Political scientist, contributing editor for the Atlantic, contributor to The Contrarian, cohost of the podcast Words Matter.

Washington, DC
This great piece by @JRakove is even more impt after today's outrageous decision on voting & elections. Roberts & his five fellow radical partisan hacks rewrite or ignore history & the vision of the framers to fit their own ideological & partisan views. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/0…
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Serial liar and Trump lickspittle wannabe
Mike Rogers told Michiganders he was an assembly line autoworker who made Chrysler LeBarons. Turns out it was a complete lie. Shameful. michiganadvance.com/2026/09/…
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Norman Ornstein retweeted
Vought has spent over a year mocking NIH grants, "injecting dogs with cocaine," Harvard studying "lizards being blown off of branches by leaf blowers," "fundamental DEI across the board," to justify the same executive order push to put grant approval under political control we covered Monday. Unglamorous lizard venom research is exactly the kind of science that led to the discovery of GLP-1 drugs, the class that includes Ozempic. A University of Michigan law professor who served as HHS general counsel under Biden says the plan runs into existing statutory peer review requirements, not just norms. And even Jeffrey Flier, the former Harvard Medical School dean who has spent years publicly criticizing DEI in research, calls embedding political review into grant decisions inimical to the system, and compares it to shooting yourself in the head if the actual goal is advancing American science.
It’s no secret that some high-ranking members of the Trump administration have long had it in for NIH—and that one official in particular has been pushing for something like this. @CitizenCohn on an emergency for medical research in The Breakdown: lnk.thebulwark.com/4h9SsbZ
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Go ask what they actually want in Kostyantynivka or Kramatorsk. But you wouldn't dare, would you? Because you don't actually care, you just want to spread russian propaganda for sweet russian rubles.
Arno Klarsfeld : «La plupart des gens du Donbass préfèrent être dans la zone d’influence russe», dans #LHeureInter Toute l'info est à retrouver sur cnews.fr
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This lawless, reckless ruling giving Trump power to disrupt voting and disenfranchise legitimate voters gives even more impetus for Congress, if Democrats are in majority, to rein in this partisan, authoritarian-leaning Supreme Court. They need to use every power they have
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We have a rogue partisan Supreme Court. Using the underhanded emergency docket to give a middle finger to the Constitution, which provides NO ROLE for the executive branch in administering voting and elections. Six lawless partisan hacks enabling distortion of elections. Disgraceful
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Unhinged, dangerous fanatic
The man running America's health department gave a keynote at the anti-vaccine group he founded, discussing chemtrails and electromagnetic frequencies. It's like the Head of NASA giving a keynote speech to the Flat Earth Society.
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A combination of Trump, minions and lickspittles, along with a passel of greedy traitors.
Unless I’m missing something, no representatives of farmers or workers on this list.
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Bari Weiss is in Germany to wax poetic about her long-time patron and mentor, the living Antichrist Peter Thiel, who is receiving the “Axel Springer Award.” There is a jump scare ahead. You have been warned. 🫣
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Wordle 1,924 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Nutlick. Greedy, grifting traitor
Lutnick is making money off the deaths of Ukrainian women and children.
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People were simply sorting vegetables, and Russia killed them... Do you grasp the scale of the cynicism and terror?
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Trump UN speech was brutal. Crude. Send them to Hell? Who talks like that? He believes he is without the legal and political constraints of our democracy. A dangerous man. History will excoriate those who allowed this to happen.
I found watching Trump’s UN speech today deeply depressing. It is a matter of national shame and humiliation that he is our president. Every country in the world, friend and foe alike, sees we are governed by a vainglorious fool.
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Partisan hack
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at the state dinner for President Xi REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
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When I posted about the fake inspection stickers a few weeks ago, y’all said I was “nuts” & “lying”… I was not. Here ya go! And as always, fuck these people.
Over 80 tons of beef, pork, and goat meat have been recalled after they were found to have fake USDA marks of inspection.
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Norman Ornstein retweeted
I have definitely heard stories of male members of both houses being total nightmares but apparently no reporter has. Because somehow we get these stories about women leaders exclusively
just a classic comment section story: Anger, confusion, dismay the self selecting people on this site don’t want anything negative about their preferred side!
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Vicious fascist thugs.
A U.S. citizen was left bloodied and injured after immigration agents mistook him for a fugitive in Evanston, Illinois, according to local police. Police said agents tried to handcuff the man after he refused to provide identification. They released him after determining he was not the person they were seeking. The man was taken to a hospital with injuries to his head, neck and teeth. In a statement to CBS News, the Department of Homeland Security said that "ICE encountered an individual who resembled the target. ICE approached the individual and immediately identified themselves as law enforcement. The individual was given lawful commands but was not cooperative and refused to identify himself. ICE officers relied on their training and later left the scene without further incident once the individual finally identified himself."
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Norman Ornstein retweeted
This is both shocking and not surprising. Anyway, here’s Tom Cotton with Josh Duggar.
This is both shocking but not surprising. When leftists campaign in conservative states, they pretend to be moderates--but sometimes they slip up and show their real values.
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Norman Ornstein retweeted
And here's $5000.
Democrat socialists love to promise free stuff.    But they never mention who pays for it.
Community note
"President Donald Trump has proposed several direct cash payouts and rebates funded by tariffs or budget cuts. None were provided." wbaltv.com/article/trump-… abc7chicago.com/post/president… piped.video/watch?v=aQn3oq… nytimes.com/2026/09/10/us/…
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