“But woe for me, more wretched than he is.” “Henry VI, Part 2”

“The earth had not a hole to hide this deed.” “King John”

“When people actually show a little spine and resist, [Trump] can be backed down.” In other words, “You fight in justice: then, in God’s name, lords, be valiant.” “Henry VI, Part 3”

Semi-regular reminder that a sane country would have already impeached and removed. But then again a sane country wouldn’t have elected a maniac criminal twice in the first place.

Like @sandraboynton.bsky.social we all get to celebrate National Punctuation Day!!

“A combination of ignorance that is nevertheless extremely confident and that isolated kind of viewing everything as about himself…In the weird fiction of the Fox News universe everything is the president’s doing, and the idea of toughness is bluster as opposed to real strength in the world.”

In the aftermath of the 2024 elections, the conventional wisdom suggested that Republicans had entered an era of electoral dominance. The more Democratic candidates overperform in 2025 elections, the more those assumptions unravel. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

“Every day we wake up and we see another vindictive act by this administration against its political opponents, whether they be in elective office or be in the private sector.”

Idiotic postgame questions to Trump: “How badly do you want to win? How big has Caballero been? How much confidence is there?”

“You repulsive slave! You who are completely resistant to any effort to make you good, and are instead capable of every evil thing!” “The Tempest”

Does this remind you of anyone? “In Germany too the Jews once laughed at my prophecies. I don’t know whether they are still laughing, or whether they have already lost the inclination to laugh, but I can assure you that everywhere they will stop laughing.” Hitler

“Let them assemble, and on a safer judgement all revoke your ignorant election.” “Coriolanus”

In 2018, Trump was an object of ridicule when the U.N. General Assembly laughed at his absurd boasts. At the U.N. today, he was even more ridiculous as he embarrassed himself with an unhinged and incoherent rant.

Mr. Let’s Inject Disinfectants Into People is apparently convinced that he’s qualified to dispense advice about medicine and vaccinations. He is not. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

“The Trumpist right has baited the media into inflating Kirk’s cultural and societal importance far beyond that, into deifying him as akin to a world-historical martyr—and into exaggerating the hold that Trumpism has on the culture writ large.”

@marcelias.bsky.social Is there a strategy in place for when Trump declares martial law and suspends the midterms?

Jane Austen’s Mr. Bennett just waked out and told Trump, “That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other[s] have time to exhibit.”

Where’s a vaudeville hook when you need one?

Wouldn’t it have been great if everyone walked out mid-speech.

Many developers, grown men with tears on their eyes, told me, “Sir, give us marble.”

“The public interest is not what many mainstream media outlets are focused on. They are focused on not looking biased; on taking things down the supposed middle; on performative fairness to Trump and to MAGA — even while Trump and his allies are trying to destroy what journalists do.”

The Supreme Court is willing to fast-track a case to rule favorably for Trump after it slow-crawled his criminal cases in the summer of ‘24.

Make them ride circuit. Cancel a Supreme Court term. No more clerks. And strip jurisdiction.

They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.

Will this affect his chances of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize?

Trump to investigate who funded this anti-fascist army that fought white supremacists.

“Any time the word ‘they’ was used, I take umbrage. As far as we know, there’s a line gunman who assassinated Charlie Kirk, and he apparently did it for political reasons, as per the etchings on the bullet. But there’s no conspiracy here. There’s no ‘they.’”

“You fight in justice: then, in God’s name, lords, be valiant.” “Henry VI, Part 3”

Waiting for the day when one of the White House press stenographers challenges Leavitt’s lies to her face.

With ratings the likes of which Trump has never had

Bad JVL is not always right. www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-ho...

The Firing of Educators Over Kirk Comments Follows a Familiar Playbook

“If we don’t find a way to stop the Trump regime, the only jokes we’ll be able to tell in the future will be what people in Nazi Germany called Flüsterwitze—‘whisper jokes.’ Those were jokes you dared not say in public if you didn’t want to end up in a concentration camp, or worse.”

“If Congress were not the self-enfeebling body that it is, I might note that this is a gross civil liberties abuse and certainly constitutes an impeachable offense. But…I have no intention of using any more of my limited breaths on this Earth pleading for congressional attention to duty or oath.”

“There’s no precedent in the American tradition for such explicit corruption of the rule of law. It is the stuff of impeachment resolutions. It is a brazen display of a desperate man who believes he’s both above the law and freed from the burdens of accountability.”

Charlie Kirk in his own vile words

here's today's post: "is Tom Homan accepting bags of cash wrong? that’s just, like, your opinion, man" — and Donny has another social media meltdown. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

“He was not born to shame: Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit.” “Romeo and Juliet” #ShakesprareSunday

Pretty rich that the spineless Trump sycophant Mike Johnson this morning on Face the Nation says, “It does take a certain measure of courage to step out and to lead…”

“Homan came under scrutiny after he was said to be recorded last year taking $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents.”

Democrats now have a huge opening to go on the offensive. Between the RFK vaccine disaster, the Homan bribe, Trump's nakedly corrupt DM to Bondi, and Brendan Carr breaking the law, they should turn on the firehose. As should the press. Doomers will be blocked. TY for your attention to this matter.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk’s record. archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

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.

To be absolutely clear on what just happened here, Trump ousted this veteran career prosecutor *precisely because* he would *not* cook the facts to bring a corrupt prosecution against one of Trump's leading enemies. To Trump, refusing to prosecute his foes for fake crimes is a firing offense.

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

And Jonathan Karl, instead of supporting his insulted colleague, plows ahead with his question. Gutless.

Imagine if one member of the White House press corps followed up by repeating the question of a colleague that was ignored by Trump. When is one of them going to stand up and say, “How dare you speak to her (or me) like that! How dare you disrespect the office of the presidency!”