Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
Something that been alluded to all day but I want to make explicit is that "don't give money to random people online" is one of the basic principles of both fiscal and computer safety I was brought up with.
There are four charities I donate to at the end of the month, and two patreons I support.
The extent to which the last fucking decade of OVERWHELMING and INESCAPABLE discourse about "cancel culture" and "free speech" and "intellectual diversity" has turned out to be utter and complete bullshit with essentially no consequences for the participants has been extremely blackpilling ngl.
Question for Randy Barnett: If I used whatever legal skills I have to make legal arguments I know to be unsound and without a legitimate legal basis, backed by alleged facts I know to be untrue, to bring a frivolous case claiming he should be fired and disbarred, should I be immune from punishment?
Probably just a coincidence that the law professors defending insurrectionist John Eastman are the same guys arguing against birthright citizenship, in no way reflective of a world view on who the law protects vs binds
The American gestapo abducted an 85 year-old widow.
Was she one of the worst of the worst? No, her step-son, a retired Alabama state trooper, got ICE to put her in a detention center to deport her because he wanted all of his father's inheritance.
Sounds like the son is the worst of the worst.
Takano has the power to initiate the process for Trump's removal! If you really truly believe he should be, the answer is impeachment. It's not the 25th Amendment. Pretending it's up to Vance and the Cabinet is a complete dodge. The body that matters here is the one Takano has a vote in, not RFK.
Jaw-dropping account of the 27-year-old tyro who is spearheading the State Department assault on America’s European allies. It’s telling that he and other MAGA warriors denounce restrictions on free speech everywhere but in Hungary or Russia or Belarus. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/w...
it really is remarkable *how mild* the op-ed that she wrote was. It really shouldn’t matter what she said, but I think they chose to make an example of her precisely *because* she didn’t do anything remotely wrong. They wanted to show they could do this to anyone.
Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."
OOP
New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service.
All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.
When all this is over, I'll keep coming back to the fact that the US both 1) un-sanctioned Iranian oil and 2) blocked Iranian oil exports within a 30-day period as the best encapsulation of the strategic incoherence of this whole war.
You do not hate Joe Manchin nearly enough
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)
Yeah, Just War is a thing; the well-drilled theologians offering their thoughts on the current situation are extremely aware of the many centuries of debate on the topic, and they're still saying what they're saying
A thing I really cannot emphasize enough is that "people who post about how mad they are about Economy" is NOT A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF ECONOMY. Unlike, say, broad snapshots of material conditions based on scientific samples of income, spending, employment, etc.
It, also, raised wages of the lowest cohorts for the first time in a long time. That's a pretty nifty little trick.
Anyway next time a bunch of people over-worried about inflation are going to drive us straight into the concrete divider because inflation bad
free speech is when you're free to shut up and sit there while i give a speech
me: ever heard of quasimodo? hemingway? pavlov? donne?
wife: please don’t
me: they don’t ring any bells?
wife: my mother was right
workman over at my house liked the anti-ICE signs. is generally libertarian but likes the constitution. I didn't think Joe and I especially shared political values and have never talked politics with him, but it turns out that murdering people in the streets of minneapolis does in fact upset folks.
The replacement of Jesus with Trump as the messianic figure in right wing American Christianity is predicated on plausible deniability, and Trump breaks this contract every time he explicitly acknowledges that he has taken the place of Christ in their worship.
i think there's a lot of things that trump demonstrates, but one of them is that i'd really much rather have the instability of parliament-based states than have a leader who has to serve out a four year term no matter what
This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist
There's this myth that non-voters are just as aware of and engaged with current events as voters are and that they just haven't found the candidate that inspires them and no, that's not true at all, it's usually that they don't know anything about politics at all, which is the entire challenge.
Hawkishness tries to pawn itself off as a sort of savvy. It contrasts itself with the naivete of the doves, whose idealism blinds them to the world’s harsh realities. But for all that purported shrewdness, hawks don’t understand war even in the micro. On March 12th, Stephens said that the war would “almost surely be over by the end of the month.” He said he expected Iran to lose its grip on the Strait of Hormuz “in a week or two.” He wants you to trust his ability to accurately gauge the vast, cascading effects of a region-wide conflict, to believe that he can correctly weigh the scales of mass death, but he can’t muster a week’s worth of foresight.
photo of the dish towel used as a white flag at Appomattox
On this day, 1865: the last Confederate flag, a white dish towel.
When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge.
I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass.
Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.
don’t forget that wilson thinks black people should be enslaved!