Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey. This isn’t controversial. A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.

NEW: Rep Jason Crow (D-CO) and other Democratic veterans in Congress release a joint statement on President Trump’s call for their arrest and sedition trial: “Every American must unite and condemn the President’s calls for our murder and political violence.”

Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.

Ken Burns’ documentary did mention Washington’s decision to inoculate the troops, but it missed a tremendous opportunity to talk about how inoculation, and public health generally, was being discussed as both a duty of government and a right of the people. It wasn’t just a smart tactical move.

So on I went.

wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)

“Things happen.”

Trump claims his ICE raids are going after the "worst of the worst". But his own DOJ admits that over 97% of immigrants detained in Chicago have no criminal record. It was always about cruelty, not public safety.

Every year, in honor of the anniversary of Sherman's march to the sea, I share this article in which Gary Brecher eviscerates the New York Times and celebrates one of the most inspired campaigns in United States history Happy 161st, you glorious bastard

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Whether it’s Barack Obama, appearing in a tan suit or Donald Trump appearing 1700 times in Jeffrey Epstein‘s emails, both presidents made some highly controversial appearances.

We look so hard for ordinary people! Keep a diary! And write down everything you take for granted in it, please!

“It’s corrupt, is the word….Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer.” www.propublica.org/article/kris...

They’re gonna hire like five administrators, each making triple the salary of the most senior professors, to field these inquiries, right?

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong." Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror" www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...

Ten-second iPhone exposure from rural southwest Missouri.

Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.

Literally all this man does is complain.

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

Sideshow Chuck Schumer.

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant” He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

lol

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.

As a parent and a citizen, this saddens me to no end. The rural district where my kids go to school is one of the very few in this area that still has a five(ish)-day week. Taxpayers and public officials are failing our students.

Nobody traded for Butker?

oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please

Ah, that magic point in the semester when it’s finally nice enough again to sit outside and grade. It’s the same point when I’m so worn out that I think I’d rather go inside and nap.

There’ still a shared American story, I write in @nytimes.com, and the data shows it isn’t Vance’s ethnonationalist one. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor (2018)

Ninety-nine days until pitchers and catchers report.

No thank you.

Send him home like Hosmer Let’s get weirder.

Yes.

It goes to 11. (Thank goodness the bar is still open here.)

B-A-N-A-N-A-S

Are you fucking kidding me?