chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Agreed. It would gut one of the last independent agencies. I do take issue with the fact that the piece quotes one employee anonymously to characterize internal staff views of the agency's timidity. 010
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 08/10/2026They absolutely have to do this and a bunch of other things --like killing the filibuster --if they want to actually govern in ways people can see and appreciate. Otherwise, the predictable thermostatic backlash to whoever is in charge will come for Dems, too. 110
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hey @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, do you think Mike Rogers has even swam in Grand Traverse Bay, or cares about keeping it blue? I don't. 000
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Times fails to call this what it is: illegal or, if you are risk adverse, "likely illegal." If there is real question about this, the paper should explain.nytimes.comNational Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by CongressThe move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants. 010
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I find it funny AND enraging. A shameless GOP is trying to whitewash and dismiss Trump's most blatant crimes before he got reelected. The only principle at work is "our guy can do crimes" and any attempt to address it is itself partisan. It's not a recipe for the rule of law. 030
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I just skimmed the conclusions and didn't see anything remotely similar to the language used in the OP-Ed 020
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Why are so many bad things happening in government after we elected and empowered an administration that is hostile to government and experience bureaucrats? It's like putting Maoists on your corporate board and then watching profitability evaporate.nytimes.comEmbarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its EmployeesIn an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees. 010
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026They might be the hardest rock band that employs accoustic piano. 110
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I really like the Weekends. In general I prefer their stuff that crosses more directly into hard rock riffage, like Caught Between Stations or their biggest sleeper banger, Slapped Actress. I think of them as AC/DC mashed up with Springsteen like narrative lyrics. 111
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I am genuinely surprised. I thought Sunday's episode was the finale. 010
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026very strange. I just watched that last night. 010
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Liptak's framing bothers me. It's horserace coverage of the Court. Yes, sometimes the Court (but not all of the Court) reject's Trump's arguments...because they are obviously illegal or unconstitutional. The piece doesn't even mention this.nytimes.comSupreme Court Stands Up to Trump on Mail Voting and a Few Key IssuesThe justices take their time and pick their spots, but they have rejected presidential initiatives on tariffs, citizenship, the National Guard — and now the coming election. 000
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Echoes of Hemingway, but with more interiority. There is enough action sequences to maybe sustain a movie, but it's a strange mix of meditative, elegiac writing punctuated by shooting. 000
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Because they are making a movie based on it, I reread the Dog Stars. There is genuinely beautiful writing in it --especially in the first half, which I think is the strongest part of the book. 100
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Amen. It's shocking to me how many entities, including the conservatives on the Supreme Court and journalists and pundits --do not directly confront or care about the fact that the Congress controls federal revenue and how it is spent. Not DOGE. Not the President. 1272
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026trillions spent; and thousands of American servicemembers' lives, among other costs. But on the other hand, we now live in a golden age. So maybe it was worth it. 001
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026What is the aftermath? A largely unchecked expansion of executive branch wartime, emergency, and surveillance powers; multiple middle east wars; an erosion of civil liberties and extrajudicial detentions, torture, and killings; 100
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026You can't represent Michigan without loving the lake. 040
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Antrim County voter here. A great ad would be for you to come visit Grand Traverse Bay. Take a swim, go for a paddle, whatever. Ask, has Mike Rogers ever enjoyed Lake Michigan? Will he fight to protect it and keep it beautiful BLUE? 130
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Great piece. I watched all of this happen, feeling powerless to stop it. 000
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I vastly preferred when the federal government and its policies were implemented and administered by bureaucrats with expertise who weren't political actors. I think it's obvious that regardless of the flaws of the traditional approach, it was vastly better than this. 000
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026change or destroy federal property without said appropriation or authorization, and arrogate state authority to determine who should receive a mail-in ballot. This is the beauty of the ever-so-flexible concept of standing. 000
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026We, the majority in the Court, cannot possibly address the merits of whether the executive branch can spend federal money without Congressional appropriation, 100
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 31/08/2026king-like powers over spending, war, and whether federal agencies are allowed to function. 110
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 31/08/2026including whether Marbury vs Madison was correctly decided. Congress IS the first branch for a reason. It was clear the framers thought so, and it does not seem like a sound constitutional principle to let a handful of judges strike down laws they don't like and give presidents 110
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Yes. I am not a constitutional lawyer, but it seems like if a radical right wing court can basically question or overturn decades of precedent and constitutional assumptions --say on what power the President has or what birthright citizenship means --that means everything can be questioned, 110
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Agree. It is a classic problem that seems to only be an issue for the left. Left policy positions are often judged--and typically maligned--based on who supports those views and what OTHER views those supporters might have. 000
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 25/08/2026John Roberts: you don't have standing to sue to block an executive order that hasn't gone into effect yet.....unless you are a power plant operator and it's the Biden administration trying to regulate carbon admissons. 011
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Rage bait I took. Has Stephens ever called for accountability for the current regime? The fact that he detests Trump doesnt change the disqualifying fact he thinks wokeism's alleged illiberalism is equivalent to what is happening now.nytimes.comOpinion | Yes, Woke 1.0 Was Crazy. Now Where’s the Accountability?The damage was real and long-lasting. 000
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 17/08/2026because they associate it --sometimes fairly, sometimes not--with a broken status quo. 000
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Governing is a lot harder than campaigning (as you know), and our system has so many veto points and vested interests --and a reactionary Supreme Court--that delivering real reform seems at times to be impossible. I think you should assume that most people do not trust the party establishment, 100
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I think this means being very thoughtful and strategic in identifying policy levers and legislative changes that will have the greatest short-term impact on people's lives, in an effort to rebuild trust and undergird support for longer-term reforms. This is not going be easy. 100
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Dem voter here from Antrim County (Eastport!). I agree with the message of your latest video. But convincing people to pull the lever for change is necessary but not sufficient. We have to deliver visible and salient changes to the status quo or in the next cycle voters will again vote for change. 100
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I support single-payer, but I wish this story would have been published after peer-review, so the argument for single payer was stronger and more immune to bad faith criticism. 130
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 16/08/2026well said. Two things can be true at the same time. 010
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026he is meathead MAGA; you know he's thinking "why do I have to explain our administration when I'd rather be kicking you in the head." 000
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Waiting for the corollary piece by the Times as applied to the Michigan primary: does El-Sayed's win show the limits of the centrist, establishment Dems? 000
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 12/08/2026No, it was awful. The podcast is quite good, too. I have read a fair amount about Slaughter and listened to a lot of helpful podcasts on it. Yours was the only one that really explained how tendentious and flimsy Robert's reading of the constitutional history is. 000
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 08/08/2026"But I lived through the years of peak woke, and it was a McCarthyite experience. I lived with the blue-state governance that doctrinaire progressivism encouraged, and it yielded civic and educational collapse." 4180
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 08/08/2026It's classic Douthat; at a high enough level of abstraction, both the left and the right are bad. This is the quote that made me apoplectic: 2151
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 08/08/2026So yeah, Ross, I see what you mean. Both sides, right? 000
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 08/08/2026is, among many things, 1) using the Justice Department to indict and baselessly prosecute political enemies 2) sweeping blue cities with ICE goons who murder with seemingly impunity 3) using regulatory pressure to try and silence media the government doesn't like 4) giving corrupt no bid contracts. 100
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 08/08/2026"But I lived through the years of peak woke, and it was a McCarthyite experience. I lived with the blue-state governance that doctrinaire progressivism encouraged, and it yielded civic and educational collapse." See? Both sides are authoritarian, not just the government run by the GOP that 100
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 08/08/2026to act like kings, dictating spending as they see fit. But Douthat ignores this, and he seemingly waives a lot of this away by saying Trump hasn't consolidated as much power as some feared. Really? Most of the column is, of course, criticizing democratic governance and then there is this claim: 100
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 08/08/2026but he doesn't dwell on the long-term damage done to the rule of law, alliances, government capacity and finances, etc. Someone more willing to look Trump's authoritarianism more squarely in the face might argue that Trump has opened the door for future presidents, both on the left and right, 100
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Classic Douthat. At a high enough level of abstraction, it's really hard to tell which side is worse. Really, Ross? There is passing acknowledgement that Trump's regime has been "corrupt, bullying, and destabilizing,"nytimes.comOpinion | Who Is My Enemy? I’m No Longer Sure.Where does the side of the angels really lie? 100
chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Congratulations! Antrim County voter here. I voted for you. I invite you to come visit Grand Traverse Bay to paddle and swim. I will give you a tour myself. If you are going to represent our great state, embrace the beauty of our lakes. Keep them blue and clean! 040
