More guns than people… Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

California is now a safe haven for reproductive care: doctors can anonymously ship abortion pills to people in other states. While bans spread, access is being mailed out overnight Thank you Governor Newsom

"I will publicly weigh in with respect to the remaining candidates in the Mayor's race well before the start of early voting." How to sabotage "Vote Blue No Matter Who" and take the "lead" out of "leadership."

Yes. Also, Robert Benchley: "Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."

Succinct explainer of why you *must* STFU, totally and completely, no matter how much you long to explain you did nothing wrong/had a right to be there/were behaving peacefully etc: dellinolaw.com/10-reasons-n...

In a speech offering House Judicial Comm. tape transcripts he edited himself, Nixon said, "I quote directly from the tape: 'It is wrong, that’s for sure.'" Context makes this funny. But at least he tried to portray himself as ethical. With press/House/SCOTUS in his pocket, Trump doesn't even bother.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

Shorter JD Vance: You are not allowed to criticize ICE. Goes along with shorter Pete Hegseth: You are not allowed to criticize the military's action at Wounded Knee. And shorter Donald Trump: You are not allowed to criticize me. It's full-on authoritarianism, all the way down.

My god. These people have no moral compass, no shame. They do whatever Trump wants, seem to get off on playing tough for him.

The "Hitler Oath," sworn in public, superseded a previous oath of allegiance to the Weimar Constitution & institutions. Hegseth has summoned our military leaders. Does he mean to supersede their oath to "support & defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign & domestic"?

By Polish artist Pawel Kuczynski.

By chance, I was in Bergen, Norway during an outdoor festival somewhere near my hotel. For hours, sound of crowd singing along to live music drifted in through my hotel window. It was lovely. This has been my ear-worm ever since (volume up): "Don't go wasting your emotions, lay all your love on me"

Random shop window in Stockholm.

Next-level mealy-mouthing from Sinclair -- so many words to dance around the fact everyone called them out for being jack-asses.

"He’s using tariffs as his personal slush fund" Companies who aren't (yet) passing tariffs on to consumers, eating the cost at Trump's insistence, must know this. Maybe some are currying favor to set up future asks, while others are warding off reprisals, like paying protection money to the mob?

No, of course Comey didn't "LIE" (as Trump screeched on Truth Social). If you're wondering what exactly Trump pressured DOJ into characterizing as a lie -- his kick-off to a pogrom against people he thinks were mean to him -- this is a good explainer: www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

This is the kind of focus, empathy, authenticity, blunt communication we need from Dem candidates. I wish D leaders like Schumer, Jeffries, Booker, Gillibrand, Hochul --some still not endorsing Mamdami, others offering only belated grudging nods-- realized their mealy-mouthed caution only helps MAGA

This is how a leader speaks

I wonder how many Americans have secret lines: "If Trump crosses this line, I start packing, figure out how to leave before it's too late." Many of us are 1st generation, raised on stories of being trapped in dictatorships, the horrors of having waited too long. Trump keeps moving closer to my line.

I'm glad they're trying. But 6 justices have shown over and over that the only real questions before them -- regardless of what august experts say or warn -- are "What does Trump want?" and "Which areas of settled law do we tear up to deliver it?"

I hear James Cameron halted production of a new Terminator film to begin ESCALATOR, about an evil cyborg sent from the future to force a corpulent whiner to climb some stairs.

It had to happen to someone sometime.

Trump orders Venezuelan boats bombed out of the water without bestirring himself to prove they smuggled drugs. Is anyone surprised Venezuela turned around a US plane, possibly one full of disappeared ICE detainees?

So will Hegseth announce an evil new policy or a merely stupid new policy? "...sowing confusion and alarm after...firing of numerous senior leaders...Hegseth’s overtly political moves have deepened a sense of distress...that he is erasing the Defense Department’s status as a nonpartisan institution"

Another win for "Fuck you. Make me."

MAGA is rushing to claim a white man who shot Mexican detainees was commie/antifa/anti-ICE. Cf., Kimmel suspended for, "MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

I disagree with the argument that says it's wrong to use historical analogies to describe similar political behavior today, and that the proper thing to do is distort what's happening today and make it sound better than it is, because otherwise the people doing it might feel bad.

Oh ffs! Is there nothing they won't do to please their Mad Wannabe King? Do they understand their names will be forever attached to this monstrous dereliction? That when sanity returns, it will carry their disgrace in one hand and our fury in the other?

Imo CA has a good case: ICE agents will refuse to take off their masks in CA, as state law now requires, claiming they don't have to because federal law takes precedence. BUT there's no fed LAW requiring ICE agents to wear masks, and states CAN regulate behavior not in conflict with actual fed LAW.

This is disgusting! I hope the next POTUS buries Trump's portraits, and all his tacky gold Oval Office crap, in a big hole with the jack-hammered cement from his hideous Rose Garden patio.

I liked Kimmel's monologue but not the way he let Trump team/media off the hook for twisting & mischaracterizing what he actually said. That ugly expedient lie deserved calling out.(Brought back memories of "her emails" living on & on as HRC deflected & apologized instead of defending & explaining.)

The Rapture = Godot.

The Rapture got cancelled so it wouldn't distract from Trump's escalator.

Bomb the UN over an escalator. I'm surprised Watters isn't already in Trump's cabinet.

I loved everything about Barcelona, including the street art.

I'd be happy to see/hear/read every Dem on media scream about "indoctrination" and "brainwashing" of our children. Maybe those words haven't been 100% coopted by the right yet.

It's always a deep deep cringe to read anything from Loomer, but this? What kind of person thinks it's okay, much less funny, to say this?

I’d much rather hear a speech by C. J. Cherryh, who wrote the words Melania Trump plagiarized.

Genuinely good people would have to hang onto lamp posts for dear life, feet up over their heads, to avoid being in such deplorable company.

Terrifying. Were they put on planes to hellish camps, sold to human traffickers, handed to countries with slave labor? I hope Trump, Noem, ICE pay a *very* heavy price for this & the unimaginable illegal grief they've inflicted on families, friends, employers just to set up we're-so-tough photo ops.

Today's New Yorker cartoon:

I think of this when Trump/MAGA bark out a new warning du jour. It's the Haitians! The transgenders! Tren de Aragua! Jimmy Kimmel! "Shifty" and "Peek-a-boo" and Tylenol and Obama and...

There was also supposed to be a Rapture on this day in 2017. Is any year that Rosh Hashanah starts on 9/23 a potential Rapture Day? Apparently one sign of impending Rapture is "the Antichrist seated in the temple." If it was "in the White House," I might go outside today to look for floating bodies.

Cringe! I visited the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm and, seeing a wall of photos of past winners, felt a surge of happy pride knowing Trump's face would never ever be there (beside Barak Obama's!) because no reasonable person would ever believe his dumb claim that he stopped multiple pretend wars.

My mantra is, "Do NOT look at the comments!" Bad enough seeing all the wrong-headed, cruel, brainwashed sneering from the right. Almost as depressing seeing the callousness, impracticality, know-it-all scolding, and/or blame-the-[fill in entire lefty demographic] from accounts I otherwise agree with

Good explainer, if you want one.

Trump takes for granted SCOTUS rubber-stamping his cruel & illegal orders. Any other SCOTUS would rule that rounding up 1000s without proving crimes--not even misdemeanors like overstaying Visa, illegal entry--to any judicial body, then "losing" them, is kidnapping, human trafficking, maybe slavery.

Trump & his cult media want to make it all but mandatory to celebrate someone whose own words demonstrated, over & over, his brazen racism & determination to spread lies that endanger already-victimized minorities. Pinning a hero's medal on him is their way of urging MAGA to embrace those scary lies

"I saw more paintings than any human being has ever saw. And statues." He really said this. www.livetube.tv/news/video-i...