"Adding to the train wreck, Halligan’s appointment as US attorney may not even be legal, meaning that the indictment is a legal nullity … which may actually be the least embarrassing outcome here for the Justice Department." — @lizdye.bsky.social

“Go to a No Kings rally. What do you see? You see moms and grandmas and kids and dogs and funny signs and dancing and happy displays of opposition to the regime that are foundationally nonviolent. And on the other end, you’ve got a regime that’s led by a guy who cheered the January 6th insurrection”

Eric Trump, in three different right-wing media interviews over the past week, accused Jack Smith of "planting" evidence obtained in the Aug. 2023 Mar-a-Lago raid.

Problem: Smith didn't become special counsel until three months after that search. www.mediamatters.org/eric-trump/e...

And it's a weird fucking bet on the future of the party. How many voting-age groypers do they imagine there'll be for the next half dozen or so election cycles?

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

You could cut about 80% of Melville's bonkers and-here's-some-MOAR-stuff-I-learned-about-whales-and-whaling interludes and end up with something pretty fucking good.

There is a man so nuts and so completely at odds with his professed Christianity that he convinced himself Jesus wrote Hebrews. Andy Schlafly, ladies and gentlemen:

www.conservapedia.com/Mystery:Did_...

Also lying:
- your own eyes
- every bit of video evidence
- the fabric of reality itself

Stock market! Do not crash! I was joking!

I hope we see a lot of inflatable frogs at the protests. Keep up the mockery.

I mean, I am not sure that the Supreme Court cares about Congressional intent any longer, but the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee saying she does not want layoffs seems like something that might come up in a court case about the legality of the layoffs.

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

It's just lack of effort, man

Doomscrolling break!
I imagine every historian has a list of Most Neglected Aspect of History. I welcome them in the replies. Here's a thread on my candidate:

The California steamship lines from 1849–1869, during the gold rush until the first transcontinental railroad's completion.

My case:
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This short passage from a Politico afternoon newsletter captures a huge amount of the advantage gained by lying at scale and the why the DC press corps remains wired for the GOP.

It's nuts that a party can hold the presidency and majorities in both the House and Senate and not be able to reliably pass legislation.

I’ve been looking around for the most credulous mid-campaign piece about Trump’s obviously fatuous Project 2025 disavowal, and I think it might be this one from Politico. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Just to keep banging my drum: I think the Trump administration using every possible government website to blame the shutdown on the Democrats is a sign they’re really nervous that this is going to blow up in their faces. It’s once again a show of weakness, not strength.

What good are negotiations over budgets when Trump just ignores the agreements? Vought saying he will cancel another $8 billion in federal spending in blue states.

"Republicans run the entire government but can't keep it open"

That's it. That's the whole story.

Pynchon's Vineland doesn't survive the transplant to the present day. There's plenty to enjoy, but it's all predicated on the nonsense of a 90s / 00s revolutionary radicalism that requires the cold dead hand of the 80s never to have happened. PTA's too enamoured w. his source material to notice.

For 180 days now, Judge Cannon has refused to even rule on requests to lift her injunction against releasing Special Counsel Jack Smith's Vol II report on the Mar-a-Lago case. How is that anything other than a naked act of political loyalty?

Generational Freudian slip