Evan McKenzie

Never forget who sold us out:

Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen

It's odd for me to realize that my first-year undergraduates are at an age where they don't really remember that there was a form of US politics prior to Donald Trump. For them, Trump is not an aberration from the normal course of political discourse, but just how US politics is done.

The worst chief justice of all time Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.

New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time

"American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."

House Speaker Johnson argues the War Powers Act is unconstitutional President Donald Trump called Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, who introduced a War Powers resolution to bar U.S. military engagement in Iran, a "LOSER."

Pathetic. Congress passed the War Powers Act to preserve the constitutional role of Congress in war-making, because presidents kept sending our military into combat without Congress' authorization. But Johnson is fine with presidential dictatorship. www.cnbc.com/2025/06/24/j...

I thought that after the George W. Bush debacle in Iraq, the US would never elect another incurious, lazy, uninformed dunce to be president. But the American voter said, "Hold my beer!"

Officials Concede They Don’t Know the Fate of Iran’s Uranium Stockpile

Every time the US attacks another country the same retired generals and other assorted pundits appear instantly on every media outlet and spout the same militaristic nonsense that soon turns out to have been wrong. Every single time. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

brilliant

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

This is way better than "let them eat cake." It's more like, "they are all going to die anyway, so who cares if they have health care or not?"

I want an over and under on how pissed off he's going to be when he gets here.

NASA couldn’t get away with this many failures without being investigated by congress. Musk just keeps right on launching and blowing up rockets and everyone acts like it’s no big deal.

Rule of law is ‘endangered,’ chief justice says Speaking at Georgetown Law, Chief Justice John Roberts denounced “ad hominem” criticism of the justices.

Says the guy who wrote the opinion creating a new doctrine of Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution, knowing that it would be exploited by the worst criminal who ever held the office. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

“No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

In 2024, Biden signed into law a $105 billion measure designed to end a shortfall in air traffic controllers.

In 2025, Trump came in and instead began firing hundreds of them.

So you can see how *clear* it is that Biden is to blame for the shortage now.

Trump might claim China tariff victory – but this is Capitulation Day | Heather Stewart The president’s retreat suggests he might negotiate elsewhere, but leaves corrosive uncertainty in its wake

Trump caved, as usual. Now watch him claim victory, with Fox and the rest of them praising Dear Leader for his five-dimensional chess skills. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.

What the fuck are we doing here?

US has a trade surplus with the UK, already. Trade with the UK is just 3 percent of US total trade. Avg tariff on US trade w/UK is already just 1 percent. As Justin Wolfers said on MSNBC...this is not small potatoes, it's tiny little peas. Gains are likely to be a.) small and b.) inconsequential.

I have no idea how you can produce so much excellent work as fast as you do. Truly amazing!

Happy Easter, EVERYONE!! 👇

Seemed. Appropriate. Today. 😎✨

Roses are red
Daisies are plain

This episode is a tour de force. Incredible work of music history and cultural commentary. Thank you!

Them: “no ‘war plans’ were discussed”

The chat:

So uh... how exactly is America going to host the World Cup next year with all these travel and immigration restrictions?

Roses are red
Violets are blue

Perfection

There Is No AI Revolution Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei hav...

Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn.
www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...

Top federal prosecutor in N.Y. resigns after refusing to drop Adams charges Two top prosecutors in Washington also resigned over the DOJ order to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

Valor

Danielle Sassoon, Acting U.S. attorney for SDNY - refuses to drop Adams charges and resigns

John Keller, Acting head of DOJ Public Integrity Section - refuses and resigns

Kevin Driscoll, Acting head of DOJ Criminal Division - refuses and resigns

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

hakeem jeffries' wife packing up to go stay at her parents because she asked him to wash the dishes and he stood in front of the sink throwing his hands in the air and saying "what can i do, the water isn't even on"

Hey everyone. It’s Feb 3rd, and the Democrats have been at home since Jan 24th because the house is out of session.

They should have come back, the place is on fire.

Get suing, messaging, demonstrating, speaking, everything and ANYTHING

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all