the "who will the public blame for the shutdown?" handwringing is asinine. the vast majority of voters have no idea how government shutdowns work, and by the time midterms roll around they won't remember anything that didn't impact them directly

A senile President and an insane Secretary of "War" is good, right? Right???

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

"We are asking the Department of War to deploy to our cities" should be a statement that ends any Governor's political career.

Bye-bye Mayor Cop, a piece of shit loser who sacrificed your neighbors to ICE so he could spare himself the prison term he deserves. He leaves behind a legacy of closed libraries, escalating unaffordability, off-the-charts police corruption. An oleaginous creep only liberal pundits could respect.

Crazy how the executive branch goes “if we can’t break the law it’s irreparable harm to our lawbreaking,” 6 Supreme Court Justices go “yeah sure,” often with no further explanation, and 3 are left doing an eloquent version of “but checks and balances, duly passed statute, what are we doing here.”

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

This is just today: -Comey indictment (prosecuting political foes) -Hesgeth announces he's bringing all the military brass for a big mysterious meeting -New extremely vague executive order broadly classifying protest tactics as illegal and punishable as acts of terrorism All unrelated, I'm sure.

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The kind of thing that would be a major scandal in a normal administration. Barely a blip in this one. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

If you’re an incompetent foreign leader who sucks up to Trump, you can get $20 billion from U.S. taxpayers while Trump is cutting Americans’ health care.

Odd, how we can’t afford to give Americans healthcare, but we can afford to drop $200,000,000,000 on Argentina with a moment’s notice.

He stood in front of the world at the UN today, and every other word out of his mouth was a lie. I’ll say it again, we’ve not been here before. An American President who lies as he breathes. It’s a terrible place to be. Shame on the media & everyone who’s normalized his lying and/or doesn’t care.

Donald Trump and Republicans fought hard to build this 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court. It’s paying dividends. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Kind of surreal that a government official was caught taking a $50,000 cash bribe and there's not even a question that he will continue serving as it nothing ever happened. Like even the most basic standards of public accountability are a joke.

Nexstar and Sinclair, which own a combined 20% of local ABC affiliates, will still not broadcast Jimmy Kimmel. Sinclair is a conservative company that donates to and supports right-wing causes.

Sinclair, which owns ABC affiliate stations, said it would not be returning Jimmy Kimmel to the air on its stations after Disney's announcement.

Before pulling Kimmel, ABC, Disney, and affiliates held emergency meetings. Execs felt he hadn’t crossed a line, but feared Trump administration retaliation. (RS)

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

‘‘Authoritarian regimes thrive on scapegoating. They deflect blame for their failures by targeting vulnerable groups, fueling fear and division. It is a distraction tactic, keeping people angry at each other instead of those in power who are actually responsible for the suffering.’’

Why is the UK giving a royal welcome and official state visit to a fascist leader?

On the day Israeli commences a ground attack in Gaza, even the UN is now saying Israel is committing genocide. Are there any repercussions for this, or is this just a "duly noted?" www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/m...

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Great day to cancel your Washington Post subscription

I think it's a sign of how cowed the American media is that we're getting pieces like "you have to understand, in Korean culture, it's considered very rude for someone to lock you in a brutal prison camp for a week for no reason." Like yeah, any free people would be offended by that?

"I don't care that he's dead." "He's not a hero." "He's a scumbag." "He shouldn't be celebrated." No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd. Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

In a shocking on-air moment, a “Fox and Friends” co-host said homeless people suffering from mental health issues who refuse help should be killed

People who are anti-immigration in the US or UK should just be honest that they’re against anyone who isn’t white.

It is pretty amazing to see people go from “the left is the enemy of democracy and must be purged” to “who can really know why good kids do bad things?”

You’d think after their cult leader tried to hang his own VP for not helping him steal an election, they’d be familiar with the notion of right on right crime. Yet it befuddles them to this day.

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

Sorry, folks. Sounds like the civil war has been postponed due to white shooter

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said the plan will bring in the National Guard alongside the FBI, state troopers and local police, building on an FBI task force. Lee said he planned to speak with the president on Friday to work out details of the mission.

Easiest unfollows of my life have been those glorifying the life of Charlie Kirk and acting like he was a saint on earth. Gtfoh with that.

Charlie Kirk spent his last days manufacturing a lurid panic about “Black-on-White crime” and his final post on X was a call to politicize a murder. He was not “practicing politics the right way.“ You can oppose what happened yesterday without pretending he was One of the Good Ones.

Starmer nominating Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to the US, and continuing to stand by him after the Epstein birthday book was published, is such a bad look. www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/u...

Now we have Jared Polis, Josh Shapiro, and Ezra Klein glamorizing Charlie Kirk. What world am I living in right now?

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. -Charlie Kirk

Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.

Looking forward to the President who pardoned rioters that attacked Congress weighing in on political violence never being acceptable.

Didn't take long for the New York Times to New York Times. So predictable, but still sad.

To be perfectly clear: if you're out here glorifying Charlie Kirk's life, I have nothing in common with you.