He got the hell out because he see what's going on. This is bad. Meaning what's going on is something nefarious.

Sounds like it was pretty clear.

... goddammit.

Between it being a Fox poll and coming just after Mamdani maximized the value of his Fox appearance, this might result in ketchup thrown.

the bet they're making is "the president gets things done" is a more compelling message than "the way the president is getting things done is flatly illegal"

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

remember the brief period where democrats were responding to shit like this by saying "that's weird. these people are weird. why are you worried about the sperm of teenagers" and it worked really well so they immediately stopped doing it

An ICE agent argued that taking upskirt photos of a flight attendant wasn’t a crime because he was sneaky. Um, no, says the 11th Circuit, which upheld his conviction reason.com/2025/10/16/i...

jd vance and nick fuentes agree-love hitler and be racist but keep it off the internet

As you may have noticed, white supremacists want to stop the influx of hardworking young people (aka immigration) while somehow forcing white women to have lots more babies to compensate, but they refuse to make having kids more affordable and less arduous an experience.

I was born in 1972. The replacement rate he's panicked about has been below 2.1% for almost every year of my life. If you're really worried about the population falling, giving immigrants a path to citizenship is an obvious and easy solution. Unless there's ... something about them you don't like?

imagine laying off a politics reporter based in portland oregon in the year 2025

Hey, what’s the term for a system of government when a leader can direct law enforcement to prosecute his enemies? Asking for a friend.

lol, now they're saying the Nazi flag is an "optical illusion"

"Everybody's all like 'Don't play with dead things' and 'don't use that chainsaw on the whale' and 'don't do heroin' and you know, they're just like Mao."

Who’s testing teenagers’ sperm count? 😱

"Political opposition is not rebellion. A protest does not become a rebellion merely because the protestors advocate for myriad legal or policy changes, are well organized (or) call for significant changes to the structure of the U.S. government."

He stole Spinal Tap’s little Stonehenge

lol. LMAO, even.

But remember folks, it’s just TOO DARN COSTLY to pay for your food to not have rat parts.

Just to review: We can afford this, and a ballroom bigger than the actual White House. But we can’t afford for you to have affordable health care.

Wait a second. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called you to give you your job at a private news outlet back? OANN, anyone care to explain the government's role in your hiring decisions or do we need to FOIA to find out?

“but you commented earlier about a naked bike ride in portland” would be a legitimate follow up for any reporters in the room w johnson when he says he didnt see the important story youre asking him about

I feel like the financial journalists should check in on Trump's Chicago tax cheating. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/u...

AI is a lack of consent machine

"Critically, there is no way to know the complete scope of these stops since the government itself does not track them." An astonishing amount of work that went into shining a light on the details in this remarkable void.

Earlier today I was listening to one of the hosts from Here and Now repeatedly ask a resident from Southeast Chicago whether throwing rocks at ICE was justified. And finally she just said, "They invaded our community. They have machine guns."

Sydney Reid acquitted. This was a case where someone filming was assaulted, and then arrested and charged with felony assault. The grand jury no billed that, so they took her to trial on a misdemeanor charge. There were a bunch of discovery problems. And now this. Kudos to the FPDS!

the reframing of ICE and CBP from "dipshit agencies for losers and washouts" to Very Special Boys who get paid when nobody else in the government does must be creating an enormous seething vortex of resentment

"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” -Article 1, Section 8, US Constitution Not a "norm" violation. A legal and constitutional violation.

I’m going to say again that any strategy of a takedown that relies on republicans to admit how wrong they are and go away to fix it is not going to work.

kinda tired ngl.

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill. Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

The fact that Republican “fiscal conservatives” in Congress aren’t saying a word about Trump’s $40 billion bailout of Argentina (“America first!!!”) just shows that they’re complete hypocrites.

To @DaveWeigel.bsky.social’s point, it’s never once been “no,” and everyone in Trump’s government is refusing to answer what happened to the $50,000 in taxpayer money that Homan never denied taking inside a paper bag.

Seems like if some Nazis were well-connected enough to get into an inaugural ball with the House Speaker, that should cause Republican leaders some concern? (LOL just playing — they're between being apathetic about Nazism or in alignment with it.)

Every time I see a story about farms struggling because of this administration's policies, I'm reminded that JD Vance invested in a fund that buys up farm lands.

Sure, buddy. That’s a real thing that definitely happened.

Funny how the press + white politicians just about never refer to unarmed Black teenagers who get murdered -- like Laquan McDonald, Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Ma'Khia Bryant, & younger, like Tamir Rice, Aiyana Jones- as "kids," even though they call 30something racists "kids". 🤔

Stop calling us Nazis or we’ll murder you over things you say

Just going to keep pointing out that they're openly asserting that they think any criticism of the president is tantamount to "hating America" which is, itself, an insult to American values.

There is a particular stabbing pain those of us familiar with the Hollywood blacklist feel about the phrase “prematurely anti-fascist”. Let’s just say this dynamic has been in play for a fucking century.

within a sentence of his reply a migraine seared itself through my eye socket

A question, lads. Where does the "free knowledge" come from, and how do we make more of it? What might we call the people whose job it is to find stuff out, such that the machine can feed upon their discoveries? What kind of system could we make which supported the practice of finding stuff out?

Where we stand, in long arc of history: -Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people. -Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites. I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."

Need to start asking this!

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly." "With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this." "I blame you for that."