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3rd deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean. As with the others: -in area US military operates freely -where arrest has relatively low risk, and greater strategic value -no US legal rationale, or even attempt to offer one -blatant violation of international law -no evidence US knew who they hit

If I were a company that owns Star Wars and planned on capitulating to fascist threats, I wouldn't have provided Star Wars fans with two seasons of well-written anti-fascist inspiration right before doing so.

Psychologists and psychiatrists call this "concrete thinking." It reflects an inability to engage in abstract thinking, and a strong propensity to think of all nouns as depicting physical objects. It's the first way children begin to understand how to describe the world with words.

President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers: “It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”

No journalists in the MAGA era ask a single probing follow-up, so his utter imbecility and ignorance is not fully unmasked. It’s been part of the atrocious corporate media asymmetry of the past decade, we’re still suffering from:

Bingo!

If you are one of the almost 100 Dems who voted to honor the guy who said the Civil Rights Act was a huge mistake, don’t bother asking Black people to vote for you, donate to you or canvass for you next year. Don’t bother. Please. And don’t be shocked if you get a primary opponent.

So many people are canceling Disney+ over the Kimmel suspension that the cancellation page crashed. Did you cancel too?

Keep going, folks! Outside of mass mobilization, one of the few ways we’ll be able to strike real blows against the implementation of authoritarian power for now will be massive shifts of economic behavior.

With respect, Mr. President, part of the job of former presidents in THIS moment is to advocate and defend fundamental and constitutive national values: equality, pluralistic democracy & the constitution. Those are sadly no longer ties that binds us all, and they have to be asserted.

Let’s all “get a spine,” people: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

We’re halting our support for authoritarian government censorship. #BoycottDisneyABC

While John McGuire will only answer voters' questions from his DC office 100 miles away, when I say I'm hosting a town hall, I'll look you in the eye and mean what I say.

Let me just say a simple thing. Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy. If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

So many cowards and cynics on display right now. When the pendulum does swing back--and it will--don't forget where these sad and pathetic people stood in the hour of democracy's greatest need.

This point needs to be hammered home at every turn. Ordinary Americans in red and blue states alike were raised to prize things like freedom of the press or free speech. These assaults should make every stomach turn. At some level, Americans know that this man has no decency. Remind them.

under this language charlie kirk would not have been allowed to speak on clemson’s campus

They despise the constitution:

Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights. Timothy Snyder “On Tyranny” Lesson 10

Pathetic...

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

I began this beautiful Sunday in front of a packed house at Christian Cultural Center in East New York. I'm so grateful to Founding Pastor A. R. Bernard for his warm introduction and the opportunity to address the congregation.

"Do you know what the biggest problem with Christian Zionism is?” You cannot find Jesus in it.” Palestinian Christian pastors say the Israel of the Bible is not the same as the modern-day state religionnews.com/2025/09/12/p...

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

Conjuring a faux free speech hagiography by axing a completely anodyne and cautious expression well within the boundaries of free speech. The mainstream media has become completely irretrievable. Go to independent: www.thedailybeast.com/fired-msnbc-...

It’s asymmetrical, folks.

Almost immediately after Charlie Kirk was shot on Wednesday, right-wing social media accounts began speculating that his killer was transgender. Politicians and news outlets fueled the rumors. The problem? There is no evidence to back up the claim.

Fundamentally incapable of repentance, self-awareness, humility, decency, or recognition of the plenitude of his erroneousness, but: yes, “should.”

@alejacorazonhm.bsky.social offers a helpful report at @rns.org about the roundtable I participated in last night at Georgetown University alongside four Catholic bishops and three Catholic activists. I was there as the moral theologian outlining Catholic social teaching on immigration.

“Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh…”:

The words from Gov Cox of Utah are the words they should be coming from the president of the United States. Will the media hold him, and people like Nancy Mace accountable for their false accusations?

They disclosed their deepest heart:

This was a prophetic warning. The evidence is converging. Christians who are MAGA, you have enabled evil and depravity. It is time to repent. This is beyond any specific policy or posture, but about fundamental morality. You can’t run and hide any longer: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

For anyone interested in UVa / local history this is well worth taking the time to read / scroll through

Really sad news for Augusta County, where the local medical group had the courage to say that they’re closing three clinics because of the Big, Ugly Bill. They’re among the first, but they won’t be the last – we’re all going to be footing the bill when this disastrous bill goes into full effect.

“Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead…”

These four candidates with different messages, areas of emphasis, and rhetorical styles are a great example of why diversity of ideas and style are good for a political party.

Supreme Court eviscerates the Constitution:

I am usually more sanguine than some others when the Supreme Court hands down nasty opinions, but y'all, I am really stuck on Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo. Presidential immunity was dangerous but unsurprising. Many other shadow docket rulings have been dumbfounding. Today was nakedly invidious.

To my fellow Democrats: Donald Trump is a super weak, unpopular President. By the #’s, he’s historically unpopular. So FIGHT him. Take the OFFENSIVE on crime & immigration. Both his deportations and his putting the military on our streets are HUGELY unpopular. So FIGHT him on those issues.

Will the Catholic Bishops defend human dignity under this immigration regime of terror, or will they cower? The answer couldn’t be more important now that the Supreme Court has said it will cower. Find out on Thursday 9/11 @ 6pm: catholicsocialthought.georgetown.edu/events/depor...

The 3-justice dissent was right:“We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, [we] dissent.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...

If I were a Democrat in Congress I'd be introducing legislation to suspend the Supreme Court's upcoming term (it's happened before, in 1802). The suspension would be to give us time to figure out what to do with this dangerous, anti-democratic institution.

Carroll has more courage than most of our CEOs, university presidents, mainstream “journalists,” and political “leaders” put together.

America knowingly elected a craven, deceitful, sexual predator. There are some things you can’t take back…

NEWS: A federal appeals court has upheld the $83.3M judgment against Trump for defaming E. Jean Carroll, rejecting his immunity claim and noting he acted with “reckless disregard for the truth.”

Donald Trump is a traitor to everything the United States stands for. He is this country’s enemy. And he should be treated as such.

We are now confronted with an occupant of the White House determined to wage war against us, we, the people. This cannot stand.