The notion that you can’t be appointed to public office by the Administration without genuflecting to the obvious and odious lie is deeply alarming and, in itself, disqualifying.

Right: [reviles academia for generations, celebrates deportations for writing op-eds and protesting, dismantles departments it doesn’t like, enacts de jure speech codes]

Left: [is sometimes annoying and unserious]

Some Academics:

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Most of you have probably seen @atrupar.com’s tweet of Benny Johnson saying Somalians have IQs of 70.

What’s more interesting (and troubling) to me however, is this reply by Stephen Miller’s wife Katie about Richard Lynn. Because *that* s**t deserves a deeper dive.

So let's do that. /1

The Democratic party of my youth sucked in a way that people refuse to recognize

I just...were none of these people alive in 2002? In 2009, even?

I used to live and work in a small town in a mostly rural area. It was amazing how often people wanted to talk about corporeal punishment and how great they thought it was.

Imagine sitting in front of a committee of the United States Senate and deliberately humiliating yourself, your reputation, your family, and your entire career in this way in order to impress Donald Trump, a 79 year old man who every morning smears absurd orange makeup on his face.

Another way to put it would be that the state, via its own incompetence, accidentally accomplished what they were trying to prosecute the guy for doing.

Anyway I filed an MAR and we sorted it out but I still found the whole thing flabbergasting

And the brother, who pleaded guilty to a felony for using my client's name to evade criminal responsibility, has now got my client locked up for violating probation for a crime that somebody else pleaded guilty to. Impressive!

So I get the client on a new charge and see that he's in jail for absconding from probation. He tells me he's not on probation and never pleaded guilty to anything. He is correct.

One of my all time favorite weird (also horrible) things that happened in court: client's twin brother was charged with ID theft for using client's name when stopped by police. Twin brother pleads guilty and gets probation, but the court wrote client's name on the judgment, not his brother's.

I also think that when the Court behaves the way the Roberts Court has behaved other people will feel less constrained by norms about how we should treat the court.

Personally I think it is a bigger deal from a judicial ethics and norms perspective for sitting supreme court justices to accept bribes than it is for some law clerk to give documents to the media.

There is a group of people who are extremely concerned about the ethics and norms of anyone who is critical of the Supreme Court and completely apathetic about the behavior of the court itself.

Donald Trump is running a natural experiment to find out how unpopular it is possible to be in the current party system.

Is that a challenge

I am a lifelong civilian with no training of any kind in military affairs and I still know that's dumb as hell

Donald Trump somehow found a guy to run the DOD who doesn't think it's important to the army to keep soldiers from getting sick.

First: hilarious.

Second: A core belief of Trump-brand conservativsm is there are and never have been difficult problems, only dumb leaders without the strength to be cruel enough to solve them.

It's why they always look so baffled when pushing the "more cruelty" button doesn't seem to work.

And ARG sez....32% approval. Both of these shops trend low, but both are even worse than they had been.

Seriously wondering if it's time to relabel the whole column of "Safe" or "Solid" Republican seats into "Damn Who the Hell Knows In This Environment?"

(this principle may not apply if that plaintiff was in Washington DC on January 6, 2021)

It's amazing how much conservative 'jurisprudence' can be predicted by asking "is one of the litigants a criminal defendant or civil rights plaintiff? They lose"

“Oh, everyone knows the Court isn’t doing law” no the thing is they don’t and saying that they do doesn’t make it true.

One of multiple parts of the Atlantic story that is one hundred percent true is President Trump’s frustration that the MAGAfied feds aren’t jailing nearly enough of his political enemies so u can read his words today in the context of liking his job title and wanting to keep it

Whenever we get the chance we need to show them this was a bad bet

Tbh I'm not sure what reason anyone in Trump II has to be subtle about the corruption. The guy got reelected after an unsuccessful coup; what's gonna happen if he just steals billions from the Treasury and accepts massive bribes from foreign powers?

Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.

I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.