Take the good news seriously too

This man walks around with a security detail.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Oh FFS live out your Black Hawk Down fantasies on a computer.

It shall be called that forever more.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

I really like the phrase "Kavanaugh stop." It's not a Terry stop, because a Terry stop is short and based on reasonable suspicion of a crime. A Kavanaugh stop, by contrast, is when masked goons kidnap a person for speaking Spanish.

From his mad ravings to the generals meeting yesterday (transcribed in @hcrichardson.bsky.social's newsletter this morning). This kind of shit is what they're trying to hide:

The ADL defended Elon’s Nazi salute and still got here. Who could’ve expected this except everyone.

so I guess Qatar bought or more like rented a nato membership

Fix this @apnews.com.

Small point about the coverage of Hegseth’s stupid convening: Trump has not “renamed” the Department of Defense something else. He *calls* it that. If I started calling the president “Adolf,” one would not say that I had “renamed him Adolf.” He has no more authority to rename DOD than I do him.

Here we are in another Republican government shutdown and my Rep is home doing photo ops instead of in D.C. trying to help working Americans. I didn't think I'd have to run to the trumpets again but I am. I'm running for Congress because I'm not done yet and neither are we. youtu.be/OSOAPMl_BSc?...

The White House is targeting blue states with its first wave of cuts to federal projects following the government shutdown. The Office of Management and Budget is withholding billions in energy and infrastructure money in more than a dozen states that voted against Trump.

It’s useful to think of Christian Nationalism as a subculture like any other, with one important difference. THIS subculture thinks of itself as the default “normal” culture of “real Americans,” but which is also under siege by “the dominant culture.”

Hegseth said yesterday he wants to ban any symbols of “superficial individual expression” by people serving in the military. Of course, he was probably talking about dangerous things like rainbows.

Roger Wicker has been silent a lot lately on the Trump admin. Not much to say these days about anything. Profiles in courage.

It's becoming difficult to hide that a major purpose of the Trump administration is siphoning tax revenues from Blue states and redirecting them into subsidies for Red states. At what point does this become intolerable?

#Pinks #ProudBlue It was always the Republicans plan. Now they don’t have to release the Epstein files, answer for the Venezuelan fishermen murders or charge Tom Homan’s corrupt ass, and they can fire anyone they want. We’re still here and we’ll knock as long as we have to. We will have justice.

In general, if you're running for statewide office, voting is underway, and the election's in just a few weeks, this doesn't seem like the kind of headline you want to see. LOL bluevirginia.us/2025/09/2025... h/t @PollTracker2024

Imagine being a general or admiral who, after crossing times zones, listened to the president rant about 2 predecessors. From @hcrichardson.bsky.social: "The speech was highly partisan, attacking former president Joe Biden by name 11 times. . . .'We were not respected with Biden,' Trump said. More:

If Russell Vought had escaped your attention so far, my Businessweek colleague @chafkin.bsky.social wrote a great profile earlier this year that gets into what exactly his whole deal is. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Stress-Free Eric Adams Spends Day Bribing Pigeons In Central Park

Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.

2/5 This is not new. Disinformation agents like Musk and Sacks have long hated Wikipedia. It is imperfect, yes. But it is multilingual, free, and far more accurate than X, which Musk claims should be your main source of information. Even Grok admits X has more disinformation

Russ Vought is just showering the Sherrill campaign with in-kind contributions today

I’m confused how it is despicable to ask that question. These are exactly the kinds of questions we have been begging reporters & TV hosts to ask. You see when they do get asked how sensitive they are about it. Much, much more of this. More crypto questions, Qatar, UAE, etc bsky.app/profile/atru...

FFS. It's going to be a long three years with this fatuous asshole.

One excellent way for the US Government to "make more money": raise taxes on the wealthy.

This is correct. If you heard someone in an assisted-living facility rambling on this way, you'd be talking with the doctors about appropriate next levels of care. No kidding. And every officer in the room has to realize it.

This is so so awful. He left four children (all Americans, not that it should matter) and a grieving wife (also an American, not that it should matter)

17 people are dead from US strikes in the Caribbean this month and we still don't really know who they are and so far the president and VP have made jokes about scared fishermen.

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Lindsey Halligan, the attorney selected by Donald Trump to bring criminal charges against James Comey, has never prosecuted a case. But, like Trump, she did get her start in reality TV — with a brief cameo on South Beach Tow. Here is Halligan’s newly resurfaced TV moment:

RIP to Jane Goodall, who opened the world's eyes to our closest relatives. (Photo by NatGeo's Hugo Van Lawick)

Jane Goodall, primatologist and friend to chimpanzees, dies at 91 She used her global fame to draw attention to the plight of dwindling chimpanzee populations and, more broadly, to the perils of environmental destruction. wapo.st/3WmnTUU

My thoughts when hearing Hegseth live was that there are so many POC and women that serve. Including high ranking Generals and Admirals. How humiliating to sit through that and hear that you aren’t worthy or that you skipped the line because of your skin color. 1/3

Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

Never thought I'd say this but I think I might be rooting for a military coup.

What a picture

some admirals

That's the definition of fascism from Robert Paxton, one of the preeminent historians of the subject, from his book ANATOMY OF FASCISM which came out more than two decades ago.

This is what Trump is posting as the government prepares to shut down on his watch

In a gross abuse of the public trust, Ron DeSantis and his sycophants have now voted to just hand over valuable land worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the Trump presidential “library” foundation. Trump plans on putting up a hotel there, too. Disgusting. youtu.be/FnwtxslO82k?...

this guy has no idea what the american military is (the most sophisticated logistics operation ever assembled in human history)

“You kill people and break things for a living” is one of the most insane sentences I’ve ever heard