Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 18hI think it would be cool if companies made their mobile web pages usable instead of insisting that everyone download an app 3794
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Having the whole thing blow up in their faces like this is worth more to Talarico than bothering with a lawsuit would be. He'd have a genuinely hard time showing damages for one thing, but more generally, defamation litigation is a massive pain in the ass and very rarely worth your time and effort. 620224
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Or perhaps denationalize. Musk is for all intents and purposes part of the state now, an integral part of the regime, his fiefdom more a corrupt and lawless government agency than it is private enterprise. To break up and remove assets from his control could reasonably be construed as privatization. 415529
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialFred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 10/10/2026If you are not allowed to identify the secret policeman responsible for a crime, you must punish all secret policemen. 414932
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The Smithsonian is funded by Congress and heavily intertwined with the federal government, but it's not an executive branch agency. The president is not even nominally their boss. He has absolutely no lawful power to issue orders to them. 8305103
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Every MAGAt should be forced to watch the violent deportation of random mothers and several ICE murders. Then they get to watch Trump and his cronies meet their fate before they are warned against attempting fascism again 0272
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026His comparison is also bogus. Anticommandeering has much more direct textual basis (enumerated powers and the lack thereof; Tenth Amendment) whereas presidential immunity is blasting an entirely atextual hole in powers Alito does not deny Congress obviously has as to everyone else in the country. 45410
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts, 1013158644
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialroterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The US Democrats need to look at their next Presidency as an endless sprint to obliterate MAGA, every day for years. Until the cancer is gone then there should be no time wasted on MAGA tears or conciliation. Only endless justice and rebuilding the democracy. Govern like every day is the last day. 151035256
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialroterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think Greg is correct, but Americans need to be aware that Magyar’s Tisza government is aggressively going after every Fidesz official, removing them, using every lever of the state to yank them out of power. This is far more aggressive and rapid than anything proposed in the US so far. 281275335
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This isn't a court at all. They're literally not even reading the fucking briefs before making "decisions". 13980230
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I know it's just repeating the obvious at this point, but there have to be really extreme consequences for this kind of lawlessness. 420832
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAmrk @amrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Peter Magyar is currently enacting a Liberal Currents fantasy where he amends the constitution to ban anyone associated with the old regime from ever holding office again and is somehow polling at 68% (he won with 53%) and I’m not saying that’s possible anywhere else but Dems should like, ask him 12706137
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is a decent start. But we need to build consensus now, so that come 2029 we have 218 reps, 50 senators, and an executive that's fully on board with radical actions to destroy the GOP power base bsky.app/profile/meta... 2291
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I'm sure we'll get no end of rationalizations about how it's just too important to get clips of the in-person version of his Truth Social feed, but continuing to participate is complicity. You're legitimizing a sham. Let him hang out with bootlicking cranks so there's no pretense it's anything else. 322223
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This point gets made but I think it's not quite right. You can't do any meaningful analysis of what effect the SAVE Act would have because passing it would just brick the whole system, nothing works, it's impossible chaos. It's not a serious piece of legislation designed to be implementable at all. 220132
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026like, the actual physical White House is not the most important thing the federal government does by a long shot but it really is one of the most visible, it belonged to all of us, and he fucking wrecked it 291456216
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I hesitate to over-learn anything from a single example, but Ossoff is a good argument for theory that people want a liberal who fights and this often gets missed in the spineless centrists vs. unelectable leftists discourse. 16584114
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic. 292550659
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots. 15786472562
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026There's really no good argument against it, especially if Dems take the Senate. A distraction? Futile? As opposed to what, passing bills that you can't get past a veto anyway? Oversight? You get more attention and stronger legal tools with impeachment. Just do the right thing, it's good politics! 15399102
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Instead, get used to the standard dodge Jeffries & co. have already used several times now, that "impeachment is a super duper serious sacred process and we can't do it without many months of scrupulously thorough investigation first," which is wrong and stupid but that's his preferred excuse. 811410
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Which makes this claim from Rep. Levin even less plausible. Jeffries could have still forced the vote if he wanted. He didn't because he didn't want to. 329747
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I do wish people would stop making John Brown into the patron saint of radical violence for its own sake. The important thing about John Brown is that he had a coherent theory of change that he put into action in spite of the law, and that's what I stan about him. 111005
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026what is there to even say. it's jumping up and down screaming I'm the bad guy from every political morality tale deeply embedded in Western culture from ancient Rome to Hitler. They aren't unaware of that, they revel in it. They are bad people and they want bad things. 11425104
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Bob Solow: 47110
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Maybe he'll fail, it's pretty likely he will. But we're still in the middle of another attempted coup. That's what this is. 738641
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The president ordering USPS to illegally throw out millions of ballots is at least on par with what he tried to do for 2020, and in big ways it's worse. It's another attempted self-coup, trying to create a fake Congress. That he's even attempting it is already a deadly serious constitutional crisis. 171372335
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Is an openly bigoted criminal who uses his resources to boost neo-Nazis in Germany, stoke race riots in the UK, and advance Russian propaganda—among other things—a reliable defense contractor for the United States? And isn’t it weird how little this question comes up in government or discourse? 23700220
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 03/09/2026if you want to convince people that Jews are not secretly controlling their politicians I suggest you avoid headlines like 'it is illegal to criticize Israel' 212113
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialJonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I wrote against Top Two, and in defense of political parties. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/dont-do-it...goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.comDon’t Do It, MassachusettsAnother state considers “top two” elections. 4194
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026me talking to magically resurrected founding father: and so sir you can see how the supreme court has become a deeply illegitimate institution that threatens the very republic you created founding father: there are *how many* papists on it??? 674634704
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026this genuinely is not true. the Constitution says surprisingly little about the Supreme Court and its powers. almost all of the Supreme Court's powers were granted by the Supreme Court to the Supreme Court. 391350160
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Hegseth is a garbage person for many reasons but top of the list is he's a literal murderer who should spend the rest of his life in prison. That's not to minimize his many other offenses but I do think it's worth keeping in mind the obnoxious hateful buffoon is first and foremost a serial killer. 171227241
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialDavid Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The gig is up in the very first sentence of the Supreme Court's per curiam opinion on the Trump ballroom (emphasis added): "In October 2025, the *federal government* started a project to replace the East Wing of the White House." They've collapsed the legislative branch into the unitary executive. 622874719
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"Instead, the war illustrated a chronic weakness of autocrats and would-be autocrats—their inability to get or absorb honest information from subordinates and experts who can point out the hazards of various ambitions."theunpopulist.netTrump’s Iran War Has Succeeded on No Stated Count and Failed on Many Unstated OnesHe wanted to feed his vanity with a quick victory but instead has brought ignominy to the U.S. and endangered the world 49825
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026BREAKING: Judge Talwani denies DOJ’s request for a stay of her TRO pending appeal. In addition to noting that the TRO is not appealable, she adds, “[C]ontrary to Defendants’ cynical interpretation, the Supreme Court has not endorsed the view that any challenge to the Final Rule is now too late.” 3682164
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialJake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Something remarkably telling in how the majority (left) and dissent (right) ascribe the actor undertaking the demolition project. Much easier to ignore illegality if you imagine the conduct as that of the whole fed govt. The president doesnt even show up as an agent at all in the majority's opinion. 733898
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We can never let these people hold power ever again. And I don't mean "we need to win all elections for eternity". We need to set up serious institutional barriers to keep them out of power indefinitely. 25610
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialSam @samd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026we can learn a lot how Magyar launched “Operation Cleansing Fire” to reform the courts and completely de-orbanize Hungary the funniest things to me though is that 1. this has been an extinction-level event for Fidesz 2. human rights Watch is mad about it for some reason, truly beyond parody 281571310
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 26/08/2026we would very much like to thank you for all the time and dedication you put into being a multimillionaire or whatever you are. unfortunately we've decided to go in a different direction and will be rightsizing your assets. we will definitely provide relocation and transition support for you though 367143
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/08/2026trump hates canada because canada is america's closest ally and trump thinks that all mutual exchange is a scam. his highest value is rape 151160197
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/08/2026It is unfortunately in the best long-term interests of the United States for the rest of the world to treat us as a rogue state and make concerted plans to rein us in. 82607395
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Most obviously and directly, such a person does not just hold eccentric or contrarian or unpopular views, they're inherently and manifestly unable to meet their obligation to teach students and otherwise do the job in a non-discriminatory manner. That makes it qualitatively different. 212014
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary. 43898982091
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026It matters that the White House is a house and not a palace. 142005222
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm. 13975921650
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialCastlevania Bravo @castlebravoli7.gobirds.online · 24/08/2026“Race realism” is 1920s nonsense and the only reason “race realists” aren’t treated like young Earth geologists or a doctor who recommends drinking radium water is that it lets other credentialed racists pretend their racism is somehow better than some cross-burning knuckle-dragger’s 0174
Reposted by @tom-paine1737.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026So much discourse is trying to parse some hidden (and more rational) meaning when these are people who very openly say what they mean. In part because it feels unsophisticated for professional take-havers to just say, for example, "Elon Musk is a white supremacist." But it is actually that simple. 151429361
