took some time this week to read and process Chicago Bob's full A.I. encyclical for myself—and took away something way more interesting, and fulsome, than either its detractors or proponents would have you believe

Dear media, You don't have to say "E Jean Carroll accused Trump of defamation and rape." You can say "Trump defamed and raped E Jean Carroll." It's been adjudicated. Thank you

Utterly deranged.

reskeet if you’re radically pro-transgender

Long-ish read, smart analysis from @perrybaconjr.bsky.social and Jake Grumbach.

Hey, Mitch. You could have prevented ALL THIS by voting to convict him and bar him from holding office again. Asshole.

The New York Times editorial board: “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.”

The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

glaad.org/fcc Just submitted my comments. I don't need some stupid warning that I might see different lifestyle choices on TV. And I REALLY don't need another way for our government to treat my queer family and friends like they don't belong.

Turns out a Navy willing to execute civilians in boats in the Caribbean to produce snuff films for the president is a Navy willing to let the FBI director treat a tomb as a fun frolic

Whenever I return to NYC and get on the subway, the thought that crosses my mind is, "Ah, the real America."

@joshtpm.bsky.social writes: "No Democrat should get elected to any federal office without a credible plan to reform the Supreme Court and rid it off its corruption, along with the willingness to enact such a plan." Read the rest of what he has to say about our corrupt Supreme Court.

Happy cartoonist day! Treat them nice

@jdickerson.bsky.social What do you think of Brian Beutler's idea that the DNC should sue CBS over editing their 60 Minutes Trump interview...which is what Trump sued CBS for over their Harris interview? (The recent case arguably worse bc they cut out some really looney tunes remarks from POTUS.)

"Dude, dude, just answer the question."

In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Astounding bad faith, even if you think you more or less know the shell games the Alito 6 like to play.

yeah, so two things. first, i have been saying for some time that *this* is the message. and that it is a broad one that can fit a large number of concerns. and second, this dude has the juice.

I'll restate my oft-stated position that democratic self-government in the United States is not possible unless this Court and its manifest corruption are thoroughly reformed. civic democracy or this corrupt court. can only have one.

The story of the Iran war is that Trump lost it in the first days. Everything since has been trying to deny that cardinal fact. You can see this by the fact that everything happening since has been trying to break free Iran’s hold on the strait, something it didn’t have before the war.

You know how Trump keeps boasting he doesn't take any salary?

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

I just read @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social's wonderful, fantastical coming-of-age comic, "The October Girl." It's beautifully written and drawn, and I'm eagerly looking forward to reading book 2!

Tom Waits just released his first original song in 15 years, in collaboration with Massive Attack.

RIP Frank Stack, who worked on my favorite one shot comic ever, ‘American Splendor: Transatlantic Comics.’ THE best, in my opinion, American Splendor artist.

Someone had fun with this headline.

Every once in a while, I like to watch this video clip of Joe Biden comforting a grieving Parkland family to remind myself what compassionate leadership looks like. This is the stuff I truly miss.

I just want to know if he tipped the delivery person.

If you're gonna use the term, save TACO for situations where Trump can reverse himself, and damage is financial or abstract. This is not that. This is a madman taking the world hostage, causing death and global chaos, sparing us from civilizational ruin for his own opaque reasons. No moving past it.

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

The day will come when nobody will admit to having voted for Trump.

Over the decades have met, interviewed, learned from countless combat veterans, decorated heroes, men and women who lost limbs, eyesight, comrades to enemy fire. Have never once heard any strut or cosplay/crow about "lethality" or "bomb our little hearts out" as we're getting from Prez/SecDef now.

The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.

I had better see a record number of reposts on this.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

I like this No kings rally sign

Still relevant (in the worst way) over 7 years later!

Great, they're giving him a sizzle reel. This explains a lot about how disconnected he is with what's actually happening.

Remarkable: The public has rejected *all* the major pillars of America First Trumpism. Majorities oppose: *deportations *tariffs *war with Iran *threats to Canada and Greenland ...while NATO, vaccines, and foreign aid remain broadly popular. Some thoughts on that: newrepublic.com/article/2080...

every single financial institution would benefit from hiring exactly one (1) progressive to walk around the office all day long going “are you fucking stupid?” to anyone within ear shot

okay maybe i'll make posters

The right will try to repeat their lies that the Mueller Report "exonerated Trump" or "proved Russiagate was a hoax," but it did no such thing. It was a damning account of Trump's corruption by a foreign power, whose impact was limited by a cowardly Congress and complicit press.

I wrote about the $200 billion the Pentagon is asking for to fight the Iran War, a figure that tells you more about the conflict than anything anyone in the administration has said about it since it began three weeks ago newrepublic.com/article/2080...

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

Just what American citizens want from the White House: being the last of their concerns.