I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

Just another day in the life of the toddler in chief

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting: Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial 100%

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

Good: Georgia, LSU lose Bad: Alabama, Ole Miss win

They should be using the shutdown to demand legislation against ICE kidnappings, FCC censorship, military invasions of American cities, Trump unilaterally withholding funds, partisan gerrymandering, and so many other things. Instead, we get this limp drivel.

Yes, that is precisely what is happening. Dems believe the way to win in politics is to outsource their own voices and rhetoric to pollsters, and pollsters relentlessly push the idea that health care is Dems’ strongest issue, and thus every event and crisis should be redirected towards health care.

When reactionaries talk in the abstract about gutting bail and other criminal justice reforms, this is what it means in real human terms.

I think a solid chunk of the “masculinity” obsessed people who love trump and vote for him do so not in spite of these qualities in trump but in part because of them; I’m doing arm chair psychoanalysis just for fun rn so take it fwiw, but a lot of those voters aren’t actually “tough guys” and …

Probably the most obvious counterpoint to the Ezra Klein argument imaginable is that Trump and the GOP did exactly the opposite after Biden won by 7 million votes and 74 electoral votes and won the next presidential election against a Democrat who did exactly what Klein recommends.

Given this DOJ's track record in failing to indict obviously frivolous cases, I am not so sure - even despite the usual ease prosecutors have in obtaining indictments - why it's such a guarantee this DOJ will successfully indict Comey or its other targets.

From the president who issued an executive order "ENDING THE WEAPONIZATION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT" and the Republican party that brought you the performative Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government comes the most naked weaponization of the federal government in history.

Should be noted that immigration judges are not what people commonly think of as "judges"; they're employees of the executive, rather than judicial, branch of government and Trump has been purging immigration judges insufficiently MAGA-aligned and replacing them with pro-deportation appointees.

Trump is stealing from Americans to prop up international fascism

at 15 mph, the speed limit is double adams' poll numbers

Not going to read someone conflating private companies enforcing terms of service against neo-nazis and rich people facing social consequences for being awful with the government actually punishing people for their speech.

To celebrate Rosh Hashanah, Trump embarrassed himself and the country at the UN, then had a meltdown because he had to walk up an escalator, and finished the day with a hissy fit over Jimmy Kimmel being back on TV. Shana Tova everyone!

How emotionally fragile do you have to be to get offended by Jimmy Kimmel?

Ezra Klein's latest column: How Pete Hegseth forcing reporters to launder government propaganda is doing debate the right way

Can anybody really picture Stephen Miller building anything? Like, I can't even see him putting together a lego set. The man is a spiteful little gremlin who's trying so hard to be tough guy.

ARRESTED FOR SITTING www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

Stephen Miller’s obsession with “Western civilization” is a tell- he’s very much not a descendant of Athens and Rome, he’s the descendant of Eastern European Jews who - like my wife’s family - fled the Western oppression and slaughter of our people. His “West” is an exclusion of people of color.

My parents just moved to Berlin from the U.S. (in a historical irony, to leave fascism behind), and I am immensely jealous to learn that $50 a month buys unlimited train travel not only within Berlin but across Germany. Americans really don’t realize how far behind our public transit is.

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

Anybody have any good book recommendations?

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

Tom Homan is obviously a bad person who is the poster child of a corrupt cop, but in his defense he’s an incredibly stupid meathead whose career pinnacle should have been moving traffic cones around at celebrity events in Times Square and only got his job by shamelessly sucking up to Donald Trump.

the republican line to open corruption in the government is “WE DON’T CARE” lmfao

He’s never been a bright bulb but his brain is absolute mush and it’s amazing how the media and Democratic leadership are letting it slide while he drags us into his authoritarian cesspool

In New York this might not survive arraignments, definitely wouldn't survive a facial sufficiency challenge, and would be a nice referral for a 1983 suit against the NYPD for false arrest because it doesn't get more clearly constitutionally protected than this.

I still post on X for work reasons and the major difference between the sites is that I have interesting conversations with my professional peers on here and I get called slurs on there.

Seems like Ezra Klein and the Harper's letter clique should spend more ink on a right-wing government (and its state-level counterparts) that's banning, punishing, censoring, and cracking down on free speech using the power of the state than on laundering white nationalists as heroes of discourse

why didn't people who oppose neo-nazism stay on the echo chamber run by a neo-nazi oligarch that was specifically redesigned to promote and amplify neo-nazi discourse

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

Another head of a NYC public defender caught illegally union busting (and breaking the Stringer Bell rule)! Why can’t they spend more time getting us fair salaries and less attacking their own employees?

Every time i see a clip of Ben Shapiro it is 100% clear that his entire shtick is talking so quickly people don't have the chance to actually listen to the words he is saying and so they assume he must be a smart guy with big ideas. The reality is he's just shoveling rapid-fire BS.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

maga, a right-wing group that inspired a failed violent insurrection to overturn the results of the 2020 election, is now using it's historically small margin of victory in 2024 to forcibly public and private institutions around the country into right-wing reeducation camps that sanctify extremists

Man, I dunno, all the evangelicals I met outside the abortion clinic I was escorting at were screaming at me for hours and our training involved ensuring no protestor knew where we parked our cars because they might identify us and put us on a kill list, and all I did was hold up an umbrella

Everyone who was super mad about the Biden Admin encouraging social media platforms not to spread misinformation during COVID are totally fine with Trump forcing companies to fire people and suppress critical and inconvenient speech (or even jokes!) as a condition of giving approval to mergers.

Gregory Bovino, leader of Trump’s LA and Chicago raids, personally testified that he saw a protestor strike a Border Patrol agent. The jury did not believe him and the protestor was acquitted. The Trump admin is losing these cases left and right. Their credibility with jurors is virtually nil.

spent the last few decades hearing republicans smirkingly mock liberals as snowflakes that exist in bubbles and safe spaces and echo chambers only to watch a right-wing mob descend on anybody who commits a single thoughtcrime, and democratic leadership is AWOL

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to. Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

must be something wrong with my internet, I just woke up and tried to find the massive Democratic party pushback to all these attacks on the first amendment and nothing's coming up in my browser

Buying what they can on his way out the door

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

They're trying to rig the election and get rid of Ossoff. Get rid of absentee and early voting and then whoops Fulton County doesn't have enough machines on election day and the lines are 7 hours long. Old playbook but it works