If not for Trump, what's the emoluments clause for? What's impeachment for? What's the 25th Amendment for? What's section 3 of the 14th Amendment for? What are checks and balances for?
The baddies are cherrypicking the Constitution the same way they do the bible: for their own benefit.
Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.
Peacock spider and/or jumping spider. They're both super cute, and spiders need some good PR 🥹
I won't even visit. Which sucks bc my sister lives there.
New euphemism for "pure, unadulterated horseshit" just dropped
NOBODY HATES THEIR AUDIENCE AS MUCH AS DICK WOLF
This really should not be a surprise to anyone. But then I wrote a post in 2024 listing Hungary's influence op as one of the things NOT being covered bc of the 1000th Joe Biden Old story.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Could we do a Truman Show situation where we build a fake Oval Office where he watches AI created fake news about himself and let him believe he's still president and tweet the hours away and meanwhile we can impeach him and move on...I'm not sure he'd know the difference
Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.
Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.
He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.
The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.
aww Cuddy 🥹
Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.
No worries - haha nudges are good! If any part of me wonders if ppl actually care if it gets finished, this helps me believe yes they do 😊. At least there's one vote for finishing it 😄
One of the ways news media often fail us is by giving us the microscopic rather than the telescopic view. Everything I mention in this essay is well-documented, but the dots are mostly not connected to make visible this death by a thousand cuts our country is undergoing.
Aw thanks 💜
I do plan to finish it!! Got a lot on my plate right now but once a couple big things are done I'm going back to it. I'm so glad you have enjoyed it so far
Barack Obama sent seasoned diplomats and nuclear scientists to negotiate the Iran Deal. Donald Trump sent a few real estate bros and JD Vance. Failure was a foregone conclusion.
Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.
A record to be proud of.
Science is good. We should fund it.
I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.
Is the fact that the Iran war wasn’t congressionally authorized something we no longer talk about? Seems like the reporting/discussion now just assumes that Trump can just do whatever he wants wrt the use of force
We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to re-open the thing that was open before the war.
Art of the deal, baby.
Yeah for sure. That's why I started by saying I hate that I noticed it. I hate that they've mainstreamed that kind of thinking.
but this is exactly the kind of gimmicky childish BS they think is hilarious
I hate that I noticed it, but it's hardly a coincidence that this (nonspecific) threat of big bold dramatic something made by POTUS 47, in which he refers to 47 years of misdeeds, has its deadline on April 7.
4/7.
perhaps someone should explain to the Mad King that if he ignites the mutually assured destruction scenario there'll be nobody left to scam, grift, and con. there's no profit in the apocalypse.
Found it! #radiolab episode "Nukes" - it's about more than that question but I do believe a lot of the logistics are described. And in a very surprising coincidence, it aired on this exact date in 2017‼️
oh you know what, I think there's actually a Radiolab episode about this... hold please
Jeff Bezos has $222 billion.
If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over.
And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.