Portland, OR. #NoKings

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.

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

Folks, it's happening. We're releasing Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile this Thursday at 7 p.m. Mark your calendars. Get excited to know even less about Jeffrey Epstein.

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

White Flag Democrats: Schumer and Jeffries Are About To Blow The Shutdown Fight open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

And with Mel making more movies at this terrible time.

Is JD Vance still praying for the families affected by the shooting, or no?

“But in the past few weeks, a series of developments have revealed a disturbingly credible policy pathway to power consolidation. We can now see how American Orbánism could take full root before the 2028 elections. We now know how we would get there from here.”

If you're a cable host interviewing Tom Homan, at the very least you need to ask him about accepting bribes to influence government contracts. Or -- hear me out -- you could wordlessly pull a thick envelope from your coat pocket and slide it to him across the table with a stage wink.

This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.

In war, words are just another weapon.

The Right uses free speech to verbally assault liberal democracy. Words can indeed be violence when they seek to harm rather than to help.

I understand MAGA is insisting the signature isn't Trump's but the WSJ piece nicely shows how the signature matches other letters he signed.

JD’s mom was not getting drugs from cartels, she was a nurse who was stealing painkillers from her patients. Her patients suffered and she got high. As a medical professional, I will tell you the lowest life form is someone who steals drugs from their patients. Zero sympathy for JD or his mom.

Donald Trump recently said that he has “the right” to do anything he wants—not unlike the antagonistic Homelander of the TV show "The Boys"—and his followers are determined to prove him right. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Religion is an authoritarian fantasy. God is simply the ultimate strongman.

Come ON NYT on Putin (2012/2021): -"Raids Target Putin’s Critics Before Protest" www.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/w... -"Navalny Allies and Offices Targeted in Raids as Kremlin Turns Up Pressure" www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/w... NYT here in the US (2025):

Newsom: We got here because the President is struggling. We got here because the President is one of the most unpopular presidents in U.S. history. We got here because he recognizes that he will lose the election.

Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.

What blue state is stepping up next? Who’s gonna meet this moment with the urgency it deserves? Who wants to be able to tell their kids and grandkids that when everything was on the line, they didn’t just SAY the right things, but DID the right thing with the power they had?

same guy lmao

HAPPENING NOW: It's Day 2 of the bench trial in Newsom v. Trump, the suit brought by California over Trump's use of the national guard and marines for immigration enforcement. I'm covering for @lawfaremedia.org. Today we expect testimony from the government's witnesses. 🧵

This does not make the U.S. military more lethal. It's punitive. It's a way to demonstrate cruelty to a group of public servants who gave 15 – 18 years of their lives to the nation.

Love this album

Repeatedly slamming my brakes as I drive, just in case the Penske truck behind me is filled with masked goons.

The tariffs are obviously a sanctions regime being used to extort our allies.

I'm still shocked that this bald-faced exhortation to lie didn't get more attention. youtube.com/shorts/7oa9n...

Good @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social take on systematic lying as core to the MAGA project. Trump "degrades institutions by getting officials to lie or replacing them with someone who will." The official lie is an expression of power in and of itself: www.arcdigital.media/p/to-live-in...

When will we start calling it a "sanctions regime" and not a tariff?

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

A reminder that Dems went out of their way to NOT politicize their prosecutions of Trump. Garland dragged his feet. Biden kept his distance. And then they appointed a special counsel to look independent. All a waste of time. You can never appease the GOP. So why do Dems keep trying? ARGHGGHG.

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

When clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. - Carl Sagan, 1995

Democrats owe it to the country to think through this stuff and be honest with themselves about whether they’re really up for the fight. If they are, they can telegraph it to voters by fighting harder between now and next November. If they’re not, they should yield to new leaders.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

I wonder how many people *never figured out* that third-party food delivery apps majorly mark up menu prices, and thus assumed that food inflation under Biden was *way worse than it actually was* as a direct result.

On Wednesday night, the South Parkers delivered a stunningly graphic middle finger both to their craven corporate overlords and to the thinnest-skinned short-fingered vulgarian who ever occupied the Oval Office. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

"Coverups are difficult in free societies. They are routine for authoritarian governments. The Epstein coverup will be an indicator of how far we are down the road to authoritarianism. The success of such a coverup would take us much further down that road." www.thebulwark.com/p/why-the-ep...

I think it likely that Trump thinks the word "deal" means "a good price", not "a negotiation". Hence the phrase "sending deals".

#Restate basically applies data flow concepts to control flow. 🧑‍🍳

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Am I missing out on a fortune being made on the TACO trade?

Deplaning because all #Southwest pilots are too overworked and they have nobody.

On tarmac for an hour, then Southwest pilot announces he's ineligible to fly the plane and must return to the terminal to be replaced. #southwestsucks

From the floods in Texas, North Carolina, and New Mexico to the extreme heatwaves across the globe, we're seeing the consequences of Big Oil's decades-long campaign to sow public doubt about climate science and delay the transition to safer energy sources unfold in real time. Accountability now.

Instead of “Alligator Alcatraz” or “Alligator Auschwitz”, let me suggest that we call it simply the Dade-Collier Concentration Camp. Hang the name on Florida. Make them own this disgraceful moment in U.S. history. Make our grandchildren lobby to change the name of Dade County out of shame.