I hate when people say "imagine if Democrats did this" as if hypocrisy matters in politics, but I do have to say that if Obama or Biden said this line, the press would bring it up for the next 10+ years

Every single person I've seen from the center or the right that now has to address these obvious speech crackdowns has to put the onus on the left that "started this." It's outrageously ahistorical.

Day 12 of Charlie Kirk leading the NYT

The reality here is that Chuck Schumer is more offended by the things that Zohran Mamdani believes than the things that Donald Trump believes

Really a banner day for Chuck Schumer on the Sunday shows

Just over on @cnn.com leaning into #newspeak But enlighten us. What exactly is a “chief loyalty enforcer?”

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Also, Democrats have run many pro-life candidates in the South over the last 20 years. They almost always lose. This is not some novel idea! The fact that leading figures in the party are suggesting this is an original thought further illustrates the problem. abcnews.go.com/Politics/mis...

Filibuster record stuff.

The stupidest thing that people love to say on Bluesky is “it’s not about ideology it’s about fight vs not fight.” The reality is 180 degrees the opposite. When centrists “fight” it’s purely conditional or for a momentary perceived personal benefit.

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

Imagine how many more people might be Baudrillard-pilled if he could just stop writing like a French philosopher

Going to repeat that these people are not actually advocating expanding the tent. They’re talking about appealing to Liz Cheney supporters. Expanding the tent would be trying to win over the 50% of their people who don’t vote.

Ezra Klein 🤝 Neera Tanden Despite the overwhelming popularity of abortion rights in all states, we should surrender instead

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

hm that sure sounds like someone with a job endorsing political violence to me

No, the reason they’re shitcanning basic checks and balances is because they don’t believe Democrats will ever use it against them. And they have pretty good evidence of that. Dems wouldn’t kill the filibuster or even overrule the Senate parliamentarian.

21% is a little less than the number of people who are registered as Democrats in this country. It’s 8% more than the number of black people in the US. This is insane.

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

Genuinely, what is the Dem plan to combat this? For people saying “support independent media,” good luck if the social media platforms where that independent media is trying to reach people is owned by right wing billionaires

Ahh yes I remember when Fox News set aside 20% of their coverage to praise Obama and Biden

There is no other explanation for this other than that organized labor and its leadership has embraced reactionary cultural politics over their own labor rights.

Democrats committed to End of History politics under Bill Clinton and they're still living in that fantasy, even as Republicans upend the rules of the game. They think of their job as managers of markets and empire, with zero sense that liberalism is a battlefield that you have to fight to maintain.

Democrats committed to End of History politics under Bill Clinton and they're still living in that fantasy, even as Republicans upend the rules of the game. They think of their job as managers of markets and empire, with zero sense that liberalism is a battlefield that you have to fight to maintain.

i stg one of the problems with the modern pundit-pocalypse is their sheer *incuriousity*. everything is based off their first impressions, their gut instincts, their thinking from first principle. they gotta get that take out before they do any reading. what hath the Blog Era wrought, man

this is the sort of opinion that you get if you don't have the faintest fucking idea 1) how most right wing content creators make a living 2) what an evangelical church is like both of which are extensively documented and easy to just *read* about

Okay??? What are you even advocating for?

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

President of Texas A&M resigns. This is the second Texas A&M President chased out of College Station in two years as a result of right wing politicians and activists attacks on academic freedom. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Two things I think are under discussed, re: biases in journalism 1. Journalists want exciting stories. They hated Biden because his admin was boring, and they like covering Trump because it’s chaos. 2. So many are having their brains cooled by the cesspool that is Twitter and don’t realize it

New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard Makes ICE Arrest Data Accessible to More People New dashboard makes Deportation Data Project data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding. austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigr...

Part of the reason that media corporations are folding to the Trump administration is because they have no belief that Democrats will ever do anything to punish them. Dems offer no deterrence so of course they're going to do whatever gives them more access and money.

Far more dangerous than Trump, I think, is how quickly the last eight months have pulled back the curtain on America's elites and shown everyone how venal, how cowardly and how utterly mediocre the foundation of our society has been.

This is only true in the most technical sense. There are people that could be classified as left-wing extremists in this country. They ~maybe~ make up 0.01% of the population, and none of them has a platform.

ah, well

The federal government is dictating what speech is permitted. *DISNEY SAYS 'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE' TO BE PREEMPTED INDEFINITELY

Four People Arrested for Projecting Trump and Epstein Photos on Windsor Castle Prior to Trump’s UK Trip

Ezra reading his writing sounds even worse than the writing itself. This looks like a hostage video where the instructions were to speak for 2 minutes and 54 seconds without saying anything at all.

This is true, but I don’t know how you disconnect these things. The lack of constituency and lack of organizing is downstream from the fact the Democratic Party has no coherent ideology.

Looking good sirs!

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

Of the many things Democrats don't seem to have an answer for is the increasing consolidation of media by right-wing billionaires. I don't know how they expect to govern in an environment where every social media app and "mainstream" news outlet is controlled by the far right.

Finally, an excuse to reprint the op-ed we run 6 times per week

Post a horror movie everyone should see

They grew old together it’s beautiful

Honestly part of why the press has been so invested in searching for left wing political motivations or transgender influence is because we now have dozens and dozens of examples of right-wing mass shooters and the press doesn't find it interesting anymore.

I feel insane because basically every liberal party in the industrialized world is doing this exact thing and all of them are actively and repeatedly getting crushed.