8am: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? TELL US, GODDAMMIT 9am: Pete Hegseth's Warfighting to the Oldies 10am: K.A.$.H. 11am: Quack Tales with RFK Jr. Noon: A Charlie Kirk Remembrance (no quotes allowed) 4pm: The Most Dangerous Game ft. Brian Kilmeade 5pm: Sean Duffy Cries on the Subway

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

This guy is the greatest enemy of the first amendment in our history (and I say that knowing well that he is far from the first). He's an authoritarian thug. Even Putin handles opposition press more gracefully (until, of course, he has them killed).

The fact he wasn't fired for this shows exactly just how asymmetric everything in the media is right now. He was literally advocating mass murder and said "just kill them."

If you want to understand this moment better, here’s a place to start.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

I teach music industry at the University of New Haven and get my students interested in the business of writing songs, making records, performing live, and figuring out how to make money doing it all of it.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

This on-the-record statement from the Air Force Academy is such clear bullshit, given that lord knows positive statements about Trump won’t result in speakers being canceled. This is clearly unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Gentlemen, what say you? America is being overrun by fascists. What are you doing about it?

RFK Jr. is a danger to this country. He must go. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...

A clarifying piece that sums up what has happened in just the past week that demonstrates how far fascism has spread in the US.

Why can’t he say it’s fascism?

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"MAGA leaders are openly declaring that the specter of state violence will be used to intimidate voters...Trump’s manufacturing of fake pretexts is growing bolder and more unconstrained. Do we get to call it fascism yet?" Many of us outside the US are wondering what's taking you all so long?

That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.

There was an unprecedented meeting at the White House yesterday. Why? Because America’s allies don’t trust our president anymore. Why? Well the fact he is nuts, loyal to Russia, a liar, and an incompetent surrounded by incompetents has something to do with it. www.thedailybeast.com/is-peace-in-...

Oh, so martial law?

Congressional Dems are going to have to accept that their leadership offices must now run 24/7/365. Teams can be rotated in on weekends and during breaks to spread responsibility for necessary public engagement with Trump. Additional comms/political staff can be hired, redeployed. Time now.

The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement. The President does not run the Smithsonian. The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law. Release the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

We now live in a dictatorship. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

Donald Trump, if you will not stand down, California will be forced to lead an effort to redraw our maps to offset the rigging of maps in red states. If the other states call off their redistricting efforts, we will do the same. And American democracy will be better for it.

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

The final statement by Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, written months ago in anticipation of his likely death, posted on Twitter/X by a friend. Israel assassinated him tonight along with his reporting team in an airstrike in Gaza.

🧵🧵🧵 In this thread, I lay out more than a dozen facts about Trump and his child-molester friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. I challenge you to read the whole thread and then decide what the odds are that Trump did not abuse girls or tolerate his pals Epstein and Maxwell doing so.

In case you want to know why the FBI has been called in to illegally return the Democratic #txleg to their state.

Remember when Vice President Harris bought a few quality cooking items at a French cookery store with her own money and legacy media melted down? J.D. Vance literally used the Army Corps of Engineers to manipulate a public waterway, so he’d have an easier time kayaking and it’s a blip on the radar.

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

Dog if we’re playing the gerrymandering game we need to go big or home. I want every district in New York State running into New York City so that every single one is blue. Not a single Republican from California. Every seat in Illinois runs through Chicago.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced today that it will shut down next year. Icymi, I made a pilgrimage earlier this week to the LBJ Library in Austin, specifically to consider what that would mean. (This post is free to all for the next five days.)

This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.

Fascism is winning.

Trafficking. He’s talking about trafficking underage girls.

Todd Blanche absolutely has a prohibitive conflict of interest acting as a lawyer for the United States of America and talking to Ghislaine Maxwell. Donald Trump is a very recent criminal defense client. The interests of Donald Trump and the United States are in conflict in questioning Maxwell./1

Terrifying. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...

It’s not the most overt worst thing about these comments but implicit in how Shipman answers this question is that the only thing of value taking place on a university campus is physical sciences, which is revealing in and of itself.

So…not antisemitism.

BREAKING: WSJ reporting that in May, US Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump that he is among several names listed throughout the Epstein files. Epstein is a known child sex trafficker. Surprising absolutely no one, they always knew Trump is in the Epstein files, and they support him anyway. 1/2

Coverup

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

In which I wish @stephencolbert.bsky.social would start an internet empire. And for the first time, I tell the tale of trying to help Howard Stern start his. Whither Colbert? Whither Democracy medium.com/whither-news...