For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law

NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

one of the reasons I stopped engaging in these discussions is our opponents are incapable of addressing criticism. but the point for them is not to hash out these issues, it's to repeat the same thing over and over again until it starts to look like the "truth" for people with institutional power.

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss: It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!! www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...

Knees in the trap www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...

Trans people: If your partner insults your appearance, mocks your efforts to transition, says they support you in one breath and then that you ruined their lives in the next, are embarrassed to be seen with you, or makes you feel like a burden, that's not your partner, that's your abuser.

“I just want to be a monster, and get away with it,” informs the politics of a depressingly large cross-section of our country. That is a very bad thing to want! Want anything else, and your life will be richer for it!

There is simply no medical reason to take a person, cold-turkey, off of a medication they've been stable on for almost a decade, with no offer of anything else - and when the lack of that medication causes irreversible lifelong issues up to and including death.

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

Gaza today from my camera

I heard there was a Cohen song, And all the Christians got it wrong, But you don’t really get the meaning do ya? ‘Cause you see its about getting laid, It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith, But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”

The only thing that's interesting about Nuzzi is the story of how an amoral careerist with no interest in policy and abysmal ethics became an acclaimed national political reporter. But rather than tell that story, the entire media seems desperate to play a part in it.

Disney has hiked prices and laid off hundreds of workers this year. Yet Disney paid its CEO $41B in 2024. It just reported a 36% increase in net profits for parks and streaming. And it plans to double stock buybacks next year. Remember this as Disney turns to AI.

BOOO! Future’s not looking too bright for GB. They’ll be lucky to win 2 or 3 more if they keep playing like this.

Wait! I take it back! 🙃

Prolly all she wrote. The offense has just fallen apart.

3 points enough tonight? Maybe!

We need to dump Schumer

Who needs enemies when you have your own thoughts

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

I often think about how The Jetsons claimed to be futuristic, but was actually a very ordinary "white patriarchy - with robots." And the fact that the AI Bros grew up dreaming of precisely that identical future is the reason we're regressing and progressing in idiotically clashing ways in 2025. 🧵👇🏼

Le bum. Every time I’m ready to believe in the Packers, they lay an egg. FIRE LAFLEUR!!🤬🤬 (jk)

Want to see a microcosm of America? Immigrants won the World Series for the Dodgers and immigrants will be unwelcome and hunted at the victory parade.

I think we’ll find that Trump’s motivation for the theme is that the title has “Great” in it which, for Don, is his best attempt at a deep thought.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

What's your MAGA superpower?

Alito does come across as a brat, doesn't he?

Somewhere in the vicinity of 12-13% of the country will run out of food in the next week and we don’t have a plan.

Chris Cillizza is one of the dumbest, most dishonest people on the planet

I’m good with my taxes subsidizing social welfare for people who can’t afford food. I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.

Who did this? 🤭🤣😂

No head of state in the English-speaking world has claimed the power to both raise and spend money all on his own since the one who lost both his head and his state over it.

*screams*

I wrote a little essay about “designer vaginas” and the celeb-ification of transness transwrites.world/who-are-the-...

America As No-Longer-Democracy and Not-Yet-Dictatorship Where does the country stand after the largest day of protest in U.S. history? Putting “No Kings” in perspective. Some thoughts from my new piece:

Tasty thread here. 😋

Damn right...

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

Great thread on the NYT's whitewashing of yet another radical Conservative.

"For me, it’s more that she embodied the woman I wanted to be: easily given to kindness but never a pushover, serious as necessary but always good-humored, strong yet vulnerable, razor sharp but never shy of being a lovable goofball..."

Re-upping: Excellent assessment of John "Roger Taney" Roberts. In @harvardmagazine.bsky.social , by Lincoln Caplan. As careful, legally informed, judicious-minded writer as you're going to find. With an unsparing judgment. www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

It's dangerous to say, but since it is true, it's more dangerous to not say: The Supreme Court of the United States is not a legitimate body. It's been deliberately and systematically captured by ideologues on behalf of an anti-Constitutional project, and its extremist members have been bribed.