matt

People don't understand the constitutional crisis we find ourselves in. The executive branch does what it wants, when it wants, and when judges interpret the laws we derive from the constitution and make a ruling, they are increasingly ignored. They have no enforcement mechanism (that's the executive branches job), and the only other check on the executive is congress, who has pledged loyalty to Trump over the constitution. What's the point in a constitution, if the people who interpret it, are ignored? Why not have Trump law?

No Tony nomination for Emma Sofia as Skimbleshanks, yet another instance of the United States war on public transport

Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.

Fucking outrageous. And highly illegal. "Trump has grifted his entire life. Now he’s just taking it. The State Department transferred $1.25 billion in foreign aid to Trump’s Board of Peace, pulling $1 billion from international disaster assistance, $200 million from peacekeeping operations, and $50 million from international organizations. Money that Congress authorized for hurricanes and refugees, moved without a congressional vote, into a fund that Trump created by executive order and controls personally. When reporters asked the State Department about it, a spokesperson said they had nothing to announce at this time. The Board of Peace has one defining characteristic. Trump controls it forever. He named himself chairman for life. No audits. No transparency requirements. No conflict of interest rules. Countries pay $1 billion into a fund he runs to get a seat at the table. It has transferred nothing to Gaza, disclosed nothing about its spending, and received $1.25 billion of your disaster relief money without a word of explanation. When he leaves the White House he keeps the fund. That is not a loophole. That is the design." He’s Not Grifting Anymore. He’s Just Taking It. open.substack.com/pub/meidastouc…

DOGE tried to shut down Smithsonian’s department of preserving this exact music

The case was built to produce this outcome. The RNC didn’t sue New York or California. They sued heavily Republican Mississippi — a state that severely limits who can vote absentee — to reach the 5th Circuit where three Trump appointees struck down the state law. The Supreme Court generally intervenes when a lower court has struck down a state rule. The venue was chosen for exactly that reason. Today the conservative majority appeared sympathetic to ending the practice in 14 states. But the RNC submitted zero documented fraud cases from late-arriving ballots. Zero. Mississippi’s own Republican solicitor general said so at the argument. In 2022, 20% of Alaska’s absentee ballots arrived after Election Day. Senator Murkowski said no state would face greater impact than Alaska. Alaska Native communities in villages accessible only by air and water depend on the grace period because their postal service operates on a different timeline than the continental United States. The Trump administration asked the Court to carve out an exception for military and overseas voters. That exception tells you everything. If late-arriving postmarked ballots are an inherent threat to election integrity, the exception doesn’t exist. If the exception exists, the rule is about something other than integrity.

lower Wacker

Yet there’s no way to be homosexual without politics impacting your life

don’t talk to me like that, I’m in the coveted 18-34 advertising demographic

There may have been a few miscalculations on The Lobster’s part.

There has literally never been an expectation for people to say "Happy Lent!" until this week. I have been Catholic my entire life and expecting the Detroit Tigers to post "And to dust you shall return" or something is genuinely absurd to me"

If I were the literal devil I would carefully convince Christians that there is something sinister about empathy, that forgiveness is reserved for those who serve my interests, and that love looks like incurious condescension.

Amazing. Beyond parody. The Netflix writers’ room would have thrown this proposed stat out. And yet…

This country is beyond cooked. You are arguing 14 million people need less representation than 500,000 people because wyoming looks bigger on a map. You are losing to a trick question you'd give to a 6 year old and if they got it wrong they'd end up in the slow reading group.

The New Yorker's art department never misses

You didn’t say this shit. You said “you have no idea what’s coming, we’re going to kill you all”

The early 2010s era of wokeness had me thinking these sidewalks/murals/etc were a bit naff and performative and overall pointless. Turns out I was wrong. The removal of these is essentially a declaration of hatred. A demand to the return of concealment. Never give them an inch.

he should give her a song

But if you beat them within an inch of their life with a flagpole, you'll get a presidential pardon.