Thune refuses to answer the question on Russ Vought’s threat to fire federal employees if there is a shutdown. Which suggests that media keep asking this question of Republicans.

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The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

they like Trump and want to help him rule us like a king

grandpa has good days and bad days but increasingly it's only bad days. losing it. brains leaking out his ears.

A lot of conservatives are unironically afraid of places that look like this though

I have assumed this for some time, but we are seeing it play out in real time.

NEW: Days before a decades-long contract between CPB and NPR is due to expire (and would normally be renewed), CPB announced Friday that it is giving nearly $60 million over five years to a newly formed coalition entity. cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

I endorse everything @jaystanley.bsky.social has to say in this piece from the ACLU on Drone as First Responder programs - and we need to stop tolerating their quiet, insidious growth in American communities. www.aclu.org/documents/ey...

spent all my savings on this home and now i just need to furnish it

this is the housing market but at least we're investigating what happened to amelia earhart

idk, I think Frank’s basic thesis of “we will become a horde of bored nihilists who tear each other apart like rabid chimps for something to do” holds up pretty well when people’s response to witnessing a murder is to live stream it and remind you to like, comment, and subscribe.

“WE MAKE, THEY TAKE” From @moreperfectunion.bsky.social — 50 billboards across 8 states are driving home the message that working Americans (teachers, nurses, etc) keep 🇺🇸 running, but billionaires keep taking more & more. Share if you agree. More: perfectunion.us/wemaketheyta...

Torn between thinking the custom where fans must remain silent during tennis matches is ridiculous and wack and the feeling that baseball would be much funnier and more fun if everyone in the crowd had to stay totally silent during at bats

New in PN: You cannot trust the federal government "The FBI has proven it can’t be trusted to provide narrative-free evidence to the public. This is par for the course for the rest of the govt under Trump, which can’t be trusted at all because everything in it exists only to serve Dear Leader."

One CNN investigation has identified “more than 100 US citizen children, from newborns to teenagers, who have been left stranded without parents because of immigration actions this year …”

A monstrously racist initiative and please be assured that anyone who supports it is indeed a monstrous racist.

A lot of free speech absolutist are being awfully quiet about this sort of thing.

It was good for me to come here this week. I think, living in New York, with a relatively reasonable governor, I’m constantly like “fight fight fight.” Here, connecting with a bunch of black folks from red states in different situations, the message is “survive, survive, survive.”

めぐみん。

"The crusade against disfavoured speech is clear, led not by a grassroots movement, but by well-connected, powerful people eagerly donning the vestments of hard institutional power like children playing dress up in mommy’s uniform." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-left-is-...

Republicans REALLY seem to hate women who served their country in military and intelligence, like specifically, huh?

Remember when Republican lackies of the first Trump administration released Abigail Spanberger's personal information when she was running for Congress? I remember. Seems to be a pattern.

So the gunman in Dallas shot detainees, not ICE, and authorities are calling it an targeted act of violence against ICE. Got it.

Despite everything I still have fundamental faith in the American people turning this around and making things better. [reads any New York Times focus group] Fuck this. Fuck everything. Burn it all down. [drinks directly from tequila bottle]

Arkansas taxpayers were forced to pay another country to undercut our own farmers. D.C. sent Argentina $20B in assistance. Then Argentina dropped THEIR export taxes and sold soybeans to China. And our farmers are being left behind. I’ll fight for trade policies that put farmers first. #FairTrade

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

Aside from being a signum efficax of Yarvin's personal stupidity, this is also just factually incorrect. Slaveocracy was always aggressively expansionist, and correctly and presciently felt threatened by free states and countries. Some CSA leaders also had plans for a trans-American slave empire.

I’m at the Congressional Black Caucus annual meeting, wondering which new life long enemies I’ll make today.

Oh god, /canned/ chow mein

Silent Thursday f

Great idea. Top notch, really. Just crackerjack planning. Nothing could possibly go wrong. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Easy messaging win for Dems, "you can't have [good thing] because Trump is spending $20B to subsidize the failures of some libertarian clown abroad." And, no, Dems shouldn't support it because it's "foreign aid." It's a right-wing clown bailout. Supporting it trivializes and undermines foreign aid.

vance has got to be the most cucked vp of all time. absolutely no power, completely subservient to a sundowning blowhard and an unelected nazi sleaze, so bored of waiting around for grandpa to give him something to do that he’s organizing forum raids like goons dropping in on habbo hotel

I took some screenshots of the art for the completely routine shopping screens.

@jimmykimmel.com A reminder that we should all hold our 'hot takes' on days like this till we have full information on motives, politics, etc. Politicizing every shooting or terror act from the get-go is reckless and dumb. nypost.com/2025/09/24/u...

"Trump's Argentina bailout" just start saying that over and over again. Something goes wrong in the economy? What did you expect? Trump spent all our money bailing out Argentina

This is a time worn tactic in the conservative-adjacent motivational speaker/business mindset/MLM speaking circuits. You mix in your ideological or scammy advice with some sensible (if obvious) advice to get people to more readily accept the thing you care about.

My car gives me an overheat warning. Swiftly I eject the warp core, the smouldering battery sliding and skipping across the street, straight into the storefront of a nearby cafe and starting what would later be called The Great Fire of 2034.

@crazydave.bsky.social @executiveotaku.bsky.social @krizzlybear.bsky.social Taking a Universes Beyond induced MTG break so going to binge Blue Box. Long overdue but such are my parenting woes. Comrades, I have a feeling about this one...

Yes thats what every bully says when their threats get shot down in order to save face

ICE is doing things that all Americans are going to be called to answer for.

These people can be stood up to, people telling you they can’t are their dupes

like, try to picture vance giving a heartfelt compassionate speech in the wake of a deadly hurricane. it’s impossible. he is utterly without compassion for anyone, which makes him profoundly unfit for office

“Conservatives would never joke about violence.”

Thirty-two years ago today, Myst was released. Happy Birthday, little guy! 🎂

Again, this is what the Nazis did at first.

The Trump Administration is trying to kill a key part of the Violence Against Women Act — and they're hoping you don't notice. www.youtube.com/shorts/cSila...

The video is an uncomfortable watch, but an important one nonetheless. Hearing Cathy tell the story of what happened to her is an important part of Magic: The Gathering's history, one that needs to be known about and acknowledged: youtu.be/-WVnrKRsuqI?... #MagicTheGathering