Important to note that it's New York STATE that brought charges against the J6er that threatened Hakeem Jeffries. Not the DOJ.

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

🚨BREAKING: The State of Arizona filed a lawsuit accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of violating the Constitution by refusing to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. The plaintiffs argue that Johnson’s delay has deprived hundreds of thousands of Arizonans of representation.

Time to re-up one of the great quotes of all time...while the Totenkopf is in the discourse. www.huffpost.com/entry/attemp...

BREAKING: Sen. DURBIN sends official congressional correspondence asking if Kristi Noem has hired any January 6th rioters at ICE.

🗣️ Sen. @warnock.senate.gov: “I’m a preacher, but I have to say this: what the hell?” Families are being torn apart. Blackhawk helicopters in our cities. An American president calling his own people "the enemy within." This is not normal — it’s abuse of power.

This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.

I mean, Jesus was *very clear* on this point: "I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me." Matthew 25:35

i am totally down with rewarding contrition but first we're going to need to see some contrition

Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.

(CBS News) - A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. @macfarlanenews.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/pardone...

It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.

Mike Johnson has given the house a very very very very very very very very very long vacation because he’s worried about the Epstein files

why not isn’t this something they are proud of

First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Kenny Loggins told Trump to take his song "Highway to the Danger Zone" off of his King Shit video.

There is a HUGE canyon between someone I don’t like and someone who wants to kill me

Conducting a live fire exercise over a civilian highway is fucking stupid. It doesn’t really matter if I-5 fell within the minimum acceptable risk threshold for the exercise. Those standards are designed for controlled environments, not civilian highways.

That’s some chyron. 👑 @atrupar.com

Q: What does it say that president released a video of him pooping on the American people? MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.

Why did the Marine Corps decide to fire live artillery shells across California’s major interstate freeway on Saturday? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-other-demonstration-on-saturday

Watch my supercut of things Mike Johnson doesn’t know. You can see the whole show here: www.youtube.com/live/Ams4OLn...

🚨Children’s Hospital Chaplain released after being detained in Cincinnati’s Butler County Jail for 73 days. He shares powerful words with us. 1/2

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

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"The behavior by people who have sworn to serve our communities and country is a painful parallel to ... the Ku Klux Klan patrolling the streets with their faces covered, terrorizing people of color. The horrific behavior has to stop."

The NY Times is a very high quality newspaper. Extraordinarily talented and rich in resources. But sometimes the high-level editors and management get on strange political obsessions. Like Hillary Clinton’s emails. Their commitment never to cover prominently any “No Kings” protest is astonishing.

You may be living in an absolutely racist country when 13-year-old Black boys are tried and sentenced as adults, but white dudes who *are* adults are called "kids" by JD Vance to shield them from culpability.

We currently have a president who is so childishly crude and grotesque that newspapers consider it indecent to accurately describe the video he recently posted, and TV shows think it is indecent to show it. But many Americans are OK that the Oval Office is home to the nation's crassest toddler.

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

OK, so our "Secretary of War" currently has two big priorities: (1) murdering innocent fishermen in the Caribbean, and (2) endangering the lives of commuters in Southern California. Perhaps, we are seeing one of the downsides to having a drunk TV talk show chatterbox running our military.

"It is not known at this time whether Trump's own voluminous diarrhea is equal to the quantities shown in the video, or whether it was merely an approximation"

We have a shockingly cowardly media. “Appeared to” and “brown liquid” are choices about how to describe this. Anyone watching the video knows what it was. We deserve a media that is honest, and certainly one that doesn’t take us for fools.

No surprise here.

Every Republican on the Sunday shows should be forced to watch the Air Feces One video and then be asked, “Is the President sane?”

Reporter: Did you see the video President Trump posted showing him flying a plane and dropping feces on Americans Mike Johnson: I haven't seen it.

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!

Similarly, the fact that there are protests going on all over Texas, from the big cities to the panhandle, is really impressive

June feels like years ago, not four months

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts bsky.app/profile/did:...

D.C. #NoKings 👑

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”