Ian Russell

Besides, Gov races are weird. In 2018, Charlie Baker, Larry Hogan and Phil Scott were all re-elected in landslides while Dems had a great night everywhere else

“Around 765,000 people of the 8.4 million residents who call New York City home are preparing to leave,” says the Post. I’d bet quite a lot of money against that.

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

Here's a key exchange. Rep Chip Roy smeared protesters for not believing we have "no king but Jesus," but @anamariecox.bsky.social reports seeing many protesters in his district on No Kings' side with signs bearing more pious religious messages than his.

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They nuked the Supreme Court filibuster in 2017. I would expect anyone who was paying any attention to politics to know that—and certainly, you know, the then-Attorney General of a state…

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sadly I’m on childcare duty tonight, but best of luck!

Not to mention that sending in the Guard just… isn’t helpful in the first place? If the feds want to help state and local governments deal with crime, there’s a lot of things they can do that would actually be effective. Almost like that isn’t really the goal.

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it.

Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

Yeah, strictly speaking, he represented the White House, not Trump personally. Not they that distinction matters for a lot of his lawyers but it did seem to matter to Cobb.

Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.

The idea of “death panels” was that they would be rationing care to decide who lives and dies. This is far worse—they’re just arbitrarily deciding more people will die.

It’s a little too on the nose that this is coming from the same people who said “mean tweets” are no big deal. 🙄

I tend to doubt Utah State University is a hub of left-wing indoctrination.

Partisans tend to get mad when their party loses. That doesn’t mean they’re going to vote for the other party.

The guys who drove around with pictures of the president hog-tied on the backs of their trucks are suddenly very concerned about civility and respect.

I suppose it’s important context if you’re trying to ascertain the state of Trump’s mind, but it doesn’t make the post itself any less reprehensible.

Government efficiency, right?

The number of people who claim to follow the Prince of Peace and then cheer for stuff like this is… well, not that surprising, but still disturbing.

A decade ago, the Heritage Foundation went full meltdown about how Obama was an imperial president when he had issued about the same number of executive orders -- though he had reached it after six years, not six months.

If you’re “just asking questions” but not at all interested in the answers, then you’re not actually asking questions. You’re making statements with plausible deniability.

No no, it just means they were really precise and made absolutely sure they were returned to Haiti instead of accidentally sending them somewhere else.

…you know, I meant that as a joke but that’s actually an accomplishment for this administration.

great work bill cassidy this would have been an excellent question to ask him at the confirmation hearings which you greased the wheels for

Trump was President of Low Gas Prices and Obama (or Biden or whoever) was President of Everything Else.

In (sigh) fairness, he seems to know that, because he has proposed a constitutional amendment.

And, hilariously, he made it only apply to presidents who served two non-consecutive terms, because he knows Obama could come out of retirement and squash Trump like a bug if he were eligible.

Because Maine is weird and only has three statewide elected offices (governor and two senators), and because Maine really likes reelecting Susan Collins for some reason, Mills is the only Dem who has actually won statewide in recent memory. Recruiting her is clearly not insane!

Let’s be honest, he wouldn’t actually care regardless of the child’s ethnicity—but sure, he’d at least *pretend* to care if the child were white.

Louisiana probably could elect another Democratic *governor* at some point, sure, much like Vermont currently has a Republican governor, but it’s not going anywhere in federal elections. State offices are less polarized.

That and angering a bunch of people in Atlanta could cause serious electoral problems for Republicans because Georgia is a swing state. Louisiana isn’t.