while a lot of admin’s wrongs are described by the Declaration of Independence’s complaints, its worth noting that Trump is seeking powers far beyond even those wielded by George III

i don't have much of an opinion on what kinds of sex work should be legal, but i have a very strong opinion that journalism should not be a kind of sex work

I think he means it in a Cromwellian sense

He was in group chats with them before the election, where do you think he got the "Haitians in Springfield are eating people's cats" thing.

This would have required resignation in 2005.

The general expectation among US elite culture is that the broad catch all of "liberals"--urban dwellers, minorities, women, LGBTQ ppl, etc--are expected to eat unending amounts of shit from "real" Americans while a) not complaining and b) still financially supporting them but without holding power

Megan Fucking McArdle disclosed the think tank that her husband worked for whenever she wrote about anything touching on policy areas related to that think tank.

If immigrants are such violent criminals, how are ICE agents not facing any actual violence for their extra Constitutional activity?

I’m just going to delete that rather than let everyone and their dog dunk on a joke about a passage I read in a book about post-Roman Britain which really did on that particular page dunk on the dark ages concept before going into detail on how things got worse in those particular areas.

the same administration that is cracking down on free speech, protest, and academic freedom in the name of combatting antisemitism is dismissing out-of-hand the fact that their party is absolutely brimming with nazis

Nazis??? In MY republican staffer class?????

For 50 years the GOP voted in every single election at every level to get a deep bench, appoint judges, and overturn Roe, and idiots blame Biden because he was stuck with the 6-3 Supreme Court that was the result of them staying home in 2014 and 2016 in the first place. Infuriating.

Every angry screed about how Biden blew it just does not acknowledge the whole reason Biden was unpopular was because he did the exact economic policy they claimed to want instead of pummeling the workers with austerity until Doordash servants worked for pennies and Subway footlongs were $5 again.

It is insane to me that his approval is in the toilet, especially in the economy and the chattering classes just pretend it is not happening.

On some level, it's genuinely hilarious that Republicans have gone from making these nuanced arguments about how wokeism stifles free thought, or how racially disparate outcomes aren't indicative of racism, etc. . . . to just straight up defending weird dudes who say "I love Hitler."

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

when nuzzi defenders log on

This is the same Speaker who has repeatedly refused to put up the congressionally-mandated plaque honoring the Capitol Police members who were viciously assaulted by MAGA goons on January 6th.

We've seen your deeds, you oily liar.

not to repeat the obvious but: if they are doing this to one of the most famous Western activists alive, imagine what they are doing to the people whose names we will never know

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Weird, I thought Blue Anon, were the guys who thought Harris actually won in 2024.

Here's a basic rule of legal interpretation, as applicable to the US Constitution as to ordinary statutes: later additions have priority over earlier provisions in the event of conflict.

The Fifteenth Amendment, including Section 2, is later in time than the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1.

the other thing about "radlib" is that it highlights that I do in fact think that issues of freedom and autonomy are in fact higher priority than issues of economic justice - and this is actually where "radical" comes in!