Most of the problems caused by Trump are for this exact reason.

Congress is too paralyzed to be effective anymore. The GOP is fully on Gingrich’s “never compromise with the Dems for any reason, and hold the government hostage until you get your way” corruption while the Dems are the party of “we’re beholden to the same corporate money as the GOP but at least the GOP doesn’t have to pretend to not be”.

Also, our eternally-increasing election cycles means that if you’re a Rep, you get maybe one full year to legislate before having to worry about the optics for your re-election.

Add in procedural bullshit like the Hastert Rule and the filibuster and the result is a government that only functions via executive order or when one party controls all the branches (and maybe not even then, depending on how extreme your caucus is or how bought your Senators are).

And this isn’t even a law, it’s a resolution.

That’s literally the least thing Congress can do, after just walking into the building.

In much the same way that Confederate memorabilia is collectable.

As in, “You should avoid anyone who collects this shit. They’re probably a white nationalist.”

And we haven’t heard much from them in a minute.

I think you walked right into the point and missed it.

Why haven’t we heard about the Oathkeepers, the 3 Percenters, or the Proud Boys lately?

Because Trump put them in uniforms.

In 2025, the chuds are in uniform now.

Nah, it’s just changed from

Learn to code

to

Learn to AI prompt engineer, bro!

Essentially, yes.

The source provided by OP is lacking in details but here’s one with more.

When an appeal is filed at the Circuit Court level, it’s first heard by a panel of judges. The judges are supposed to be a random selection of three from the circuit (I don’t know if it’s ever more or less; I’ve only ever heard it as three. Someone more law-talky feel free to correct me).

In this case, the three-judge panel (consisting of two Trump appointees 🙄) granted the feds an emergency stay- meaning nothing can be done to stop the feds until the case has been heard, which they’ve set on the docket for Tuesday.

There are various reasons for an emergency stay but usually the reasoning goes like this: the panel believes that the defendant (eg, the feds) will suffer some sort of harm (in the legal sense, not necessarily the physical sense) if they allow the plaintiff (California) to get what they want. Also, they believe that the defendant is likely to succeed on the merits of their arguments. So if the defendant is likely to win their case and they would suffer legal harm if the courts allowed the plaintiff to stop them while the case was being decided, then the correct course of action is to maintain the status quo until the official ruling.

After that, the next step is to request an en banc hearing, which is where the entire circuit court hears the case. They could either affirm the panel’s decision or reverse it, and either way it’s likely this case would then be appealed to SCOTUS.

House votes on “takesies-backsies” cause Dear Leader told them to find him more ICE money.

Sadly, Mar-a-Lardo is on the Atlantic side. Does it matter which body of water he’s disposed in?

Like he won’t plan to winter in Floriduh once he’s crowned king.

Oh man, good thing concrete is so much softer than wet mud! Wouldn’t want the geriatric felonious traitor to break his hip or crack his skull from a fall, now would we?

It was a real shame no trains derailed with all those tanks on them.

Letting them go home is why they keep coming back.

Until we have the will to hold these fascist traitors accountable, this will be a recurring problem.

I don’t understand why they’d diverge, since they both want the same thing- to control women’s bodies.

edit: Men wanting control of women is a bad thing. That’s what I (apparently poorly) insinuated.

Relax everyone; it’s just a singular event. Just like how every right-wing white man who perpetuates an act of terrorism is a “lone wolf” and definitely not the logical culmination of the fearmongering propaganda espoused by the Republicans.

We can only assume that if soaking isn’t premarital sex, then it can’t be extramarital sex either.

It’s not really about the money.

There’s no amount of money that will make Jones stop. He to this day still shit talks the families and victims of Sandy Hook. That’s why they want him bankrupted and InfoWars shut down- not to have his money, but because as long as he has a public platform, he’ll never stop.

Harvard isn’t a person.

According to Citizens United it doesn’t matter. Part of that ruling held that both individuals and associations of individuals have a free-speech rights. Or to put it another way, you as a person have a right to free speech, and the right doesn’t go away just because you choose to associate with other persons.

So Harvard has a right to free speech, because the individuals who make up “Harvard” have that right.

Phenylephrine is back on the menu, boys!