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The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.

Unprecedentedly corrupt.

maybe if he takes more consultant advice to move to the right on immigration he can turn those numbers around

too much of the economy now is not built around solving a problem or meeting a need

libertarians belong in a zoo

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.

A "modest margin" when Mamdani beat his next closest challenger by 8 points in a three-person race. Trump won by just 1.5% and it was played off as a seismic realignment of American politics and culture.

Until the end of the government shutdown, our campaign will be donating $2,500 a month to a food pantry in the Ninth District.

And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:

It's incredible that we let billionaires bloviate about their policy views without throwing tomatoes at them. We know what they want, they want policies that work for a few dozen people and immiserate the other 300 million. Not interested!

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

got a crossword book and it’s referring to zaire as a country (hasn’t been since 1997) and thinks greece has a currency that isn’t the euro (they adopted it in 2002)

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"

Villains used to obfuscate. They looked normal on tv and said things like "Fiscal discipline." Now you have grotesque guys hissing "Empathy is weakness" like a cartoon

Trump is appealing the judicial order to pay full SNAP benefits by tomorrow.

He’s spending tax payer dollars going back to court to try and avoid giving folks money they are legally owed.

He’s starving 42 million people because to him they are leverage.

It’s enraging.

Of course, this is precisely why we expect law enforcement to wear badges and uniforms and show identification. Anyone could have foreseen (and many of us did) that this would be a serious side-effect of ICE's insistence on behaving like unaccountable thugs.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Congratulations to the Cuomo team: it takes a lot of dedication and money to lose one election twice.

Illustration of an owl in the forest surrounded by nature and holding a tea kettle

Time for tea🦉🫖✨ #art

Illustration of a bear seance. One bear is a medium with glowing eyes, channeling bear spirits from a crystal ball as two other bears look on in fear and awe. It is still cute though, so not very scary at all, even if there is a cute bear face peering up from the crystal ball.

Happy halloween! I hope you conjure up some fun!

Happy Haul-oween! I hope everyone has a fun and safe time today!

Illustration of a ghost sitting on a bench against a background of trees and autumn leaves. The bench is reflect on the ground where there are also autumn leaves. There are a few glistening snowflakes falling.

The first frost 🍁❄️ I just love how this turned out.

A little pokemon hotel in the rain

rainy day pokemon <3

No pun today, just a mouse with a sword.

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

It's interesting that wise conservative business guys implicitly understand "return on investment" except when it comes to this. It's better for YOU if your neighbor gets enough to eat so he can become your community's mechanic, accountant, dentist--whatever!--instead of lying dead in a ditch

I remember a lot of discussion about the importance of understanding the “75 million” people (many commentators rounded up) who voted for Trump in 2020. Interesting to note that more than 75 million people voted for Harris, and yet I saw no such equivalent discourse after the 2024 election.

Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism.
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digital illustration of a grumpy looking red fox laying down with their paws crossed. they're laying against a desaturated blue background

>:l

how you know im going thru it