It’s no downside to them. Either (a) officials do nothing in response, which tells them they can do this again the future, or (b) the officials challenge the illegal arrest, giving the DOJ an opportunity to expand powers by creating court precedent via immunity arguments.
If in the off-chance, © the court rules against them, it makes no difference since they’ll ignore the order.
How can you shame that which is shameless?
The leopards yearn for the faces.
*Trying to suspend
The headline is not doing constitutional democracy and the rule of law any favors by making casual readers think they have that power, which (sorry to be all technical, NYT) they do not have.
Trump’s only questions are, “Is this person going to do whatever I say, and do I have leverage to get rid of them if not?”
Turns out being a drunk who owes Trump for getting a job they aren’t in a million years qualified for answers both questions with a resounding “Yes!”
Don’t believe for a second congressional Republicans are going to “awaken.” We’re well past that. More fear just will make them cower and grovel even harder.
They were already so spineless at two impeachments that they refused to save themselves or us from this, when salvation from Trump was served to them on a silver platter - they’re weak, pathetic lumps of misshapen ego.
Oh come on.
So what about the Democrats, I asked? “They hate us and won’t accept us. And if they don’t change their attitude, Trump and MAGA will keep winning.”
That was echoed by former Republican congressman Joe Walsh, who regularly speaks out about this. “If there’s not room for center-right former Republicans in today’s Democratic Party, then today’s Republican Party will remain victorious and our democracy will disappear,” Walsh told me.
Most of us will accept you. Just stop being awful people. It isn’t hard.
I hope there is someone keeping track of this firehose of sewage so we know what needs to get cleaned up in the less-dystopian future (if we’re lucky enough to have one). Do we start a Project 2029(?), to return the country to sanity?
Again, I’m not sure we’ll ever have the opportunity because the horizon is pretty dark. But it’s overwhelming just trying to keep track of how many of the country’s worst people are implementing their dream agendas with no oversight or limitation whatsoever.
It’s important that you get a certified certificate of death. Many hospitals won’t certify your certificate of death, which from a privacy perspective is so worthless you may even die of embarrassment - which of course, apart from you being fully dead, wouldn’t even be certified.
Tim Walz got it. It’s a shame they kneecapped his normal-people messaging.
I agree, but in context he was just extending a metaphor that treated the voters/citizens as “owners,” presumably because he thought Trump would understand the language better.
“As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale. We’re sitting in one right now,” Carney told Trump. “Having met with the owners of Canada over the course of the campaign last several months, it’s not for sale. Won’t be for sale, ever,” he said.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5387465/trump-carney-canada-tariffs
It’s classic sociopathic, narcissistic negging. “You’re worthless, the only value you have is if you stick with me.”
In an ironic twist, the Trump administration deported gang members from the U.S. to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center prison who faced federal indictments that could have resulted in their testifying in court about the pact with Bukele.
This isn’t irony, this is complicity and corruption. Trump clearly gave Bukele the visit and public press conference as a reward for holding those prisoners no questions asked. The prisoners also not being able to testify against Bukele is a feature to Trump and Bukele, not a bug.
Also, there’s absolutely no indication that Americans want to be working at poverty wages in an assembly plant. None of this makes sense even if it “worked.”
It’s mental illness, grotesque mental disfigurement all the way down in this administration.
I’m sure you are not one of the problem hosts, but his will harm the renters more because they’re the ones already subject to the bigger power imbalance - by definition not near their home and relying on Airbnb to ensure a safe place to stay - and Airbnb is reputed to be pro-host against renters.
For example, there was a trip to Europe where a host physically threatened us in writing, Airbnb kept transferring us around rather than offer any solutions, we left for our safety, the host claimed we didn’t cancel and owed the full stay, Airbnb took the host’s side without evidence despite our evidence of their threat in writing, we did a chargeback, and Airbnb disputed it for 4 months in apparent bad faith.
Anecdotal, but a case study why black-holing renters’ contacts seems more damaging.
Trump-speak translation: “You gonna make me?”
Oh, I agree completely.
But I remember seeing her in 2023 and thinking, “Trump is scraping the bottom of the barrel now that nobody competent will work with him. This is truly clown-level, the bottom 1% of attorneys.” In a fair timeline she wouldn’t even be an attorney - she would work for 20 years to peak as a manager of the McDonald’s that Trump is a lifer janitor at.
I should have known - I had similar thoughts about Sarah Huckabee Sanders when she was press secretary, and now she’s [checks notes]… Governor of Arkansas.
Bondi:
Emoluments clause:
Bondi, we’re not talking about bribes, we’re talking about explicit violations of the Constitution. So where’s the Congressional consent?
Oh, because Qatar gives it to USAF, and USAF gives it to Trump, it’s “legally permissible.” Gosh, what a novel idea. Definitely not something a first year law student would see as a strawperson introduced in a transaction specifically to evade illegal conduct.