gourmeta

World's foremost expert on taking off jackets while carrying a backpack

[gourmeta @hisybrag]

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[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

All the wrong 80 year olds.

[Grace Cathedral Park @gracecthdralprk]

For everything bad you could say about American culture (and it could fill libraries), we used to have a very Protestant aversion to ostentatious displays of wealth and a very republican aversion to veneration of living leaders. The Trump era has virtually destroyed both of those

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

The Department of Justice is now a joke.

This is an official filing signed by its top leadership.

[Jacob Rubashkin @JacobRubashkin]

Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

[Jake Moffatt @jakeonrails]

This kind of promotion should be illegal

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Could you imagine, someday when you’re old on your rocking chair, and your grandkid comes to you after googling your name when he realized you were in congress when the worst president, who was later determined to be riddled with dementia and and absolute failure as a man, was president, and saw what you said…👇👇

Imagine then taking inventory of your life and what you did with the moment that you were gifted to represent 700k people and put your hand on the Bible and swore to protect and defend the constitution… and coming to grips with the fact that you absolutely failed to do what was right. You were instead a subservient coward.

Thank God I don’t have to have that realization. Nehls and so many others won’t be so lucky

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Notice The Pope never calls anybody out by name, they just squeal like pigs because they know what they are.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson didn't invoke Weimar Germany as a rhetorical flourish. She cited a specific scholar by name in a footnote: Ernst Fraenkel, a Jewish labor lawyer who observed the Nazi legal system from the inside, smuggled his manuscript out of Berlin in 1938, and published "The Dual State" at the University of Chicago in 1941.

Fraenkel's framework is precise. The Nazis didn't immediately collapse Germany's legal system. They left courts functioning - particularly in contracts and economic matters - while placing Jews and political enemies in a separate lawless zone where no legal protection applied. Most Germans lived in the law-bound "normative state." The targeted lived in the "prerogative state." The facade of normalcy was the mechanism of control.

Jackson invoked Fraenkel to name what the court's Republican majority is doing in real time. In 21 consecutive shadow docket cases, the six conservative justices have let Trump opt out of the law - often with no explanation given at all. They blessed ICE racial profiling without citing a single legal justification. They allowed Trump to ignore $4 billion in congressionally appropriated foreign aid. They stripped lower courts of the ability to issue universal relief, meaning only those with resources to file individual lawsuits get protection from illegal presidential action.

Constitutional law professor Evan Bernick put it plainly: "The court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power."

Jackson's dissent is not hyperbole. A footnote citing a 1941 manuscript about Nazi legal architecture is a Supreme Court justice blowing the cover on what her colleagues are building.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

[ARGUING WITH A GRADUATE OF THE PONTIFICAL UNIVERSITY OF SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS] “This doesn’t line up with what I remember from VeggieTales.”

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

This is your periodic reminder that Donald Trump is a uniquely evil figure among Western politicians. Everyone else accepts election results, no matter what other differences they have with one another.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Zohran Mamdani Praising Jesus.

Donald Trump Praising Allah.

Easter 2026.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

One of the most shamelessly fraudulent presidential campaigns in American history:

[Jason, @jasonc_nc]

It’s deeply poetic that this date - 2032 - is when the earliest Gen X becomes eligible for full social security.

In other words the money runs out just as Gen X begins depending on it and long before Millenials ever think about seeing it.

Baby Boomers will get the 1st class version, plus various tax sweeteners. After them it’s downhill on subsidy and up on taxes.

[Silas P. Silas @KennyHistoric]

Conservatives suddenly being anti-gun so they can side with a tyrannical government should confirm they don’t actually stand for anything.

They’re just contrarians who side with whatever is the most evil

[David 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @discordspies]

This is a good metaphor actually because it’s just a more cautious and organised criminal complaining that the criminal empire is now exposed

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Having armed, masked federal agents roam the streets and threaten American citizens that they're being put into a "database" and are being deemed a "domestic terrorist" for the crime of videotaping them should disgust everyone.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Minnesota is an open-carry state. The “they’re coming for our guns” people are now killing people for having guns

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

A central, decades-old prong of the propaganda machine of DC's bipartisan foreign policy blob -- as well as their stenographers in establishment media rags like The Atlantic and The Economist -- is that the US nobly acts to uphold the "rules-based international order," which they claim Trump is now tragically destroying.

That's why it's so staggering that Canada's PM Mark Carney -- a supreme life-long loyalist of the western establishment -- stood up at Davos and admitted what many know but that had been taboo in elite circles to admit: namely, that this entire self-justifying edifice is a gigantic fraud, one that Canada and Europe and the US all cynically pretended to believe in solely because it was a manipulative tool that advanced their interests.

As Carney himself said, citing Václav Havel, once one person publicly refuses to endorse a known fraud, it will crumble. It's well past-time for that bullshit conceit that lies at the heart of US foreign policy and media elite to be be crushed.