“I’m resigning from my position as Democratic leader and retiring from the Senate.”

I'll see your techno-optimism and raise you a tech solutionism and tech exceptionalism.

Damn, y’know what? You’re right. It is time for techno-optimism!

Oh, so you don't want AI? The thing that will cure cancer?

Drew this is probably just because I have a Ph.D. and all but I can think of some ways this could be bad actually.

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Why would any legislator vote for a budget the executive will ignore? In that situation, a yes vote conveys one thing and nothing else: validation for the White House’s blatantly unconstitutional actions.

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

The @economist.com's soft bigotry of low expectations.

BREAKING: The White House has sent paperwork to the Senate to withdraw the nomination of E.J. Antoni as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, three sources told CNN. www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

Rep. Dan Goldman: "I, frankly, am very upset to see Sen. Cortez Masto and Sen. King already caving...Republicans need to come to the table to negotiate a bipartisan deal that can get bipartisan votes that can both open the government and fix this healthcare crisis."

Another epic scoop by @marisakabas.bsky.social. Independent media for the win 💪

"'Someone who says I’m against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life ... Someone who says I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life.'" www.ncregister.com/cna/pope-leo...

In shutdown, the Democrats' real opportunity is for pain. It’s the only lesson that matters. A THREAD.

Looking forward to speaking at the amazing University of Alabama Birmingham calendar.uab.edu/event/2025-u...

Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals

Coates is suggesting Klein’s hagiography was a bending of the truth in hopes of “lowering the temperature.” Klein is saying, well, my ultimate goal right now is to lower the temperature

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

Tubby told the brass he's going to use the military against American citizens and this is the best the Prestige Press can do.

President Sundowner is off his meds again

More than 40 First Amendment advocacy groups have written a letter to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, urging him to resign because of his "constitutional transgressions" involving ABC and its late night program "Jimmy Kimmel Live."

After our intervention this morning in Pennsylvania and our new lawsuit tonight in Nevada, this is now 57 voting and election cases in 25 states. I am still expecting at least 4 more this week.

An important thing to understand about Trump's base is that they believed our military occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan were mistakes, but they also thought military occupations in Chicago, LA, Portland, and DC were very legal and very cool.

Lenny Bruce, George Carlin & Richard Pryor wld never book the SaudI Arabia “We did 9/11“ & killed ”Khashoggi” gig Bill Cosby however, did do the Unification Church/Moonie gig in DC back in ‘96. GHWB & Gerald Ford attended the Moonie “conference” as well. www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/st...

🎶 John Brown’s body is a-mouldering in the grave…🎶

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

President Sundowner

What happens when Grandpa Trump stays up too late and watches the incendiary and misleading news on Fox? In this case, it's troops in a major U.S. city, and a constitutional crisis The 79-year-old man with reality issues...and the nuclear football. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

The Beatles also refused to play in any segregated venue in the USA. And there was a whole group of artists who boycotted South Africa in the 80s!

i wouldn't call myself an expert on capitalism or anything but this does indeed seem like something of a problem

Fuckin yikes, man

this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life

Absolute failed-state shit that this guy was nominated, approved, and has stayed in office for this long.

This speech from Hegseth is intolerable. Read the words of his predecessors in advance of Jan 6 for something better. joycevance.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...

The most unqualified SecDef in U.S. history would like to talk to you generals about merit

I cannot imagine the level of contempt Hegseth is engendering right now among his flag officers.

Please, sir, shove your boot harder into our mouths

Yeah, same. Trump hasn’t really done anything that wasn’t promised, threatened, or expected at this point. Two years ago I would’ve expected better from SCOTUS but the immunity ruling changed that.

Fox is showing viewers footage of vandalism from 2020. The White House is touting misleading statistics on violence. Trump’s allies are telling his base that the left is a dire threat, and even he is buying it. www.pbump.net/o/how-trumpw...

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

The split in the Democratic Party—between those who can name and respond to what is happening and those who cannot—is growing into a chasm.

...I'm going to do what Black folk have always done when these sorts of takes float by: Nod noncommittally while making meaningful eye contact with other Black folk. Sure Jan, this is a surprise to us all. Who could have known? This is my shocked face. I am shocked.

The Rest is Ents were good at getting onto this early.

Saudi state money is often difficult to avoid in a general sense, since it is everywhere in the investment stratum and not always obvious from the outside, nevertheless "don't take money directly from people who murder journalists with bonesaws" is a personal rule that's easy enough to follow

Stunning how far we’ve fallen already.

Passive aggressive level 100 this is how we roll in the PNW 🤣 Protesters in Portland are going ice fishing with donuts as bait on fishing polls, holding dance offs in front of ICE barricades in goofy costumes and just being incredibly annoying to ICE there's no violence from protesters whatsoever.

@npr.org goes all both sides on government shutdown. The reporting by Morning Edition raises no alarm of Trump’s previous eight months of slash & burn politics. It‘a as if Trump’s DOJ has not been eviscerated, or that ACA is not at risk, the Epstein files are not under wraps. ME THEN interviews an R

Excellent Op-ed by @pastpunditry.bsky.social, on the history of the censorious right. What she observes here for the US also goes for other national contexts, where formations on the far right often self-depict & are seen as free-speech absolutists, when they're anything but...