New York Times dropped a bombshell on Saturday. Reporters Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak obtained 16 pages of leaked internal memos from six SCOTUS justices, showing in their own words exactly how Chief Justice John Roberts led the Court to invent what we now call the shadow docket.
💯 people need to take their citizenship more seriously. Douchey reality tv dude (who admittedly is good at highlighting problems) is a reckless choice.
Jimmy Kimmel is still freaking out that Spencer Pratt may advance to the general election to be mayor of Los Angeles, "Right now the polling shows that he's in a very tight race with Karen Bass and Nithya Raman. How that's possible, no idea. I get why people are mad but has anyone ever made a good decision when they're mad?... all getting mad gets you is duct taped to an airplane seat...The Accidentes billboard guy. The dog next to the lady on the insurance billboard. Literally anyone from the cast The Hills would be a better mayor than Spencer Pratt. This is a ridiculous choice for mayor of Los Angeles."
That’s not a ceasefire then.
(the number of Trump-era stories that get written on deals that don’t exist or deals that are “imminent” but totally aren’t is bananas)
These hurdles just discourage people who already live a precarious existence. These administrative burdens are designed to frustrate and exhaust people. It’s immoral and cruel. No one should go hungry in the United States of America. @LeaderJohnThune@SpeakerJohnson
May the odds be ever in your favor.
Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules.
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@MarkWarner@AnIllicitWriter SCOTUS needs modernization and reform. It’s much too small, out of step with Americans. The shadow docket is inexcusable. It includes corrupt Justices who’ve dodged ethics violations, justices who lied in their confirmation hearings. Disregard for precedent, fabricated immunity…
James Carville on Bill Pulte: “He’s got one job: do everything he can to fuck with the election on behalf of Trump. If you were a traitor president, you would put an idiot [as DNI]. This is what you would do if you were trying to destroy the country. I think Trump hates the US”
I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.
🚨 The House just voted 218-204 to move forward on the discharge petition to provide military aid to Ukraine and impose tough sanctions on Russia. The House will vote on final passage tomorrow. This is our Churchill moment and we must pass the test.
So let me get this straight.
Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.
Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.
Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.
Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.
And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”
Please.
@Acyn My god, we are literally living in Idiocracy.
It’s not longer than the tallest building is tall but hey, we’re not talking about the 13 year old girl who said he raped her, so I guess he wins.
Netanyahu's letter proposes drawing down
$3.8B in annual US aid over the next decade
and replacing it with joint codevelopment,
AI, unmanned systems, and next-gen platforms.
Moving from aid recipient to integrated
defense partner is harder to unwind than
a check.
That's not independence. That's deeper
entanglement with a different price tag.
I have a suspicion that the White House is behind this.
It would allow Trump to wash his hands of the Iran mess he created and then blame Congress for constraining him.
Nothing to see here just Jared hanging out with his Rothschild buddy and deciding to buy a (suddenly not) protected Albanian island in the Adriatic to be his and Ivanka’s Elba, Kehlsteinhaus, abandoned rail station…
Jared Kushner says that his friend Nat Rothschild was the one who helped him locate his new secluded private island in the heart of the Mediterranean while he was vacationing aboard his boat.
NEW: Buried within the Senate Intelligence Authorization Act is a provision to increase intelligence sharing with Israel and impede the president's ability to reduce cooperation in the future.
NEW: A Guardian review of thousands of DOJ-released Epstein records found that Ben Black— now the Senate-confirmed head of the $205bn @DFCgov — once invested in the same company as Epstein and maintained social ties with him for years afterward.
https://t.co/SXVZQNJ85Y