Remember when Republicans spent years complaining about the fact that some people mentioned politics at Paul Wellstone's memorial service? nypost.com/2002/11/01/a...

This is entirely wrong. It truly doesn't require that people who voted for Trump change their minds. Trump won by 1.5% of the popular vote. Turnout was at 64.1% (down 2.5% from 2020). More voters can be found among those who stayed home. Some of Trump's many low-propensity voters can stay home.

I love the term "presidential historian." It sounds like an honorific, but it just means a dude (and it is usually a dude) who has written something about a president. In this case, the dude is a GOP political consultant by profession, whose only training in history is a BA from Springfield College.

“Was Joe Biden president when the thing happened that Republicans are blaming on Joe Biden?” Difficulty level for political reporters … impossible.

Authoritarian theocrats in prestigious positions whose entire politics is “the state should force my religion on everyone,” which they rightly know sounds bad, so they use euphemisms “common good” and “civic purpose,” which they wrongly think sound good. Harvard law prof Adrian Vermeule is another.

Again Bouie from the top rope

This is too kind to Klein's baseline beliefs and values. He was an Iraq War supporter long before he started that marination. And his explanation for supporting the war, written ten years later, was entirely inadequate. Klein just has terrible judgment. share.google/OrPOsuhcNbBy...

There has been a pronounced increase in GOP pessimism about the direction of the country over the last month. This is like Democrats under Biden in 2023 levels of dissatisfaction under a co-partisan president. Independents are more sour on direction than any pt in 2024 apnorc.org/projects/pes...

Good review of everything that went down at A&M tldr : absolute fuckshit ambush shit by dicks who shouldn't even be in college

Since @WeAreSinclair is demanding an apology from @jimmykimmel, I would love for them to demand an apology from the President who lied about my daughter's murder the day that I buried her. It had NOTHING to do with the Russia Investigation.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

hey look, "antifa."

Won't someone think of the poor CEOs, who hate being forced to resegregate American life and contribute to the destruction of civil liberties? If we had today's media in the 1940s, we'd doubtless be reading about how torn up IG Farben executives privately were about employing slave labor.

JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way. by Ezra Klein

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

I know it's easy to give up on a day like this, but just remember: Chuck Schumer is out there Monday to Thursday, literally a couple of hours each day, making sure your healthcare bills are partially subsidized for a slightly longer window than previously anticipated

ive never seen anything like rhetoric coming from the right in the last week, this is absolutely insane and it needs to stop and people in power need to start speaking the fuck up like right the fuck now

Even now they're excusing political violence against Democrats.

I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source. You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"? My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

A must-read essay from Joan Scott: “We are again confronting a massive attack on the very foundations of democratic education and, this time around, the stakes feel even higher. In the 1950s, the targets were individual teachers…and their left-wing unions. Now the target is the system itself.” ⬇️

If the right *truly* believed Charlie Kirk was a defender of free speech and someone who was fine with dissenting opinions, they wouldn't be engaged in a massive campaign to punish anyone who didn't "mourn him properly." They clearly know all of that is bullshit. Only the media was conned.

Segregationist administration funds segregation.

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In fairness, many of the loudest voices that long claimed to care about this stuff, like Bari Weiss and Thomas Chatterton Williams, have been aiming for this crackdown all along.

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Another reporter fired JUST FOR ACCURATELY REPORTING WHAT CHARLIE KIRK SAID. They want that guy elevated to sainthood not because of what he did but DESPITE it. This shit is as fixed as wrestling.

Set aside Sen. Mike Lee's storm of lies and incitement here. Lee literally made jokes on Twitter about the fmr Speaker of the Minnesota state house being murdered in her home by a right wing extremist. Hard to imagine any more twisted and malicious person in public life.

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After a few days of decency, Gov. Cox is now trying desperately to focus on some sort of trans connection to Kirk's murder. Ultimately, you can't depoliticize political violence or the fight against. All you can do is speak honestly about it.

Perfect illustration of the real state of cancel culture at U.S. universities.

WHICH people on the left celebrated Kirk's death? The odd individual without political power? Maybe a commentator or two? If both political parties must be held accountable for every single thing that any one of their voters say, then the right is in serious trouble.

A lot of lone nuts with no coherent political philosophy seem to be very closely related to one specific political philosophy

A significant thing here: El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committee on migration, tells @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social he is questioning whether Catholics can, in good conscience, join ICE. religionnews.com/2025/09/12/c...

This is how you can tell free speech is a passion among Charlie Kirk fans.

The Kirk assassination should be viewed as the Chernobyl of America's political press. From blaming "transgender ideology" and "antifa" to the dozens of fawning headlines over a white supremacist to the sympathetic headlines for the white, conservative shooter. Evacuate and construct a sarcophagus.

I’ve been writing for two decades about how antivaxxers misuse and abuse VAERS to blame vaccines for complications they do not cause. Anyone who’s been paying attention to the antivax movement expected that. RFK Jr. would do this. Next it’ll be autism.

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Remember: If it turns out he’s a leftist, that indicates a pervasive problem of violence on the left. If it turns out he’s a groyper, that means nothing whatsoever and he will disappear from the news cycle immediately.

BLITZER: Now we’re getting reports that one of the bullet casings was engraved with a message saying that if you are reading the casing, you are gay. We must warn our viewers we’re about to show the photo and don’t know at this time whether the engraving is what makes you gay or if it just tells you

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

This is what casual antisemitism looks like.

Nancy Mace acting on disinformation that the shooter was trans: goes off on tirade against "trannies" Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."

any outlet that reported the “pro-trans ideology on bullet casings” thing owes the public an apology and an explanation if you are serious about turning down the temperature, start by showing some shame and regret for your role in turning it up in the first place by allowing yourself to be played

this is fundamentally about america's liberal elites not having the courage of their convictions, if they have convictions to begin with. they fetishize endless discussion and discourse and refuse to simply act.

So after two straight days of Republicans saying trans people and the Left did this, threatening full on violence, it turns out the suspect is a politically unaffiliated white dude who was trained to use guns by his Republican law enforcement dad? Do I have that right?

more evidence that the battle cry of all these institutions should simply be “fuck you, make me”

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...