Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Even the most religious people wish to wake up one morning to find him no longer alive. It’s stunning how one fascist can bring out the worst in the best of us.

Pope Leo XIV denounced people who deny climate change today, arguing that they are contributing to the destruction of God's creation.

“I’m so sorry… You have MAGA.”

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)? Hoover FDR Truman Eisenhower JFK LBJ Ford Carter And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

This is on par with Old Bay gelato. Nope.

That speech could have been a fart.

With all due respect to Black Sabbath, I endorse these lyrics.

Things ordinary people find on Pittsburgh's South Side streets, part 1: fired 9mm shell casings.

America’s military leadership has more important things to do than listen to lectures on character from an unqualified drunk who assaults women. Any soldier who was as careless as Hegseth was with war plans would be fired if not prosecuted. And everyone in that room knows it.

Pete Hegseth just sneered at people who were "the first" something or other in the military, but he's only increasing the odds that he becomes a special "first" himself.

this shit is so cringe. Pete Hegseth took us from “speak softly and carry a big stick” to “boast drunkenly and hit your wife”

Who the hell speaks like this?

Again, ask a medical professional. This is another hallmark of Trump's dementia. The quote, "You come in this world a baby and you go out a baby," very much applies here.

I know there is zero chance it would actually happen but a single military leader shouting “fuck you” to Hegseth right now would be devastating.

The Elaine Massacre of 1919 began September 30, 1919. Also known as the Elaine Riots. (Elaine, Arkansas is in Phillips County, south of Helena) encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/elai...

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP

Through Covfefe.

Remember when you were 3 years old and you learned a new word and then the adults in the room couldn't shut you up? It's like that with the 79-y.o. diaper Don & his one word, "tariff." A 100% on movies? WTF?

I really do hope the phrase “Kavanaugh Stop” or “Kavanaugh Encounter” sticks.

My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.

Donald Trump cut funding for pediatric cancer research.

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

Who’d have ever thought to utter these words: “Oval Office bling.”

For those who were directly targeted by Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric, bipartisan tributes to him as a champion of free speech signal the mainstreaming of formerly extremist views, Nikole Hannah-Jones writes in an essay for The New York Times Magazine.

If the political crisis in the U.S. happened in a Third World country, the New York Times would write a story headlined “(Country X) Is Fast Becoming a Dictatorship.” So why not that headline for the U.S.?

He truly is Chance the Gardener from Being There. www.kgw.com/article/news...

Should it be called the “Portland TACO”? Served at Cracker Barrel & other MAGA favs.

Founded originally in 1867, the U.S. Playing Card Company manufactures several well-known brands of playing cards. It relocated its headquarters from Norwood, Ohio, to Erlanger in 2009. linknky.com/news/2025/09...

Has anyone asked Grok the year that DJT will win the Peace Prize?

This is not normal. Seen en route to the farmers' market in DC. The cost to the taxpayers? $200 million. Why can they always find money for guns and bombs and soldiers but not for housing and healthcare and food?

One Battle After Another and Sinners both lay out a formula for cinema success: diverse movies where white nationalists get duffed in the most graphic way possible shot and presented in increasingly baroque high resolution formats.

Some light Sunday reading 🤣

"The hiring of call girls and the use of other types of vice to entertain customers is now an established technique in the way many Americans do business." — Monroe Fry (1959) You're definitely gonna want to read the alt-text.

There might be a better way for a magazine to find "good writers." Perhaps they should also solicit applications from editors.

Charles M. Schulz gave us The Great Pumpkin. Fascism delivered to us a different kind of not-so-great pumpkin. We don’t welcome this newcomer.

Here's a thought -- go to Portland and stand in front of the tank Or resign, you feckless, cowardly loser

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

Just in from the ICE facility in Portland

Wine Moms and Soccer Dads, this is our time

One thing I really miss about living in Philadelphia: Wawas. Though they’ve expanded well beyond Philly, it’s not the same as walking up the block to one for coffee & a corn muffin or pretzel. Wawa is making inroads to the Midwest & I wrote about one proposed store: linknky.com/business/202...

I'll say this once more: @kairyssdal.bsky.social, of public radio (APM vs NPR), giving daily lessons on putting things clearly and honestly. Enough of this "falsely" and "without evidence" and "departure from norms" wiggle talk. The man lies. Is deluded. Steals. And constantly breaks the law

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress could stop this at literally any moment they choose.

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.”

Pssst … I think I found where some Amelia Earhart files might be buried.

The more he gets away with, the more he escalates. It doesn’t take a math PhD to work out his formula.

Troops. In an American city. Using full force. Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.

The most fascinating thing about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart in 1937 is that Donald Trump and his Republican Party are doing everything possible to avoid the full and unabridged release of the Epstein files in 2025 and to make you think about anyfuckingthing else.