Kaelik

Your regular reminder that if you were ever dumb enough to fall for FIRE or Bari Weiss or any other Free Speech Grifter you should let me tell you all your political positions from now on to protect yourself from being conned by the most pathetically transparent cons of all time.

i'd love to know what was going on at the biden department of justice for four years

honestly prosecute merrick garland too

You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

Not a big story, it's just the Attorney General working with an imprisoned pedophile to help cover up the pedophile President's crimes conducted with his best friend for 15 years, a pedophile who the President sent, as a birthday card, a drawing of a naked adolescent girl.

The internet can be pretty gullible about tech products, but congrats to everyone who called exactly what this was going to be used for from the first moment they saw it.

It’s going to be interesting to watch many Americans come to terms with the fact that Netanyahu is not The Only Problem

I would love to live in a world where "President faces new rape allegation" isn't treated like a dog bites man story in the major media.

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

Note the key phrase "so many people." Yglesias thinks it's fine—good in fact—that American billionaires are very interested in foreign elections and routinely influence them to promote corruption and fascism. His concern is that filthy plebs like you and me might want better things for everyone.

How it feels right now

"they are especially primed to infer discriminatory intent" Oh, word? Who's been priming them?

The speed with which so many execs cozied up to this authoritarian says more about their revealed preferences than long term strategic thinking. They saw a chance for what they saw as a "business friendly" autocrat and oligarchic consolidation and jumped at it.

hey @criminalerin.bsky.social I think a new genius has arisen... in Mississippi

This was always abundantly clear

Republicans will pass a law and within the next year everyone from the center-"left" to the right will act like it's been on the books since 1776 and will entail a titanic remaking of legal codes to undo

Ever notice how you don’t really get any think-pieces whenever a bunch of left wing parties get elected all at once?

it is my deepest and most fervent wish that the tech oligarchs suffer consequences for openly allying with fascism the world over maybe we can extradite zuck in 2029

you cannot win the legal fight by attacking the pardons and you wouldn’t actually want that precedent anyway. you can only win by attacking the legitimacy of Trump.

here, write it down so it’s easy to repeat: an illegitimate supreme court allowed an insurrectionist barred by the 14th amendment to take office and his pardons aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on

There are some people who claim "oh, Dems in blue states will never shift towards enacting anti-trans policy" Meanwhile Colorado is literally enacting a medical detransition protocol for trans youth on medicaid.

the point isn't that we should do this of course. the point is that the constitutional crisis isn't around the corner, isn't just over the horizon, isn't even ongoing. it's over. the constitutional order is done. it's just a question of whether one has accepted that fact in their heart yet.

thanks to Trump v US, the president would have absolute immunity as CiC stuff is in his core powers. and he could pardon every single person involved. we already live in the lawless world, it's just that as of yet nobody has picked up the metaphorical/literal loaded gun yet.

a basic fact of our constitutional "order" that a dem president could have an OLC memo arguing that the neo-confederate rightwing legal movement is a national security threat and assault on the constitution. then, in his capacity as the commander in chief, order the assassination of a SCOTUS justice