Earthquake post here in the Bay Area. 4.5-4.8 initial reading.

Premise is there's numerous former Trump supporters (a) with a change of heart (b) who will change back if Dems don't flatter them. There are trivially few such people, if any. In reality, Dems need to win back nonvoters. They won't do that by trying to placate Trumpers, they'll just look weak.

Ominous. Israeli media is widely reporting that Netanyahu believes he has a blank check from the US to unilaterally retaliate against yesterday’s recognition of a Palestinian state by the UK, France, Canada, Australia, etc. He’s “weighing annexation,” reports the Jerusalem Post. 🧵

Prior to his communist witch hunt, he slandered American interrogators and defended the Nazis who killed unarmed American troops at Malmedy.

His entrance will be pretty much the same when the White House hosts UFC.

Only lunatics watch a memorial service and argue, "This is what every day should be like."

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

Dragons are much bigger cultural icons in Chinese mythology than here.

Trump received an indefinite suspension from Facebook and Instagram on January 7, 2021. A ban from Twitter followed two days later. Joe Biden had nothing to do with it.

Always Be Closing

This is exactly backwards. From the beginning, Kirk was the beneficiary of a large and highly organized network of dark money donors who were looking for a spokesman. No way he would have done what he did without patrons like Montgomery and Uihlein. Kirk didn't make money - money made Kirk.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Acetaminophen/paracetamol use in pregnancy doesn't cause autism, no matter what RFK says this week. This is not an unsettled question. Evidence summarized here: sciencebasedmedicine.org/tylenol-and-...

These people are all hateful lunatics.

Rumors aren't facts. But last fall the Finance/DC corridor was awash in chatter that bribes and cash payments were flying fast and furious. Given the nature of this crew, essentially zero chance Homan was alone in this.

The refs in this Rams-Eagles game are atrocious.

Setting aside the perpetual confusion about who was president when, Trump wasn't banned by social media platforms because of political bias or to "censor" him. It was because he directly used their services to incite actual deadly violence. He committed literal violent crimes using their websites.

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

There’s a factual write-up and then down the memory hole it goes. The sheer volume works to his benefit. Occasionally the press zeroes in on something until the next squirrel.

Definitely filled with crimes.

Isn't Frankenstein's monster green or grey usually?

It is staying in line with their plan to Horst Wessel him.

Republican opposition to political violence still going strong on regime outlets bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Here's a video idea: Use an AI-generated version of Trump's voice using this post as a script. Add some 70s-era static. Then maybe the press will treat it as scandalous as it should be.

Agnew accepted bags of cash. He was later disbarred in which he was described as "morally obtuse."

it was literally in a bag www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Once again, they were always full of shit when they made up "corruption" claims about Obama and Biden. They don't actually care. It's just a bludgeon to use against enemies.

Republicans are lunatics. Absolute lunatics.

lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Tish James, please pick up the courtesy phone.

George Carlin is still right: "These are the 'law and order' people! These are the people who are against street crime. They want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals!"

The case involved the DOJ's Public Integrity Section which Trump basically dismantled upon his return to the White House.

“On Sept. 20, with hidden cameras recording the scene, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case.” Homan was being investigated for allegedly “soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win the election” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

Tom Homan is a corrupt bitch

Trump just enacted the largest cuts to food assistance in history. Now he's cancelling the government survey that measures hunger in America.

Trump is cancelling an annual government survey that measures hunger in America, rather than allow it to show hunger increasing under his tenure. This follows the playbook of many non-democracies that cancel or manipulate reports that would otherwise show less-than-perfect news.

oh fuck off

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court. He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

They butchered the meaning of "woke" to just mean "bad."

It was clear from the beginning these people only cared about the "First Amendment rights" of Nazis and white supremacists. (Their First Amendment rights were not actually under threat anyway.)

I was just reading an article that included a paragraph about how Israel is planning to set up a “humanitarian zone” in Al-Mawasi. Check my quoted tweet from Dec. 2023 to see how long they’ve been promising that.

The ability to gather and report information without authorization from the government is pretty much the definition of a free press

In the oral argument in the immunity case, Trump's lawyer's answer to the question, "What would be the check on the President just using his officers to break the law?" was, "People will not follow illegal orders." We're about to find out whether that's true.

Just bizarro world-level "reporting."

Valueless politics.

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!