Don Moynihan

Fetterman isn’t Manchin in WV: this is Sinema in AZ.

Fetterman is basically a reactionary now: there is no real effort to explain why Mullin - a buffoon who spent the week insisting we are not at war with Iran - is qualified. Trump nominated Mullin, and that’s good enough for him.

Department of Noseland Security

What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?

Folks: Kristi Noem was fired immediately after this post.

Started watching "How to Get to Heaven From Belfast" and am 100% certain the words "Derry Girls meets Bad Sisters" were uttered in the pitch meeting

US at one end, Canada at the other

Vaguely recall that a paroled inmate committing a terrible crime was enough of a scandal to undercut the Dukakis campaign. This is objectively worse in term of Trump's responsibility, but will get a fraction of the attention.

One of Trump's genuine lessons - partly prompted by Stephen Miller - is that if he tortured the law long enough, he would get it to say whatever he wanted. So he strategically recruited torturers.

Much of Trump's first term presidency was not a disaster partly because he did not run into big external crises until Covid came along. His second term is a disaster because he is actively creating those crises.

At this point, Cricket's fate seems merciful compared to this

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)

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The effectively treats public office as a property to be inherited or transferred. Hope it becomes enough of an issue to make the race competitive.

This RAND report puts the RHTP's inability to offset upcoming Medicaid cuts in grim perspective

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holy shit

People saying that Lewandowski doesn't have a real position just erasing missionary

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Noem's such a sycophant that she probably figured saying "it's what the president wanted" would be enough to cow Republican Senators. Which tbf, has not necessarily been a bad assumption in recent years. But at least some of them are still smarter than her.

If human rights are limited to certain groups, they are not really human rights, are they?

Chart showing lifetime average GDP growth for Brits by year of birth. 20-year-old Brits have experienced an average of 1.4% growth, compared with 2.4% for 75-year-olds

Part of the issue is a lack of growth. A recent study showed that cohorts who experience more GDP growth in their lifetimes are more likely to trust the government and have positive perceptions of their living standards. academic.oup.com/qje/advance-... In Britain, such voters are dying out

weak, low-energy. This is why other Trump Cabinet officials (Bondi, Patel) come to these hearings with online zingers already printed out.

Possibly unpopular opinion: We'd be better off if Trump nominated Stephen Miller as Secretary of DHS. Right now he has all of the power but little of the public responsibility. Part of public accountability is answerability, and it suits Miller to avoid it.

The $220 million contract for the ad campaign was awarded to an LLC which subcontracted with a company run by the husband of former DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin. The ads were filmed in October at Mount Rushmore. Ben Yoho, McLaughlin’s husband, said he made $226,137.17 for his work. Under questioning from Kennedy, Noem said repeatedly that Trump personally approved the controversial ad blitz featuring her in the lead role. This has so angered Trump that Noem’s future at DHS may be at risk, we’re told. Kennedy: “The president approved ahead of time you spending $220 million running TV ads across the country in which you are featured prominently?” Noem: “Yes sir, we went through the legal processes …” Kennedy: “Did the president know you were gonna do this?” Noem: “Yes.” Kennedy: “He did?” Noem: “Uh huh, yes.” More from Kennedy: “They were effective in your name recognition. To me it puts the president in a terribly awkward spot.”

Senator Kennedy put Noem in a spot where she either shifted blame to Trump or took it herself. She chose...poorly. punchbowl.news/article/bord...

a man in a yellow suit is carrying a black box ALT: a man in a yellow suit is carrying a black box

When Noem is finally fired and they gotta clean those planes

She should never have been appointed, and has been the worst ever Secretary of DHS.

But if anything will move Trump to fire her, its the visuals of her being pummeled in Congress, including by Republicans.

Looking forward to tuning into CBSNN (or See BSing)

The Minneapolis council member on the front lines of the resistance to ICE • Minnesota Reformer When heavily-armed federal agents and Minneapolis police officers surrounded a Lake Street taco shop in June, Minneapolis City Council Member Jason Chavez was incensed.  “This is completely wrong,” Ch...

I profiled Jason Chavez, the Minneapolis city council member who has been embedded in community efforts to combat ICE.

“To leave your constituents to face off with a racist fascist regime on their own, without having someone that has some power…I could not let my constituents be out there alone.”

Grok mastering the tax code in ways that humans can't, like finding the little-known CSAM deduction

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

Trump never meant a word he said The Iran war is a chance for Democrats to dismantle what’s left of public trust in the president and demoralize maga.

1. Donald Trump’s rationale for war with Iran keeps shifting because he does not believe his own rationales.
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