Murphy

Grateful

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

I thought the whole point was to solve the Iran nuclear program for good. Not punt it to the next president. Even if you concede that Iran won’t openly pursue a nuclear program while Trump is in office, how does the promise Trump gets from Iran differ from the one Obama got under JCPOA?

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Student-athletes are less likely to skip school than other students, even in the offseason, new research finds, supporting an emerging consensus that connections to activities, teachers and peers are critical to combating the absenteeism crisis. https://t.co/Y5R9nKwrEc

[North Dakota Hockey @UNDmhockey]

Hockey 🔜

#UNDproud | #LGH

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

gold | noun | a medal awarded as the first prize in a competition

[Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank]

No, she said presidents can't make election law without Congress.

[Libertarian Party @LPNational]

Shall not be infringed.

[Mike Nelson @mikenelson586]

"And I asked the Penguin, 'why are there only one set of footprints?'

And the Penguin told me, 'cause the person running this account is an idiot who tweets out messages that made no sense with AI slop graphics that are even worse '"

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

The problem with a wealth tax is that people move to avoid it. Folks proposing this tax had a clever idea to avoid that: backdate tax to Jan 1st, put it on Nov. ballot.

So the billionaires are moving now, and California may lose their tax revenue even if the initiative fails.

[O.W. Root @owroot]

It is your right as a father to tell your children that it is illegal to turn this on while driving on the highway.

We were told this and we tell this to our children and our children will tell it to their children.

Tradition is beautiful.

[Kyle Potter @kpottermn]

A decade of building up separate media ecosystems, algorithms, dopamine-driven users, and two separate realities all brought us to this moment.

Not good.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

If Congress had the slightest courage or self-respect, they’d launch oversight hearings of these allegations. If the allegations are false or overstated they’d be helping the administration and the country by clearing the air. If they are found to be true, and part of administration policy, impeachment proceedings of those responsible should be launched.

But not caring either way and doing nothing is flatly a violation of their oaths. The GOP controlled Congress is simply derelict.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

This is a spectacularly stupid idea and I’d be happy to debate him on it. Not only is it stupid on the merits, it’s not even a good idea for Swalwell or his party.

[Tom Miller @tommillergf]

UND is in

[Murphy @mr_jmurphy]

@tommillergf Yep

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

Lol. No.

[Murphy @mr_jmurphy]

@captchristman CHP and USMC

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Again, this No Kings thing is not my bag. But the almost cultish refusal to understand the point by Trump’s usual apologists is bizarre. Yes: He was lawfully and legitimately elected. But Stephen Miller’s Jacksonian-Wilsonian theory that Trump has a “mandate” to do whatever he wants is anti-Constitutional hogwash (it’s amazing how the position of two of the most iconic Democrats in American history is now the religion of the GOP).

The word mandate doesn’t appear in the Constitution. It is impossible to have a “mandate” to exceed your authority under the Constitution. Even if Trump won an actual landslide (he didn’t), and all of the voters wanted him to exceed his authority, it wouldn’t (and certainly shouldn’t) matter.

I honestly never want to hear the faux right wing eggheady refrain “we’re not a democracy, we’re a republic” ever again from people claiming that Trump can do whatever he wants because “the American people voted for this.” That is the exact opposite of republicanism ffs. It’s also not true. Trump got lots of votes from people who just wanted prices lower or didn’t want Harris to be president. The idea all of his voters pre-approved everything he has done or will do is more cultish nonsense.

Regardless, if the American people want a politician to violate the Constitution that doesn’t give that politician a scintilla more right or authority to violate the constitution. I’m used to explaining this to democracy fetishists of the left. Didn’t expect to spend the last decades of my career trying to explaining it to populism fetishists of the right.

[Murphy @mr_jmurphy]

@captchristman Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article.