Easy fix, we just train more doctors. How long does it take to make a doctor, maybe 3 months tops?

They've lost the median voter (Jewel Kilcher of Homer, Alaska)

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

someone said of Wikipedia: “it is a thing that does not work in theory but turned out to work in practice”

who was President from 1 Jan 20 until 20 Jan 21 continues to be the defining political question of our time

Premise is there's numerous former Trump supporters (a) with a change of heart (b) who will change back if Dems don't flatter them. There are trivially few such people, if any. In reality, Dems need to win back nonvoters. They won't do that by trying to placate Trumpers, they'll just look weak.

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

Kirk was a nobody to normal people, but it's now clear how important he was to the right. The dream of post-Steve Bannon conservativism: An influencer presidential candidate. A homegrown Trump. The panic we're seeing is a movement realizing they have nothing to replace Trump's cult of personality.

This is all extremely weird; it is both appropriate and necessary for people to say so. Charlie Kirk was a sleazy podcaster who constantly said repugnant things—that's all he contributed to society—but they're treating him like the Virgin Mary, MLK, Audie Murphy, and Superman all rolled into one.

This is why Republicans are going home instead of even bothering to schedule a vote, because Schumer's history and his signals both make it abundantly clear that he's going to cave as soon as possible. Stop doing this! Have you never negotiated anything in your life?

You know what didn’t happen? Pundits going on Gab, Parler, Gettr, or Truth Social to repeatedly say “no one cares about this site, you’re in a bubble, you forfeited your influence, things are awesome on the site you don’t use anymore, so awesome that I come here to tell you you’re dumb unlike me.”

You can stay on X, but you'll never beat the Catturd loving algorithm.

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Not the biggest issue, but still important: regardless of whether he's doing it on purpose or his brain is mush, there should be a steep political price, with the media questioning his fitness every day, for the President showing he doesn't know the meaning of "asylum." (Same goes for "tariff.")

That's a shame, I was hoping to learn more about Charlie Kirk's message of peace, love, tolerance, acceptance, and appreciation for the variety of human experience.

If it was possible to pick up Republican voters at scale by being more moderate and representing the center of politics, we would've won 2016 & 2024, and 2020 would've been a massive blowout creating a Congressional supermajority. It doesn't work in a polarized electorate!

These peoples brains are cooked and they need to be relieved from duty and many need to go to jail. Nothing else will stop the spread of "the sea is not a courtroom" ideology in armed forces. Was the bombing of USS Cole totally cool because it was at sea? This is not how lawful militaries operate.

Starbucks says surveillance clears an employee who’d been accused of writing “Loser” on a cup when someone ordered Charlie Kirk’s “favorite drink.” The accusation was originally posted by a Republican party official. It forced the store to shut down for safety. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/v...

Love to live in a shithole country that can't produce reliable economic data but can blow up random boats in international waters and set aside a day to remember a bigoted podcaster.

Genuinely curious what the impetus was for this. It produces a lot of misery for immigrants, sure, but also immense misery for Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Google, JP Morgan, Oracle, Intel (now partly owned by the US 🙄), and Tesla, all of whom have lots of H-1Bs and international operations.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Scenes from the confluence of an AI bubble and crony capitalism: xAI is currently raising $10 billion at a valuation of $200 billion while the data annotation team is run by a college kid. Much prudent investment. Very wisdom of the market. futurism.com/elon-musk-co...

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

She's right, and there is zero upside to Dems who voted for it. They won't get kudos from GOP voters, they won't suddenly get cooperation from GOP reps, they'll just demoralize their base even more—an unforced error the GOP rarely makes, hence constantly winning in our polarized electorate.

That is something which usually happens to pro se litigants who have filed an incomprehensible manifesto. It's the Court ruling that the plaintiff's complaint is filled with too much irrelevant baloney.

dangerous trash from trashy people who should be shunned and shamed everywhere they try to go in polite society

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

One problem with our media landscape is that the stupidest people run big well-funded print stuff and are put on TV to say extremely stupid things where other stupid people nod along and agree.

Seriously, if you can't vote against this, you need to stop pretending you can do the job and get out of the way so your office can be filled with someone who can. This is a resolution that Charlie Kirk was the greatest American to ever live with the best ideas about the country and its people.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

I hope they talk about this guy's very patriotic efforts.

Eat shit, ESPN app!

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

Republicans: "Debate me, bro." Also Republicans: "Sir, Jimmy Kimmel has launched another one-liner, I don't know how many more we can take! We have no choice but to use the power of the state to stop him before he destroys us all."

In a March 2024 concurrence, Justice Barrett argued that temporary “administrative” stays should be relatively rare and of exceptionally limited duration. As today’s bonus “One First” notes, in the 18 months since, they’ve only proliferated at #SCOTUS, and lower courts have continued to abuse them:

It being non-unanimous won't change a single vote in the midterms, but that's not why they care. Centrist Dems care because they are always looking for an excuse both (1) to avoid conflict with their GOP friends and (2) to pin blame on progressive Dems if their strategies fail, as they usually do.

So what are you guys doing for Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day? I'm going to honor him by being a paid demagogue with views so repugnant that they can't be quoted, can't even be generally outlined, in glowing tributes to my good work.

One thing about the new "debate me" discourse is that Trumpism is trivially easy to debate honestly: "do you think every President, including Democratic ones, should have this power?" Ta-da, every issue concluded with "no." But it's never about honest debate, it's about lying to new audiences.

Does Klein earnestly believe the reason you don't see progressives tour conservative evangelical churches to defend abortion or some such is that progressives are dispositionally less interested in debate and civil discourse than the right? Genuinely? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

I can understand why some huge companies consider themselves invulnerable due to monopolies and so forth but an *entertainment* conglomerate should understand what it really has is vulnerability on multiple fronts. Putting their personal politics ahead of their consumers' interests may prove unwise.

There is no legitimate reason for this request; USDA already has the data. It's inexplicable beyond (1) a fig leaf to simply make people go hungry because cruelty is fun and/or (2) a deliberate effort to imperil personal data security and thereby increase fraud / identity theft.

This from @democrats.senate.gov is much better than the reporting of a mere ACA extension just until the midterms. They need to be loud about it and hold to it, including causing a shutdown, to make it clear to low-info voters who is on which side. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

This is eliminationist, genocidal rhetoric. There’s nothing ambiguous about it. And it didn’t come from a random Bluesky account with 28 followers. It came from a sitting member of Congress. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...

If you spent even one second of the last decade indulging the free speech claims made by the American right in earnest, I genuinely think you're lacking in intelligence. I do not think you have what it takes to deliver sound commentary on American politics.

Maybe there were some clues, in retrospect

OK, you can't watch Kimmel tonight, but this is every bit as funny.

News organizations need to stop calling “immigration judges” — executive branch employees — judges in headlines. Doing so does virtually the only thing a headline should never do: It confuses the reader.

It's bullshit that I agree with David Frum. Things shouldn't have sunk so low that we've reached our level of agreement! We should be in the realm where we disagree on every issue in the news!

There is no legal category as “major terrorist organization.” It does not exist. And he can’t do this. Just an administration of posters, basically.