I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?

This was my experience arguing with Ezra 20 years ago. He wrote about Hurricane Katrina, but was way more interested in playing geo-political gamemaster than addressing the concrete problems facing New Orleans. Once it gets real, he's out.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

TBH there is no way to design any system to counteract an executive declaring "I have all power and can exercise it arbitrarily" when a majority of the legislative and judicial branches responds with "that's right." Such a society is too primitive for modern governance and the rule of law.

The Kimmel suspension is a much bigger deal than you know. It's really about a growing alliance between Trump and the companies that own America's local TV stations - like Nexstar - to turn local TV into Trump propaganda. 1/ Let me tell you the short story. It's chilling.

@joshtpm.bsky.social this eerily-prescient post of yours from 2016 has been living rent-free in my mind ever since: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/this-...

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

This thread is important context.

Time to break out the chart

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

“Otherwise, Putin would be sitting in Kyiv with his eyes on the rest of Europe, starting with Poland.” ~ @kamalaharris.com in debate with Donald Trump on September 10, 2024

Has anybody noted that the first line in this is from the Maurice Sendak children's book Higglety Pigglety Pop?

Just thinking about how fighting the Nazis in WWII was pretty woke

We've speculated about the many ways the Trump era could end, but I'm not sure "Jonestown style mass suicide of cult leader and his Cabinet" has gotten enough attention. I think these spineless weasels will do whatever he says.

I am a bit of a broken record on this, but are local DAs going to let this continue indefinitely? The ICE agents didn't have any kind of warrant, didn't identify themselves, and then recklessly started firing. Let them argue federal immunity.

The Bee rejected "coney", so I checked in here. Still nothing from @guygavrielkay.bsky.social .😪

Slightly diminish a band: ELINEL

Grey Sabbath

[noise from pocket]: "I have more of a comment than a question"

A disconcerting number of high status people upended their worldviews because other people did not affirm that status in the way they thought appropriate. And social media accelerated this because for high status people it is often the experience of people telling you that you are wrong.

How have you been impacted by the changes we've seen under the current administration? What would you want to say to those in charge? I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help. tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

The problem with having snap tariffs on complex supply chains is that it actually incentivizes offshoring production.

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

Not sure why this was the thing that did me in today 😭😭😭

The US Congress just voted to federalize the KKK.

Boy, Pam Bondi is real fucking quiet about political assassinations after being real quick to make statements about burning Teslas.

As expected, we've reached the next level of the move toward fascism.

From a dear comrade who was kind enough to let me share their video. Veterans stage a sit-in on the US Capitol steps and say, “Military off our streets!” Hell yeah!

McGill says it’s cool if Harvard crashes on their couch until things calm down at home

My high school age son has a classmate just seized by ICE and she is now in a cell in Louisiana, her phone seized. This is High School in the USA in 2025. More Au Revoir Les Enfants than Ferris Bueller. School and community response already in motion.

Maybe we need US Senators who aren’t actually rooting for you to die.

Russian state media mocks Trump’s post.

This is quite plausible. You don't get credit for being that stupid, but we genuinely appreciate that the brand is lit on fire.

I'm not much of a NYT basher, but this may be the stupidest thing I've ever seen from an experienced journalist.

At this rate, we’re going to lose this democracy fully by the end of the year and the NYT is going to ride this plane all the way down with pedants and scolds grabbing at the intercom to yell at us like, “WELL, ACTUALLY, IT WAS A REPUBLIC …”

The fact that this happened in Worcester brings it home to me even harder.

Excellent question.

Has Trump challenged the results of the election yet?

Our most devastating weapon as a people

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie. The Sixth Man.

Well that's pretty direct.

My favourite kind of story.

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.