OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

Dutch late night TV has its take

The U.S. is fully prepared to replace Russian gas and oil product supplies to Europe starting today, according to U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright. No excuses for Slovakia and Hungary.

One of the Ukrainian naval drones hit the port of Tuapse at a docking zone for large vessels. Oil pipelines and other infrastructure are visible near the place of arrival.

❗️Russian Tg channels report a drone attack&explosion on an oil terminal of the Tuapse oil refinery It’s reported that the strike hit the oil loading pier,where fuel oil,diesel with a high sulfur content are shipped 2Russian large oil ports in the Black Sea have temporarily stopped loading tankers

As I was saying…

"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.” Bowing down to a bully never works. And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.

Fact-checkers working hard to keep up…

Russia has applied “torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, including sexual violence” in a “systematic and widespread manner” against Ukrainian civilians in 100+ detention centers, the U.N. Human Rights Office reported today. www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

Goebbles or Miller?

🇰🇿🇺🇦 Zelensky: I met with President of Kazakhstan Tokayev. The key task now is achieving a just and lasting peace with reliable security guarantees. We discussed in detail the efforts of Ukraine, the US, Europe, and other partners around the world to bring this war to an end and stop the killings.

🇷🇺🇬🇧"I say to Putin: your reckless actions risk a direct armed confrontation between NATO and Russia. Ours is a defensive alliance, but have no illusions," – UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper

OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”

There is only one way to resolve this. RELEASE THE HOMAN TAPES!!!

Was wondering if @lastweektonight.com would address the Kimmel stuff briefly or make it the "main story" (even though its "main stories" often involve months of prep and research). Looks like they went for it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohPT...

For everyone saying this is an impeachable offense and worse than Watergate: Of course it is. But that doesn’t matter in the slightest, because this GOP Congress has completely abdicated their duty and will never do anything to hold him accountable.

⚡️U.S. President Donald Trump again urged European countries to stop importing oil from Russia, during a dinner speech in Virginia, Bloomberg reported on Sept. 21. "The Europeans are buying oil from Russia – not supposed to happen, right?" Trump said.

⚡️U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sept. 21 that he would help defend Poland and the Baltic nations if Russia continues to escalate. “Yeah, I would. I would,” Trump replied when reporters asked whether the U.S. would back its allies in such a case.

WEAKNESS BREEDS WEAKNESS 3 Russian MiG-31s armed with R-73 missiles violated Estonian NATO airspace for 12 whole minutes. Swedish fighters took these photos to serve as visual aid in NATO meetings.

MacCALLUM: Do you think it's the responsibility of the president to bring people together? TRUMP: Ideally ... I saw it starting with President Obama. I saw tremendous hatred.

Checking in on this

Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

This exchange is worth a watch

hmm im seeming to recall On Tyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social warning about this behavior from Trump

They want to shut you up. To crush dissent. To end free speech. This is un-American.

Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

This was how I ended my report on January 6th. I was no Jimmy Kimmel, but I do wonder if under Trump 2.0 I’d have been fired for defying MAGA’s election denialist party line.

Even Comrade Carlson can see what fuckery is happening.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.

KAINE: Were you instructed by the secretary of HHS to not speak to senators? MONAREZ: I was instructed to not speak directly to senators KAINE: So Senate-confirmed CDC director instructed not to speak to senators

Attaboy

From the radical left marxist National Review.

wait, but I thought crime was totally out of control in cities?

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

"Chuck Schumer, why are you doing this? Hakeem Jeffries, why are you doing this?...It's the donors...They're not up to the moment...sternly worded letter? ARGHH." On 'We're Not Kidding', watch @markruffalo.bsky.social 'hulk out' over the uselessness of top Dems. Full show: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences. The modern American right in 2025, folks.

FYI here are my receipts on Chris Cuomo calling Jan 6th an insurrection back in 2021 which he told me tonight on air he ‘never’ said. I told him I had checked his Twitter 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome

Here is Stephen Miller clearly indicating that we're about to see a McCarthyite campaign of state-sponsored persecution against the liberal-left, all fake-justified by the murder of Charlie Kirk:

Dawg

The Right is going increasingly masks-off and it's going to get uglier yet.

absolutely repugnant, gutfeld completely dismisses the assassination of melissa hortman, calls it a "bull shit" example of political violence

A good listen.