Mark Potts

Can someone remind me who is the majority party? WaPo seems to need help here.

I thought it was the GOP, who despite what the WaPo wants you to think, actually have some agency. Lots, really, tho you’d never get that idea from the media.

Repeat after me:
An executive order is not a royal edict; it is not law. It is a direction to the executive branch as to how to carry out the law.

Also:
Key parts of Trump's last EO on elections have been stopped by federal courts, ruling that the President has no role to play in federal elections

Life in prison for this shit.

I'm not joking. The only reason that's not the statutory sentence is that US torture laws only apply to torture committed OUTSIDE the US; torture committed INSIDE the US isn't a separate crime

In a waiting room where they are playing I Love Lucy episodes on the TV. Ricky is singing in Spanish. So far, no one has walked out.

The question is: how do you properly cover inveterate and prolific liars? This is not easy. You either don’t quote them or fact check them or qualify their statements.

But the media’s answer to this has been: “exactly the same as covering truth tellers.” And it’s catastrophic.

Again, in actual democracies, ministers resign all the time, under threat of a no confidence vote in the parliament. We have a system where legislative confirmation totally fails ex ante to screen out wildly unqualified people, & ex post accountability depends on a toothless extraordinary measure.

You really really REALLY have to read the whole thing.

Stunning is the right word

Best of luck, @chelseajanes.bsky.social . We’ll miss you.

Big loss for DC.
@chelseajanes.bsky.social is among the great baseball feature writers of their generation (or any generation, really).
Congratulations Chelsea.
Congratulations New York.

“We’re the only country in the world that has mail in ballots”. - Senile Satan

30 countries use mail voting

one of america’s most cherished folk singers wrote an entire song about what a cruel criminal piece of shit donald trump’s father was all the way back in 1954 and somehow this basically never comes up in any story about the trumps, they have literally *always* been this way

FFS

Miss Lillie had a natural instinct for humor. One spring day, while she was serving tea to friends in her East End Avenue apartment in New York, a pigeon flew in the window and sat on the arm of a chair. Some of Miss Lillie's guests were startled, but she merely looked at the bird and asked, "Any messages?"

This anecdote in Bea Lillie's NY Times obituary made me laugh out loud.

I'm assuming the reason the Gallup Poll is giving up measuring Presidential approval is that for the first time, after 88 years, the answer is too small to be expressed numerically.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

the *how* of Pamela Jo being in possession of Jayapal’s search history should be asked by every reporter immediately

The entire ethos of the Trump administration is that nobody who disagrees with them, nobody who fails to support them, is legitimate or entitled to any rights in any way. It is the ethos of thuggish tyranny.

RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.

Pam Bondi loves dogs. Always had them, one after another. She got involved with dog shelters and dog rescue, and once pulled off to the side of a busy road and got out of her car to chase down a stray. Another dog she helped was a Saint Bernard named Master Tank. She adopted him from a shelter after he was lost during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, not long after her own Saint Bernard had died. The story has been told but bears repeating. Master Tank belonged to Steve and Dorreen Couture and their grandson, who was 4, recovering from the murder-suicide of his parents and losing his dog during the storm. Bondi said the dog was a “walking skeleton” and “dying from heartworms” when she adopted him. The Coutures eventually tracked down Master Tank, but instead of giving him back, Bondi hired a lawyer, who accused the Coutures of abusing the dog, which Bondi had renamed Noah. “She lied,” Dorreen told a Palm Beach Post columnist years later. “My little grandson begged her to take the dog home, and she refused. She thought she would just wear us down. That we were unstable people and would just quit.” The case was settled out of court, with Bondi securing visitation rights, but she never did visit. She got another dog.

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

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Bribe for hire Pam Bondi is a pedophile protector, an absolute disgrace, a trashy crook, a total idiot and a disrespectful lawless immoral vile subhuman. The United States no longer has a functioning Department of Justice.

The GOP’s Chaotic Bid to Defang the Courts Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: Republicans are considering a new judicial requirement that would let Trump skirt court orders for a short time — for the small price of nationwide legal pandemonium. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

You don't even need the 1950s, it wasn't many years ago a Cabinet witness who ignored questions to snarl personal insults at elected House members would have been gavelled down by the chair no matter which party and threatened with contempt, for disrespecting the INSTITUTION

It is a little wild that you aren’t seeing More elected officials putting their bodies on the line, risking arrest, you’d think this would be the perfect time for it even if all you were worried about was fundraising and keeping your job

Donald Trump was mentioned over ONE MILLION TIMES in the Epstein files

Howard Lutnick took his family to Epstein’s island

Steve Bannon tried to fix Epstein’s reputation

Elon Musk begged Epstein to invite him to parties

Pam Bondi wants to cover it all up

But the survivors WILL NOT be silenced

OH SNAP

This is another very important and revealing exchange. Rep. Scanlon is making a crucial point, one well worth listening to. And she does it calmly. But Trump has created a market for obnoxious, childish defiance of Congress. The Attorney General‘s response is outrageous, even impeachment-worthy.

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.