Only one thing could top the honor of speaking at the No Kings rally, and that's the honor of speaking at No Kings 2. See you October 18th!

To summarize. If Trump wanted to send Ukraine Tomahawks, he could right now. If Trump wanted to sanction Russia, he could right now. If Trump wanted to seriously bolster Ukrainian air defense against Russia drones/missiles, he could right now. But he’s not, so he doesn’t want to.

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

I wouldn’t advise anyone in Portland to walk your dog near this building.

bingo

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

He will do anything, to stop the release of the Epstein files, including a Civil war!

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

It’s of note that during tonight’s hearing the DoJ didn’t even try to make the case that changing conditions on the ground in Portland warranted the CA National Guard. Instead they relied on legal technicalities. Proving again that what they say in court is different than lies they tell the public.

When people start doubting that Trump actually wants to work with dictators, they might ask themselves why the two states he is working hard to limit military sales to are Taiwan and Ukraine.

Headlines like this — "Morale is extremely low at CBS ahead of Bari Weiss taking over" — is, perversely, a key reason Paramount's leadership paid such a ridiculous premium for Free Press. The *point* is to break the real journalists. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Call them what they are—Shitler’s Brown Shirts.

Let's continue to build solidarity by peacefully opposing our tyrant-in-chief at No Kings Day 2.0 on October 18. There are currently over 2,000 events planned nationwide. More details here: https://www.nokings.org

So, the USG is subsidizing Argentina to help China screw the US farmer. MAGA!

Finally reading the full Gold Card EO and wow is it wild. The order says that any person who pays $1 million is, by definition, a person of "exceptional business ability" and therefore qualified for an EB-2 visa. Does anything better sum up the Trump ethos than "all rich people are exceptional."?

Bob Iger has a real chance to be a hero here and say “Fuck you. Make me.” to the FCC by reinstating Kimmel. I’ll sign back up for Disney+ if he does. Until then, keep canceling your subscriptions!

Grifters all the way down — great scoop @carolleonnig.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

The firing of Karen Attiah is an absolute disgrace for the Washington Post, the culmination of their Bezos-driven submission to MAGA.

If a hostile foreign power had decimated our government to this extent, missiles would be in the air by now — but the enemy is within.

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

Mike Johnson wants us to stop framing the existential threats to our democracy as existential threats to our democracy. He wants us to think a weaponized DOJ, masked ICE kidnappers, the military occupation of cities and the extortion of universities and the media are "simple policy disagreements."

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Please write and call your rep and tell them not to delay these cuts to healthcare. Either cancel them altogether (preferred) or bring them on right now so voters start feeling the pain. Delaying them until after the election would be more Democrat Party suicide.

Well, well, well, how about that: “Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as ‘vacation home,’ documents show” www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

Jesse Waters needs to be fired TODAY!

Charlie Kirk ran cancellation campaigns! He was a big purveyor of "watch what you say," organizing efforts to find professors discussing ideas he opposes—not just in class, in outside writing too—and shut them up. We just had a decade of calling that illiberal! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Easy to do…..

I’m sorry but a Yankee’s moment of silence for a right wing influencer is not appropriate. Neither is his body being flown on Air Force 2, flags at half-mast nor a presidential medal of freedom. Debate me.

Has anyone seen a compilation of clips or quotes that show Kirk speaking to *his audience* in a manner that illustrates the civic virtues he’s being eulogized for having embodied? If so, I’d be interested to see it. If not, that seems notable, no?

Just sent out this post. Three times in the last two months, people have tried to blame the outrageously pro-Putin steps taken by the Trump Administration on a third level bureaucrat in the Pentagon. This has to stop. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did. 🚨🚨🚨

TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Historians of religion in the founding era have estimated that church attendance rates at the time were lower than 20%.

When not on Guard duty, the guardsman who was patrolling DC's subway stop is a police officer in Jackson, Miss. Jackson last year had a murder rate about three times higher than DC's. If it's not the deadliest U.S. city, it's close. And its police staffing per-capita is less than half of DC's.

Warfighters demonstrating leafality.

I have a language suggestion, which everyone can do, but is primarily for media members who value truth and Democratic politicians: Instead of asking and adjudicating if an obvious lie is false, make the fact that it's false your premise. "Why are you lying?" instead of "some say that's not true."

Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.

The lies' laughable implausibility is a feature, not a bug. They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.