Mockler: I said Donald Trump created this environment over the past decade. You sat here and said, I need to take responsibility. I'm a 22-year-old youtuber. You hold me to a higher standard than the President

They're not even bothering to actually try to construct a narrative of why Portland is in danger and needs to be "protected." They're just invading a Democratic city to show that they can, and hoping to incite violence in response.

Esther Rolle made her debut as Florida Evans on MAUDE #OTD in 1972. John Amos was introduced as her husband soon after and the spinoff GOOD TIMES followed in Feb, 1974. At its best, GOOD TIMES was as groundbreaking and historically significant as anything in the Norman Lear canon. #ClassicTV

It’s an uphill struggle getting people to accept that Christians can be bad people. But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person. Denial makes things worse

Is it just me or is Ezra Klein doing like book tour level interviews after his Kirk thing?

This is a lie.

I treasure chances to talk w/the women of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social. This time we focused on the consequential jurisprudence of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (beginning at min. 53:48) after a great segment w/ @skyeperryman.bsky.social of @democracyforward.org. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

“He [the ICE officer] was trying to guide traffic with his gun in his hand as the skirmish was going on. Life was going on as usual, and at the same time, this horrifying scene was playing out.”

NEW: Kristi Noem has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA's response to natural disasters. But she fast-tracked $11 million+ to fix a Florida tourist attraction — after one of her big donors reached out. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

If you are a general or admiral en route to Quantico, @duffelblog.com has you covered shop.duffelblog.com/products/thi...

The Des Moines School Board will hold special meeting tomorrow (Sept 27) to discuss this personnel matter in closed session. "The Board will also take action regarding Dr. Roberts’ administrative leave status following closed session." 6/ www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

If Democrats don't make this the biggest story in the country for the next several days - and either force Republicans to denounce it or not, what are we even doing here? Every voter should know about this. (Imagine what would happen if, say, Mother Jones wrote this.) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

Here we go: www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...

This headline says it all about where we are on the rule of law. “Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

jurisdiction stripping, packing, forcing an ethics code on them, congressional investigations, meaningful oversight the court is as controllable as an aggressive Democratic party wants it to be

Kimmel won. Winning matters, wins are how we’re going to prevent this autocratic slide.

It is hard to put into words how this past week basically erased a decade’s worth of work to promote of acceptance of #ActuallyAutistic people and accommodate autism. But somehow Trump did more to promote fear and lies around autism than any other president. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

BREAKING NYT:   Trump just fired a U.S. attorney who insisted on following a court order.   Michele Beckwith, the top federal prosecutor in Sacramento, was fired hours after she reminded a Border Patrol chief to abide by court-ordered restrictions on immigration raids.

until there's a Republican congress and a Democratic president, in which case it will suddenly be very important. the country cannot function as a real democracy with corrupt, partisan serial liars controlling the Supreme Court; it has to be the first priority of a new administration.

“But no one should be surprised that the Trump Administration is pursuing political vengeance against his perceived enemies. They telegraphed their intentions from the outset, and it is time for America to wake up,” Zaid said Friday. www.huffpost.com/entry/its-ti...

Mom at the park just told me she wasn’t going to finish her baby’s vaccine schedule because “of the new information that has come out from the CDC”. Robert Kennedy is a fucking monster.

I took my newly 1 year old baby to her check-up this morning & she got her MMR, chicken pox, flu & COVID shots. If she's feeling fussy tonight, I'll alternate Tylenol & Motrin, per my pediatrician's rec. How fun that I get to ignore the president & be a good mom (and good citizen) instead.

JD Vance appropriating the term "blood libel" to describe legitimate criticism of ICE agents is one of the most antisemitic things I have heard in US politics in the past few weeks. Yet this administration has somehow managed to convince a lot of people it actually cares about fighting antisemitism.

easy way to nip this in the bud is for someone to invite farrakhan or dr. umar

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district. The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps." www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

We did it, fam.

I wrote about this last night—and this Hegseth thing appears to be even less of a thing than those items! Trump is a weak, petty tyrant, and most of the people he put in charge are playing a part. They are not qualified & don't know what to do, so they act—and act out. Don't treat them as more.

A good debunker by @radleybalko.bsky.social on the recent "Iryna's Law" in North Carolina. To add: this is all political. Cooper has a good chance of winning the Senate seat that Thom Tillis is leaving. The GOP candidate is a 🤡. theintercept.com/2025/09/26/c...

Do not bow down to these people. Do not allow them to convince you that you must. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

The group behind the statue says a second permit, to reinstall the piece after Wednesday's removal, was revoked without explanation. It has since posted free 3D printable copies of the statue online.

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

Bannon's vision is entirely consistent with the EO released yesterday. It is the classic authoritarian playbook for dismantling civil society. We can't say they didn't tell us what was coming. bsky.app/profile/greg...

Why are Trump and most House Republicans fighting to keep the Epstein files secret? Turns out, their rich and powerful friends are all over them. Release all the files now.

Yeah to be cryyyystal clear this happened as they were aiming directly at a gaggle of photogs, we were sheltering behind the van and they aimed at face right as I was raising my lens

I obviously had… low expectations for this year once the election was called but i honestly think the first moment I Knew how screwed we were — as a nation, our politics, or democratic health, our media — was the trump doj Eric Adams scandal just came & went, like it was another thing in the news

Lots of folks want to have a gotcha, "did you know: America has always had corruption!" No shit. But did you know: a huge reason millions of people came to this country was because it was *better* at things like the rule of law and not being openly corrupt. For real. bsky.app/profile/anil...

Local Seattle Mayoral candidate Katie Wilson (@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social) refuses to go on the local Sinclair station after the right wing company banned a comedian for giving our dim, mad king a sad nice job, Katie!

In a genuine WOW moment, this administration publicly acknowledges (perhaps for the first time) that an ICE officer violated procedure and will be taken off duty and subject to an investigation. This is a step in the right direction — I just wish it wasn't only because of such an awful viral video.

Here's a fascinating wrinkle in the Charlie Kirk martyrdom process. This is a totally made up story about a mural in Serbia honoring Charlie Kirk's time playing on an all-white basketball team in Chicago. None of this seems to be true, but there's a whole imaginary world out there in which it is.

Please don’t take medical advice for your children from Trump.

I repeat that whenever you see a man toss a woman around in front of witnesses and cameras, you can bet he’s had practice in private.

In the last 6 hours, Trump has imposed: - A 100% tariff on medicine unless its producer starts building a new U.S. factory in the next 5 days - A 50% tariff on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities - A 30% tariff on upholstered furniture - A 25% tariff on “Heavy (Big!) Trucks”

Me: forever mad about the FBI’s surveillance, propaganda, violent work to destroy everyone from Du Bois to BLM Also me: people need to understand what is happening to Comey is bad, big bad. It’s the both/and. Sometimes I think the hardest work for educators and media is to explain nuance/context

They really did this. The stupidity somehow makes it more dangerous.

I think @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social does an excellent job here saying what needs to be said about tonight's pathetic — and yet still scandalous — indictment of James Comey.

You should read the actual Comey indictment. It is shockingly weak — in a manner that makes the true authoritarian intent even more obvious www.vox.com/politics/462...

Literally the authoritarian playbook: 1. Call your opponents terrorists. 2. Deploy state power against them. There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.

Well, well, what’s signed, is signed; and what’s to be, will be; and then again, perhaps it won’t be, after all.