Briahna Joy Gray: "I know many people on the left who would happily vote for Tucker Carlson before AOC..." Your friendly reminder that the extremes of the horseshoe have more in common with each other than they do with anyone in the center.

Since the 2024 election, Polis has committed himself to burning any chance he had of winning office again from Colorado voters. It's weird. He could've been a senator maybe, but basically everyone around these parts now loathes him. And it's all self-inflicted and entirely unnecessary.

You pay taxes to fund the luxurious lives of the people who tried to overthrow the government.

Mike Johnson says Congress can't survive on $174k because of inflation, and uses that to justify letting members trade stocks. Incredible take from the guy who decided his only job was taking orders from the President.

Trump spoke this week about a "deep sense of mutual respect" between the people of the US and China. No American owes deep respect to a totalitarian regime. What a disgrace Trump represents for our country, our constitution, and our way of life.

Rubio: “I think China's preference is probably to have Taiwan willingly voluntarily join them.” This is almost certainly the Trump administration laying the groundwork to abandon Taiwan, just like they did with Ukraine. Authoritarians around the world will celebrate.

A clip from my conversation with Michael Munger about the dangers of a "we must aggregate as much power as possible in the government when we control it so we can crush our enemies forever and ever" arms race.

Being liberal can be frustrating. But it's the only way to protect your freedom from everyone else.

The guy behind the racist Libertarian Party of NH account (Jeremy Kauffman) just got arrested. He allegedly bumped a car, hurled racial slurs at a Jamaican man, and had to be dragged away by his own kids. He refused to ID himself and resisted officers. Trial is in July.

There has never been an administration in American history this nakedly corrupt.

Kash Patel: “I am disgusted that anyone would accuse me of drinking on the job.” Also Kash Patel:

I don't want to be too uncharitable here, but I'm pretty sure an 80-year-old writing a hate letter to a 4th grader is more a sign of being propagandized than support for an electric vehicle tax credit.

Representative Justin Jones did this at the Tennessee House last week to protest redistricting. Tonight, the MAGA Speaker of the House stripped him of all of his committee assignments.

A 10-year-old wrote MAGA Congresswoman Virginia Foxx for a school project. He chose to write about an electric vehicle tax credit. He thought it was good for the environment. Virginia responded by attacking him and his teacher for being propagandized. These people have power over your life.

Liberalism isn't a moderate, centrist philosophy. It was radical when it was born. It remains radical today. Any ideology that centers the dignity of the individual and trusts in the potential of humanity is fundamentally at odds with the views that dominate politics today.

The Republican Party's commitment to free markets, both rhetorically and via actual policy proposals, is dead. It's over. They've fully embraced slopulism.

The VRA ruling just handed Republicans a potential replay of January 6, but for the 2026 midterms. It's legally dubious and probably won't work... but we've been saying that about a lot of things lately. Be ready.

The strategic cost of America's credibility collapse is the emboldening of authoritarians internationally. Chinese nationalists are now pointing to Trump's second term as validation of Xi's worldview.

In the 2010s, MAGA mocked the left for using minority couples as props for virtue signaling. In the 2020s, MAGA uses minority couples as cruelty props for vice signaling. One of these is worse.

“Roads are not public goods. Adam Smith actually mentions this quite explicitly. His description of public goods is ‘very useful things that will benefit society that will not be provided in the correct amount if just left up to commerce.’” — Michael Munger 🔗 : youtu.be/E8oaG8Oqyy4?...

There's a hole in the side of the White House. There's a drained, half-finished reflecting pond. God as my witness, both will still be true on January 20, 2029.

I've been off social media for two weeks. In that time: ➡️ SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act, 6-3 ➡️ SCOTUS reversed itself in Alabama, greenlighting a map it had previously struck down for diluting Black votes, mid-primary, with ballots already cast /1

Oh my God.

The world will be worse off without Ben Sasse. He would've made a great President.

Words aren't violence.

There's a fundamental rejection of free expression baked into this. The idea that anyone critical of a president bears responsibility for political violence reduces the First Amendment to a conditional privilege. /1

I recognize this is just another example of big MAGA influencers synchronizing their responses after taking marching orders from the group chat. But, as a response to what happened last night, this is just bizarre.

Political violence has no place in a free society.

It's easy to joke about InfoWars being acquired by satirists. But it's worth remembering why this is happening at all, and that the parents of Sandy Hook children, who've received nothing for what Alex Jones put them through, are finally about to.

@timheidecker.bsky.social has officially confirmed the worst. Satanists are about to take over Infowars.

Tucker Carlson is a sly opportunist, and always has been. He was in on Trump from the beginning, his most effective propagandist for years, and he knew exactly what Trump's character and administration were. /1

“As a result zoning rules favor the interests of insiders in a way that limits the supply of housing, keeps housing prices high and makes it generally hard for anybody to afford a home. What can you do about that?” — @mattzwolinski.bsky.social Listen to the full episode: hubs.la/Q04b_TM80

This has the potential to become the funniest thing that's ever happened.

Ossoff: "Never before have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption." That's the message. Every faction of the anti-Trump coalition, however divided, can rally around one thing: Accountability, investigation, and when convicted, jail time. Make this the focus.

The ancient Romans had a word for it: “ambitio,” the shameless pursuit of approval at the cost of one's integrity. Tom Palmer distinguishes that corrosive hunger for power from ambition rooted in merit, character, and the creation of genuine value. hubs.la/Q04cp8Qk0

God bless every member of the American Red Cross who puts their safety on the line every day to serve those in need. Picture unrelated.

A good talk, I thought, with @andycraig.bsky.social. The case for impeachment. www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-case-f...

Trump last week: "Praise Allah" Yesterday: "I hate the Pope" Today: *posts image depicting him as Christ* Your friendly reminder that the separation of church and state isn't simply to protect the state. It's to protect the church from the corrupting influence of power.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

Finally, Hungary we will be sovereign, not a vassal of Russia

Be hopeful. Orban's defeat will weaken right wing authoritarians around the globe.

Days like today have me wondering if Viktor Orban said “thank you.”

Congratulations to Fidesz. Today, one more link in the global authoritarian network has been shattered. 2026 will be an inflection point for the entire world.

Mark my words. In about a week, Americas are going to wake up in the morning and feel what this chart actually means.

Before the war, the Strait of Hormuz was open. We bombed Iran, achieved none of our "stated objectives" on uranium enrichment, lost lives and military assets, and now ships permanently require Iranian authorization to pass through. Normal passage has not resumed. Trump is declaring total victory.

Every day, Trump humiliates America, weakens us, alienates us from our friends, and makes the world our children will grow up in exponentially more dangerous.

"Two weeks." It's TACO Tuesday again. Every day I'm reminded how lucky we are that the most dangerous man in America is, fundamentally, an incompetent child. Incapable of long-term planning, thinking, or leadership. For now, that's our best hope of surviving this moment.

Why are we talking about the 25th Amendment? In no reality should we lay the responsibility here on JD Vance to act. He's a sycophant who's complicit. He'll do nothing. Congress needs to reconvene and vote to impeach and convict. This is their Constitutional obligation.

"If the family is so critical to liberal thought, why have liberals neglected it? Partly it’s because social conservatives have so aggressively claimed the family for their own; it seems that some liberals may assume any serious engagement concedes ground to traditionalism. This is a mistake."

It only takes a handful of Republicans in the House and Senate to end this nightmare for everyone.