Last month I gave up having a discussion with someone on /r/Boston about immigration because I felt they were just trying to "win" an argument on the Internet... It makes me wonder if some people treat voting like they're "betting on the winning team" rather than participating in the selection.

They did not, in fact, back down from Chicago. I hope that @govpritzker.illinois.gov can have the state investigate individual agents, and any property owners or managers, who may have assisted in this blatant constitutional violation. www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

What the GOP wants the Democratic party to agree too will be worse than a short term shutdown. @shaheen.senate.gov @hassan.senate.gov should hold out for a better compromise.

Your war correspondent on the ground in battle-ravaged inner northeast Portland

Just to recap, the actual president found an AI-generated video of a fake news report depicting a fake announcement about an imaginary healthcare system based on a technology that doesn’t exist and posted it on his official social media account

If your elderly relatives started telling you about AI videos they had watched saying that "medbeds" would fix everyone's health problems, you'd start to look into assisted living and power of attorney. Trump has the nuclear codes.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

It's like sending the Smurfs against Sauron

Chiitan is the light we need in the world, honestly.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

Ayotte’s refusal to do the right thing for the people she allegedly represents and collaborate with nearby states on public health matters is sickening. NH needs an actual governor. Not a Trump/RFK suck-up. #NHPolitics newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/09/18/h...

The conspicuous gap everyone is decrying is what happens when you let Republicans control state government:

Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓ www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “What of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know.”

I haven't been following AMVs much for a while, so I missed this last year. I saw it in the pre-show of the NanDesuKan 2025 Contest stream. The other videos on that account are also good, but I like this one the most. "Imagination Academy" by Sayoria. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7X7...

Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

/10 Finally, I still think that assassinating people is very bad and leads to worse things and I'm ok with you being really upset that I think that.

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

"What is it about this murder that makes so many people remember that violence is never the answer—particularly when those same people usually spend their time explaining why most instances of empowered violence, while regrettable, are inevitable, even necessary?" www.the-reframe.com/peaceful-sol...

"You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place" is ... true? It's true. I don't know what you want from a political analyst if not political analysis.

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

We simply cannot live in a country where the death of hate mongers is a tragedy and the death of everyone else only warrants a shrug.

i do not think it can be overstated at this point that we do not know who killed charlie kirk or why they did it.

Tragic

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

I am genuinely confused by all this pageantry. He was not an elected official. I cannot think of another time a regular citizen being killed garnered this response. It’s perverse.

He pardoned a bunch of people that committed political violence

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

/3 Trumpists and most of the new Right are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture. Responding to their violence with violence may not solve a damn thing. There are good arguments against it. But don’t let them pose for a millisecond as anything but the gleeful thug trash they are.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

/11 One day the Trumpists will fall. Something has to emerge from that. I'd prefer it be an honest and accountable rule of law, one actually run on principles and not on luxury motor homes, rather on the whim of some other group of strongmen.

NEW — I wrote about attending the US Open with Trump in attendance, and what the tepid reaction to a fascist at a sporting event says about this country.

“What’s more, the poll finds that 48 percent of overall likely 2026 voters say Trump’s tariffs are hurting their own economic situation, versus only 29 percent who say they’re not having any effect and an abysmal 8 percent who say the tariffs are helping their economic prospects.”

US agents’ rough treatment of South Koreans at a Georgia Hyundai plant might not be big news in the US—federal agents harassing non-Americans and hurting the US in the process is a daily occurrence now—but it is in South Korea. Mistreating people here on business isn’t something others shrug off.

If we cannot all be on the same page that the sitting president threatening to invade a US city is fascist dictator shit then truly I do not know what to do.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

There is a house a few roads over from me with a Gadsden flag and a pride flag. For a while Gadsden flags made me cringe, as they often sat next to Trump signs... but at least that house knows what's up.

We will not yield.

Mass. is requiring insurers to heed state guidance on which vaccines they will cover, the latest in a series of moves from Governor Maura Healey that has in a matter of days virtually severed the state’s immunization guidelines from federal policies.

A Florida court detained a US Citizen for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed—& held him anyway. I criticized the ruling online & a Florida judge responded by trying to strip me of my law license. I fought back www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-...