can’t report on how few americans have jobs if you fire the person who runs job-counting and furlough all the job-counters

He stands out not because he's any kind of radical but because he seems to understand the escalation ladder we're on here, and how many steps up it we already are. He's not just being hardline on principle, he's escalating because he's actually thought about the strategy of how this plays out.

I’m really grateful for Pritzker. But that he’s so good at this also makes clear just how badly most other Democrats are failing to meet the moment.

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social You are praising a conman in your own party while simultaneously saying you will fight the conman in The White House. The former is why no one believes you on the later.

Wait: so the President of the United States shared a video of a fake news report, rooted in a conspiracy theory, that features an AI-generated version of himself promoting a policy that…doesn’t exist?

"[I]if these anti-LGBTQ+ provisions make it through, they would lock some of the harshest restrictions on transgender people into federal law and hand Trump a stronger platform to target transgender healthcare and rights nationwide. ... [S]tand firm for [our country's] trans and queer constituents."

Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.

The normie arguments against this have fully collapsed now

Kimmel was a great first step, now let's talk about Karen Attiah

What this shabby little crook means is that a corrupt administration has made a choice to ignore his crimes. So he’ll continue to show up on propaganda TV and lecture us about “law and order.”

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

the fact they're out here running "abigail spanberger will trans your kids" against one of the most conservative candidates out of the Democratic Party is a great example of why actually standing up for trans people, especially kids, is the only way to go

"Do it for Charlie!" 🙂

I have deeply mixed feelings about this but also it is very funny

Third time (at least) Trump has made a joke or light of killing fishermen, and Vance did it too. They’ve made joking about killing fishermen an effing talking point.

Seems wrong to characterize the Kimmel affair, as I’ve seen some people do, as “corporate censorship.” The but-for condition was a direct threat by the FCC chair; that’s state censorship.

This is the Trump thug who wants to deny due process rights to everyone else. Turns out he was being investigated for taking $50k cash in an illegal scheme, but Trump’s DOJ dropped it. This double standard and corruption is infecting our justice system.

This situation is simultaneously completely ridiculous and deadly serious.

Friday night: saw The Baltimorons at The Charles Last night: had dinner at Tio Pepe Our most Baltimore weekend in recent memory.

When you lay it all out like that...

Good point.

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

This made me laugh way more than I would have expected. 🤣

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Happy Batman Day!

They're racists & they're fascists but above all they are the pettiest two-bit criminals you've ever seen

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

“For the large majority [of the Harper’s Letter signatories,] Trump’s reign of terror has apparently been less objectionable than the irritating undergraduate and entry-level scolds of the 2010s.”

They are allowed to do that. They are precisely allowed to do precisely that. Politicians from Left or Right who slobber after the power to suppress dissenting speech are—under our cherished Constitution—impotent.

Add to the long list of harms that will take a generation to undo. Long after Trump is gone and competent doctors reverse the move, the fact that this was EVER the offical line will validate antivax paranoia in the eyes of many parents.

I sort of guessed the answer when I asked which Kirk legacy would be honored — debating your opponent, or using state power to shut down the left. But it happened very quickly. www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

This is it. Cancel culture, but for real. The Twitter Files, but for real. Actual, unadulterated collusion between the government and media-owning corporations to censor Americans. Shame on the MAGA libertarians and fake-heterodox civility cops who helped pave this road to authoritarianism.

They’re literally doing “show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”

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?

on the electoral side of things, this is why you need a loud opposition party saying they reject this and will not stand for it. that this country should be safe for people from korea as new immigrants but also for longstanding korean americans.

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

beginnings of a recognition of the scale of the catastrophe they've created for their own core policy of reshoring industrial factories. still deputy secy of state mcrandoson probably wont cut it.

Times is about six months late to this story. But good that they've shown up.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

this is an object lesson in why praising Dems when they do the right thing - and not just castigating them for doing the wrong thing - is good politics for those of us who want them to fight Van Hollen raised his profile by doing the right thing and the lesson he learned was keep fighting

I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed. Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing. Both sides!

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.

I presume, based on what conservatives have said and institutions have done this week, that Brian Kilmeade is going to be fired if he hasn't already, right?

And this is why pursuing raw textualism that is willfully blind to known purpose and context will get you into trouble.

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.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

pretty wild that it so quickly became normalized that immigrants don’t have even basic free speech rights www.axios.com/2025/09/11/c...