When your philosophy is that you must be seen to fight every battle, you end up dying on almost every hill. They see even the tiniest insult as intolerable and cannot see past it to any broader strategy. It is turning out to be a massive weakness, but they still see it as projecting strength.

Trump's tariffs face a skeptical SCOTUS. Read the Law Dork report from court today:

There were 13 elections last night for a statewide office. Democrats swept all 13. That’s 1 in NJ. 3 in VA. 2 in GA. And 7 in PA (all judges, retention and regular). They won 12 of the 13 races by double-digits, with margins up to 24%. The only other race, the tightest, they won by 6%.

These elections really should be easy Republican wins since Trump said his approval ratings are at record highs, prices are down, he’s ended 29 wars, there is no inflation, nobody likes Democrats, and everything is better than it has ever been before.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

"Wife mad at you? DEI." is phenomenal work.

The students of Saint Joseph Catholic school in Hanover apologized, saying they didn‘t realize the significance of the float and that it won’t be used again in part because they now understand it is inappropriate and in part because it is running third for the Democratic Senate nomination in Maine

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

This dismissal opinion on a failed ICE arrest that @seamushughes.bsky.social found is worth reading in its entirety. Come for the debunking of DHS "fiction," stay for the snark about wiener dog, but definitely take time to read the 18 USC 111 analysis. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

dont forget to check your drugs for halloween candy this weekend

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

If you are still talking to and spending time with your MAGA friends and family, ask yourself why. They want this, don’t honor that behavior with your time and energy. Please cut them the fuck off like the demented Nazi fucks they are. Here’s some screams for courage. 💔

John oliver did a great video on weiss m.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

ASK YOUR DOCTOR IF NON-STOP SCREAMING IS RIGHT FOR YOU

This 2017 HuffPo piece contains more wisdom & insight on current politics than 1000000 consultant polling reports.

How did nobody demand a security deposit before they let him move into the White House?

Jimmy Carter watched over 480 movies in the White House movie theater during his presidency, a lot of them all time bangers (List here gizmodo.com/every-single...)

Thank you for being a lunatic during this difficult time.

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

news lately

The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

“Bad things happen in Philadelphia.” . . . to people who want to be Kings.

No Kings 10/18/2025

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.

The noble frog's reclamation from fascist pervert associations is so long overdue

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

if you announce that you're breaking up with Nicole Kidman because she wanted too much sex you need to do it at a press conference where you're in a full body cast. just a little slit in the head area where a pair of wild, haunted eyes are staring out

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks. On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

$400,000: The "Free" Medical Care Kristi Noem's Goons Made Taxpayers Pay www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/05/4...

hell yeah let's all forget our troubles and get lost in some high-quality jizz

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The reason we have rules of engagement isn’t to keep warfighters from killing our enemies. It’s to keep them from killing a farmer with a shovel bc they thought it was a rifle and didn’t bother to wait to check. Or a family in a car bc the driver looked nervous. Or a boat full of fishermen.

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

David Cross folks.

I finally got around to reading this excellent, essential essay. If you have not yet, here's your call to do so.

George Conway @gtconway.bsky.social on the Comey indictment: "This indictment is just quintessentially Trumpian: it is both breathtakingly corrupt, and mind-blowingly stupid."

The statue of Trump & Epstein (left) lasted 1 day on the National Mall, despite a permit that ran through Sunday. It was the 3d of 3 such temporary installations (apparently by the same anonymous artist). The White House criticized the 1st two, but they remained for the duration of their permits.

This is some evil shit right here.

RFK jr: [crawling out of a hallowed out whale carcass] tylenol causes autism MAGA: we knew it RFK jr: and hand soap gives you butt cancer MAGA: we never used it anyway RFK jr: [whispers] the moon told me MAGA: yeah makes sense

It turns out you CAN end a bigly number of wars if you imagine them into being in the first place.

got the covid vax AND flu at the same time and at no point did i hide a bear corpse of help murder Samoan children with measles, @gtconway.bsky.social.

Happy 21st of September 🎉….do you remember?

I went through the hour special and outside of the "I'm a Christian and family man" stuff here's all two minutes of him actually talking, and you can see why ABC didn't air this

Pretty woke of Oklahoma Republicans to order the installation of a gender neutral bathroom on every campus.

This is bananas. “Schools would be required to build memorial plaza and describe slain activist as civil rights leader or face fines” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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

sure feels like we're getting near the end of the opening montage now