I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive: 2015: 332 2016: 383 2017: 347 2018: 335 2019: 414 2020: 611 2021: 689 2022: 644 2023: 659 2024: 503 So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days. We do not have to keep living like this.

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

If you think Trump deploying troops in American cities is nothing more than an opportunity to pivot to a completely different subject, you do not belong in Democratic leadership.

These goons really are operating in their own fascist fantasyland

Of course. OF COURSE. If the internet has taught us anything, it’s that some people will use it for the absolute worst, most destructive impulses one could possibly imagine unless the people in charge figure out how to prevent them — or ARE MADE to do so.

This article is paywalled but I hope it mentions that in the past 5 years: her talk show ran for two additional seasons, until she ended it of her own accord in 2022; she had two NBC game shows; she had a 2024 Netflix special, which is the source of the “kicked out of show business” line.

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

Any journalist who agrees to these conditions is announcing that they will be an unpaid public relations officer for the Pentagon, full stop.

BOOOOOOOM

I don’t think any country in the history of the world has ever done anything as stupidly self destructive as what Trump and RFK jr are doing with vaccines.

Use of the em dash is "fading"? Tell that to my keyboard!

This is deeply, deeply chilling, and I suspect will be seen as even more of a turning point than Colbert's cancellation — at least The Late Show is still on the air.

The most successful Democratic presidential candidate in my lifetime won by building a coalition of these people.

Brian Kilmeade stated homeless individuals who are resisting mental health treatment should be given "involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill ’em." This weekend, there was a mass shooting of a homeless encampment. It barely made a blip on the news. www.startribune.com/shooting-sou...

To put this in some more wild context, less than a year ago the Korean right and left were irreparably divided over the failed coup by the right wing president

All because a MAGA candidate in a Republican district tried to out-MAGA the incumbent with the anti-immigrant idiocy. Politicians in Republican primaries have every incentive to push things as far right as imaginable and we're all going to suffer from it. Another problem with gerrymandering here.

This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.

Film franchises have been a financial cornerstone for Hollywood for decades, but several of the biggest movie brands seem to have lost some luster. So I spent weeks surveying the film industry and crunching box office data for Variety's first ever franchise scorecard.

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

This piece cuts to the heart of the last 48 hours: Charlie Kirk, who expertly harnessed "the algorithmic internet" to place himself at the center of the MAGA movement, appears to have been assassinated by a young man who "seems to have no barriers between fringe online life and the real world."

Film franchises have been a financial cornerstone for Hollywood for decades, but several of the biggest movie brands seem to have lost some luster. So I spent weeks surveying the film industry and crunching box office data for Variety's first ever franchise scorecard.

I watched the video (don’t do it), and I’ve been sick to my stomach for the rest of the day over the world we’ve made for ourselves. That’s what I have to say about that.

These people are on another planet.

Very troubling stuff that I’m not seeing in the corporate media.

I'll merely note that today, like all days, is a great day to stop posting on Twitter, a platform whose owner force feeds this slop into people's brains with an algorithm designed to boost his views and trample yours.

The Trump administration, from the CDC to EPA to NOAA, is going to war with established climate science. I, along w/@blkahn.bsky.social @eroston.bsky.social, try to capture the big picture of what's already happened & what's at stake. Gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

the thing about trump is that every time u think 'well he can't get any worse' he proves u wrong every fuckin day

Let's be clear what this image represents. Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders. THAT is the reference here.

I really can’t bring myself to say out loud what this means. It’s horrific.

A refrain of mine lately has been “everything is so stupid and so lethal.”

The NYT saw these complaints and responded. You now need to go the second to last paragraph of the story to find any mention of the fact that this could be illegal or even controversial.

Five— five!!— grafs until the NYT suggests to readers it might not be lawful. Complete and total abidication of their responsibility to readers to inform and not parrot propaganda.

The Nazi early prohibition on Jews from owning guns has been an NRA talking point for decades.

These people are going to kill kids, and they held a press conference to announce it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:

I know it’s all bad faith bs BUT I keep thinking about how the whole “reason” we apparently can’t pass any effective gun control legislation to prevent mass shootings is the idea that we need an armed populace in case the federal government decides to invade our cities and towns. Like??????????

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...

also! some of these guys now *run the governments' social media accounts* and post things that are virtually indistinguishable from old Nazi propaganda!

Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

He also stood out when he made out with a male coworker at the BuzzFeed holiday party.

That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.