Politics

A lot of ink has been spilled about how Trump told a crowd at Turning Point Action Believers’ Summit “In four years, you don’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.” Given his history it’s understandable when people worry this was a not-so-subtle hint that […]

Over the past three years we’ve seen a flood of disastrous 6-3 decisions come out of the Supreme Court, upending centuries of established law. While most of us have concentrated on the real-world impact, from women forced to bear non-viable fetuses to public schools engaging in religions indoctrination to Donald Trump being granted what amounts

A few years ago there was an article about a Western Union employee whose job was to talk people out of wiring their life savings to scammers. At one point they describe a woman clearly in panic. In one hand she held her own cell phone with the scammer still on the line and insisting

Best description I’ve heard so far about the FBI raid on Trump’s quarters at Mar-a-Lago: EmptyWheel has a nice write-up on how what we know so far lines up with the Espionage Act.

A few days ago Kevin Drum lamented that the conservative attacks on Roe vs. Wade are much easier to understand than liberal arguments defending it: Conservatives say, “Abortion isn’t mentioned anywhere in the Constitution and it was illegal almost everywhere before 1973.” In response, liberals stutter and stammer and reel off a few hundred incomprehensible

So now if Christian Scientists gain a supermajority in a state legislature, can they outlaw all medical procedures? Or is it only Catholic dogma that gets to do that?

Quick reminder that the House public hearings on the January 6th insurrection will be streaming live at january6th.house.gov starting today at 5pm PDT. You can also get your pick of full live hearings plus commentary from pretty much every national news outlet except Fox News (naturally), who says they’ll only the hearings “as news warrants.”

A well done message from Arnold Schwarzenegger to the Russian people (in many ways reminiscent of his message to the American people shortly after the failed January 6th insurrection last year).

I never thought I’d say this, but I think I preferred Republicans back when its leadership ran the caucus with an iron fist. [Migrated from Google+]