photographer is Jeff Wheeler at the Star Tribune. guy with the flag is Curtis Evans, a Marine veteran.

once again i propose that the culture on x is simply just...there's a gas leak in my home but i refuse to leave/will just wait it out

I heard Chris Rufo is a Russian plant who flew with Jeffrey Epstein

Tell Congress: Stand with Ukraine over Russia!

Some law prof on law prof violence here

And (2) this is precisely Chris Cillizza’s genre of political writing. (“Oh, the performance!”) Cillizza somehow has a mass audience, even though I have never once encountered a person who reads him. Think of Nuzzi as a younger, self-consciously blonder Cillizza.

Amazing how fast and comfortably US business elites transitioned to a Russia-Hungary-Turkey-style lawless kleptocratic oligarchy

The US accidentally invaded Mexico on Monday, storming a beach and planting DoD “restricted area” signs claiming the land for “the commander,” triggering a standoff w/ armed Mexican security forces, all because Trump’s government can’t even identify a border on a map www.cbsnews.com/news/warning...

Come join with others to stand against Trump's political prosecutions, against ICE's attacks on our communities, and for freedom of speech and the right to protest. See you tomorrow.

such immeasurably feckless fucks

no money for politicians

This is chilling. "Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact, Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime. Rather, the Trump administration is alleging he’s 'glorifying terrorism' via social media posts."

so what you're saying is the centrist brunchlord substack punditry's claims that Dems have to shift further right to win is complete bullshit

When this ends, we enter a period of the total, corrupt weaponization of state power for vigilante purposes, which then can lead to total repression through anticipatory regression into private spheres because any public articulation of decency is corruptly and publicly crushed.

I think at this point, anyone who “both sideses” in the current moment has lost all credibility they might have had.

Nikola securities fraudster and con man Trevor Milton donated $1.8M to Trump… ..hired Attorney General Pam Bondi's brother to represent him And then, magic happens (SEC dropped their case) #GoldenAgeOfFraud & #Corruption Ht @sheel.bsky.social

this is going to be a great case at the trial level and the who the fuck knows

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

you could write an entire book about this post and I will for the right price

"He reviled, belittled, and demeaned large numbers of my fellow Americans, but he was quite cordial to me" sets my teeth on edge.

The ole Harper’s letter free speech brigade has really fallen down on the job eh?

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Holy shit bro

Nothing says ‘we abhor political violence’ quite like a death threat.

Someone should be pun-ished

How would you feel if your wife was taken away by masked and armed men, and you had every reason to think you may never see her again?

We should all strive to be Better than Ezra.

Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations

EXACTLY

The Insistence by @liberalcurrents.com

oh come on www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...

There are two political conversations underway. There's the inside-the-DC bubble with lots of fretting by Dem strategists accompained by pessimistic reporting from the savvy media then, there are the results playing out across the country the results matter way more than the punditry

Has anyone written about this phenomenon? Conservatives who live in the heart of the cities they hate on so much? Also big among the anti-woke crowd

Every time.

Democrats have spent so long trying to find candidates who won’t alienate theoretical centrist or soft Republican voters that they have alienated a natural constituency. That constituency just elected Zohran Mamdani. Gift link: wapo.st/44zuWyC

Just in from DC Bar - labor attorney Diane Seltzer defeats securities attorney Brad Bondi in a closely watched race with record turnout.

For some context....

sitting in my apartment firing off missives instructing protesters on the morally correct way to respond when they’re fired on by federal forces

Omg

Put it in rice

I have to say it’s deeply dystopian for HHS to put out a bunch of AI slop as some sort of actual report

so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?

By contrast, here is @liberalcurrents.com essentially the first day it was unambiguous who had won the election. This has been our tone and the type of piece we’ve tried to publish every month since www.liberalcurrents.com/a-practical-...

Weaponization Czar

It feels very odd that the Dems have responded to Shor-ism leading them to the worst polling numbers in United States history by not ditching Shoe.

This guy has just gotten a $1 billion increase, in a NASA budget slashed by $6 billion, for Mars projects www.cnbc.com/2025/05/02/n... Track record: Was "highly confident" in 2020 that his SpaceX would be *LANDING PEOPLE on Mars* by next year. (2026). What a grifter www.cnbc.com/2020/12/01/e...

Only one of these two members of Congress below have been censured by Congress for alleged bigotry. Guess which one?