i don’t think he was supposed to post this. this is a company lobbying for medical cannabis, specifically for medicare coverage of it, and i think they made a whole commercial for an audience of one. “YOU will…” “cementing YOUR legacy,” millions will thank you… this was just for trump

JUST IN: Oregon sues to stop Trump’s deployment of the military, saying its pretextual and that ICE protests have been small and relatively contained since June. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I’m giving short shift to the insanity of the lawsuit. Among other things Nigel Max Edge (né Sean DeBevoise) accused the government of using “LGBQT” guards to torture Iraqis at Abu Ghraib into murdering US troops. He also escorted American Idol’s Kellie Pickler to the CMT Music Awards in 2012.

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?

Gentle reminder: Yom Kippur begins in 72 hours. If you plan to fast, now is an opportune moment to start pounding fluids and cutting salt and alcohol

A statement for no one by a politician for no one 👍

very striking when klein says "isn't that fatalistic" and coates just goes "yeah but it's true"

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

this sign at last night's All Elite Wrestling show in Huntington, West Virginia reads REDNECKS FOR TRANS RIGHTS

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.

"Practice being brave now, don’t wait for some special moment at the end to be a hero." This is excellent. open.substack.com/pub/peaceful...

I think the case for “this was a decisive affirmation of the MAG ideology” is extremely weak & I think the view that we ought to take the election as an expression of where The People stand owes more to the insecurity and lack of confidence that is pervasive among our liberal elites than the facts.

i have said this before but i think that ones view of the current political situation is fundamentally shaped by how you view the outcome of the 2024 election. was it a definitive affirmation of the MAGA worldview or a narrow, extremely contingent result?

He cites Hillary’s ‘deplorables’ comment as an example of this but she went out of her way to say many of Trump’s supporters are good people! She was trying to separate voters with legitimate concerns from 4chan psychos and right wing media turned it into a gaffe. She was doing what he wants!

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

God Bless the National Lawyers Guild.

🚨 IMPORTANT THREAD 🚨 People are protesting the Broadview ICE facility tonight. This will likely be an extremely high-risk action. I caution you to consider your risk level before attending. I will not attend. Attendance risks your safety, but also the safety of Broadview residents + detainees. 1/6

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

as someone who never really liked Chappelle or Burr, I feel totally vindicated rn

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

We currently have a Supreme Court that seriously claims (with no explanation) that the current occupant of the Presidency suffers irreparable harm by having to follow existing law, the constitutionality of which has never before been in doubt or even questioned.

the president is lying about portland

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

Reminder that Trump's initial rationale for sending the troops in Portland was something he saw on TV

Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence... Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now. Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now. We all need to be Spartacus on this one.

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

Some good work here: “The Norwegian owners of Oslo Carrier 3, one of the ships suspected of being involved in the Copenhagen Airport hybrid attack, have direct ties to Russian PMC RSB Group, which works closely with the FSB.”

JD Vance is now using the term "blood libel" to describe criticism of ICE, saying, "The Democrats and the media — because they so hate the idea of a real border — are engaging in a kind of blood libel against ICE agents." Somewhere, our ancestors wept.

to be honest a bunch of the founders would have probably been less concerned by "mohammadans" than irish catholics like walsh

The fact that Kaleb Horton died begging for work instead having a column at some hip legacy mag is such an indictment of this industry. People should have been begging to put him on payroll. But nope, we've reserved that space for Ezra Klein

In 2010 I took this photo of Custer's marker at the Little Bighorn battlefield. After surveying the site, it was clear there was more stupidity than bravery by the calvary in picking this battle. Medal of Honor worthy? I don't think so. Custer's remains were moved to West Point.

lol lmao, even

UPDATE: The man ICE violently arrested has been identified as Job Arias-Mendoza. Two weeks ago he published a video to his social media accounts of ICE handcuffing a man in front of a liquor store—it has more than 200,000 views on TikTok. streetcarsuburbs.news/arias-mendoz...

Again, this is what I mean when I say the Constitution is broken Which of the institutions it establishes, exactly, ISN'T broken?? Which is acting to maintain the constitutional order?

State Dept's revoking visa of Colombia's president because he said in Spanish "That's why from here, from New York I ask all the soldiers of the army of the United States not to point their guns at people. Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity." www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

I was once at an evangelical Bible trivia. One question was “how long was Jesus‘s earthly ministry?“ and the “right answer” was 3 1/2 years, but that’s tradition. The Bible doesn’t say. It’s got me thinking about how much evangelicals read/hear *about* Scripture, and how little we actually know it.

Sure seems like the president just instructed the military to use lethal force against US citizens.

I keep coming back to the fact that One Battle After Another was written and filmed before the 2024 election. The most obvious thing you can say about this movie is that it's "of the moment," but The Moment has been in progress for years if not decades.

It's gotta be an all-time golden age to be doing actual crimes.

Sean Penn in One Battle After Another

Remember that article that went around about how children's book illustrator isn't a job anymore? My friend who works in children's books was like "what?" I don't know who the hyperbole helps. Actually, no — I do know who it helps

Woke up and just started thinking about One Battle After Another

One Battle After Another basically feels like if Martin Scorsese directed Southland Tales (complimentary)

I'm going to start calling all staircases "fatal funnels." "Do you want to take the elevator?" "Nah, I'm going to go up the fatal funnel instead."

New in PN: You cannot trust the federal government "The FBI has proven it can’t be trusted to provide narrative-free evidence to the public. This is par for the course for the rest of the govt under Trump, which can’t be trusted at all because everything in it exists only to serve Dear Leader."

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

Fuck

One Battle After Another hype is real

Under some plausible assumptions, without court reform there will be a conservative majority until 2065.