring IDs, and pointing weapons at them.

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Democracy doesn’t require perfect truth—but it does require something more fragile: independent voices. The “wisdom of crowds” depends on independence between judgments. If a single actor can speak through thousands of inauthentic accounts, the apparent consensus of the crowd stops being informative

When AI Can Fake Majorities, Democracy Dies Quietly The new threat of "malicious AI swarms”—and how to defend the public sphere

The most dangerous outcome is not a single viral lie—it is synthetic consensus: the illusion that “everyone is saying this,” which can quietly bend beliefs and norms.

We explain how AI is changing public discourse and what we can do about it: www.powerofusnewsletter.com/publish/post...

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More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.

They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

I wonder how long it will take the media to catch on to the fact that ICE’s recruiting spree has effectively deputized every white supremacist hate group out there.

Boston will fuck you up if you take a parking space that someone has reserved with a lawn chair. I don't think ICE knows what they're getting into.

We need to get back to the founding principles that made this country great.

That’s why I support putting militarized troops in US cities and giving them the power to search anyone and enter any home at any time. And to rough up or possibly shoot anyone who objects.

Let’s do Boston next!

Sadly, no more words from Mr. Stoppard. Happily, if the conditions are right (e.g., Earth), you get a dissipative system instead of just pink.

I wish Shikha Dalmia could get some kind of prize for being the first person conspicuously cancelled by the loud-anti-cancel-culture crowd. ISMA and The UnPopulist seem to be doing pretty well. Maybe that's enough.

Right-wing media are describing pro-immigrant Minnesota activists using the language of war Right-wing media figures and outlets are using the language of war to characterize protests against the presence of violent Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota.The fatal shooting o...

Roundup of the insane rhetoric coming from the right at the moment. It's remarkable how *little* violence we've seen from protesters, given the feds' aggression. Maybe I've missed something, but the worst I've seen is people throwing snowballs. The MN weather has injured more cops than protesters.

But there is no immunity from criminal prosecution, only civil liability. And there's some precedent for state charges against federal officers when feds won't prosecute.

I think the issue here is asking why a U.S. attorney would intervene to stop the FBI from cooperating with local police.

ICE was just going up & down central getting out their cars with pepper spray and guns, but we had so many legal observers it made a huge difference.

If you’re vulnerable at all we are asking you stay inside today & remember don’t open your door without seeing a judicial warrant signed by a judge.

JUST IN: Judge Mehta rules that Trump/Russ Vought's termination of environmental grants during the shutdown — targeted solely at states that voted for Kamala Harris — violated the 5th Amendment's Equal Protection clause and orders them restored.

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It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.

If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

Imagine not voting for Kamala Harris because eggs were too expensive only to end up with everything being more expensive, losing your health insurance, the military in your neighborhood and a geriatric president ranting about ending 10 wars.

Is Maduro in the Epstein files?

Three people in frog costumes stand outside the Portland ice facility at night. They’re holding a sign that says frog brigade

Tonight in “war ravaged” Portland… a frog brigade standing guard outside the ICE facility.

Trump says there’s “nowhere worse than Portland”… and the frogs magically multiply.

They’re showing that he’s not only a liar, but Portland is still safe, still weird and still full of people resisting.

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The thoughts of an economic depression are depressing

i want to remind people that the free press does not publish "journalism" in the way that someone who works in an actual newsroom would understand it

I am just so fucking proud of her.

Don’t make plans for Friday night 😖 Mandatory training, y’all

I wonder if this course "correction" is part of what led to the mechh!tler post (which, of course, resulted in another course "correction")

Seems to me like a combination of honesty and reality checking might be the best policy (but clearly not what Elon wants, regardless of what he says).

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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cover of my new book everything is tuberculosis: the history and persistence of our deadliest infection

As the U.S. Government endeavors to make tuberculosis great again, please consider preordering a signed copy of my book about our deadliest infection, its long history, and why in the 75 years since TB became curable, we've allowed over 150,000,000 people to die of the disease. everythingistb.com

Post from Donald Trump on Truth Social: A really deadly weekend in Chicago. 6 dead, 27 hurt in crime sprees all over the city. Panic stricken Governor Pritzker says that crime is under control, when in fact it is just the opposite. He is an incompetent governor who should call me for help. Mayor Johnson is no better. Make Chicago great again!

According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago.

8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois.

And yet Trump is sending troops here.

Camille Zapata! She’s brilliant! Love it that a bad ass brilliant Latina is the genius behind GCN’s Dump trolling! Follow her—- @camillezapata.bsky.social