From a friend: I asked my mom if she took Tylenol when she was pregnant with me and she said, “Only when I had a hangover.”

Your brain cleanse for today: k.d. lang absolutely CRUSHING Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" (from 2006): www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Np...

Yes, I see the irony in posting this on a social media platform, but this is at least part of the reason we are where we are right now: jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

No surprise.

I hope every company that sells acetaminophen is getting together to file a massive lawsuit against the federal government, and naming Trump, RFK and Nancy Mace specifically, along with any other government officials who have spread this BS.

BREAKING: On a 2-1 vote, the DC Circuit denies the Trump administration a stay pending appeal in a case over Trump's effort to break federal unions. This case involves Defense Dep't teachers (DOD Education Activity). Order/opinions: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🚨BREAKING: 6th Circuit Court of Appeals DISMISSES Republican National Committee lawsuit challenging Michigan's voter roll maintenance practices. www.democracydocket.com/cases/michig...

I'm just thinking about the fact that it's the 21st century and there are still large numbers of people who think they're going to literally float up to the sky one day.

H/T to @cherijacobus.bsky.social:

Just saw a "No on 50" ad with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Very disappointing. I knew he was a Republican but he's anti-MAGA and I thought he'd understand why this is being done.

Fun fact: Autism has been around a lot longer than acetaminophen has.

As the GOP and the media try to normalize him in death, remember, this is who he was.

This movie might be a good metaphor for where we are now - the big, decrepit monster truck trying to kill us all for no logical reason. But remember how this movie ends. ✊

We don’t celebrate his death, but we won’t hide the truth about his life.

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

He gets 20,000 points for this one:

This is madness.

Van Hollen: "We shouldn't have to be here today. The First Amendment is crystal clear — the government may not use its power to squash political dissent. But that is what President Trump has been doing...using government power to crack down on dissent and go after his critics."

The backlash over the suspension of late night host Jimmey Kimmel is intensifying as the campaign to cancel and punish critics of Charlie Kirk expands. Here are the latest developments.

Dammit. www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/e...

“There is no where in the Bible where we are taught to honor evil and how you die does not redeem how you lived. You don’t become a hero in death when you are a weapon of the enemy in life” ~Pastor Howard John-Wesley of Alfred Street Baptist Church In DC #CharlieKirk (🎥: Etan Thomas)

This was in May. I only found out last night, during the In Memoriam segment of the Emmys. One of those "WHAT????" moments. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Well, he got his wish, didn't he.

Ouch, that left a mark.

Exactly. You can condemn the violence without lionizing or, pardon the expression, whitewashing the victim.

There's an immigration office down the street from me. I was out for a walk yesterday and saw this. At first I thought it was some kind of protest but then I saw that it was people taking their citizenship oaths. I stopped to watch. Even with all that's going on, this made me feel good.

Trump just whiffed on sending the National Guard to Chicago. Now he's targeting Memphis.

Is it just me or is the shooter a dead ringer for a young Beto O'Rourke?

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

When do we get a retraction from The Wall Street Journal for erroneously claiming the assassination was related to trans people? When do we get apologies from every journalist who spread that disinformation?

Since Patel is both unqualified AND in Trump's pocket, it's really hard to know whether he's bungling this investigation on purpose or not. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

Trump is at Yankee Stadium and I'm wishing one of these teams had a player named Epstein.

And the kid who took a shot at Trump was a registered Republican. For the next time someone says some BS about "the left" fomenting violence:

I took this photo in February of 2003: