“Show us your warrant!” “Ma’am, you’ve been watching too many movies. We’ll show you the warrant after we’re done.” 🤔 *busts in the door with babies crying*

79. American citizen.

JFC. Just stop with the first line. That was fine.

Kennedy timed his retirement to make sure Trump got an extra pick on the court. It is not "partisanship" that is threatening American democracy. It is people who do not believe in democracy.

# 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

All praise to our Dear Leader, working relentlessly to prevent #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown. He's at the epicenter of negotiations at...mmm...the Ryder Cup match. Great Father is clearly gravely concerned that millions will lose healthcare, jobs, & maybe their lives. That's dedication. What a guy! 🙄

Strange times we're living in. I hope Team USA gets their asses kicked. cnn.com/2025/09/26/sport/golf-donald-trump-ryder-cup

Shane Lowry holing an eagle putt and shouting "fuck you" at the American crowd is the highlight of the Ryder Cup so far. Even better than McIlroy telling to "shut the fuck up" earlier.

The American crowds are disgusting at the Ryder Cup.

Pedocon theory remains undefeated

Someone please tell Sean James — who abandoned the name Sean Burch upon shifting to writing lazy, pro-Trump garbage for Mediaite — that actually the former vice president’s claim of the closest margin this century is accurate.

The normie arguments against this have fully collapsed now

Ezra Klein has been speaking a lot on red states and rural Democrats and here’s the thing…he shouldn’t. He has no idea what he’s talking about.

This clown couldn’t even get Jimmy Kimmel fired!

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

i'm excited for the day that centrists remind right wingers that they should be nice to us to win us over to their cause and make us want to live together with them and not trample all over them and take away their essential rights convince us not to do woke 2. convince us to stop cancel culture

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.

I applaud the comic touch of the headline writers for calling this mishmash of conservative cliches, evidence-free assertions, and authoritarian dreams of micromanaging institutions about which the Trump administration’s “point person” has no expertise, a “Grand Strategy.”

Faculty should strike. Shut it all down. We teach from research not the whims of dummies.

No matter what this meeting is about, Pete will always be a National Guardsman assigned to a Civil Affairs unit who got a bunch of crusader tattoos in his 40s because he wants you to think he's a cool, war-criming operator instead of an extremely online wife-beating loser

The key to a successful centrist op-ed career is to live in the world that only exists in centrist op-eds

Heritage Foundation called me an extremist for calling them out on their made up lies and statistics and trans people. www.wired.com/story/herita...

Des Moines is the semi-liberal bastion in Des Moines, and the Des Moines Public Schools are one of the particular bugbears for the Iowa GOP. This is absolutely a specific political attack on the DMPS, on the African community in Des Moines, and on the most diverse city in the state.

Today’s shameful shadow docket decision from the Supreme Court—allowing Trump to unilaterally cancel $4 billion in aid—is not behavior that any healthy democracy tolerates of its judiciary. It is a sign of constitutional rot that precedes the rule of law’s collapse. slate.com/news-and-pol...

"Elon Musk to Island"

Remarkably, by the rules of the language game around campus politics, not having been in any way connected to a college since you last puked in a dorm common room 30 years ago, actually qualifies you as a keen critic of higher ed.

If the farmers of the country keep voting for this man and his political party we can only assume they prefer just being on the government dole.

Not the most important thing about this video, but the white cop's gun discipline would be hilarious if it weren't so dangerous. Takes it out, tucks it in his waistband while wrestling with a guy, drops it, recovers it, and then points it at bystanders.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

CHOTINER: Thanks for sitting down with me today for this interview. ME: It’s an honor, really. CHOTINER: Except it’s not real. Is it? ME: I don’t? CHOTINER: I’m not really here. I never would be. What would have to interview you about? You’re making this all up for attention. Isn’t that right? ME:

CHOTINER: You listen to music. You enjoy it. ME: I do listen to music and enjoy it. CHOTINER: And when you listen to music you sometimes imagine you are the singer? ME: I wouldn’t say it liked that. CHOTINER: And then when there’s a guitar solo you imagine you’re playing the guitar . . .

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Yes: Blueskyism

i really wish our law enforcement and media werent telegraphing to mass shooters that messages written on bullets will be breathlessly and uncritically publicized with no further examination

Putting aside the researchers' inability to identify acts of state terrorism, the number they're using to justify this subhed is five.

There’s a reason the 1619 Project, MeToo, BLM, etc, are all common obsessions and bete noirs for them.

"Every time there's a mass shooting in the US, my trans friends and I hold our breath."

Step 1: Start a dumbass trade war with China (and Brazil). Step 2: Lose Chinese soybean market to Brazil. Step 3: Bail out your nutty right wing buddy Javier Milei. Step 4: Lose soybean market to Milei, too. Steph 5: Make taxpayers pay for your stupidity.

sure, jan

The Vice President of the United States is running his mouth again.

Has he checked his own replies on what his followers are saying about immigrants?

Kristi Noem couldn’t get to Twitter fast enough to use the Dallas ICE shooting for political points. But local news now says it was detainees who were shot — not ICE agents. She played politics, and three human beings are dead. We need an investigation into how this happened now!

chotiner is primo at what he does to be sure but the real thruline in all of this is that our best and brightest have never been either of those things and that the only thing exceeding the impunity they enjoy for their actions is their self-regard and deference in pontification

Maybe the people running the government should shut the fuck up until they have legitimate information to share when something bad happens

Ahhh. I love this for him.

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

The way US media are covering that deranged rant is grotesque.