Danny Blinderman

DC deserves advocates vigorous enough to rise to our current authoritarian challenge, not ego maniacs intent on holding office in the face of death and infirmity.

The irony is not lost on many in Washington that Trump says spitting on a DC cop is justification for hitting/punching back "hard" when he pardoned hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters who assaulted those same cops — and said attacks on them that day were "minor."

US effectively moving to a system where tax policy is set by the executive branch, fully adhoc, unpredictable, and bespoke per company, and based in large part on the presidents' personal relationships with the company's leadership

This is what I keep saying. What Trump is trying to undo is not just the U.S. Constitution and the American Revolution, but the Glorious Revolution.

As expected, dispute appears to be over White House demands to break the law. These aren't 'disputes'. Law is clear on this. Only mystery is how it was that Long, a very Trumpy guy and not part of the ethics community, seems to have not gone along, or not enough.

FROM @reuters.com: President Trump’s rhetoric has galvanized a new wave of far-right activists, fueling growth in white supremacist ranks.

"He’s the best thing that’s happened to us," said the leader of the Aryan Freedom Network.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I have a slightly different read on this: that no one wants to work for this administration. I think a lot of people would feel patriotic excitement to work to rebuild and reimagine our common institutions under a democratic administration that put out the call.

Nothing to do with performance or merit: purged from the military because of their identity and then robbed of the retirement they worked for.

Also someone tell Peter Jackson he needs to give Gettysburg, and specifically little round top, the helms deep treatment.

We need a movie on the Vicksburg campaign.

If the senate allows people to lie during confirmation hearings, advise and consent is dead as is the congressional power to compel truthful testimony.

We’ve flipped the Constitution:

We now have direct election of Senators while state legislatures pick the House of Representatives.

Imagine telling Cuomo in 2018 that in seven years he'd be begging Donald Trump to help him beat a DSA member to become mayor. Honestly amazing how far he's fallen and how pathetic he is.

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

For example: if we still had the energy mix of 2005, but with the energy generation magnitude of 2025, how much carbon would we be emitting? What part of our carbon budget have we thus far saved?

Has anyone ( @ember-energy.org perhaps?) done a calculation of how much carbon we've avoided emitting due to the energy transition?

Ideally Dems would carry themselves with confidence, so that when Trump does something hideously corrupt, we could count on Dem leaders to say, in essence, enjoy it while it lasts. Your comeuppance is coming. As currently constituted they’re not that kind of party. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

Newsom/Hochul vs Vance/Noem is plausibly the worst vibes election possible and also completely within the realm of possibility.

She realized that fighting back is popular. Bizarre that so many democrats (cough whitmer cough) haven't figured that out!

A massive rollback of the judiciary's ability to unilaterally repeal congressionally enacted laws is going to be important going forward.

Say more? I'm intrigued.

the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.

Interior Order Chokes Off Permits for Solar and Wind on Federal Lands The department creates a seemingly impossible new permitting criteria for renewable energy.

HUGE: The Trump administration will no longer permit any solar or wind projects on federal lands unless they produce more energy-per-acre than coal, gas or nuclear power plants.

Solar and wind literally produce less energy per acre, so simply this may just kill off any project on federal lands.

A regressive $340B tax on imports enacted illegally without an act of Congress. It's kind of funny how directly this parallels the complains that led to the American Revolution

this is a very good fight to pick and they should talk about it more

Republicans Just Confirmed Trump’s Most Ghastly Nominee. Democrats Made It Possible. Last year, Democrats could have used their Senate majority to confirm someone very different to fill the seat.

The ONLY REASON Trump could give Emil Bove this spot on the 3rd Circuit is because cowardly Democratic senators refused to confirm Biden's nominee to the seat following a bad-faith, Islamophobic smear campaign by Republicans.

Utterly shameful and self-defeating. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Also I think he has a glass jaw. Not convinced he can take or throw a punch.

The Two-Pronged Attack on a Muslim Judicial Nominee How the smearing of Adeel Mangi became a bipartisan exercise.

This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

New season of the Martian revolution just dropped @mikeduncan.bsky.social