i guess this is a partisan take but i think its legal to criticize the president

8. Brown served 100% of his sentence for robbery. Then he was released MONTHS BEFORE THE TASK FORCE EVEN GAVE ITS RECOMMENDATIONS. None of the task force's recommendations were ever adopted by the legislature, and, in any event, the task force did not recommend that anyone be released early.

7. Meanwhile, Cooper's opponent in the Senate race, Michael Whatley says that Brown was released from jail in 2020 because of an executive order signed by Cooper. This is also a lie. The executive order created a commission to produce recommendations for criminal justice reform.

6. That means, for this January offense, Brown could have been incarcerated no longer than June 2025, months before the murder. Who created the law that set the maximum penalty? The Republican legislature and the former Republican governor in 2013.

5. In January, Brown was charged with misusing 911. Brown told police officers that he had ingested some material that controlled his actions, and when the officers said they couldn't help, he got upset and called 911. The maximum penalty for this offense under NC law is 120 days.

4. Trump and others say Cooper is responsible because Brown was only on the streets because of Cooper's policies. Trump says Zarutska would be alive, but Brown was "released on CASHLESS BAIL in January." This is, objectively, a lie.

1. Trump and his allies have concocted a series of lies about the horrific murder of a 23-year-old woman in Charlotte in a transparent effort to secure an advantage in a critical North Carolina race that could swing control of the U.S. Senate. It's nasty stuff. Follow this thread for details.

This is sick

the only two options are that he's the least self-aware human being on the planet or the biggest fucking liar that has ever lived

We’re frogs in the pot about this, I think. We’re so hardened to eliminationist, fascist rhetoric from the right that it hardly makes a dent when a prominent host on a major network suggests exterminating a large group of people. But he did. And nobody on modern Right gives a shit.

Meanwhile ProPublica found that three current members of Trump's cabinet actually *did* do the thing it looks like they falsely accused Lisa Cook of doing... www.techdirt.com/2025/09/12/t...

every far right pundit and activist right now, lamenting the violent state of politics in this country

people keep claiming the shooter said he disliked charlie kirk because he was spreading hate, but the arrest report does not support that - it says the "family member" said that, not the shooter "The family member also stated Kirk was full of hate and spreading hate."

The ATF really thought a reference to a video game code was "trans ideology." This is a fucking clown show on wheels.

Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot

Naaaaailed it.

i know, i know, we're not supposed to speculate or whatever, but the shooter is from a conservative state, and comes from a family with a dad in law enforcement, who mounted animals' heads to their walls, and took them hunting? i'm gonna take a wild guess and say this tyler guy is not a liberal

lol this is what they fired him for saying

we know nothing about the shooter, but here's the thing: if they're left wing, democrats will condemn them, disavow what they did, & call for gun control & toned down rhetoric if they're right wing, democrats will condemn them, disavow what they did, & call for gun control & toned down rhetoric

obviously political violence is abhorrent, but are we supposed to be sensitive now when charlie kirk reacted like this to the assault on paul pelosi?

Trump's airstrike on a boat in the Caribbean crossed lines not even the worst War on Terror drone strike did. Never before did the US deliberately hit a nonthreatening target, in an area where the US military freely operates, when arrest was easily doable. My latest (first in @foreignpolicy.com!!):

are the anti-vaccine crusading idiots also launching campaigns against seatbelts because they also rarely hurt people or what

i cannot believe they are expecting us to play along with this "might not be his signature" farce and that a lot of people actually are, i feel like ive lost my goddam mind

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.

One begins to suspect that very rich people are constantly and openly committing unspeakable crimes together, recreationally.

um, that is specifically NOT what indiscriminate means.

The rules as established by Bill Pulte require that he now have DOJ open a criminal investigation into his dad, complete with Ed Martin showing up outside one of the Pulte family primary residences in a trench coat, looking like a guy who flashes people on the bus. www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...

The Speaker of the House has learned that the President worked for decades behind the scenes on a secret strike force to take down the world's most notorious pedophile. He planned the announcement for maximum impact: responding to a guy yelling at him in a hallway with at 5:30 p.m. on a Friday.

A short explanation of p-hacking and why it absolutely makes sense to ask HHS to release the study methods of their autism report in advance.

This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error. President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

Look at broader measures of unemployment—including people who want a job but aren't in the labor force & people who are working part-time but want a full-time job—and the labor market is in the worst place since the pandemic

no joke, stephen colbert was nearly prophetic with his faux-conservative persona a decade ago "i don't trust facts, i trust my gut" was supposed to be a joke, taking these charlatans to an extreme, but this is actually what they say now

trump's schedule for tomorrow reads more like a collection of book titles in a children's series about the president than an actual president's schedule "the president makes an announcement" "the president hosts a dinner"

It is less a mass deportation regime as it is a mass kidnapping and indefinite detention regime

New: In 7 months, Kennedy has broken the CDC, perhaps irreparably. For all he’s done with mass firings, gutting expertise, and attacking vaccines, Wednesday’s loss of its most senior and competent leaders—truly the CDC’s backbone—is the most consequential attack yet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...

Has Trump’s online base moved on from the ‘Epstein Files’ scandal? In my first piece for @openmeasures.bsky.social, I ran the numbers. Of the alt-platforms I looked at, the only one keeping Epstein discussion alive was this one: Bluesky. openmeasures.io/epstein-files/

They’re making fun of the media referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a Maryland man as they threaten to send him to Uganda, a country where he’s never lived. They’re simply fucking vile.

Literally people stockpiled arms in response to these kinds of fears. If Obama had nationalized Intel and put troops sent from Democratic states to patrol the streets in a Republican state...

You may not like that it takes 100 years to pass some watered down social welfare program because of the constitution but that's also what protects us from dictatorship [some dumb slob does dictatorship in 6 months]

really great that our president can't string together a fucking cogent sentence for his swollen-ankled-life obv his brain was doing some racist shit here too, but he couldn't get it together to relay that properly

It is amazing how much they have sucked the fucking life out of the New York Times

ballsy as fuck for trump to call for investigations into people for mortgage fraud when he was found liable for business fraud (which included crimes that had the same components as mortgage fraud)

super impressive to watch mamdani's haters simultaneously call him an islamic extremist and a valueless heathen

"only the kids who are already sick are dying of starvation" is a fucking insane thing to say with a straight face in an attempt to defend your support for genocide

the far right has truly mastered the art of failing in matters of merit, but capitalizing on their grievances to turn their failures and victimhood into profitable careers

the "don't tread on me" crowd is very excited to have literal tread marks from tanks stamped across every major city in this country their mistake is thinking they won't be steamrolled as collateral damage while they celebrate other people getting trampled