let’s hand it to president brain genius for raising the issue salience of prescription drug pricing right as his party is about to shut down the government rather than stop health care premiums from jumping by double digit percentages

Trump’s hated for Comey is so bizarre when you think about the fact that without Comey’s October 2016 intervention, Trump probably wouldn’t have won the 2016 election and wouldn’t be president today.

“They didn't fight as hard as they needed to because they worried more about offending the soon-to-return friends than vanquishing their do-or-die enemies.” I wrote this about the Union as a comparison to 2022 Democrats, including Biden, and if that doesn’t sum up his presidency…

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!" Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!

Out of fucking control and if I were an elected Dem or running for office I’d be in front of every camera I could find telling America your prescriptions just got twice as expensive, your health insurance premiums are about to skyrocket from ACA subsidy cancellation, and oh the gov shuts down Wed.

Trucks are like the metric system: every country has way better trucks than America. Every single one. None of them would tolerate bullshit American trucks. And every brand mentioned in Trump's tweet is a subsidiary of a huge European truck conglomerate (Mack: Volvo, Freightliner: Daimler, etc).

“FBI agents reassigned to round up immigrants have had to walk away from investigations into violent predators who target and exploit children online,” as a new report reveals: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/mass-depor...

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

yeah this is worth $5 I'm afraid secure.actblue.com/donate/save-...

AOC stars in new ad urging California to vote "yes" on new redistricting map. "Donald Trump is redrawing election maps to force through a Congress that only answers to him ... With Prop. 50, we can stop him."

Tits out for the Grand Army of the Republic

in hindsight this is just obviously correct, and I was on Markey's side

Every time NPR does this anti-science "it's not clear" bullshit when it is in fact clear, I lose sympathy for their defunding. Report reality please.

good government socialism

Say what you will about Sliwa, the idea that you could bribe the guy is absurd. He lives in a studio apartment with 16 cats while seemingly knowing every influential New Yorker. If he cared about money, he would have done something about it by now.

Another desperate attempt by people who can’t stand the idea of New Yorkers electing their mayor instead of billionaires buying one.

Future for riders is frightening if AC Transit expands hydrogen fleet and they continue to perform so poorly. At scale, 43% or 64% availability would lead to tons of canceled bus runs. A few years ago BART experienced similar availability due to rain/wheel flats, and it absolutely wrecked service.

Ticketmaster boss Michael Rapino says concert tickets are 'underpriced' "In sports, I joke it’s like a badge of honor to spend 70 grand for a Knicks courtside seat. They beat me up if we charge $800 for Beyoncé"

Driver who racks up between $300 and $400 a month in speeding and parking tickets feels like he’s "being bullied.” www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

“CNN identified more than 100 US citizen children, from newborns to teenagers, who have been left stranded without parents because of immigration actions this year …” www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/p... #FamiliesBelongTogether

Trump/MAGA are trying to gaslight us into believing that anti-Jimmy Kimmel America is vast and deep, that MAGA's grip on the culture is unshakable, that mobilization is futile. But this episode has demonstrated the opposite. Let's not forget it. Thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2008...

Here’s how we know the tides have turned and the Times has given up on smearing this man: at not point in this interview did they bring up Jews.

In book news, there's an interview with me up at Comic Book and Movie Reviews! www.comicbookandmoviereviews.com/2025/09/mang...

Trump is waging a war on American science and innovation. His $100,000 fee on H-1B visas will chase top researchers to other rich countries. In the long-term, our living standards will likely be lower as a result www.vox.com/politics/462...

Donald Trump was raised Presbyterian and now calls himself a non-denominational Christian. There's plenty of reasons to slander the Catholic church but Pope Francis all but said don't vote for the Orange Turd.

Fossil fuel drilling, refining, and transportation already occupied huge amounts of land, as expertly documented by the photographer Edward Burtynsky. These land uses are much more destructive than solar panels!

This guy was on SCOTUS shortlists.

this is the most chotinered a chotiner interview has ever chotinered

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

Finally reading my copy and it's beautifully done. The 70s two-color pages really shine, I never thought I'd see them reprinted in color anywhere. Also it contains both They Were 11! and They Were 11! Continued.

In book news, there's an interview with me up at Comic Book and Movie Reviews! www.comicbookandmoviereviews.com/2025/09/mang...

Over a long enough timeframe, the chances that a serial grifter will eventually turn to antisemitism asymptotically approach 100%.

They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.

Disney has backed down, but there's no evidence that Sinclair or Nexstar have learned their lesson. If you haven't already done so, check the links in the thread below for stations in your area. Find the advertisers and let them know you're boycotting them until they remove ads from these stations.

regardless of the details I think it’s important to spin the Kimmel thing as a win Trump is weak, he’s unpopular, he massively overreached and inspired enough of a revolt that Disney had to backtrack immediately he wants to paint himself as an all-powerful dictator, paint him as a loser who sucks

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

The TL;dr here is that instead of getting angry at Kamala Harris over this mention in a book, we should be angry at the mainstream press for twisting any little comment a politician makes about us into anti-trans propaganda divorced from the content of their comments

Mere paragraphs below, the story goes into the fact Harris *defends* her support for giving trans inmates health care, which became the centerpiece of the infamous Trump anti-trans 2024 ad This does not comport with a turn towards the anti-trans or support for capitulating after her 2024 loss

The fact Harris made clear she wants not to discriminate against trans children while handling sports is an important distinction that many in the mainstream press, especially in washington, avoid making Instead, they’ll just describe pursuit of actual fairness as support for banning trans people

I’ve seen a lot of trans folks get outraged at Kamala Harris over this news article A brief thread on why I would really suggest *reading* the outrage bait posted about our community by major media platforms before hitting “post” on social media Here we go… 🧵

there's never been a better time than right now to get lincolnpilled. well i guess 1858 or so would have been pretty good too but since then

the 2019-2023 House was majority pro-choice!!!

And I know we overuse the meme, but it applies: every time this happens, they go full Principal Skinner and insist it’s the children who are wrong. We know for a fact, Democrats want a younger, more progressive party, and the people in charge respond by seeing if Liz Cheney is free again.

The entire “Americans want pro corporate liberal centrism” project has failed, and an entire industry that runs on pretending otherwise is panicking. It isn’t just that they don’t want to move the party to the left; they don’t understand HOW to. They’ve literally never thought about it.

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...