These are big numbers.

"congress requires the VP/Cabinet to take the action"

That's not what it says—the premise of Raskin's bill is that Congress can define an alternative to the cabinet.

"the president would need to sign (or congress over-ride the veto)"

Yep. Won't happen. But it's a good bill, and good 2029 reform.

A picture of a library shelf with a small rolled up note on it. The note says “read this” in child’s handwriting.

A picture of the note unrolled. In the same child’s handwriting it reads “beware of the future!!”

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

Seems like a good thing to independently investigate. What do you or I know?

Yes, good point, the fact that a bill can be vetoed by the president does but a damper in the idea that this investigative commission would ever get off the ground during Trump's term.

The whole point of Raskin's bill is to exclude the cabinet from the process, something the 25th amendment supports but that Congress has never implemented.

Because the constitution gives Congress the power to assess whether "the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office", and Raskin thinks they should use that power?

(It's not "instead", BTW. Obviously Raskin thinks the president should be impeached.)

The article's wrong though.

"the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide"

(Will he be removed via this process? No. Is it appropriate for Congress to investigate the president's fitness? Sure!)

Do prices explain the 1980s? My vague sense is that price shocks of the 1970s brought Reagan to power, but then sentiment improved pretty quickly despite lingering inflation effects. Is that accurate?

They wanted a Messiah to lead them in righteous battle, and instead he was a Messiah who washes people’s feet, dines with sinners and outcasts, and gives himself up to die.

This is, quite famously, Jesus’s whole thing. Put away your sword, turn the other cheek, all that.

We (speaking for practicing Christian people) spent years in Sunday School training for this moment, and then face-planted so badly.

It's not just the hypocrisy. It's him embodying the precise kind of hypocrisy that Jesus and all the prophets so uniformly preached against.

Like an episode of Seinfeld where George wears a funny hat to a work party, says this is how he always dresses, and then has to spend the rest of his career wearing the funny hat.

They don’t own the flag, or the constitution, or the founders, or Jesus, or western culture. (Quite the opposite: they blaspheme these things constantly.) We can make them ours.

He’s never going to back off of the “incursion”/“excursion” flub. He really really wants you to know that’s what he meant to say, it wasn’t a mistake. Just like turning “asylum” into some garbage about Hannibal Lecter, it’s going to become a permanent part of every speech until the day he dies.

Sincere question if you feel like answering, it’s not as obvious to me as it must be to some people: when has Ezra given the impression that he did not know that this is exactly who Trump is?

Whatever these Wordle stats are measuring, it’s not skill and luck.

Rahm Emanuel was suggesting a blockade on @podsaveamerica.crooked.com 2 days ago—so FWIW it’s not out of nowhere, and it’s something serious people would consider.

Gene would have been so pissed about this

Always making bad life choices?

the extent to which so many men are sex pests is just baffling and depressing

you can just Not Do That

there is shit that's hard for me! remembering to take in the trash cans is hard! checking the calendar is hard! starting a design doc is hard! not being a sex pest: not that hard

i don't understand why they landed integrity in the middle of the ocean. if i were them i would just land it at my house

Love you NASA, but reporting all your telemetry in imperial units is just embarrassing. You're scientists, not pirates.

Oh, absolutely. Just gesturing at the idea that the burden of proof here shouldn't be "it was non-consensual", it should be "there were sexual encounters".

And endorse Katie Porter. It's her, a billionaire, or a Republican.

Call me old-fashioned, but I think committing adultery and lying about it is disqualifying, even if it's *not* rape. 🤷

It’s a shame it couldn’t have just been called an “email address”, because everybody knows what those are.

we have got to get it together, in like twenty-four hours the astronauts are back

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