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despite extraordinarily stiff competition from the Roberts Court, Citizens United keeps its place as one of the most damaging Supreme Court decisions of all time

Often, I have an idea for a piece but it's not until I do the iterative work of writing the words down, reading them, and imagining what another reader might think that I realize that I was missing steps in my argument that I wouldn't have filled in if I hadn't tried to write it down.

Meanwhile in this episode of that’s so 2026…

BC's half-signals are just wonderful, i think. functionally, they're HAWKs in a more intuitive and familiar (i.e. safer) form. unlike flashing yellow crosswalks, they can account for a minimum green time, and drivers are actually compelled to respect them. i would love to see them adopted elsewhere!

Exactly. We’re now firmly in Popper’s paradox of tolerance territory, here in the United States — thanks to the avowed extremism of the movement that Trump and officials like Ogles represent.

I've basically gone full Schmittian when it comes to these cretins. Ogles and his ilk aren't counterparties in a democratic system; they are sworn enemies of the American republic who are working to destroy it from within.

You can have the best armed forces in the history of the world, but if you are an incompetent criminal without a plan, you can still lose a war, and rather quickly.

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Lawsuit and probe launched into whether there will be armed ICE agents posted at ballot boxes this year

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5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.

Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.

Just remember, when It Finally Happens, Donald Trump won't be able to hear your wild celebration but all his lickspittles and failsons will.

If you are watching Trump's presser right now, you are seeing beyond reasonable doubt a person not mentally suited for any position of responsibility. Even running a small store.

GOP members of the House and Senate: You are seeing this too.

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that music video is an amazing tribute to this, the greatest music video of all time

Unfortunate that so much US political media is committed to ignorance, credulity, and obsequiousness, because the response to Trump saying Iran has tomahawks should’ve been incessant questioning like “how did you let that happen?,” “did you authorize sales?,” and “who are you holding accountable?”

Between this and Anthony Wiener leading directly to the Comey letter in 2016, it’s stunning the amount of political sea change that is directly attributable to dudes being unable to keep it in their pants.

Yes. They should be impeaching him for one impeachable offense after another. Fail to get the votes to remove? Impeach again tomorrow. Jam up the legislative works. Exhaust his limited attention span. Force the news to cover every detail of each offense.

It literally doesn’t even matter that he wouldn’t be removed from office.

It’s better to lose your power trying to use it, as opposed to refusing to use your power just to maintain the fantasy that you still have it.

So many impeachable offenses. @juliusgoat.bsky.social has the right idea here.

I genuinely believe we’d be in a much different place today. If every single day of any Trump presidency there has been a new impeachment filed with all Democrats voting for at every opportunity. Even if there had never been a republican defection it would frame things far more accurately.

If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.

People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.

If we could do only one thing to right this ship it has to be ending the culture of elite impunity in this country. Once you get past a certain wealth threshold you not only become invulnerable to criminal liability, but you lose the ability to lose in any way at all

impeach. convict. remove. prosecute. rinse. repeat.

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

If this keeps up, threat of boycott of World Cup in US will become pretty serious: hard to get people to come to country that is destabilizing world with wars of stupidity AND is notoriously tossing visitors into concentration camps. Regardless, our tourist industry is smoked.

Someone quick. Dump some Epstein files to cover up the Iran War before this gets out of hand.

it would be pretty funny if a fuel crisis caused regime change in the US before it did in cuba

The red cone superimposed over this image shows the estimated area of impact of the missile visible in the footage. The graphic also shows the position of a clinic, the school and other damaged buildings.

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.

They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.