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Bizarre Trump ramble to military seen as 'truly significant turning point' in presidency Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sparked concerns with his unusual order summoning hundreds of military commanders to Virginia for an all-hands meeting — but it the speech by President Donald Trump that...

"This is the only form a fascist project could take in the America of this century, Entirely phony and aspirational, assembled from bits of popular culture and popular pyschology. With no mass following committed to it in any real way."
www.rawstory.com/trump-speech...

My sentiments exactly.

Epsteinaminophen makes Republican Congresscritters break out in hives.

Facts have a consistent liberal bias.

The real reason the Supreme Court is terrified Are they afraid Trump will get them killed?Ninety years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt fired William E. Humphrey from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Humphrey sued to the Supreme Court, whic...

"of the 31 politically motivated attacks and assassinations since 2018, only one was done by a “leftist”; all 30 others were committed by confirmed rightwingers, the majority openly Trump supporters"
www.alternet.org/supreme-cour...

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson emerges as a leading dissenter in an era of Trump | CNN Politics Two trends have emerged at the Supreme Court in recent weeks: President Donald Trump is on a winning streak and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court’s junior-most justice, is having none of it.

I agree with Justice Ketanji Brown, the smartest Justice on the bench.
www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...

I'm not terribly active here but appreciate the platform all the same. Aside from some irritating effects of aging, my life is going very well. Don't let all the politics drive you crazy.

Infographic titled “One Court, Two Standards” compares how the Supreme Court used emergency powers to rule on lower-court injunctions against the Biden and Trump administrations. Two panels show: • Biden Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 21 cases. 2 cases saw injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS. • Trump Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 86 cases. 66 green squares and 20 red squares show that 77% of injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS. Key takeaway box below reads: “Using its ‘shadow docket,’ the Supreme Court granted emergency relief to lift 77% of lower-court injunctions against the Trump administration. It lifted 0% of those against the Biden administration.” Sources and notes below include: CourtListener data through July 7, 2025; analysis by Adam Bonica.

Apologies, the previous chart was incorrect. I missed that SCOTUS granted emergency relief in Murthy v. Missouri after the appellate court's stay. I also missed FDA v. Alliance.

The updated rate of lifted injunctions for the Biden admin is 10% (2 of 21), not 0%.

We have the fuel... time for launch!

Washoe County is in the new Canada. I'm ok with that.

John Roberts created a monster. It's about to eat him. The Supreme Court faces an existential dilemma of its own creation.

"Roberts’s immunity ruling not only gutted Smith’s case against Trump, it also sent a clear message: If Trump won the election, he could freely engage in even more egregious crimes. As later events would demonstrate, Trump got the message loud and clear." — @davidrlurie.bsky.social

Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…

"If you do not recognize that mass destruction of fundamental concepts of democracy and the US Constitution happening right now, you are either willfully ignorant or just plain stupid. I can’t put it any clearer than that."

www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

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Great job by Ruben (@rubenbolling.bsky.social).

Restoring Sanity We will prevail. We need to talk like it.

reframingamerica.substack.com/p/restoring-...

Educated but easily fooled? Who falls for misinformation and why Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development have identified who is most susceptible to online misinformation and why. Their meta-analysis reveals surprising patterns in how demograph...

Conservatives are less critical & fall for repeated misinformation. The Fox Formula.

Education alone doesn't help skepticism, but higher analytic skills does.

And, we all have self-serving bias.

phys.org/news/2025-02...

Donold’s supporters don’t care if they lose their jobs or their freedom as long as he is performatively ‘owning the libs.’ That’s how much they have been taught to hate you.

Sometimes, you gotta call a Nazi a Nazi.

A nice day for a toodle.

Out and about in the desert.

Halting spending approved by Congress.

Firing independent inspectors general from federal agencies.

Replacing civil servants with loyalists.

All plans pulled from Project 2025.

Remember when Trump denied knowing about the playbook and the media gave him a pass?

"Appeal to compassion? Weakness. Call for equality? Moral hazard. Strict Father sees life as hard & dangerous. His job isnt to protect feelings-- toughen up children to face a harsh world. Authority = morality, punishment = love & the strict father's return promises the restoration of moral order."

Can't spell "felon" without "Elon."

almost every single word that Sen. John Kennedy says about Dr. Fauci and covid in this clip is false. It's remarkable how Trumpers have concocted a completely fictional history of the pandemic.

Kids are born bad. They just want to do what feels good, not right. They have to be made good. What is needed in this kind of a world is a strong, strict father who can:
Protect the family in the dangerous world,
Support the family in the difficult world, and
Teach his children right from wrong.

Praise drag queens and lipstick lesbians, boys who are girls

and girls who are lions, butch women wearing tool belts,

and all the music theater nerds

who are even now building new passageways

mapping the next underground railroad....

(Thanks, @rbreich.bsky.social)

Hop hop

Caught my eye

I came here to say this. Bravo.