Nick Clawson

I really think we need to reconceptualize this shutdown as the last stand for the rule of law and Art I. Bring it to default if that’s what it takes. If Congress can’t assert the power of the purse, we are in “move to Portugal” territory of screwed.

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

Republican justices appear poised to destroy what’s left of the Voting Rights Act The results will be "catastrophic."

SCOTUS decision killing what’s left of Voting Rights Act could cost Dems 19 House seats, eliminate every majority-minority district in South, eviscerate 14th/15th Amendments & fulfill John Roberts 40-year crusade against country’s most important civil rights law www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Genuinely this could only end in disaster. Or catastrophe. Or both.

Just straight up not how anything works, NYT

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Quite a day.

mike davis — an incredibly prominent dc conservative tied to the federalist society — calling the highest ranking black member of congress a “house slave” is so beyond the pale and rubicon crossing. i cannot unsee this. my gosh. wow. where are we right now

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

I think this is why I've always liked the way the Illinois Nazis are portrayed in The Blues Brothers. It shows them for what they are: spiteful little weirdos who are ineffective and deserve no respect.

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Wish I could find it but someone on here definitely predicted this last week

Speaker Mike Johnson just said he's completely fine with ICE agents shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and roughing up journalists.

I'm sure he'll tell us soon about how it's the Democrats who are waging a war on religion and free speech though.

On that swing of all swings

Close enough

I’ve seen the future and Contreras actually walks it off here

I saw something about him maybe getting disinvited from a first pitch after the Pacers eliminated the Bucks and now he’s being petty (but also, I wouldn’t want to do that if I were him? Seems like a good way to get booed).

3-0 since Humpy won

Seems like Seattle’s bats are keeping up with Toronto’s just fine

When Mike Johnson or another national leader repeatedly claims they haven’t seen relevant things in the news, an appropriate reporter reaction would be “Holy cow, how do you not know?!? How can you do your job without knowing what’s happening? What are you doing to fix your ‘not knowing’ problem?”

Look you can’t say the Bucks FO isn’t doing everything it can.

a group of baseball players wearing mariners jerseys are on the field Alt: a group of baseball players wearing mariners jerseys are on the field

Hip hip Jorge

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Says a member of a majority overturning decades of resolved precedent left and right

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

#ThisIsMyCrew

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure