Somebody's going to do a Venn diagram of lawyers & legal academics who think John Eastman shouldn't have been subject to discipline & those who think Adam Liptak should, right?

like this is an extremely well documented and verified fact about humans writ large: cooperation is how we became such a staggeringly successful species.

this fact also enrages and confuses loathsome manosphere types who know somewhere in their bones that it’s true

It bears repeating that historically, the #1 thing that keeps people alive in hard times and disasters is “the ability to play well with others”

"TJ Sabula, a 40-year-old UAW Local 600 line worker at the factory, told The Post he was the one who shouted at Trump. He said he has been suspended from work pending an investigation. 'As far as calling him out, definitely no regrets whatsoever,' Sabula said"
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

One classy (and quick) thing Biden did: When a guy said "let's go Brandon" on a WH Christmas special, he said "Let's go Brandon, I agree" and kept talking to him.

We don't have a king. You're allowed to talk shit to him!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETml...

The 2024 election should have buried belief in this one and salted the earth on top of it

No you don't, that's not how you win at politics, if it was, Democrats would be the only winners in politics. That's just not true that adopting policies that make a difference in people's lives is enough to win in politics. Its a lie

1) he's not, 2) its about the Jooooos, 3) reminder that Johnny Favs and the pod save boys and him are tight

Worth pointing out again that this is not genuine regret over engineering the election of an inept tyrant--it's buyer's remorse because Trump's specific flavor of gutter antisemitism can't overcome his love of the Netanyahu regime.

Right. I don’t think most Dems like this in the abstract, but it’s just another example of the problem of being a party that (imperfectly) tries to respect laws/norms while also trying to oppose a party that will run over their grandmothers to get power.

unless and until republicans agree to a ceasefire in the form of strict anti-gerrymandering provisions: fuck them to hell, squeeze every last drop of blood from the stone, lock them out of every seat you can

Right. Tho at an indirection; they are the custodians of neutrally applying the people's constraints (the constitution) and the people's representatives' constraints (regulations and statutes) to specific facts, and holding the exclusive means for the state to coercively punish individuals

Of course the whole point of my grandfather's book on the point is that the Court is (meant to be) a People's institution! It does our business, in our name, because we have charged it with that task. That is the only basis on which it can have any legitimacy.

We invented a mechanism where some unelected group decides social and national policy in a fully arbitrary and capricious way back in ancient times, and the thing is we invented the judiciary to explicitly not be that

The point of the Court is to maintain general confidence in the lawfulness of the government

By creating a mechanism, as fair as it can be made, for ensuring that lawless measures do not go into effect

In the absence of this function, everything breaks down. Sound familiar?

A thing that I think a lot of people don't appreciate is that the reason we urgently need court reform isn't that the Court is doing too MUCH, it's that it's doing too LITTLE

It is incapable of performing its essential function. That function is going undone, and this is destroying us as a nation

To clarify a little about this: yes, it is also doing too much. But that part of the problem is easily solved. It is, in fact, the matter of a moment for Congress to crush the courts underfoot, if it ever wants to

The "doing too little" part is the part that's tricky to solve

The Strange Death of Orbánism Franz Pokorny

Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...

this isn’t an argument for democrats, it’s just cope, republicans can and do seize these advantages all the time and they’re just shitting their pants because they put all their chips on a president who is shaping up to be the least popular of all time

one of the biggest technological revolutions in history and it has nothing to do with crypto, AI, metaverse or any of the things the media relentlessly hypes

"Teen births have crashed 81% since 1991"

the next democratic president will need both the courage and megaphone to say "the economy is good. i made it good" 80,000 times even if the media yells at them for it.

Seeing a lot more Republicans going with "WELL AKSHULLY higher gas prices aren't really costing you *that* much money" as their default response on posts about gas prices, and I really think they should do more of that. Say it louder so everyone can hear. Please. Speak up.

This is a play Trump has run for decades. If someone has a valid criticism or conflict with him he will personally insult them and the story becomes a two-sided "feud" or "quarrel" rather than "authority figure levies valid criticism of Trump"

Can confirm

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

California is the nation's LARGEST donor state — sending $275 BILLION more in taxes to Washington than we get back.

Donald Trump can lie all he wants about the Golden State, but we're the ones paying his bills and keeping the U.S. economy afloat.

I get why Levin has to talk like this but "reckless" implies they are foolishly overlooking the danger when the reality is much worse: they are releasing the J6ers precisely *because* they are dangerous and will commit violence on Trump's behalf again (and to encourage others to)

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Rümeysa Öztürk. Text on the card reads: “Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey”

Breaking news: Tufts University graduate Rümeysa Öztürk, who was arrested by masked immigration agents last year, has returned to her home country of Turkey, citing the "state-imposed violence and hostility" she said she experienced in the United States. trib.al/7GKyEiz