I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data… —Top Public Worry: Corruption —Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption —Top fear: Corruption —What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt” It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.

once again trump’s great political asset is that voters literally do not believe anything he says

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

Again Bouie from the top rope

Shhh let them cook

the atomization of militancy into independent spree killers and the hyperindividualist paranoia which makes people declare that it is unsafe to organize beyond occasionally appearing at protests are the same phenomenon

Based

The prognosticators had been saying 2025 was an extremely thin Rapture class and, indeed, it appears no one has made the cut.

Simon Montefiore tells the story of a party at Stalin’s dacha where they brought a bunch of bananas to Comrade Stalin. The first one he tried was inedibly unripe, and so were the second and third. He had Beria and Kaganovich arrest the whole crew of the ship the bananas came in on, for “sabotage.”

I didn’t add this because I was running late for an appointment but this is just such peak civility brain. “Yes, Henry Kissinger killed countless souls, but he did come to my Star Wars book party, and said kind and intellectual things.”

Right; it's called "proportionality." Not being able to recognize that knowingly inflicting suffering on others is categorically more important than one's personal affect & interpersonal treatment of others is an abject failure of judgment, which is mainly about recognizing proportionality

Beyond. Parody. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

The Trump administration has not sent any Coast Guard admirals up for Senate confirmation because Kristi Noem lives in a home usually reserved for the top admiral of the Coast Guard and she "she doesn’t want to get kicked out of the commandant’s house." nymag.com/intelligence...

asking your arbitrator how many Ts are in tortious

dudes rock

1) Some of my speech got negative social reactions, which felt bad 2) That’s equivalent to state repression 3) Big name elite didn’t validate my feelings (ok, they did, but not enough) 4) This entitles—nay, requires—us to overthrow democracy and do state repression for real That really is the logic

All the super straight, Christian, MAGA warriors broke down Grindr, the gay dating/sex app, yet again. The last time it broke down...the RNC in Wisconsin.

"Do it for Charlie!" 🙂

The road to authoritarianism is paved with cynicism

It's hard to prove anything electorally. But I think the @adambonica.bsky.social plan for the Democratic Party is electorally superior to abundance, fighting oligarchy and Third Way-ism and still could include the best policy ideas from the first two. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-democr...

I know about a pretty big scoop on Brett Kavanaugh that should be dropping Monday at a big outlet. If you think SCOTUS is corrupt now,

Honestly kind of hilarious that after 50,000 different galaxy brain ideas they tried running in one of the two major parties in a two party system and it worked,

The left should study the tactics of the 21st-century right just as the right once studied the tactics of the mid 20th-century left

"years of lead paint"

Post now deleted, more or less confirming it was a DM. Great opsec!

remember when we had *several* news cycles over bill clinton getting onto loretta lynch's jet

You could caption this "Honey, we talked about this, you can't visit me at work" and it could kinda work either way.

That guy was built in a lab to annoy Dabo Swinney

Here’s the thing: when I make this point to centrist Dems I get called snobby or elitist. There’s a major reluctance to admit that a lot of normies thought (for example) that there was some magic button to remove 100,000 undocumented violent criminals w/o affecting the abuela down the street

Another example of the same phenomenon; they are killing people so they can make videos of them killing people. There is not actually any policy that Venezuela or Colombia can enact to satisfy them, because the purpose is just content creation. Podcasters with the power of the Federal government.

This is currently my favorite dumb bit on this website.

NEW: US Attorney Erik Siebert has resigned this evening after investigators found insufficient evidence to bring charges against NY AG Letitia James, contrary to President Trump's wishes. Below an email Siebert sent his staff—via Glenn Thrush / NYT.

Trombone going on sidequests mid-song

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

Charlie Kirk on Pope Francis:

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

That's literally false. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that praising someone's death is protected speech, including in Snyder v Phelps (2011), where protesters at a soldier's funeral held signs that said "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" & "Thank God for 9/11" rollcall.com/2025/09/19/s...

Charles Koch and rightwing billionaires have funneled money to academics to study polarization over the past ten years exactly because they WANTED political science and elites to focus on polarization being bad—to distract from Republicans being bad. Hoover ran “polarization“ fellowships.

He hates us for our freedoms.

Poland's recent experience is a rich case study. This article about the "post-illiberal trilemma" is excellent www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/dem...

Yes. Institutional malice does not equal institutional capacity, and the decentralized capacity of local prosecutors is far greater than the centralized capacity of federal prosecutors.

sorry, i want to belong to an ideology whose leaders didn't euthanize it out of humiliation when it failed, over seventy years, to successfully bring in a harvest five years in a row.

ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/they...