This post claims to have an educated guess:

In a world in which Justice Jackson either knew or suspected that at least five of the justices would grant temporary relief to the Trump administration if she didn’t, the way she structured the stay means that she was able to try to control timing of the Supreme Court’s (forthcoming) review—and to create pressure for it to happen faster than it otherwise might have. In other words, it’s a compromise—one with which not everyone will agree

I’m thinking she may also have timed things in a way that results in Democratic-run states, which largely attempted to rush money into peoples’ debit cards after the appeals court ruling, having a month of SNAP, while Republican-runs states, which did not, having some very hungry people.

He actually read one book: an anthology of Hitler’s speeches

Donald Trump appears to take aspects of his German background seriously. John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, “Heil Hitler,” possibly as a family joke.

Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

Billionaire Burgers. Now with actual billionaire meat!

Its all excuses for what he wanted to do to begin with, which is take food out of the mouths of kids so that billionaires can become trillionaires

What congress? The Republicans won’t even let the house meet anymore

Its almost like they need to buy a social media company, major TV network, and video sharing website

They’re talking about talking

He thinks that courts won’t have the support of police to enforce it, or that the Supreme Court will simply refuse to uphold any kind of sanction.

The less far right types used to embrace him in private. That they’re now doing it openly representa a big change in the kinds of policy they’re willing to implement.

Trump is the one who decided to divert money from health insurance for ordinary people to tax cuts for billionaires

It clearly satisfies his gold toilet fetish

Its happened recently when Escape From Alcatraz re-aired and he developed a fixation on reopening the prison there

Probably watched House of Dynamite on Netflix and saw it as something to aspire to.

The only “crime” is not having a home. So its “treating” it by sending people to a prison without due process

If you’re rich enough, you get to pay somebody beat up this dude named Peter and then you own the key

/s

Unfortunately he is talking about sending people who are trained to kill

A huge chunk of the US population is either:

• too young to vote
• not a citizen

There’s a reason I choose to compare with voting eligible population

You make it sound like a new phenomenon; only 58% of the voting-eligible population turned out in 1980. 63% voted in 2024

They had a majority during the 1st two years of the Biden administration, which got us the Inflation Reduction Act, which was basically industrial policy to create jobs around ending our need for fossil fuels. The Republicans almost entirely repealed that law earlier this year.

The Obama era got us as much as it did because the Democrats had a 60-vote supermajority in the Senate for a few weeks.

Key issues:

• Newsom is in bed with fossil fuel industry lobbyists. He’ll take environmental action only so long as it does not fundamentally put their business at risk, and we need to actually shut it down
• hes perfectly happy to throw trans people under the bus (as on his podcast with the late Kirk)

These mean I will prefer another candidate in the primaries