When I saw that story I thought it must be sarcasm. I was stunned to discover it wasn’t and wondered what the hell it was doing in the NYT.

Within 24 hours of the Kirk shooting, top Trump officials and administration lawyers were drafting legal memos, writing blueprints for possible executive actions and prioritizing which liberal organizations and strongholds of the left needed targeting. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

When you see how excited Trump, Russ Vought, and Republicans are about the government shutdown, it becomes pretty obvious the reason why they refused to negotiate a compromise with Democrats is because they wanted this and they completely own this, regardless of their lies.

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Here are three more factual statements: 1. 25,000 of Mike Johnson's constituents are about to lose health care 2. 27,000 more are about to have their premiums skyrocket. 3. A 60 year old couple in his district would pay $19,000 more a year.

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

That quote is not out of context, the full version is worse.

Every accusation ....

If Jack is weaponizing illegally leaked documents as a candidate, just imagine what he would do as governor with New Jerseyans' personal data.

Trump says "hate-filled rhetoric" fuels violence and must end. Maybe he should talk to the guy who calls his political opponents "sick, sinister, and evil people" who are "trying to destroy our country" because they are "communists," "Marxists," "lunatics," "vermin," and "the enemy from within."

You’d think Trump would be a little more grateful to Comey— without him Trump would never have become president.

Republicans can’t win on their policies, so they are trying to dodge accountability by rewriting the rules. These lawmakers are going out of their way to silence the will of the people and deliberately undermine our democracy.

But just TRY to convince a brainwashed MAGAt of this. #Amazonsettlement #GOPsteals

REPUBLICANS: “Jimmy Kimmel was not a free speech issue. It was a private decision.” TRUMP: “I TOLD THEM TO CANCEL THAT SHOW! NOW I’M GONNA TAKE ALL THE FREE SPEECH ABC HAS! NO MORE SAYING WHAT YOU WANT ABOUT ME” REPUBLICANS: “It is ridiculous to imply we are the party of censorship.”

“After getting to know and fully understand“ the Ukraine/Russia situation? He’s admitting that during the first 8 months of his presidency he DIDN’T “know and fully understand” the situation? Why isn’t that the headline on every front page?

"It wasn’t difficult to see that the right’s commitment to free expression was lightly held, to say the least. But in the wake of Kirk’s murder, they're initiating a crackdown on the speech of their opponents so sweeping that it’s hard not to conclude they were just waiting for the opportunity."

This is what politicization of the Justice Department results in.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

🚨BREAKING: In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar,accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Trump moves to fire his own prosecutor for refusing to fabricate charges against Letitia James, a blatant abuse of power legal experts call dictatorial, with warnings he should face impeachment for weaponizing justice.

The NYT seems to be legitimizing the notion that a president has ANY “tools” for censoring his critics.

RFK Jr’s anti-vax panel voted no to recommend the MMR vaccine to young children. He’s Making America Contagious Again.

There’s always a tweet. #FreeKimmel

Exactly this

Is this the country we want to live in?

PSA: A "Major Terrorist Organization" (MTO) is not a thing. The Immigration and Nationality Act *delegates* power to the State Department to designate *FOREIGN* terrorist organizations (FTOs) based on certain criteria. It doesn't apply to domestic orgs. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

This week's "hate speech isn't free speech" calamity has, somehow, reached another new low: The president of the United States suggesting that speech he finds unfair to him is hate speech, and targetable by the Justice Department. We are in deeply dangerous territory.

NEW: Reuters asked the Michigan Tax Authority whether Lisa Cook violated any mortgage tax rules for her home in Ann Arbor. They said no. That's in addition to Reuters earlier reporting that nothing was wrong with the documents for her home in Atlanta. www.reuters.com/world/us/no-...

The same thing Bill Pulte & Donald Trump are falsely accusing Lisa Cook of doing, three of his own Cabinet members are accused of doing, claiming multiple residences as their primary residence including Sec. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Sec Sean Duffy & Sec Lee Zeldin www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... Open authoritarianism. Happening right in front of us.

Okay, now do Trump. U.K. Ambassador to U.S., Peter Mandelson, Forced Out Over Epstein Links www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

100% true.

It’s not simply important to denounce political violence because it looks bad not to. It’s the right thing to do on the merits. Even more specifically to this moment it’s important because the forces of fascism are inherently better at political violence than the forces of civic democracy.

We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

There is always a quote.

Yeah, @jaywillis.net nails it: "One possible reason the conservative justices usually don’t explain their pro-Trump shadow docket opinions: Their pro-Trump shadow docket opinions might read like this."

September 10, 2025. The day CBS died. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/b...

One day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys. Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman. There is no justification for this. None.

I’m surprised he didn’t tell Bowser to lie back and enjoy it.

Trump just said he’s going to have a deal on Ukraine “very soon,” and expressed surprise that it hasn’t been easier. “I thought with Putin it would be easy, but I think we’re gonna get it done. President Dunning Krueger.

“Nullification” describes the decision of a trial or 'petit' jury to reject the application of law altogether. In the case of grand juries declining to return indictments, it is someone else rejecting the law.

The pedophile who committed mortgage fraud by falsely claiming that his 11,000 sq ft condo was 30,000 sq ft is having the DOJ open a probe into Lisa Cook for *checks notes* mortgage fraud.