JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2014...

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

The White Supremacy is the point.

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

MORE: Comey will be arraigned on 10/9. His son in law Troy Edwards — a federal prosecutor who helped convict several Oath Keepers of seditious conspiracy over Jan. 6 — has resigned from DOJ in protest. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

I suppose we’ll save a lot of time and money in our judicial system if it’s just a matter of Pam Bondi escorting suspects up to Trump’s throne and him giving thumbs up or thumbs down.

Trump has been the worst president ever for farmers. Twice. But they voted for him three times. Now they want the rest of America to give them welfare. When they did it to themselves. But they don’t like socialism.

There is no metric or data you can point to which shows that Ryan Walters has not systematically wrecked the OK school system before quitting. Fox surely knows this. And yet they platform him constantly for culture war BS. Which shows how little they care about kids education.

Incredible timing. There is a real-life business school case developing in front of our very eyes…

Ticks are migrating, raising disease risks in places previously unknown as regions of tick-borne illnesses. As human-driven #climatechange makes winters shorter, ticks are spending less time hibernating and have more active months when they can hitch rides on animals & people👇

To be clear, there are no data that provide a link between short-term use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. In fact, one of the best prospective studies w/ sibling controls, if anything, pointed to a protective effect for use less than 7 days acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Now the MAGA boycott begins.

BREAKING: Chicken Pox caused by Vicks Vap-o-Rub: White House BREAKING: Astigmatism caused by chewable vitamins and parental failure to invest in Trump Coin: NIH BREAKING: Havana Syndrome caused by component of Tito’s: CIA BREAKING: Red hair caused by potato consumption: Marine Corps

"Had conversations with Jimmy?" OR - Let's be honest. "He threatened to sue us." "We lost billions of dollars via worldwide Disney boycotts." "We were protecting a racist creep. We see that after they honored him with a nazi rally." & "Our illegal bribe to the FCC is in the spotlight." 🤷🏼‍♀️

Unnerving point from @bcfinucane.bsky.social: The White House appears to be quietly trying to get Republicans to formally turn over a large swath of Congress's warmaking powers to Trump. That's what this new draft bill would do. From our pod discussion: newrepublic.com/article/2007...

For this piece about comedy targeting Trump, I consulted a friend who’s one of my favorite satirists, USA Today's Rex Huppke: “Lampooning him – basically matching his absurdity – can vividly highlight his hypocrisy and force people to recognize that something's not right.” @rexhuppke.bsky.social

The assault on decency and democracy is being conducted by 2 armies: The Christofascists, who want to force everyone to worship their white, vengeful god. And the mega-thieves, whose only god is money. The people who wrap themselves in holiness are fortifying the people who glory in sin.

Trump has declared himself the president-king. When it comes to late-night TV, Trump is the censor. When it comes to his political enemies, Trump is the prosecutor. When it comes to people in boats in international waters, Trump is the judge, jury and executioner. He thinks he rules over all of us.

There's no law (yet) that says CNN is required to put pro-dictatorship propagandists on TV all the time.

After signing a law that cuts food assistance by $187B over the next decade, The Trump admin now says it will stop measuring food insecurity. If you stop counting hunger, you don’t have to admit that people are hungry. This is a disaster.

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies. Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review wapo.st/3VrOcca

President Trump -- who refused to call Gov. Tim Walz to express his condolences after the assassination of the Minnesota House Speaker because he thought it would only "waste time" -- says that Walz should've called *him* to ask that flags be lowered.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Karen Attiah of the Washington Post and Matthew Dowd of MSNBC got fired for perfectly legitimate comments after the Charlie Kirk assassination. Both denounced violence, but it didn't matter to their cowardly bosses. My Stop the Presses newsletter examines how the right wing intimidates the media.

There's no excuse for the Vice President of the United States to use a heinous killing as an occasion to baselessly frame political opponents as accomplices to murder while threatening to use the power of the government to attack them. This dangerous rhetoric will only fan the flames.

Peaceful protest against ICE in Chicago this afternoon.

Republicans have unleashed their thought police.

Trump helps the super-rich cheat on their taxes, forcing serfs like us to fund the government that they control.

The death of a single human being is always a tragedy. Too bad no one told the kids gunned down in mass school shootings they should’ve been shot on a commuter train—then MAGA would be yelling “say their name” and asking for gun control, right?

Here is the truth: there is no secret plan to defend American democracy. There is no hidden set of tactics that those of us in the pro-democracy movement are waiting to unveil at the right moment. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...

meanwhile the administration engages in honest-to-goodness censorship, embraced by jim jordan and the GOP, and ppl like silver have nothing to say about it really, because their entire life purpose is online 'influence' on the first point:

Is this yet another impeachable offense?

Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.

He just doesn't understand. Common ground? Fuck common ground.

After its flagship crypto venture opened trading of a new digital currency Monday, the Trump family notched as much as $6 billion in paper wealth.

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"

J.B. Pritzker says he's heard intelligence that Trump is "staging" the Texas National Guard to invade Chicago. It's hard to believe this is really happening, but Trump seems to be recreating the war between the states.

In 7 months, Trump has taken the world's most powerful nation and turned it into a train wreck, inviting both our allies and our adversaries to reshape the world based on our irrelevance.

India Was the Economic Alternative to China. Trump Effed That Up Too: A lurch in policy has shaken the India-U.S. economic alliance against China, leaving India little choice but to consider reversing its own strategy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/b...

The Blanche interview with Trump’s friend and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is meant to do exactly what Bill Barr’s “summary report” of the Mueller investigation did. It’s an obvious effort to spin damning news before it comes out, and yes, the lazier pundits will fall for it again.

Hope is what we do when the odds are long and the options limited. It is the stubborn act of trying when despair feels easier. Rather than a passive optimism, hope is the commitment of those who believe they can make a difference, however small. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...

Critics warn that Trump's demands for business leaders to step down, and for the government to take a cut of sales, threaten American-style capitalism.

The selective prosecution claim will be epic.

abolish ice, then prosecute

"I don't want to hurt you, stop fighting back, you're hurting yourself" is literally the language of an abuser. One of the most banally horrifying things about this administration is that there is no subtext, no dog whistles, no need for interpretive work. It's all just explicit racism and cruelty.

They're taking a sledgehammer to something that truly made America a standout among nations—its achievements in science👇