The way the “censorship industrial complex” propagandists bent time & space to blame things that happened during the first Trump administration on Biden has always been one of their more impressive achievements. I’ve seen a lot of folks who should know better repeat some of that bullshit.

“What unites the many actions of the Trump administration, from the sledgehammer it has taken to government programs to the demonstrative cruelty it has built into immigration raids, is that they transform the daily physical, economic and psychic experience of life…”

The REASON you meet with Trump is not to coddle your fee fees. It is to, at least, put Trump at the center of responsibility for the shutdown, and possibly even elicit a Trump attack that makes it easier.

This is a REALLY GOOD piece on the challenges of today's attention economy. Lefty pundits suffer from the same problems and would do well to read it.

Don’t take severance if you can afford it—they will make you sign a non-disparagement clause like this one. Just quit. (I just quit.).

"years of lead paint"

computer, enhance chest tattoo

I do not want to see one snide joke about this queen or her friends on this godforsaken free website. Anyone that can set aside the thing they love so much it becomes the center of their identity in defense of the greater good is a comrade i respect

Note: One reason Trump may be saying "we have to act fast." The comments Jim Comey made to Congress they want to prosecute were made on September 30, 2020. They've got 8 days to charge it.

Omg even worse it wasn’t X it was Truth Social

The scariest part is they are probably right in terms of this particular court, based on the last few months.

🚨 This seems like a very big news story in terms of national security—the President instructs his cabinet via X DM?!!!?! But of course he does—he saw a bunch of tweets that made him mad and he just leapt to the DMs! And it reads just like any of his other nutty tweets. INSANE.🚨

Post now deleted, more or less confirming it was a DM. Great opsec!

Dana Carvey parodied George HW Bush on SNL — “Nah, wouldn’t be prudent” — the President called him up and they became friends. . Daryl Hammond imitated Clinton through his Presidency, including savage stuff during his sex scandal. Clinton invited him to do a “dueling Presidents” gag.

As far as I can tell the Trump Administration’s stance is that he took $50,000 in cash for totally innocent reasons and that thinking otherwise is deep state nonsense. No, it’s not plausible.

TikTok will be co-owned by China and Trump allies, Paramount was sold to a pro-Trump billionaire who's also set to buy Warner Bros, X is owned by an apartheid-bred fascist, WaPo and Meta are owned by Trump-cowering billionaires, and Murdoch owns the Fox empire. Here's why media has a liberal bias.

To quote another right-wing grift: “Imagine my shock”

Louisiana released a report acknowledging what we already knew: noncitizens voting is not a problem. bit.ly/3IivtNa

When you behave in such a way as to make Ted Cruz rise from his haunches, straighten his spine and defend American civil liberties and a concept as liberal as open speech, you are certainly the rarest and most extraordinary kind of asshole.

My most Gen X complaint is that this question ignores our existence.

you have to admit "can you make a documentary about a contemporary subject that never directly quotes anything he ever said or did" is kind of an interesting challenge from an artistic perspective

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

Today, in mind-blowing hypocrisy & stupidity, @mmasnick.bsky.social: 'Loomer’s demand perfectly encapsulates the...MAGA approach to foreign influence ops.: destroy the systems that actually work, then demand magic solutions when the problem inevitably resurfaces.' 😑 www.techdirt.com/2025/09/19/h...

A press release to beg people to stop criticizing Trump and DHS & ICE agents who are attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping people off the streets, operating concentration camps where members of Congress are not allowed in, and rendering people to foreign lands they've never been to 🤔

Marvel’s Mr Fantastic & SW Mandalorian makes Pedro Pascal a Disney ‘tentpole’. He’s got a trans sister & experience dealing w/ fascists bc Pinochet is why his family ended up in America in the 1st place. Many stars will flock to his side bc like Mark Ruffalo, he’s a genuinely nice person.

The best snowflake, the greatest snowflake: ever. Never been a bigger snowflake in the history of the world.

Besides the effects on the tech industry, right now there are H-1B holders—people—who built a life in the US. If they are traveling, they have 17 hours to get back to the US, or the life they built will be shattered and taken from them. Can you imagine constantly living with this uncertainty?

What it feels like the big media message is every day

Trump will be in the low thirties by Christmas and everyone who could be throwing sand in the gears is cowering under the bed

The basic claim here was that BlueSky engaged with the idea that the shooter was a Groyper, which is true, but only because Groypers speculated as much and Fuentes released a defensive video, all on other platforms. But sure, blame BlueSky. Lots of ppl on different platforms were speculating!

My guess is at least 500 #doctors at my #hospital are on H1B visas including at least a few dozen #hospitalists, and if we lose even a handful to other countries our house of cards #healthcare system will fall apart, let alone all 500+

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Will Erdogan manage to make it through a whole trip to DC without setting his security team on peaceful protesters? Or will we get a repeat of 2017, when his agents put multiple protesters in the hospital by kicking and beating them while they laid on the ground and for which he’s never apologized?

Ingraham: A Democrat congressional candidate was thrown to the ground by an ICE agent. Good work

Charlie Kirk said Joe Biden should be executed. When Democrats defend their vote for a resolution honoring this man, just remember that this is what they voted to honor.

“maybe it was a mistake”—Trump about the previous drone incursion. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/w...

It’s not lost on me that the only profession mentioned in the Constitution (the press) is a constant target by those who profess their love for the founding document, who loudly say that we can only have a society based on rules set 250 yrs ago.

No one who agrees to this is a journalist.

The weaponization of the FCC is one of the greatest threats to our democracy. Who better to showcase that than… Chairman Brendan Carr? Let’s take a stroll down memory lane through some of Carr’s greatest hits on free speech while he was auditioning for the job of FCC Chair from 2019 to 2024. 1/

As local leaders literally put their bodies on the line to protest ICE in LA and now Chicago and NYC (often being assaulted or arrested), Senate Democrats *unanimously* bent the knee to vote for a national day of remembrance for Charlie Kirk. Shameful, shameless, and also just stupid politics. Why?!

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Was not expecting this...

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

Hey @nytimes.com, do you have literally *any* First Amendment experts on staff, because this is embarrassing. Glad you're speaking up about this, but feels like you should... not make basic mistakes like this? cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social

2022. they don’t miss theonion.com/left-wing-gr...

And the landmark political science film The Empire Strikes Back

This usually only happens to crazy pro se clients, but the order from this district judge (Bush appointee, fwiw) is merciless, hilarious and clearly correct: this sounds like an *insane* complaint as prone to hyperbole and irrelevant self-aggrandizing tangents and taunts as the man himself.

My body hurts and will probably hurt way more tomorrow. But it’s a lot less pain than what our neighbors are enduring inside the Broadview ICE facility.

Love to see it