Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

When did Don McLean turn into Jim Traficant?

Vivek Ramaswamy fills me with a Ted Cruz-level of visceral disgust.

There's an inherent problem with building an octogenarian into a tough, indefatigable, godly man while mocking others for being old and weak: human mortality

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

One day in fall '16, I ditched a shift canvassing for Hillary Clinton to watch Hal Holbrook present his "Mark Twain Tonight!" show at a theater in Zanesville. I felt a little bit of guilt ditching a shift, but I thought, will I ever get the chance to see Hal's show again?

Scrappy, intrepid free speech journalist Bari Weiss should investigate this egregious violation of ... Oh wait a minute

We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Hell yeah

BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.

Pundits never are called to account for their grand pronouncements. The impending thrashing of Winsome Sears in Virginia tomorrow makes me think of all the hot air about Glenn Youngkin four years ago, and how that win was deeply meaningful, and he was going to be going somewhere. And now: Glenn who?

I work on a bucolic college campus with a grounds crew that seems to think a single leaf on the ground is an affront to all things decent. I also spent the weekend raking my own lawn. Funny how peaceful of an activity leaf removal is with a rake, and how aggressive it is with leaf blowers.

Say what you will about lack of administrative experience or whatever, but it's amazing, the effort to make this guy look scary or subversive. He's pleasant! Approachable! Talks about people without getting divisive! Of all the people to demonize ...

Repubs: "Operate government like a business!" Also Repubs: "Being competitive and poaching talent from other places is bad!"

I've hated the term "kitchen table issues" since before it was cool. Any time I hear some Dem say something like, "When the American people are sitting around the kitchen table, trying to balance the family budget" … I just can't. People don't talk or act like this. But consultants think they do.

Holy shit, Paul Igrassia is only 30. Being evil really ages these guys prematurely.

Platner is an excellent example of the ability for a scripted and produced video to manipulate our minds and give us a foundational perception that's hard to shake no matter what new information we receive. We all allow ourselves to be manipulated to some extent. Just … be aware of it.

Amazon needs to be broken up

Q: Was Hitler bad? ELISE STEFANIK: Of course <glances at JD Vance for approval> not!

Ok, Meta. Enough.

So Zach Bryan includes an anti-ICE lyric in a song, and MAGA world can't just let it go. Can't shrug it off. Can't refrain from commenting. Nope. They just have to piss and moan about it and be thin-skinned assholes.

My god, Russell Vought is 49. Evil ages a man.

thank you to Democrat Bill Demora especially who sponsored Ohio's age verification bill www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/... @adamgilson.bsky.social

Fuck you, Ohio, for this stupid, infantilizing law.

So is he still stuck there and are cold burgers and Diet Cokes being brought to him by drone while teams of make-up artists mountaineer their way up to his position?

Absent any other information, it's just as likely that an anti-immigrant, anti-left nutcase could wrote "anti-ICE" on shell casings, murder some detainees, and then kill himself, as it is that an anti-ICE person would do the same. Shooters don't tend to be rational.

David Letterman to Jeffrey Goldberg on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension: “You can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian—a criminal—administration in the Oval Office. That’s just not how this works.” #TAF25 bit.ly/4n0Uv2p

I know that Bill Maher has been in "these right-wing assholes are my friends, but" mode lately, but I'm hoping the guy who was canceled in a time of post-9/11 fervor will speak out in no uncertain terms about this right-wing attack on free speech.

Ok, apologies to Will Stancil; the "the texts are AI/fake/a plant by prosecutors" discourse I've seen over on Threads (not here, yet) is bonkers.

By now, we should be used to the idea that whenever Democrats respond to MAGA absurdity by doing 1% of what MAGA just got done doing, MAGA yells and screams as though we have committed unpardonable, unimaginable offenses against democracy and decency.

open.substack.com/pub/contrari... Two aspects of censorship stand out: the sheer hypocrisy of conflating “glorifying” killing with criticizing Kirk’s own words; and the breathless indignation. The group that used to deplore canceling is now canceling whomever it deems insufficiently mournful.

I'm glad Manchin and Sinema defended senatorial norms when Dems were in the majority.

So if the markets have any concern that we'll descend into retaliatory political violence, they sure aren't showing it today.

No surprises here, but Donald Trump is unfit to lead. A thoroughly repulsive, immoral, indecent man, given to his own worst impulses, and asking his supporters to wallow in theirs.

Ya know, I'm just bummed about it all. What more insight can I even offer?

This is a very good time to put down the phone and see what the outdoors has to offer.

Pay attention right now to who uses this horrific act of violence to further divide America at a toxic and poisonous moment, who peddles more hate, no matter what side, and who recognizes that this is all very sick, and decent Americans of all sides need to unite and say enough.

I look at Facebook so you don't have to. A couple weeks ago, my feed was nothing but right-wing troll accounts stoking anger over Cracker Barrel. Now that's all gone, replaced by troll accounts stoking racial tensions over the murder of Iryna Zarutska. The posts and comments are virulently racist

After Trump is finally gone, the word "hoax" is going to be retired forever, right?

For as much as Dems are (appropriately) criticized for wooden statements like "I'm focusing on kitchen table issues," Repubs sure have their own meaningless BS like "deliver on the America First agenda." Such painful, inauthentic drivel.

Uh oh, now Trump will have to fire the grand jury.

The voice of the people

So, every veteran who joined the services after 1947 needs to know that Trump thinks they haven't been sufficiently tough.

MSNOW Microsoft NOW Oh, sorry. My Source News Opinion World. Ah yes. This is the last stop before the network is officially shitcanned, right?

Can "locked in" please die a swift death?

Slightly diminish a band: Arcade Candle

I've had some procedures in my time involving care from nurses, and I came away with tons of respect for them. BUT, I've read similar accounts from a disturbing number of nurses who have said things like this, as they believe whatever nonsense comes to them from podcasts and YouTube.

I knew this was coming at the time: The Repubs set up a long game by making a new redistricting system that required a certain number of Dem votes in order to last for 10 years. Absent those votes, that map would last four 4 years until it needed to be redrawn. The idea was supposedly to incentivize

I really really really miss the era of boring government communication channels not trying to win the internet with their stupid, trolly memes.