SCOTUS, 6-3 decision: an action this important requires approval by the Islamic Consultative Assembly.
In a concurrence, Thomas and Alito reserve the possibility that the Ayatollah could make this decision on his own if that was the common expectation in 1979.
By now it should be obvious to all that he is building his resume for the 1st Annual FIFA War Prize
Here’s a candidate: the 36th Congress. 2 months to elect a Speaker, no real legislation before the 1860 election, watches the Union disintegrate, then in desperation tried to pass a Constitutional amendment promising that Congress will never limit slavery.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36th_Un...
Secretary Noem, 18 U.S.C. § 1001 on line 2.
Do we get to ask Bondi more questions now that the Dow is below 48K?
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) embarrassed one or more judicial nominees during the first term...he thought the admin was sending substandard candidates.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-zv...
Literally
We had a deal to keep Iran from getting nukes!
Trump backed out of it because he wanted to own Obama. Iran kept following its end of the deal for a year anyway, begging Trump to reenter the deal.
Trump literally backed out of the no nukes deal and then initiated a war because of nukes. Insanity.
Donald Trump in 2012:
The last few days have been a reminder that Republican party government is mostly aimed toward a return to unstable, arbitrary, personalist rule
Weird. He's nationalizing his biggest donor's superior competitor.
The obvious solution is going to Congress for new legal authority, perhaps using the reconciliation process to avoid a filibuster. The fact that, one year in, he won't even consider it tells us that:
a) he could never get the votes
b) he just cannot accept the constitutional separation of powers.
This week in the USA
* DOJ withheld & removed Epstein files involving Trump
* President used constitutionally-mandated SOTU message to call opposition party “crazy,” “sick,” destroying the country
* Plans revealed for gold currency coin featuring image of the sitting president
A litmus test for any serious Democratic presidential candidate in 2028 is their commitment to tear down every ostentatious monument Donald Trump has built for himself and restore the spirit of austere republicanism
I think it would be great if we started trying to normalize the idea that the Framers could have gotten things wrong.
They simply didn't anticipate that there would be a significant population inside the District. Making it so that no one lives inside of the federal district is in alignment.
Meme of Trump-to-NYT translator: Trump: ... THE SOMALI PIRATES RANSACKED MINNESOTA ... EVEN AS HE WAS GUSHING BLOOD, WHICH WAS FLOWING BACK DOWN THE AISLE HELICOPTER LANDS AT A STEEP ANGLE .... BELIEVE IT OR NOT, HAMAS WORKED ALONG WITH ISRAEL AND THEY DUG, AND THEY DUG, AND THEY DUG... I'VE ALWAYS WANTED THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR... NYT Translation: In his first State of the Union address of his second✩ term, President Trump offered a rosy portrait of a U.S. that has lost confidence in his leadership.
that part of you that has to smell the rotten milk in the back of the fridge wants to JOIN US. I'll be in glasses, no makeup, and a sweatshirt: there are no rules anymore
In contrast, Bezos’s ex-wife gave away $7.2b in 2025, the most given by anyone in a single year since Fortune began tracking this in 2012 - and more than Bezos has given in his whole lifetime.
👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.
"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
As if he wasn't already motivated enough to win a 2nd FIFA Peace Prize!
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New at Tusk: Republicans are campaigning in Iowa; Democrats don't know where to go
I've got a piece out today @theatlantic.com with @dashunwang.bsky.social on how the Republican Party in Congress continues to fund science, pushing back against the Trump Administration's most anti science funding proposals. (gift link)
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.
His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.
Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.
Sorry your health insurance costs so much more this year, we needed to make fancy airplanes for illiterate dog-murderers
We’re all thinking it, I’m just saying it: this nation owes former HHS secretary TOM Price an apology.
![House Practice Manual (2024)
§ 24. In General; Vote Changes
[snip]
When a vote is being taken by electronic device, a Member is permitted to change such vote by reinserting the voting card in a voting station during the first 10 minutes of a 15-minute vote or by the Clerk’s announcement in the well after the Chair has asked for changes. 114-2, May 19, 2016, p 6772. During five-minute votes or two-minute votes, a Member is permitted to change a vote at the voting stations at any time. Following the expiration of the minimum time for voting by electronic device and the closing of electronic voting stations, but before the Speaker’s announcement of the result, any Member may either change a vote or cast an initial vote in the well by use of a ballot card.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mf6x4tcxia23iqiflhqtv2dg/bafkreicmtz636x4iiwm5mqqjbsgfxc5ahnp3xhnv5stxkxsmxzihzk567m)
House Practice Manual (2024) § 24. In General; Vote Changes [snip] When a vote is being taken by electronic device, a Member is permitted to change such vote by reinserting the voting card in a voting station during the first 10 minutes of a 15-minute vote or by the Clerk’s announcement in the well after the Chair has asked for changes. 114-2, May 19, 2016, p 6772. During five-minute votes or two-minute votes, a Member is permitted to change a vote at the voting stations at any time. Following the expiration of the minimum time for voting by electronic device and the closing of electronic voting stations, but before the Speaker’s announcement of the result, any Member may either change a vote or cast an initial vote in the well by use of a ballot card.
TODAY'S QUESTION: Why do House Republicans – vociferous proponents of the so-called "SAVE [America] Act" – vote by electronic device when they could vote by the much more secure method of paper ballots?* 🤯
(* – aka, "ballot card")
#HRules
Roses are red
Violets are blue
If you’re born here
You’re a citizen too
What is Don Bacon doing here? Is this a Nebraskan gang sign?😆
