kip kuschell

Sports fan, movie maven, dylan devotee and springsteenphile. Let's add Neko Case and Sleater Kinney to that Mt Rushmore.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

WAKE UP, AMERICA.

The Supreme Court majority just admitted it’s a PARTISAN operator willing to TORCH the rule of law to advance its ideological agenda.

In an unprecedented move with a brief UNSIGNED order, it: 1) IGNORED the central basis of the lower court’s decision, 2) DISREGARDED its own precedent (that it had assured just weeks ago remained good law), and 3) REWARDED Alabama's defiance of a federal court order.

All to help Republicans squeeze out one more seat in the midterms. And on Election Day for millions of Americans no less!

This is sick.

“Power, not reason, is the new currency of this Court's decisionmaking.” — Thurgood Marshall

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

"It is up to Congress. Courts can't stop this. Courts weren't meant to stop this. ... It was intended that a corrupt criminal president like this one has to be removed by Congress. And it is not a question of politics, or polls, or talking points. It's a question of simple justice, and simply upholding our country as a nation of laws."

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: The Trump administration is reportedly removing January 6 indictments and conviction records from government websites in what critics are calling an open attempt to erase the public record of the Capitol attack.

And the most remarkable part?

They are not even hiding it.

This is no longer just about pardons or political messaging.

This is about historical memory itself.

Government databases are supposed to preserve official records regardless of who is in power.

So when an administration starts deleting documentation connected to one of the most consequential political events in modern American history, people are going to see it as something much bigger than routine website maintenance.

They are going to see it as an attempt to rewrite the historical archive in real time.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Should be a national scandal, not just being reported locally. Prosecutorial misconduct before a grand jury at a scale the judge overseeing the case had never seen before. Trump's Department of "Justice" y'all

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

Stop pretending this is about cracking down on fraud when Trump literally let people who stole hundreds of millions in Medicare and Medicaid money walk free. One guy stole $1.3 billion and served 14 months of a 20-year sentence. When a reporter asked the DOJ about it, they refused to answer.

That’s the hypocrisy people are angry about. Republicans want to talk tough on fraud while protecting the biggest fraudsters when they’re politically connected. If fraud is wrong, then it should be wrong for everyone.

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

TREASON isn’t just some dramatic word people are throwing around because they dislike Trump.

Read the document descriptions in the indictment.

Foreign nuclear capabilities.
US nuclear weaponry.
Military attack plans.
US vulnerabilities.
Foreign intelligence briefings.
Communications with world leaders.
Contingency response scenarios after foreign attacks.

Not “love letters.”
Not “souvenirs.”
Not “harmless paperwork.”

The same people who lose their minds over a leaked email are shrugging at allegations involving some of the most sensitive national defense material on Earth being stored in a resort bathroom and ballroom.

And the truly insane part?

If literally ANY lower-level intelligence officer, military analyst, or contractor had done this, conservatives would be demanding life in prison before sunset.

That’s the part people are reacting to.

[Kristy Greenberg @KGreenberg_]

“They” didn’t leak Trump’s tax returns. An IRS contractor did - along with thousands of other tax returns - during Trump’s first term.

Biden’s DOJ prosecuted the contractor, who got the max: 5 years in prison.

This is shameful spin from SDNY U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

One of the most troubling things about Trump’s second presidency is that the fraud & corruption has been completely normalized. There’s no call for accountability, let alone criminal investigation.

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: What is extremely disturbing about what has happened in Virginia is this court overturned the will of three million Virginians. They can say what they want about the ballot initiative, but they explicitly chose to issue this ruling after the election happened. They had all the time in the world to issue an opinion or an injunction before allowing this election to happen. They did not overturn a map—they overturned an election. It is the power of the American people that should be the ultimate check on all three branches.

The court’s ability to overturn an election that was clear in its result should be something that is called into question.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Surely John Roberts and the rest of the totally non-partisan justices who just green lit the return to Jim Crow in the South will step in and remedy this affront to little 'd' democratic processes 🙄

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

Fucking bonkers. Trump is actively shutting down dozens and dozens of gigawatts of wind energy that would power millions of homes and lower rates for everyone. He's explicitly acting to make us pay for electricity, to help prop up his Big Oil patrons!

[Ahmed Baba @AhmedBaba_]

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2.

SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

This story details the enormous damage Iran inflicted on US military installations in the Middle East. But incredibly the Post had to rely on IRANIAN IMAGERY to report it out because Trump is blocking commercial satellite images. Why? Not to fool Iran - just American citizens.

[kip kuschell @megz_dad]

@edwardmccallinc @bobwojnowski As a native Detroit love Seger, but putting him on the same level as Springsteen is delusional

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

The party that LOUDLY demands we not politicize mass shootings - especially ones at schools! - immediately politicizing whatever you want to call what happened at the WHCD (with multiple layers of law enforcement in attendance who very quickly neutralized the shooter) is a choice

[Albert Pinto @70sBachchan]

"Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?" - @CostaSamaras

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC on the White House blaming Democrats’ rhetoric for political violence:

When you have people committing crimes in office, we have an obligation to say someone is committing a crime in office.

For example, we still don’t have full compliance with the law on the Epstein files disclosure. We still have open questions about possible money laundering with these crypto deals, and there’s an open question of whether there’s bribery or extortion going on with these media companies and these settlements. I think it’s important to name things that are happening.

I think that trying to use this as an opportunity to escape any accountability for any action is just not responsible.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

Trump told you he’d run America like a business.

He is.

It’s called asset stripping. You sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, and walk away rich while everyone else holds the bag.

Congratulations. You didn’t elect a president. You hired a liquidator.

[Senate Budget Democrats @SenateBudget]

VAN HOLLEN: The tax cuts you provided to the wealthiest were made permanent, right?

VOUGHT: Yes.

VAN HOLLEN: But the tax cuts for working people, like no tax on tips, those will expire in 2028, right?

VOUGHT: We want to extend them.

VAN HOLLEN: But you didn't.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Every time they say they’re the party of law & order, that they’re pro-law enforcement, that DOJ is taking violent criminals off the streets & Democrats are pro-criminal, remember this. It’s all a sham; a mob-style loyalty exercise.