Cardinal Robert McElroy at the Mass for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees: “We are witnessing an unprecedented assault on our nation…this assault is intended to make life miserable for undocumented migrants…our government is engaged in a comprehensive campaign of fear at its core.”

The Republicans have majorities in both houses of Congress so there's a "way out" of a government shutdown if they can only get their shit together. This isn't on Democrats, at all.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

It is an exquisitely painful irony that a vigil for someone who had been shot would make us concerned about wearing t-shirts that advocate for preventing gun violence. We don’t want anyone — ANYONE — to get shot. That’s our work. But the sky is purple and nothing makes sense. 5/

When the government moves to punish those who say things that are offensive to the feelings of the government, that is a crystal clear violation of First Amendment protections. Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is asking you to give up your own First Amendment protections.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"

Using a dubious emergency power to impose sweeping tariffs without Congress could push nearly 1 million Americans into poverty while driving up prices. This executive overreach hurts working families and undermines the constitutional role of Congress. nypost.com/2025/09/11/b...

If you are close to anyone who died of pancreatic cancer, as many of us are, this is astonishingly great news. Let us hope it is true, and let us hope that the work is allowed to continue in the current situation.

In all seriousness, I'd love to see a reporter try to get comments from all of these people about their initial impulse to declare a literal war on half of their fellow citizens and to see if any of them regret it, apologized for it or learned anything at all from it.

“The inflation side of stagflation has arrived.” - BMO

This afternoon, in addition to Charlie Kirk, there was a school shooting. Bullets don't know and don't care if you are a Republican or Democrat. It is time for Republicans and Democrats to find a way to work together to reduce gun violence. www.wcpo.com/us-news/crim...

Before knowing all the facts, voices on the right are now exploiting the tragic death of Charlie Kirk & calling for all-out war on the left. This is sad, but not surprising, at a time when we should all be denouncing political violence. They were not so upset when Minn. Democrats were assassinated.

Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans. As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA. See this:

The biggest misconception people have is that members of congress or other elites are "safe" so that's why they go along with it. Maybe they are safer than others, I guess, but he did try to murder everyone in Congress four years ago. His goons have already arrested and assaulted multiple members.

Anti-vaxxers aren’t questioning the science, they’re questioning who deserves to live

"Using proven vaccines—vaccines that have been used safely for decades in many cases—has been shown in scores of studies to prevent illness and save lives. So how many dead kids is the freedom not to be vaccinated worth?" — @mattyfield.bsky.social.

Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

Think about it. "Dems were too zealous in trying to prevent the spread of the virus" is, in US politics, a greater disadvantage, a bigger problem, than "Republican lies got hundreds of thousands of Americans killed for no reason." Just a pathetic fucking country. Pathetic.

... even if you buy it all, surely the party that worked desperately to save lives & end the pandemic deserves more credit, a higher grade, than the party that worked desperately to spread lies & get people killed! Surely they're not the ones that should be apologizing!

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

This isn’t politics. It’s not left or right. It’s not conservative or liberal. Cutting funding to treat children with brain cancer is hate and greed.

Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined

CDC Director Dr. Monarez was allegedly ordered to accept ACIP’s forthcoming recommendations for COVID19 vaccines regardless of what the evidence from scientific data shows.

I would simply not have voted to confirm the guy who hauled a bear carcass down from upstate New York and left it in Central Park.

This isn’t bad luck or coincidence or predestination. This is our choice. To live in a nation where our leaders teach hate, and military style guns are everywhere.

Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht

It’s funny, we never get those anguished “but how will I explain this to my child?” posts when it’s armed goons violently snatching people off the street. They save that for the real horrors, like someone having two dads.

But if you use flag to beat up a policeman at the US Capital, you get a job in the Justice Department.

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.

New — I wrote about the violent assault on a DC delivery worker this morning by masked federal agents, and how these agents have made the disturbing turn from quiet thugs to playing for the cameras.

She called it.

USDA spent thousands on Trump banners as it was cutting aid, report says

once you notice that people simply do not believe that republicans have agency or any responsibility for the actions they take, you see it everywhere

10 years ago absolutely everyone across the political spectrum would say the President deploying the military to police Americans is an impeachable offense and outrage abuse of power.

We are in a deeply dangerous, illiberal place in America when the federal government will deploy law enforcement to force state legislators to act on legislation that's contrary to their conscience and an attempt to undermine free elections.

People who push the idea that AI will replace artists are actively trying to destroy the concept of the human soul They don't want to create machines with human intelligence. They want to reduce humans to the status of machines: interchangeable, disposable hardware

Cancelled precisely because it saved millions of lives. Republicans lead a propaganda campaign against it because they didn't want Biden and the Dems to reap political gains from what they assumed would be an otherwise robust economic recovery from Covid.

still thinking about the Montana knife maker who said you don't have to worry about tariffs if you buy american. and then three months later, he realized he imports swedish steel and german equipment. and even MiUSA equipment costs $100k more now because of tariffs

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

The President sees a bad jobs report, and responds by getting rid of the person in charge of the statistics. This is how America becomes a third-rate country.

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

Totally normal country we are living in now.

Donald Trump took away your Medicaid to build himself a gilded party room two acres in size.