The Trump Administration desperately wants to win the war with Iran, and desperately wants to lose the war with Russia - but can't seem to manage to do either.

I don’t think the US is demanding anything like a surrender. The demands tend to be pretty amorphous and shifting, but the most consistent one- that Iran give up its nuclear program and the uranium- seems fairly reasonable, especially if Iran doesn’t intend to develop a weapon (as it claims).

This is an incredible resource if you're following the ongoing immigration habeas disaster

I am 65 yo and I have no idea what a jujube is.

Shouldn’t it be something like “the Worst and the Dimmest”?

The Case for a Select Committee on Pardon Abuse The corruption of the pardon power has been decades in the making. It’s time to fix it.

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Is it too late to start a Groyper School of Law?

Big step sideways

Is this a strategic choice by Iran or does it reflect a breakdown in their command and control?

Yeah, this is not the least bit Orwellian.

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😀

Possibly there was just a misunderstanding when Noem said Corey was high on the “org chart.”

This can’t be real

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Can’t Congress just direct them to fund current operations with previously appropriated funds?

Ryan- good piece. You may also find this of interest.

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Saw plenty of police and National Guard when I was in DC on Monday.

I love how Vance has to check to see how he should vote. 😂

A reminder that state legislatures can play a role in investigating such abuses.

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Indeed. And the fact they haven’t tells him that he could get away with it.

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I know, it’s too on the nose to be funny.

I am not sure how one would test such a law. If the president decided to nominate someone without the required qualifications and the Senate confirmed then, who would have standing to sue?

I dunno, Kel, the alligator thing sounds plausible to me. I’m just spitballing, but maybe one of the alligators took the form of the girl he ate and now serves as press secretary?

Stranger things have happened.

Eisenstein

Maybe we can just reset to 2028

They can still try to pin this on a ham sandwich

Is referring to lawyers as “Attorney ____” now a thing? I had a pro bono client that called me Attorney Stern in the 1980s and I don’t think I have heard it since.

Artificial intelligence vs organic stupidity