👀 Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with Republicans on Obamacare funding, saying she’s not a fan of the law but demands action to prevent a premium hike. “I’m absolutely disgusted that health insurance premiums will DOUBLE if the tax credits expire this year.” She says GOP leaders don’t have a plan.

Trump has never sounded guiltier than this and that's a high bar

Less than a year into the Trump admin and the National Governors Association, founded over 115 years ago, is on the brink of collapse.

we should recognize that Rs are already engaged in regime politics. regime change is underway.

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

Picture of Kamala Harris and Neephesa Collier on a stage at A Day of Unreasonable Conversations

VP Kamala Harris at A Day of Unreasonable Conversations focusing on the epidemic of institutional distrust.

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

… partly because Nietzsche seems to have been carried away periodically by his rather unsteady muse.”

ha! Rosen is fairly pointed, let us say.

from Rosen’s preface to The Mask of Enlightenment:

“There is a great deal of repetition in Zarathustra, in part no doubt for the practical purpose of inducing a hypnotic state in the potential disciple (who is of course not the superman), but …

Everyone who was raising alarm bells under Bush and Obama are shouting “I told you!” right now.

"Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting of a woman who was allegedly chasing agents in Brighton Park over the weekend shows an officer saying, “Do something, bitch” before pulling over and shooting the woman 5 times, the woman’s attorney said in federal court Monday" omg

interesting, C Kirby
Inventing Necessity: Law and Revolution in Postcolonial Africa

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The latest from YouGov (n ~ 2.3k).

A narrow majority says ICE is acting too forcefully - including a majority of Independents. The largest plurality doubt ICE is targeting serious criminals. Most think ICE is making at least some major errors.

Act accordingly.

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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social:

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
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I've said it before: Evangelicals changed the Republican Party by becoming it's most loyal and important voting bloc. They determine the outcomes in primaries and never waver from their demands and hold officials' feet to the fire. They continue to vote for their party even when they're not perfect.

It's really time for some Dem-aligned organization to run polling asking about Trump's mental health (i.e., is he suffering from dementia, is he able to run the country). I think that's the only way mainstream news orgs will cover his obvious decline.

2024 was an anti-incumbent year around the globe largely because of forces beyond any one lawmaker's control and I feel like that's where all analyses should start and I don't really know how much more complicated it should get than that.

Trump: "I believe that Pritzker and this mayor of Chicago are scared. They're scared for their lives."

Been sayin’ it. Who was president when the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop got blocked for ~48 hours? Who was president during the 2020 election? Who was president in early COVID?

We are gonna have an entire stupid hearing about this on Wednesday.

Trump: "I want to be good because you want to prove to God so you go to that next step, right? So that's very important to me."

Trump: "Why is it that a governor wouldn't accept free help from regardless? Whether it's National Guard or the military or anybody. Women raped and beaten and knocked to hell and the same with men, where they are being shot all over the place."

Everything is terrible, but the Roberts Court building a juristocracy to enable a fascist who is now gunning for Marbury v. Madison is actually kind of hilarious

“The goal is to generate riots to justify the expansion of authoritarian measures and to strengthen the case for the troop deployments,” @merkley.senate.gov continued. “Let me be emphatically clear: There is no ‘invasion’ or ‘rebellion’ that justifies the federalization of the National Guard.”

A top Trump official accusing federal district court judges, "as a class," of engaging in insurrection is a profoundly dangerous development.

Similar to previous public polls. Shutdown occurred when this was in the field. Right now, if this poll is accurate, Miyares would need a *lot* of ticket-splitting to win. Would also need significant number of Harris voters.

Miyares needs a lot of Harris-Spanberger voters to win.

As Gov Pritzker describes it, the Trump secret police assault on a Lakeshore Drive apartment complex was a made-for-TV event designed not to serve any lawful mission, but instead to create video footage that would be suitably depraved to entertain the MAGA base. That's correct.

Vent Fury. Nick’s unsung younger brother, who never sold out to become an NCO, ‘cos his heart with always with the enlisted GIs.