Day infinity of me asking bluesky to at least pretend you wouldn't happily leave all of us in the south to just actually die if it meant you got to have your normal lives back.

If anything, Carr is the person I’m least surprised to see performing. He’s very honest about his love of money and lack of morals.

there is now a gofundme to support barbara’s family and friends: www.gofundme.com/f/help-barba...

"In a genre dominated by contemporary political screeds, he wrote something that could have been written 400 years ago and could be sung 400 years from now." Kaleb Horton on Shane MacGowan, and anyone writing Horton's obituary would be forgiven for pinching the line. www.gq.com/story/shane-...

An important thing to know about rural Oregon is that there are two different secessionist movements either wanting to join part of the state with Idaho (Greater Idaho), or join part of the state with (just) Northern California (State of Jefferson)

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

There’s always been a strain of American life that dwells in pure bullshit and fantasy, but we unfortunately have unleashed technology on them that they were not prepared for. The radio was too much; the Internet may be the death blow.

Yup. This is the time to use our privilege. This administration is fascist at every level, the MAGA movement is an explicitly fascist ideology, and I am proud to follow the long American tradition of being anti-fascist and anti-tyrant. You want to come after antifa? I’m right here.

The more people learn about Palestine, the more they realize it's actually not complicated or out of their lane.

It's not hard to draw a direct line between trump authorizing "full force" in Portland with Tom Cotton's 2020 op ed arguing for no quarter against Americans

this is just fucking insane. i feel like i'm hallucinating reading this. we just finished getting hot cocoa and blackberry thyme coffeecake and now we're taking the babies to an ancient forest to watch the old people doing tai chi. this could not be a calmer happier city

begging democrats to fight right now like portland is as important as jimmy kimmel

I don't think you need complex political triangulation when the president is shrieking "I am sending in the WAR DEPARTMENT because Portland is AT WAR!" You should just keep saying that he should be removed from office because he is plainly insane

Military service is about courage and sacrifice. That’s what my father, a Marine, and my mother, a Navy veteran, taught me. But awarding medals for the massacre at Wounded Knee is cruelty, not honor. And reaffirming them today only deepens the injustice. (1/2🧵)

this needs to be hammered into the skulls of every elite individual and institution on every measure - reputationally, financially, morally - you come out better if you fight the guy stand up! it’s the right thing to do and better for you in every way! how often does that happen?

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Eslam. It’s Eslam’s 34th birthday today. She worked in a hair salon before this started. Her husband had immigrated and since the war she has lost contact with him and is on her own with her three children Islam, 8, Yahya, 5 and Mohammed, 4.

Same people who can take over every Palestinian's phone also apologize every week for accidentally killing someone they shouldn't have killed because they "made a mistake". And Western head of States just open their mouth and swallow. It's disgusting.

Look there are plenty of reasons the Wounded Knee Medal of Honor thing is absurd, but chew on this one: the country gave out 126 during WWI. 20 were given away at Wounded Knee and there were no more than 500 troops involved. Even at the time, it was a conspicuous attempt at whitewashing a massacre.

Some people here love to dismiss ‘sportsball’ but S. African teams being banned from international competition was an important factor in ending Apartheid because it made their crimes real for non-political folk.

I think it would be helpful if DA Bragg charged a few of these assaults. If the agents think that federal law immunizes them for actions that would result in ordinary New Yorkers being charged, let them litigate it.

This is why we call you Nazis, JD, because you KEEP DOING NAZI SHIT

Basically, we have a lot of young people that have only ever known a world flattened by viral content, where everything is constantly getting noticeably worse all the time, and understand that mass violence gets the same reaction that a meme or shitpost does and view them as basically the same thing

i have a really low opinion of these pieces where they blast out of the opinions of the country's Dumb Hog population but these are probably the dumbest hogs yet.

Like every mf that’s been forced into our public consciousness via him since 2016 has been wack as hell. No swag, unfunny, zero bitches, clearly hated by everyone they’ve ever met, no homies, weird smile, probably fuckin stink and go to hotel breakfasts barefoot and drink milk. You know they type

It’s funny that nobody in the Trump sphere has the secret sauce like him. I hate the guy and he’s by no means wise but he understands people or at least he understands our lowest common denominator and it gives him an insight into society while the rest of them might as well be aliens in skin suits

ooookay this is a nightmare???

I'm gonna annoyingly keep harping on this take. Kimmel didn't make any jokes or say anything offensive. He never broke the social contract we've had with late night hosts forever. Now, Kilmeade and Jesse Watters say shit like "every Trans person and democrat should be in prison" and that's fine.

They built this technology with this use case in mind.

It's also pushing the Overton Window of acceptability on the right. Brian Kilmeade thought "kill" homeless people was fine until he learned, it was not. One could find multiple examples on FOX News which deserve the Kilmeade treatment but don't.

“Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.”

This is absolutely true. If the NYT covered this the way they covered trans care, you all would finally understand what dangerous shit their trans care coverage has been.

Reminder that Mahmoud Khalil is still being deported for his 1A protected speech.

dudes rock

today i am challenging democratic politicians, for the rest of the week, to pick one (1) horrifying thing republicans are doing and pretend its as bad as jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended id suggest tom homan taking bribes, but theres a few things to pick from if they want

Here's the thing, Ezra is now promoting going pro-life in places where pro-choice ballot initiatives did better than Dems. This is not a coincidence, he's got a motive because that's such a hyper specific fuck up, and I can only assume it's to cash in on the most expensive house races next year.

Their feelings are very delicate

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

you guys

what does it mean about your legacy if the president gives a speech at your funeral declaring war on autistic people

actually that checks out

someone said of Wikipedia: “it is a thing that does not work in theory but turned out to work in practice”

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

Timeline right now is clips of government officials saying "We love God and we all must follow his Acts" intermixed with their actual "Acts" (children's mangled bodies; healthcare GoFundMe's; disregarded trafficking victims; masked agents ripping people away from their families)

Let me make this clear: If you are white and just stand by and watch your fellow white person doing this and you say nothing, it's as if you did it yourself.

A memorial-service reminder that there are no feelings about Kirk you are required to "respect." He was an unregenerate bigot and misogynist who seized on a shrewd grift and used it to make our world worse. I fear that we can't yet measure his legacy, but that's all he deserves to be remembered for.

sometimes you see something so evangelical that it takes your breath away

This leads, of course, to an interesting alternative theory of why Ezra Klein was so defensive of Charlie Kirk