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

It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

The parallels between what’s happening now and what happened after Putin was first elected are inescapable.

That’s what makes this so scary: Any assumption of democratic resilience was predicated on the idea that civil society actors with enormous resources at their disposal and the law on their side – universities, law firms, media companies… – would push back. But so many simply won’t, or not anymore.

Re Kimmel, it's important that Disney has left itself an out--it is a "suspension," not a cancellation or firing. What happens in the next two days--reaction within the company but also in the press, in the industry, in Washington, among consumers, and on social media--may affect how this plays out.

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.

The GOP nominee in a Virginia state House race this fall has dropped out. He says he lost his government contracting job and has no income, so he's had to take a job out of state & move away. That's... literally what Dems are campaigning on to win VA. www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/gop-nom...

So Elon spends $1 billion on Tesla shares. His purchase drives up investor confidence and further boosts share value. Rising Tesla share value is integral to his new compensation package, which could end up making him the first trillionaire. Is it any wonder why so many think the game is rigged?

I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.

What would someone with too much power do, according to the Declaration? - refuse[] his Assent to Laws - obstruct[] the Administration of Justice - sen[d] hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people - ke[ep] among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

When even Rand Paul thinks you’re despicable.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

People saying flag burning is "clearly constitutional" have not met this Republican Supreme Court, a court which changes the rules of the game every day so Trump can "win." If they *want* to make flag burning "un"consitutional, they certianly *can.* My latest in @thenation.com

"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

/2 However, something being clearly true as a matter of constitutional law doesn’t translate into something being enforceable without an operative array of institutions and norms, which are failing in America in favor of anti-Constitutional institutions and norms.

let me throw some fuel on the fire that is the discourse about boys getting laid!!! current-day manopshere content is not good at getting boys laid and that's an effect of the incentives at play. you cannot build an audience of resentful little virgins if you succeed at helping them to have sex

This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review. I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway. My latest in @thenation.com

when a progressive like bernie sanders said something accurate on economic issues, @glennkessler.bsky.social rended his garments. because the one true bias of the mainstream media is in favor of a conservative economic approach. www.thenation.com/article/arch...

I am not a New Yorker. But have seen a lot of political aspirants over the decades. Mamdani has "it."

The most terrifying words in the English language: "I'm here to help you Jews fight antisemitism."

SCOTUS doesn’t have to come up with an excuse for allowing Obama or Biden to be prosecuted despite their ruling about Trump. They only have to refuse without explanation to intervene, and stay without explanation any lower federal court’s attempt to intervene.

Tedious to point this out, but: - When a tongue-tied Biden said "President of Mexico" instead of "Prez of Egypt," it was a several day story. -Hours after Trump says whoever appointed J Powell made a big mistake (it was him), the episode appears not to merit a story on any national-media sites.

Doesn’t get any clearer than this… so Trump sued CBS for selective editing but Kamala didn’t sue Fox for this?

Yup. I love this piece on how so many straight men are actually homoerotic and only truly love other men, they just unfortunately aren’t sexually attracted to them:

CU Boulder did this... and had John Eastman on payroll while he advised Trump on how to overturn the 2020 election

Instead of punishing Trump, Trump supporters dramatically changed their views on these COVID policies. When they learned Trump’s policies, they followed the leader. :-)

@shawnhubler.bsky.social My God, you must’ve been desperate for a quote to criticize Mandani www.dailyjournal.com/article/3141...

A whole lot of organizations and politicians do not understand just how minimal their 'reach' truly is on X. It's not what Twitter was. You are shouting at bots and right-wingers. Nobody else sees what you do there. Daily users are down, time on site is down, and the algorithm is hostile to you.

COLLINS: Did you approve of the pause of weapons shipments to Ukraine? TRUMP: We want to put defensive weapons because Putin is not treating human beings right COLLINS: So who ordered the pause? TRUMP: I don't know. Why don't you tell me?

@aoc.bsky.social No caption needed.

Going to set up a Twitter account with the handle “WaffenSS1488” and DM all the New York Times reporters the story of the president saying all Democrats are evil in hopes they might then write about it

Does it…illuminate the thinking and background of a major mayoral candidate? Does it actually do that?

Cosign

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.

the reason trump constantly says antisemitic things is that he's an antisemite.

The man who’s pretending that he’s burning down the universities in order to protect Jewish students:

A good, simple reminder www.instagram.com/reel/DLpnEJh...

Many of the most accurate descriptions of American politics can be found in the comments on Balloon Juice. This one, from commenter Davis X. Machina (from about 15 years ago), is particularly apt today.

Y’all keep waiting for to see a glimmer of humanity in people who don’t see you as human and I don’t get it

“It does not make Jews safer when we confuse political disagreement with Jew-hatred. It erodes the solidarity and alliances that all of us need to combat antisemitism and all forms of hate. It forecloses the kind of honest, reciprocal engagement we should be striving for ..."

i’m at the taco bell i’m at the urgent care i’m at the combination taco bell and urgent care

We cannot let this man become mayor

Actually kinda relieved if I have a kid there's a chance it won't come out American