Joe Miller 🧶 🏳️‍🌈🪷

My post on LPE blog today is really for LPE. But it works for liberals as well. Liberal politics depends on a stable set of rules embodied by a modern state that subordinates raw political will in the service of other values. So the liberals need to get on board against cts. It’s existential.

Interesting word!

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

Heritage has now created something Project 2025-like for Article II and Article III. Conspicuously absent is anything addressing Article I. What conclusions would draw from that? Because I draw a lot of them.

it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.

🚨Trump drops all pretense and openly admits the mass raids in Chicago are about ICE raids and deportations (not crime), and essentially declares that he’s going to war with the city.

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

POTUS and the VP come out in favor of war on a US city, and extrajudicial killing by the military of alleged criminals.

The loop the Democrats didn’t fully close on their “weird” talking point is that great wealth and unaccountable power corrupts the minds and souls of the people who desire and possess them—they become ever weirder and unhinged because they are so detached from the concerns of us normies.

Ukraine needs to name its military bases after Vladimir Putin and his generals.

by Pete Hegseth

If you enjoy…

Weekends
Safe working conditions
Retirement benefits
Paid vacations
Breaks at work
Sick leave
Paid holidays

… then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.

This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.

This Is What—and Who—We’re Losing in RFK’s Purge The story of one scientist, a career in public health, and the crisis at the CDC.

NEW: "Long the envy of the world…the CDC finds itself no longer able to advocate for what its scientists believe the best available research shows….The agency has since January shed literally centuries' worth of collective experience through a combination of firings, retirements, and resignations."

You mistake me - there's no "may be" about it - you're spot on

May be?

I've been told this means you should not be eligible for any public positions

A reminder that PhD students are also teachers. It'll be much harder to run undergraduate programs too with this change.

Honestly, this may be one of the most important media graphs I've ever seen.

The claim: Democrats keep using annoying words.
The data: Republicans CLAIMS Democrats use them, which then becomes the narratives.

Then centrists attack DEMS for things GOPer CLAIM they say, not GOP for making stuff up.

Excellent idea! Help us preserve historical inquiry properly.

A quick 🧵 on this ruling, which as Steve notes, effectively requires grant recipients challenging grant freezes/cancellations in two fora - Federal Claims to recoup wrongfully withheld grants, and District Court to challenge the policy/basis on which the admin is illegally withholding grants ...

My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.

I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.

More people in Ohio need protection from violent crime than there are people in D.C. Governors of three states — Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia — are sending members of their state National Guards to D.C. to … well, theoretically to combat crime but, if the past week is any in...

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

1)Everything Kennedy said about Bork was true and the bipartisan majority was right to reject him. 2)Bork being confirmed would have done absolutely nothing to forestall the rise of Trump. The two most hackish pro-Trump justices on the Supreme Court were nominated by the "normal" Republicans!

Accountability removal machine - Lawyers, Guns & Money Apparently, uncomfortable-with-Trump conservative pundits have gotten board with “Republicans had to go fash because Obama didn’t just let Romney win” and have gone back to “Republicans had to go fash...

The Bork nomination doesn’t show how Democrats made the Republicans nominate Trump three times, it shows how much continuity there has always been between Reaganism and Trumpism www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/acco...

Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.

People who have been doing this for a long time understand the value of two figures: homicide and aggravated assault. Gunshot reports can be checked against hospital records. Homicide reports can be checked against the morgue. Neither figure depends much on victim reporting rates. And both are down.

Can't say I always adhere to this cogent advice, but I will say that @gelbach.bsky.social & I managed to keep our thoughts to ~15k this time. <please clap gif>

“Ask for what actually fixes the problem — and then go out there and fight for it.”

On Monday, @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social came to NYC to talk about universal childcare, and why we shouldn’t listen to billionaires who say making life affordable for working families isn't possible.