would love to not have to do a headline enumerating the number of Democrats voting to fund Trump's war on American cities

evergreen tweet but Selhurst Park looks so fun

seeking comment from the presidential feeblemind correspondents on the aging and infirm POTUS declaring war on Portland this morning: does that seem concerning to you?

"But at least a trans girl was kicked off a junior high volleyball team somewhere!" --Sean O'Brien

👀

I do think the Democrats might want to look into getting one of those "coordinated media strategy" things, the GOP has one and their voters absolutely love it

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

Some say Charlie Kirk did Politics the right way, that he was an authoritative champion of free speech and discourse. Part of that “Politics” is a 1200-person Professor Watchlist that’s led to harassment, censoring, cancellation campaigns, and death threats.

Larry Summers catching strays, don't hate it

This is going to end up being the most pointless and expensive "this meeting could have been an email" in history.

“Left Wing Terrorism is on the Rise.”

One of the things this new report from @marisakabas.bsky.social suggests is that a lot of these ICE jabronis running amok in the streets haven't even levelled up to amateur status. The main antagonist's firearms skills are uhh pretty clownshow, to put it mildly. www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

A lot of people worry that if Democrats do well in the midterms, the GOP will block them from being seated. I'm not quite there yet, but it looks like we may get a test run about how the media and political elites are going to react. www.kgun9.com/news/local-n...

Your reminder that they cannot arrest millions of people no matter how hard they try. They lack the infrastructure, they lack the personnel, and the economy would straight-up collapse They are going to try to scare us by making examples out of a few people, and our job is to not fall for it

also required far more buy in from the population than Trump has right now

every so often I like to look at how many days it's been since this never-fulfilled promise got made...174 days! democrats.org/news/dnc-cha...

imagine Gaza run by this berk

Democrats should back this. Yes, we know the effort is doomed but removing Kennedy isn't the point—the goal is to create content that courts controversy and casts the administration in a negative light for a media that craves it. www.freep.com/story/news/p...

I would like the child sacrificed to stop, either by we stop doing them, or we acquire an orb with some kind of enchantment, I don't want to be too prescriptive about it, but an orb or other artifact with magical properties that causes them to stop.

Another meretricious headline from the New York Times: This whole package strains to jam John Favreau into this narrative in which both sides are equally to blame for scoring political points before the facts are in. But what did Favreau actually *do*?

we're actually on the verge of some major breakthroughs in cancer research and we're gonna end up fucked because of the rise RFK Jr. and his fellor horse paste Lysenkoists

🎯 A lot of the "politics" around a shutdown centers on who "owns" it. While I will strain to be generous here and say there may be a gray area when it comes to the actual shutdown, only one party has access to the "fire all workers" button and can choose to press it and it's not the Democrats.

The median Starbucks employee made $14,674 last year. And the CEO was paid $95.8 million. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/25/s...

the reason for this ranges from "world war 3 is about to kick off" to "someone wrote 'Pete Hegseth is whack' in marker on the bathroom stall" that's just life under rear echelon motherfuckers www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The Washington Post may've shed most of their great writers, but at least the ones who remain can enjoy pointless AI interjections in their stories. (If you click on the link in today's FEMA story, you get a list of suggested questions AI can answer. The answer is just the info from the story.)

ran into a comment tonight that was discussing how hard it is to amend the Constitution and I was like, "Hard? America's shittiest pundits and the Supreme Court got it done in a matter of weeks" newrepublic.com/post/178025/...

Yup:

late night television may go unlamented by many but between the weekday late shows and SNL, we've been blessed by lots of incredible music performances and it will be a shame when they fall by the wayside

it's amazing we're still doing "Meghan McCain" in 2025, most of the other mid-aughts fameballs have made a dignified exit

well done

Trump's gift to the reactionary centrists is the pogrom against trans people they've been baying for

these days I get emotional whiplash every time there is a major medical breakthrough that will make the world a better place (in this case a successful treatment for Huntington's!!) because I know that RFK Jr. will probably ban it www.bbc.com/news/article...

melting down MAGA luminaries writing whole new chapters in the DSM-5 because an escalator briefly malfunctioned would be funny if we didn't have to live with them

for meme purposes

Nevada employment growth is turning negative YoY, which in the past 35 years has meant the US was in recession:

We don't want to anger Charlie Kirk's fans, who this show is in no way about

I know some of the Chotiner interviews are slow burns, but this one went off the rails for me in the intro www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

even if Democrats achieve a trifecta in 2029, the thing I would tell once and future international partners is that the chance we keep pivoting between semi-sanity and outright fascism is high enough that caution needs to be observed; like it or not we are radioactive

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

They should have the Politico office set up like a zoo and people can go walk around and look at the reporters in their little habitats.

whoever published this (now deleted) should fill their pockets with stones and walk into the ocean—bye bye, piece of shit

Ron Johnson really can't do anything without his father-in-law's help, from "getting elected to office in the first place" to "high school math"

anyone remember when this was gonna get solved on day one

How it started // How it’s going

buddy our major media institutions work overtime cleaning up his insanity, that's a big part of the problem

I think RFK maybe landed on "Tylenol causes autism" because he loves killing kids; dead children seems to be his north star

sure let's have a Rapture today

This ad about how great Google Gemini is ends by telling us how Ted, the protagonist and a big James Blunt fan, “found something he didn’t even know he was looking for” at a James Blunt concert where James Blunt is playing not “High” by James Blunt but “She’s So High” by Tal Bachman.