Ryan Daugherty

Indiana’s delegation is already 7-2. They’re going to do to Indy and Gary what they did to Nashville, and make sure the state’s most Democratic areas are represented by the biggest MAGA dipshits they can find.

This is how Nashville ended up with Andy Ogles.

Vice president heads to Indiana to push redistricting, but legalities remain unclear • Indiana Capital Chronicle Gov. Mike Braun was careful in his comments Tuesday about potential redistricting in Indiana to net a GOP seat — or two — in Congress.

Vice president heads to Indiana to push redistricting, but legalities remain unclear

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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.

The EPA included this in its daily propaganda briefing today and it’s incredible how much of the politics of this movement is just the inchoate annoyances of Boomer dads whose greatest hardship in life is dealing with the minor consequences of basic environmental regulations.

But even so, if you were to ask yourself in 2025 what an American is, I hate to say it, very few of our leaders actually have a good answer. Is it purely agreement with the creedal principles of America? I know the Claremont Institute is dedicated to the founding vision of the United States of America. It’s a beautiful and wonderful founding vision, but it’s not enough by itself. If you think about it, identifying America just with agreeing with the principles, let’s say, of the Declaration of Independence, that’s a definition that is way over-inclusive and under-inclusive at the same time. What do I mean by that? Well, first of all, it would include hundreds of millions, maybe billions of foreign citizens who agree with the principles of the Declaration of Independence. Must we admit all of them tomorrow? If you follow that logic of America as a purely creedal nation, America purely as an idea, that is where it would lead you. But at the same time, that answer would also reject a lot of people that the ADL would label as domestic extremists. Even those very Americans had their ancestors fight in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. And I happen to think that it’s absurd, and the modern left seems dedicated to doing this, to saying, you don’t belong in America unless you agree with progressive liberalism in 2025. I think the people whose ancestors fought in the Civil War have a hell of a lot more claim over America than the people who say they don’t belong.

And here's Vance, making the exact same move.

really important to emphasize that roberts' view of the executive branch as comprising a single individual is literally contradicted by the text of the constitution itself

Nothing makes me prouder as an American than being a nation of immigrants. Creole nationalism—anywhere in the world that you find it—dominates reactionary sons-of-the-soil pablum, which is invariably the language of losers and whiners

The sitting president is enacting an actual police state

In Doubling Down on Fossil Fuels, Trump Is Repeating AMLO’s Mistakes Trump’s ideological embrace of fossil fuels and energy nationalism follows in Mexico’s footsteps. It didn’t work out so well for the U.S. neighbor.

Great piece by @bloggingsbyboz.bsky.social on the parallels between Trump's fossil fuels fixation and AMLO's energy nationalism.

It makes me think that although AMLO entered office after Trump I, he makes for a good precursor model more broadly to Trump II.

I’ve done the math, I’ve run the numbers, and there is a 100 percent correlation between a child’s bedtime and extreme, almost unquenchable thirst.

Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:

Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

TLDR the Declaration of Independence: basically, fuck the king—and fuck kings in general.

Feels…relevant.

It’s one thing to say they want to deport 20 million people, it’s even one thing to go nuts brazenly doing whatever you can as the executive branch to make it happen, but the fact that they’re going to give ICE an additional 45B shows how committed they are to seeing this through.

the system is deeply flawed, deeply unfair, and internally contradictory, but at its best the marriage of a pact to outlaw aggression, a New Deal-style arrangement for global poverty alleviation and individual freedom, and avenues to underwrite post-colonial sovereignty had a lot to recommend it

If the symbolism was any heavier, it would pull the rest of reality into it like a neutron star

All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight

A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper

University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration

This is naked authoritarianism. It is exactly what happened in Turkey. There is nothing to stop this regime from demanding that faculty be purged too. Everyone must stand up and push back.
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President Trump continues to get the history of the 14th Amendment wrong. He says birthright citizenship was only granted to newly freed slaves. But the 14th Amendment was clearly broader than that – and everyone at the time knew it.

You cannot be so much of an institutionalist that you let the institutions bring us fascism. What was the value of the insitutions supposed to be in the first place?

there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.

it is the Imperial Judiciary when courts say that presidents can’t unilaterally overturn constitutional text, and the Proper Order of Things when courts say that your rights rest on the whims of who happens to be in office

The thing you can never lose sight of with trump is how lazy he is, how short his attention span is, and most importantly, that he sincerely does not give a shit what happens one way or another. He has maybe 12 hours of “want” in him and after that, all he cares about is being done with it.

Look I am always here for a religion angle but "I want to thank everybody and in particular God, I want to just say we love you God" is a weird-ass thing to say at a briefing

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

I can't believe I learned about America bombing Iran via a Donald Trump Instagram post, a screencap of a Truth Social update. I hate the future.

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states