The worst legacy of The West Wing is that it presented the idea that there are principled Republicans in government.

This is my apology to Daniel Jones for the things I said in chat with my sister during the off season. #colts #indianajones #indy #nfl

I already felt bad for children of Republican parents, but fuck me...

Yesterday we learned that Trump micromanages the prosecution of his enemies and that the head of his secret police was filmed accepting a $50k bribe in a paper bag. Still, for the editors of NYT, the sanctification of Charlie Kirk, saint and martyr is a bigger news story. This paper is soulless.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

this is a big part of why i won't tolerate transphobia in my own fucking party. we're under attack right now and democrats don't need to fucking add to it.

I never cross post here. The DS9 Theme but jazzy #startrek #treksky

like this is the most irresponsible level of hysteria i’ve ever seen. most of these people are either paid by the republican party, or are high level advisors and allies. this is insane

Kofi Kingston: Xavier Woods Deserves To Win Singles Gold, It’s Long Overdue

When I was a kid, the news was nothing but the OJ trial for months. Then for like 1 week the story was that Michael Jordan came back. Once the game was over it was back to the OJ Trial. Anyway, Bloomberg got thousands of Epstein emails yesterday.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

How the nation's newspaper of record is running cover for a fascist: A story in two skeets. First, below, Trump is asked how he's holding up in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder. Trump clearly doesn't care. He's already moved on. He's more interested in his new ballroom than Charlie Kirk.

New from @tinanguyen.bsky.social and me: Charlie Kirk's shooter left behind bullet casings with a furry sex meme and a bunch of Helldivers video game references. Subreddits for Helldivers immediately picked up on it. www.theverge.com/politics/777...

You have no idea how many people my age and older I've told to tune into some of these twitch streams because you will be shocked what you see.

Pretty clear that a lot of people jumped the gun on the motive behind Kirk’s assassination. The shooter: 1. Grew up in a Republican family 2. Donated to Donald Trump 3. Loved guns 4. Was steeped in Groyper culture This isn’t a simple “raging leftist hated Kirk” scenario.

Every WSJ journalist and other journalist who pushed the lie that the shooter was pushing "transgender ideology" is as bad as journalists who pushed anti-Jewish libel in Nazi Germany. Nazis are openly calling for violence against trans people under the assumption the shooter was trans.

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

This explains it better than I can

“the recent event is justification for what we are already doing”

I'll just say this, the argument that THIS will be the justification for Trump doing whatever next awful thing he does is just asinine. Whatever terrible thing he does next he was going to do anyway.

New Mamdani endorsement dropped:

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

I would like to apologize to every political drama I've criticized for being too out there with its storylines. We live in a world where the President is planning to invade Chicago to distract from a self-incriminating porno birthday card he drew for his pedophile best friend.

Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."

My big take away is 51% of the country is pro concentration camps for immigrants.

This is nazi logic. The Nazis would redistribute the confiscated property of Jews to the German populace as an incentive to support their mass deportation to concentration camps.

Democratic leadership is so out of touch that their criticism of a democratic candidate is basically a good thing for them at this point.

Costco just made a massive decision — it will not sell the abortion pill mifepristone at any of its 500+ pharmacies. The move comes after pressure from faith-based activists… but the company says “no demand” was the reason. The debate is already on fire.

I expected Israel to lie and claim this was a mistake. It’s incredible that they are now openly admitting to targeted assassinations of journalists.

“This has never happened before” Trump using the National Guard as political props (again)

“How many murdered Palestinian journalists will it take for the mainstream press’s cowardly fever to break?” asks ⁦‪Prem Thakker,‬⁩ in the wake of Israel’s killing of ⁦‪Anas al Sharif. ‬⁩

"It looked like an oversize dog kennel" vt.tiktok.com/ZSSXh4Tde/

A former “Alligator Alcatraz” worker says detainees are subject to “inhumane” conditions — packed by the hundreds into cages without sunlight, with overflowing toilets and limited access to showers.

I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.

I can't believe Triple H would let an accused rapist back in the main event scene!

This needs to be Triple H's new Titantron.

This is a human rights violation. Multiple detainees described a disturbing incident where dozens of men were forced to eat food they had been denied all day while shackled. “We had to bend over and eat off the chairs with our mouths, like dogs,” — from a new Human Rights Watch report.

This is a fucking bummer.

The messages I'm getting from friends who know I like wrestling, but don't personally watch wrestling are very different from the messages I'm getting from my friends that know I like wrestling that also watch wrestling.

People like to say that new Pixar sucks cause it's woke like A Bug's Life isn't about a socialist uprising.

It’s the first confirmed immigration arrest near a local Oregon courthouse.

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

What's cooking at Selmer Paris? Looks like a new model #jazzsky #saxophone

In Sacramento yesterday morning a US citizen is tackled by ICE agents as his horrified wife screams.

Nah, I'm pretty sure he just kind of sucks.

This week, ICE illegally denied me entry into a processing facility in my district, and today, they released a statement saying I “[gave] the appearance of a political stunt intended to generate publicity rather than pursue genuine oversight.” I have some thoughts.🧵