I am going to become The Joker.

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

Just an amazing, 2003 Detroit Tigers-esque ability by Vance to take Ls

incredible that the lifelong Catholic in this specific situation is The Pope

Once again, if I had seen this video on April 13, 2016, I would have immediately had a stroke.

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

JESUS, I SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, AND I WANT THAT FOR MΕ.

Me, seeing Hungarian elections results

Splashdown

Splashdown. Back on Earth.

Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate

Actually, this one’s easy: no one involved is all that bright, and things got out of hand.

thakn you god for giving iran a giant victory against america, we praise you for making gas $5/gallon

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

every country on a choke point was watching this. the us navy’s power projection was to protect shipping lanes and choke points and allow free movement. that’s gone now, forever

big deal I was putting up these numbers in the tailgate lots at Penn State in the early aughts. Level up

These hyperbolic, overzealous statements from the clerics in Tehran aren’t helping lower the the temperature after the ceasefire ::puts finger to ear:: I am now being told these statements are actually

This is preemptive Sleve McDichael erasure

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“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.”

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

...he says, as Vance himself _interferes with a foreign election_

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

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“The Constitution isn’t a suicide pact,” like “you can’t yell fire in a crowded theater,” is a vapid content-free bromide that translates to “my policy preferences override the constitution.” It doesn‘t mean a Goddamned thing and never has.

i've yet to see evidence that this man is anything other than the fucking coolest to ever do it

There are literal reams of cultural artifacts, detailing with minute precision exactly when, how, and why he has bluffed and backed down for the entirety of his public life for decades, but go off king

I will Venmo any white house reporter $600 to read this to trump and give him a pen and paper to do it

Jane Fonda read a letter from Renee Good's wife, Becca Good, at the #NoKings rally in St. Paul.

"We were robbed of an incredible human," the letter reads. "It has made people pause, take a breath and choose sides. We choose the side of love."

It. Is. In. The. Fourteenth. Amendment.

It. Is. A. Right.

Democrats put 9 bills forward to fund TSA.

Trump and Republicans blocked every bill because they want to tie TSA workers’ paychecks to billions in more unchecked funding for ICE.

The answer is clear: fund TSA and not ICE.