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as tempting as it is to blame this on garland personally, I think a lot of it was an ingrained, institutionally cautious culure at doj. it was (before january 2025) a building full of careful, by-the-book people

im pretty sure searching for wire recaps when i was binging it in the late 2000s is how i your blog!

"health insurance through Obamacare" sorry this is from the new york times? theyve abandoned calling it the ACA?

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

Yes, this, & set up a recurring donation if you can.

Cash is ALWAYS better than collecting food through drives. Food banks have deals with suppliers that enable them to stretch a dollar further than what we can buy at retail prices. They can take $5 and get $15+ in value from it to feed folks.

once again, i think electoral college maps shape people's sense of political reality in incredibly destructive ways

If you have to lie to make your point, you don’t have a good one.

People responded completely differently to the Reddit posts and the tattoo, which is a result of the fact that there is a big difference between posting comments on the internet and inscribing a symbol on one’s body for decades.

has anyone gotten any answers about what they did with everything in the east wing? is it just going to sit in storage?

"no Nazi tattoos" isn't a purity test it's a fucking baseline requirement

For all of Jeffries's faults, he at least generally keeps the team in line while Schumer can't even keep his caucus from helping Republicans loot the nation

and you know what? im here for it

You have to be willing to walk away from these guys if they let you down, just as a matter of basic self respect. It's not a fandom. You're hiring them to do a job or not.

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"

Charlie Browns mom: Waaah wah wah wah waaah waaah waaah wah

Charlie Brown: oh, you mean pigpen

Charlie browns mom: Wah way. Waaaah wahwahwah wah wah waaah waaaah wahwhawah wah wah

Charlie Brown: yeah I get that. It’s pretty bad over there but I don’t think they hit him

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

I am never going to be a fan of a politician. That way lies disappointment. But Pritzker right now is the person I think is calibrating it right.

This isn’t negotiating about social security with W. You either get that or you don’t.

in 2016 there was a south florida group of early 20 something men who would protest waving ANTIFA flags and i cannot stress enough how much these people were not any sort of organized group and had absolutely zero ability to do anything beyond march around with the rest of us

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

ive been following the blake lively/justin baldoni lawsuit and ive become increasingly worried how well she's tapping into pop culture gossip. its a huge market ripe for the pipeline that they so far havent really managed to get

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

but to be fair i sometimes i forget i was raised by the child of holocaust survivors (who grew up as the only jewish girl at her school in the town the 700 club was starting in at the same time) who has the mentality of you never have to get ready if you stay ready for them to come for you.

exactly - anyone who cared or was a minority knew this. and like, its one thing to not remember the 90s but trayvon martin was murdered in 2012. you had to be tuned out to not see this

i deeeeeeeeeeeply underestimated the way the SCOTUS justices would treat the law/the entire judicial branch in general. roe, sure i guess, but even 6 years ago im not sure i would have believed the court could get quite this bad.

i wish people would just be more honest "before 2016 i didnt really care about politics that much so i dont actually have an honest perspective on this" because thats fine!

how old are people who say this stuff? because...yes? i was alive and paying attention in the george bush era.............. and still alive and still paying attention when the tea party formed............

Yeah, I just underestimated the extent to which Dems would sell out their own base and capitulate to them on the basis that maybe 2.3 of them might be a persuadable swing voter

there is nothing cornier than someone censoring their own typed swear words on social media