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Russ Silva@russellsilva.bsky.social · 11h ago

I would feel better about Dems' reluctance to impeach if they were forthright about the rationale. "We can't impeach because Republicans refuse to do the right thing" is a very different message from "we won't impeach because That Would Be a Distraction and We Need to Get Back to Work."

Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social · 2d ago

the dems impeached donald john trump twice and the voters returned him to the oval, I don't think you can blame dems for not thinking it's particularly smart or worthwhile to go back to that specific well a third time (esp when he personally is dead by the end of the decade regardless)

Russ Silva@russellsilva.bsky.social · last wk.

Always worth a reminder that Kavanaugh plainly lied to Congress during his confirmation hearing and shouldn't be on the court. www.currentaffairs.org/news/2018/09...

How We Know Kavanaugh Is Lying

This man should not serve another day as any kind of judge…

currentaffairs.org

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · last wk.

It takes a special kind of Guy to look at all the circumstances of Brett Kavanaugh's career arc and reach the passive-voice conclusion that Kavanaugh "was forced" to join the Supreme Court's conservative wing. But Noah Feldman? He is that special kind of Guy. noahfeldman.substack.com/p/brett-kava...

On top of that, for years, Kavanaugh taught a popular course at Harvard Law School where he was straight down the middle, and conservative and liberal students both liked him. In fact, that’s how I met him. Kavanaugh is personally engaging, and he enjoyed conversations with people across the whole ideological spectrum, and I think people mostly really ended up respecting him. Then came Kavanaugh’s disastrous confirmation hearings, with the accusations by Christine Blassi Ford against him. After Kavanaugh’s heated defense of himself and of his record, liberals pretty much turned against him. He stopped teaching the class at Harvard, he stopped teaching a class that he taught at Yale, and he began teaching only at more conservative schools. I believe Kavanaugh really valued his ties across the ideological spectrum. The problem was that after the confirmation hearings, those connections across the spectrum were not really available to him anymore. Justice Kavanaugh is a social person, he needs friends. But once liberals had turned against him, he really couldn’t afford to lose conservatives, because then he would have been entirely friendless — a situation not dissimilar to that experienced by Chief Justice John Roberts. And so, as a result of the confirmation hearings, I think Kavanaugh ended up in a position where he was just forced into the conservative wing of the Court. The result is that Kavanaugh has joined the hard right on a series of very conservative judgments, including cases like the birthright citizenship case, where his vote wasn’t even necessary for the conservative side. He cou
Russ Silva@russellsilva.bsky.social · 2w ago

You might think the job of journalists is to inform the public, but what some of them actually do is just blindly crawl around in the dirt like a worm

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2w ago

She adds, "But Republicans have made it a big attack on you," which is a telling statement. Stated simply: We don't find it newsworthy either, but it's our job to use talking points from one side and parrot them back to the other side. If not, we'll be accused of bias. (Also, my boss is Bari Weiss)

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL U.S. Department of Homeland Security Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures. Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026 Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2w ago

She adds, "But Republicans have made it a big attack on you," which is a telling statement. Stated simply: We don't find it newsworthy either, but it's our job to use talking points from one side and parrot them back to the other side. If not, we'll be accused of bias. (Also, my boss is Bari Weiss)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 2w ago

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · last yr.

wrote about this last year and sure I wasn't in any way the only one but imo people voting for populist politics in the 21st century *is* a sign that they do just have too much faith in institutions, as opposed to not enough - they want to have their little tantrum but assume things will just hold

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