It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

Seattle is a great city of great people, and good for them.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

Truly unreal and tone deaf. Barring praises Trump’s “religious liberty day” as Bishops of the US have had to dispense Catholics from Sunday Mass for fear of being rounded up by ICE.

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

I don’t know what to say except that human beings deserve better than whatever this is

A thread worth considering.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

try to make sense of it

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

This is Trump celebrating the murder of Rob Reiner. That's what it is. That's what we should call it. People who said this sort of thing about Charlie Kirk were fired, arrested and banned from the US.

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

Q: “You said you would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2nd.” Trump: “I didn’t say that. You said that. I didn’t say that. This is ABC fake news.” Trump on Dec. 3: “Whatever they have, we’d certainly release. No problem.”

Freudian slip from Tom Cotton: "I think President Bush has every power under the Constitution to strike boats in international waters"

Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

Really telling use of “we” here.

When you die, this is the first sign you see.

Gee, how nice of him

I think there's a decent chance that the Pope visits Chicago during this presidency and while there asks to see Broadview and I wonder how that plays out.

First Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published 40 years ago yesterday. 🐯 👦🏼

Do you live somewhere with nationalized healthcare??

Epstein survivors just demanded the release of the files in this new PSA. Watch it here.

What a terrible day to know how to read

The poorest aren't only objects of our compassion, but teachers of the Gospel. It's not a question of “bringing” God to them, but of encountering Him among them. Serving the poor is not a gesture to be made “from above,” but an encounter between equals, where Christ is revealed and adored. #DilexiTe

Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”

No [drawn-in comma] new wars!

Per @jenniferjjacobs.bsky.social, DOD presented Trump with plans for strikes in Venezuela yesterday, including on the ground. Astonishing to see the U.S. on the brink of another regime-change invasion with essentially none of the pre-2003 effort to rationalize it domestically and internationally.

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

Back and then gone again, Republican leadership are signaling that the funding bill votes will be the only votes in the House this week, they're sending everyone home afterwards

The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.

Sen. Lucy Football (D-NH)

Someone reminded me of this piece I wrote 11 years ago.

This is, unsurprisingly, nonsensical. Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt? He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.

Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response

Now my budgeting app is noticing the shutdown impacts... 😭

If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead. He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.

This is the woman who made a joking video about SNAP, then was featured in a Fox News story that didn't mention it was a joke, then went viral, then was labeled AI. I found her original post and she shared this in response

If he is saying billion, with a B, that's about 400 pounds per person, which seems like an unhealthy amount of weight to lose. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

This is DEPRAVED

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Is Trump blaming himself and his GOP for the shutdown?

None of what Trump is doing is popular and voters are telling us that