Chauncey Gardiner has an epiphany.

So the President, the civilian Pentagon leadership, and all the top brass in the military are all meeting at the same time at the same place. This sounds like the premise of a bad Cold War-era suspense novel.

lot to unpack here

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

All too true. The House GOP will do anything they can to prevent D House majority in 2027.

Nice work if you can get it.

Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs, cracks down on dissenting views in military, orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale, calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty. Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities. "What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"

Lake Oswego antifa stands in solidarity with Portland.

Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.

Yikes this is sobering

Not the most important thing, I suppose, but Hegseth's last sentence is interesting: "Their place in history is settled." This epitomizes the yearning of all authoritarians: To control not just the present and the future, but the past. Nothing can be re-examined or re-thought. No questions allowed.

I can think of much better ways to deploy the Oregon National Guard.

So many echoes from this article for US politics....

Antifa arsonist. #WarRavagedPortland

The army is not enough! I demand that President Trump deploy the Navy to police the waters at my daughter’s swim lesson this AM. #WarRavagedPortland

I moved from DC in early August so I didn’t get a chance to protest the troop deployment there. Fortunately, Trump has decided to accommodate me by sending troops to my new home in Portland.

Predicted this 6 months ago. This is all about rigging the 2026 elections. bsky.app/profile/pkli...

Mission accomplished. Thiel always makes me think of The Beast, the Man of Sin, the Son of Perdition, the Lawless One, and the False Christ

🧵 Who's the most informed about American politics? Very lefty seculars. My new FREE study @sfjournal.bsky.social finds atheists/agnostics, especially if they are politically sorted, score higher on knowledge of basic civics & current politics than other groups. 1/ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

I love that Kimmel's "As I was saying..." line is a call out to the great Jack Paar, who had to fight his own censorship battles. youtu.be/T66vMdo0ztA?...

Anybody know where I can find some betting action on Fat Bear Week? I need to supplement my retirement income.

I know that it's stiff competition but McDonnell v. US is one of the worst decisions of the Roberts Court. It's also very much in line with this Court's view that $$$=speech and that elected legislatures are worthy of neither power nor accountability.

A must read.

No surprise. Trump was always going to use the meeting to make a public spectacle, not to negotiate.

So how deep in debt is Homan? In addition to the lake house in Upstate NY he’s got two properties in Ohio worth several million dollars. Not bad for a guy who’s only had 6 years in the private sector. youtu.be/7UFy1ISQWqQ?...

Why would Tom Homan take $50K in cash? He tipped us off months ago.

Just contacted my credit union about advertising on the local Sinclair station.

I'm not imagining it; every year, decorative gourd season does get earlier and earlier, motherfuckers.

This vote is going to come up in a few primaries.

A classic non-denial denial.

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Reupping this.

I feel sorry American politics textbook authors. They all stress things like liberal values, checks and balances, separation of powers, etc. The last 9 months have pretty much made them obsolete.

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wet_hot_am...

Trump knows that people are only loyal to him if he totally controls them.

You know who was Antifa? Jake and Elwood.

Circa 2000 Phil would not be surprised to hear that the host of The Man Show would be a free speech martyr. I would have been very surprised by the subject matter that got him fired.

"I cant' swim!" RIP Robert Redford

Ranked the 20 best Stephen King adaptations for TIME, and of course I used the opportunity to once again speak the truth that the ending of The Mist is trash. (Unfortunate because the rest of the movie is really good!) time.com/7315750/best...

In Vancouver they have signs to keep people from drinking from the toilet. Where I come from, we don’t need a sign to keep us from drinking from the toilet.

My lasting memory of 9/11 is the juxtaposition of the beautiful blue sky that day with the horror of the event. www.911memorial.org/connect/blog...

Hats off to the elderly woman at PDX who has “Bad to the Bone” for her ringtone.

"My kids used to think I was a halfway decent parent until you two came along with your delightful Australian accents and seemingly endless stores of free time and patience."

his father was unavailable for comment

Wait, there's a new Law and Order spin-off based in ... Toronto?

Tom Shipley, Whose Ode to Weed Reached the Top 10, Dies at 84 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/a...

Also, on J6 grps like the Proud Boys planned and led the attack on the Capitol. The "leftist violence" TCW cites was disorganized and spontaneous.Violence is central to right ideology and there are rightist groups devoted to using violence for political ends.There is nothing comparable on the left.