I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Jeffries: "The next time you have something to say about me, don't cop out through a racist and fake AI video. When I'm back in the Oval Office, say it to my face."

Every major Democrat has millions in their campaign account. The threat to democracy is big enough that we need to be funding mobilization and messaging right now - not just banking money for the next election. If we don't build right now, there might not be another election.

Unfortunately, most of those places making furniture in NC have already closed; jobs were lost, towns were changed.

And the more tax cuts & bailouts for farms, the more farmland prices go up. Working farms get priced out. They can't compete with investors who buy farmland as an investment asset. Neither institutional or artisanal, local investors. We really just can't save farms by bailing out farms.

These tax privilege & bailouts are why private equity views farmland as a good investment & keeps buying more. When it has those perks attached, farmland price will always go up. No matter if farms are doing well or not. Bc we made the land itself valuable as a tax shelter & bailout ticket.

This is big. Jess Piper is on the ground and brings the receipts.

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

A police officer was killed in the attack on the CDC by an antivaxxer. Trump did not mention it. Use this as a benchmark to compare how the Trump administration responds to an attack on an ICE facility to judge which federal employees are deemed worth protecting. abcnews.go.com/US/1-week-af...

"Also the only other thing the sniper hit was the last remaining copy of the Epstein files."

KEEP UP THE PRESSURE. Jimmy Kimmel is coming back, but there’s a bigger picture here. Nexstar and Sinclair own the most local ABC stations in the country. Both are waiting on FCC approvals for business deals that could shape their future.

Trump once suggested that injecting bleach could help cure COVID. RFK has a long, long history of peddling medical misinformation to enrich himself. Please talk to your doctor. Please talk to your doctor. Please talk to your doctor.

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time “While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'” www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

“Behind closed doors” being the most important words. fortune.com/2025/09/21/b...

Get. Off. Twitter.

They want you mad at trans people and immigrants so you don’t think about them shifting wealth from the bottom to the top with every move they make. And Trump’s trillions transfer is accelerating the process.

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Here's what Saint Charlie said about Crockett a few months before he died. www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

Chris Murphy: "The question today is when is enough enough for Republicans. I was very glad to see Ted Cruz stand up and say what is simply true -- it is unconstitutional and deeply immoral for the president to jail or silence his political enemies."

It’s up to us. Thank you for sharing this @nolahaynes1.substack.com

Can’t believe the CDC. Can’t believe the DoJ. Can’t believe the BLS. Can’t believe the FBI. But I believe in us.

Senate went nuclear and it barely made the news: apnews.com/article/sena...

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Oy. Too real.

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

Donald Trump just blew up another boat in the middle of the ocean with no legal justification. I'm drafting a resolution and forcing a vote to reclaim Congress’s power to declare war. Before Trump’s actions provoke one.

Surely this will be the moment that Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries step up to the plate and finally defend the ideals and institutions of liberal democracy in real and tangible ways

Me too.

donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source. You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"? My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.

@joshtpm.bsky.social: Charlie Kirk is dead. That's a great loss for his family and his friends. But we're here among the living, and the new reality is what the right is doing with his death. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/kirks...

Kathy Hochul: Why I Am Endorsing Zohran Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

But the left and the center have a problem with violent rhetoric? Puh-leeze.

CBS… CNN…

This is the biggest story in America right now. Coffee up 20.9% year-over-year Steaks up 16.6% Apples up 9.6% Bananas, 6.6%. www.axios.com/2025/09/11/t...

FBI incompetence really could be a big part of it. NYT just published a deep dive into Kash's buffoonery that's just brutal: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

Was the White House listening to this?

An incredibly disturbing tweet from Stephen Miller twelve hours ago. He purports to identify a "depraved," "malicious" "ideology" but doesn't name it. He describes it as an amorphous evil defined by its opposition to anything he likes. And anything he likes is sunny and good. Goebbels would approve.

Poland has completely closed its border with Belarus. Russia is currently conducting the West-2025 offensive military exercise in Belarus for a future invasion of Poland and the Baltics.

The Ezra piece was dumb and deserved all the dunking. Strongly encourage you to read this excellent @anamariecox.bsky.social piece instead. newrepublic.com/article/2003...

This happened yesterday as well. We can all agree, no matter who is in it- #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles

Absolutely the Ezra to trust.

This is some serious Viktor Orban shit. Get your allies to buy up as much of the media as they can, and then bully and intimidate the rest

NEW: Right-wing extremists and an anonymously run website are targeting people for allegedly celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder - and posting identifying details about people accused online. Some of those targeted are now getting death threats. read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

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The fact that @thenation.com published this, instead of, I don't know, firing @joanwalsh.bsky.social for having the audacity to remember the things he's actually said, is a pretty good example of why I work here, and not at some other places.

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

This is your periodic reminder that we still don't know who planted the bombs at the RNC and DNC. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-big...

I am begging political editors at legacy outlets to wait for confirmation before publishing misinformation that contributes to targeting vulnerable people. You don't need to be first on this. I promise you there are things more important than being first. Like your integrity.