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This ad dominates the cultural conversation for three days and sparks a serious discussion about statute of limitations on making jokes about serious subjects, up until Trump announces he’s turning the Capitol Dome upside down and filling it with chili and then he’s going to swim in the chili

This is chilling. It's the authoritarian state flexing its power in the worst way. When ICE arrests someone, they look up their voting registration. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

The orientation I want congress to have: productive conflict is GOOD. Dems have a real credibility gap. They need to communicate clearly to the public what they are for. Hold the regime accountable and force Trumpists to oppose popular stuff. Don't muddy the message with watered down bipartisan BS.

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

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I would feel bad for the DOJ lawyer getting creamed by this panel but he is taking an evil position and trying to subvert free and fair elections.

Every single Justice Department attorney involved with this lawsuit should be disbarred.

The toxicity that @ericlipton.nytimes.com and his colleagues have uncovered is everywhere but if you live in Texas, Louisiana, or Alabama pay special attention

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

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The Moxie mascot guy opens up and says, "I've been pointing at Susan Collins and calling her a fascist this whole time, but they didn't want a speech bubble on all that soda."

Nothing is a more convincing admission that you know your entire administration is corrupt than giving criminal pardons to EVERYONE.

SCOOP: Spokesperson for Sen. Ron Wyden told me he is investigating 2 for-profit companies running new ICE facility for unaccompanied children set to open in Louisiana. LaSalle Corrections and 'humanitarian response' firm Anovaeon LLC are facing Wyden's scrutiny. www.thequeenzone.com/scoop-top-se...

We actually just don’t have a rule of law at the federal level if he does this. And I don’t think any sane reading of the Founding Fathers would indicate they expected the pardon power to be this sweeping.

The Disqualification Clause can play a remedial, protective role for the rule of law in the wake of a mass pardon. Immunity from prosecution — if it comes at the cost of the political and gov’t careers young Trumpers expected to have — may not stack up as worth it.

Right. Know what else the pardon power doesn’t extend to? Permanent disqualification by Congress from elected and appointive office under 14A, §3.

Ah: look at this train, pulling into the station right on time.

the reason you issue preemptive mass pardons is to reassure junior staff who are shitting themselves that they’re safe and they don’t have to flip on you. going to be very important to push back on their validity, which is nil, preemptively also

if they attempt to do this and we let it stand, the country is basically over. cooked.

I met with Finer, Sullivan, and a bunch of Biden's senior people several times throughout 2023-2024 and I cannot stress enough how maddening it is to watch them reposition now after spending the time they were actually in power gaslighting the shit out of everyone

Boston Dynamics workers ask top execs not to allow use of their robotic dogs by ICE. The execs said No. @bostonglobe.com @yogevtoby.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/23/b...

i really do think that a successful impeachment and removal of hegseth is a live possibility if dems win the senate. he is a genuine disaster.

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Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: A man (80s?) with a prodigious bushy moustache takes a bite from a cream donut and SQUISH. Cream covering his moustache and squootling up his nostrils. His wife howling with laughter.

Did he think this was a private message or something?

Bullying hurts, that's why everyone hates it. But when Secretary of State Marco Rubio tries to organize a coup on X, it's necessary.

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this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

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Massachusetts may be a small state, but we have a Rep. Massive! (Not really. It's Massie. Once again @bostonglobe.com's lack of copyeditors comes shining through.)

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Democrats should really feature these creeps their extensive ties to this administration.

Seconding the 'please, if you have room and inclination, adopt' because what if you DO adopt some little creecher and you're like "I have never had a cat before, he is very cute but what do I do with him" and he's like "YOU DO THIS" for a solid month (Photo from July 2022)

The same people who insist on policing public bathrooms in order to protect girls from sexual predators are now calling a child rape victim, whose mother lost custody due to that abuse, a liar. loathsome

it's cool that you can send "STOP" to instantly block an automated political fundraising text message so they have to text you from a different number five minutes later

AOC: "What the Trump administration is doing in targeting trans people is to get everyone on board with supporting defunding their own civil rights ... understand that when they attack trans girls in sports, they're also attacking all women's ability to stand up against their abusers"

I got triple-vaxxed (COVID, flu, and RSV) before NYCC and boy am I glad I did!

GET YOUR FLU SHOT LITERALLY TODAY DO NOT BE LIKE ME AND THINK “oh whatever i’ll just wait til i see my doctor” THIS SUCKS