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I see the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court is not disciplining lawyers who openly abuse the power of their NY bar license. This is the kind of thing that should result in swift disbarment.

How an intellectually disabled person would understand the Nobel Prize.

It's the ruling class's only remaining move to try to preserve the neoliberal order they built. But McCain-Romney Republicans are even more discredited than establishment Dems like Rahm Emanuel are. It can therefore lead only to MAGA's political victory, which he prefers to a more equitable society.

This is funny because he's only revealing that Republican senators have been demanding that Trump link his stupid construction projects to the military so they can have a reason to say why they support it.

We must reform state bar associations in the US. Screening bar aspirants for moral character and fitness is already something that all states do. Clearly, the screen is woefully deficient, since it fails to reject people who will so readily abuse the power that comes with the license.

Easy to get away with when your political competition is the discredited Democratic Party establishment. And that's on Democratic Party voters for letting them hang around well past their expiration date.

Worth observing that the Democratic Party establishment—one that is still very much in control of the Democratic Party—fully participated over the last 4+ decades in creating this oligarchy that is now waging war against the American working public. Democratic voters have never held them to account.

We’re back with our second story about how Trump’s purge of the FBI killed a sweeping bribery probe in D.C. This time, we take you to South Carolina, where two powerful politicians escaped scrutiny: Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. James Clyburn. THREAD 👇

My theory that Trump is intellectually disabled (clinically speaking) continues to accrue evidence.

Never trust anybody who wakes up at 3:24 a.m unless it's for a minimum wage job.

And they did it in open collaboration with the Democratic Party establishment.

Foreign policy has nothing to do with "national security" in the sense of protecting the domestic public from harm. Neither Russia nor China presents any threat to any American family. "National security" is just shorthand for ruling class imperial objectives.

The billionaires are getting brazen.

The idea that Trump would manufacture physically indistinguishable versions of himself to perform his public duties while he stays home (and makes love to one of them) is essentially the same comic premise in Charlie Kaufman's Antkind.

The NYT leadership is partly allied with Trump over Zionism, and Zionism is probably its leadership's highest political priority. That's why you get substantial deference to Trump from "liberal" elements of the ruling class.

Dr. Debby Day said her bosses at Cigna gave her a stark warning: Work faster, or the company might fire her. She said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers.” (Published April 2024 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY

It's just a shame the Democratic Party base is going to squander it by failing to discipline their reps into passing sweeping reforms that will materially help working people. And that MAGA will survive as a consequence.

To be fair, he should be able to since there was absolutely no legal basis for excluding the Fed from the SCOTUS decision overruling Humphrey's Executor. The Fed has a gerrymandered protection. That doesn't make the investigation any less punitive or abusive (or racist), though.

Diminishing individual power is important for democracy not just for judges but also for legislators. This is why the Senate should be abolished (utterly antidemocratic) and the House expanded to at least 5,000 members—even that would not entirely restore individual voter power at the founding.

Monbiot's argument applies beat for beat to Nazism. Ultimately, both are just ethnonationalist political movements. That's what they have in common and that's what makes them inherently racist. The existence of anti-Zionist Jews throughout every point in history should make this clear.

Raice thinks Americans only need to know what Israelis think is important.

Democrats are going to win big and then do nothing with the Congressional power they win and lose their credibility just in time for 2028. If Democratic voters don't want another Republican Congress in 2028, they are going to have to discipline the Dems they elect now.

Convinced Jeffries is Susan Collins in blackface

“Surveillance video obtained by our Houston sister station, ABC13 shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas on Saturday.” abc7.com/story/ice-ru...

It's official: Stocks are at all-time highs (SPX weekly), while consumer sentiment about current conditions is at an all-time low Augur Infinity

Candidate named Hitler Mussolini elected mayor in Peru

Lol this is what the former deputy leader of the UK *Labour* Party is up to these days.

Because I lack faith in electoral politics, I could overlook Mamdani abandoning promises to reduce state violence against the poor. What I can't overlook is his right-wing rhetoric endorsing policing as effective public safety policy, because that actively damages movements. He should just shut up.

Macron's mission was always only to serve the ruling class. The French public was always going to resist. What's most confounding in the West is why the public (in any country) cannot seem to organize adequately to at least stop these ruling class servants from gaining power through elections.

Today, Interior Minister Nuñez temporarily suspended police use of stun grenades during high school protests, two days after a 15-year-old lost a hand in a grenade explosion in Lens. The decision recalls scrutiny of grenade use at Sainte-Soline in March 2023. www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...

The EU has been especially designed to produce this result. The idea was to put structures in place (Maastricht) that would conversation national govts and coerce them into (or provide justifications for) cutting public services in order to make European labor more dependent on European capital.

US households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study finds

This has always been up to the States, and States historically allowed certain non-citizens to vote (11 of the original 13 allowed it). Residency and property were the primary qualifications, not citizenship. It would not be until 1926 that the last state eliminated non-citizen voting (Arkansas).

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

At the political level, the Abundance agenda gets reduced to the familiar "cutting red tape," presented as a "big," radically fresh idea.

Serving the UK ruling class above all.

The popularity of the administrators of ruling class neoliberalism in Western Europe. Burnham is relatively fresh but his will inevitable trend down over time.

It's more that the mass (ruling class) media has to maintain the credibility of the system the ruling class controls. It can't and won't undermine that system. Only if a president gets elected who presents a threat to the ruling class will it begin attacking the system that produced it. (See Corbyn)

We'll know that some version of a republic has been restored when (if) Hegseth ever is prosecuted. Hegseth's pretty young and there's no limitations period for murder. (But understand the loss of the republic is not a new phenomenon. The ruling class granted itself immunity decades ago.)

Same old same old.

What happens when neoliberalism turns nerds into oligarchs. To stop it, oust the Democratic Party establishment that created and maintains the oligarchy.

The companies are pretty clearly lying that their "systems" blocked the ad.