Blair Sapp

Evil. Lizzie Johnson is a fantastic reporter and deserved so much better.

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Seeing Curtis Yarvin tweet is like if you watch a horror movie that sets up this mysterious evil villain, and then at the end of the movie comes the grand reveal… and it’s just Alf. And you can’t help but laugh and also feel a bit let down. That’s it??

genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.

OMG. They cannot have NOT known the literal most famous headline from The Onion.

definitive evidence that the deal is terrible

again, the NYT does not mention in this article that Trump was held liable for sexual assault. that seems like important context it is denying its readers.

Fuck whatever groveling toad but this together. Bootlicker is too kind.

One little optics story in all this: Trump's WH has used the optics of bill-signing ceremonies and made them EO-signing ceremonies. Members of Congress etc showing up to see him sign EOs and get the pens.

Not brand new but he's stepped it up and the image voters see is "president taking action."

yes! this dude will back down to anyone who tells him to fuck himself! this is the only response worth having!

America Votes Statement on the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Results - America Votes

Building on America Votes’ Spring election voter mobilization in 2023, the America Votes coalition organized again to preserve the pro-democracy majority in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court.

Read the full statement here: americavotes.org/america-vote...

* CHINESE STATE MEDIA: CHINA, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA REACH A CONSENSUS THAT THREE SIDES WILL JOINTLY RESPOND TO THE U.S. TARIFFS

@reuters.com

very helpful to democrats that one of the most unpopular people in american politics is front in center in the administration, allowing them to make the very easy case that you should vote for democrats to check elon musk.

RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’ “The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News.

Having had a kid die of measles in my arms as a doctor in the DR Congo, I respectfully disagree that this would be better. Vaccines save lives.
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Siena Poll: Support for Congestion Pricing Keeps Rising - Streetsblog New York City "Are we out of the Valley of Death yet?"

A new poll released Monday from Siena College found that more New York City residents approve of congestion pricing than don't, a dramatic turnaround from a previous poll by the same firm back in December.

Trump to sign order limiting Public Service Loan Forgiveness Return to menu Danielle Douglas-Gabriel President Donald Trump is planning to sign an executive order to bar some student loan borrowers from being eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

I'm old enough to remember when unilateral presidential alteration of the terms of student loan programs was considered on the right to be the greatest threat to the constitutional order.

Youngkin commutes sentence of ex-officer who fatally shot unarmed man Youngkin commuted the sentence Sunday night, writing that the three years of incarceration went beyond the state’s sentencing guidelines.

glenn youngkin easily the commonwealth's worst governor of the 21st century www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Marco Rubio is like having Tom Wambsgabs as Secretary of State, a man whose ambition is to be an empty suit, on board to take any stance, say anything, whatever the boss wants, and sponge up some of the pain that comes back, all for the trappings, the title, the plane rides, the suits, to be there.

Hard for me to be even-tempered about this, when I know reporters whose addresses were shared and had to briefly flee home for the crime or reporting on government agencies.

Goose meme chasing Jeff Bezos to define what he means by "Personal Liberties"

issue with “hire more conservative professors” is that they don’t mean “hire a smart guy who happens to think taxes should be lower”, they mean “hire a movement conservative”, and these days there are multiple litmus tests for being that type of person that are “insist this false thing is true”

Over on X, Chris Rufo is out with a series of leaked internal chats between trans intelligence analysts at NSA, where they talked about things like coming out, bottom surgery, and their sex lives. So yeah, employees should be afraid of things like that even if they’re not fired.

“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

Make It Visceral, Make It Real: We Need Stories, Not Sound Bites Moving fast and breaking things? That means the pain hits fast, too

We need to show people what Trumps policies will do, not just talk about them. Moving fast and breaking things? That means the pain hits fast, too. epolitics.substack.com/p/make-it-vi...

Congratulations to Measles and Bird Flu for their big win today!

I think there’s a strong argument that the Eagles gave the best performance by a defense in any Super Bowl.

Fly, Eagles Fly!!!!!!!!! 🦅🦅🦅