R.S. Williams

this “just let me lie” attitude is such a perfect encapsulation of how conservatives view the world, like we all need to go along with their lies just bc they want us to

whining out loud during a televised interview that the reporter should let you lie bc they owe you for the interview is pretty wild

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146. Denaturalization and Expatriation There is no lawful way to "deport" U.S. citizens. And although citizenship can be revoked, any attempt by the government would run into significant statutory, constitutional, and practical obstacles.

With alarming reports of U.S. citizens being “deported” (which is … not a thing), today’s “One First” looks at the ways the government can *lawfully* revoke citizenship—and the legal and practical obstacles it would (and should) encounter if it tried to do so:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/146-denatu...

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

This is one to make sure the normies see—the damage that Bobby Jr. is doing to the HHS, which will soon be counted in corpses.

JFC this is bad

Five years ago today 💔

This is why I continue to yell about cynicism and its synergy with authoritarianism because ultimately if you believe that, nothing will change you will not fight to protect anything because you’ve already given it up. Your nihilism and cynicism are only helping the fascists.

they are currently being forced, by their voters, to learn the lesson that resisting Trump and his morally vacant aristocratic den of looters, scam artists and zealots might be a thing that is good politics

I'm honestly sick.

Decades and decades of lifesaving work being torn apart.

YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer Incel Clown Posse | Seizing the Narrative from Musk and Trump | Andrea Pitzer | Next Comes What

This week's episode of Next Comes What goes up a day early! Freedom— how does it work? Putting a stop-work order on Musk and Trump.

Federal Election Commission Commissioner and Chair Ellen Weintraub said Thursday evening Trump has attempted to fire her, but his actions are not legal and she won't be removed from office without a fight.

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Was at an event in DC this evening with a lot of federal employees and it is absolutely wrenching to talk to people who dedicated themselves to public service work through the appalling attacks and uncertainty that they are facing now.

Just wait. Once the proper case [to castigate Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall as an activist judge] presents itself, our openly corrupt justices will tap their 1 Black friend, Clarence Thomas to overturn and eviscerate any and all of His Honor’s legendary Civil Rights jurisprudence.

They are careless people. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Side view of large purple oval pendant wrapped in wavy silver wire.

Large purple oval pendant wrapped in wavy silver wire, sitting in black and white gift box.

Down to the last few cabochons from this parcel of lepidolite - will definitely be grabbing more in future but if you've got your eye on something, jump in now:

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#Handmade #ShopIndie #Etsy #ValentinesDay

Reminder that Judge John Coughenour was born in 1941 and was one of Ronald Reagan's first 10 appointees to the federal courts — the first on the West Coast, at that.

How Trump Saved Elon: The USAID Starlink Probe Cover Up Trump’s gutting of USAID came amid USAID IG’s investigation involving Musk’s company

Trump’s dramatic and vile dismantling of USAID came as USAID’s inspector general was conducting an investigation involving Musk’s company, Starlink. In three steps, Trump’s administration killed the investigation that was sure to embarrass Elon’s company. More: www.thealtmedia.com/p/how-trump-...

Tim Robinson:

Just great 🙄🤬

You are referring to them criticizing what you’ve done around U.S.A.I.D. by saying foreign aid is not good territory for Democrats to fight for? Yeah. And you think I don’t know that foreign aid is not as popular as Medicaid? Of course I know that. But there are going to be mass deaths from malaria and H.I.V./aids and other preventable diseases and conditions because of what the United States is doing. So do I have to be thoughtful and sometimes clever about how we go about communicating that? Yes. Am I going to wait for a more popular program? No, because what they are doing here is ignoring a federal law. Which federal law are you talking about? The Foreign Assistance Act, and then, of course, every appropriations bill that funds the State Department and foreign-ops budget. They’re ignoring multiple federal laws. And I’m just—excuse me for being quaint about this—but I’m not going to just gloss over that and wait until they touch the Affordable Care Act. That’s the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess. We are constantly being told that something isn’t polling well enough yet. And one of the things that Republicans do well is not allow their pollsters to tell them everything. They invent whole stories and then the polling follows.

Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight.

"I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess."

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Excellent article here

A bunch of young men who haven’t had the life experience that teaches you how to say “no” to your boss