Oh well

“One of the worst habits of the mainstream media is seeing politics and gov as a game. Or maybe a horserace, but definitely something with clear winners and losers . . . you see it everywhere, and it may push you over the edge, given the precarious state of the nation and world right now.”

Read this excellent piece to understand what the admin is working to accomplish, in the context of the history of these fascist movements. "In place of freedom, equality, power and choice, the Trump regime offers women flattery and a duplicitously simplistic worldview that denies their agency."

Now that it’s gone.

But also, glamorous blonde who will play well on Fox.

Rep Casten is right. Nobody ever changed someone’s by saying I told you so.

This is revolting. I don't recall that Jesus was a racist, a misogynist, a hater of people not like himself. Kirk was a vicious missionary of violence and fear; he attacked the weak. If that represents Jesus or Christianity . . .

real macho man we got here. threat neutralized soldier, good job. looks like you really needed that call of duty max loadout

SDNY Judge Arun Subramanian reopens one of the several Jeffrey Epstein victims civil cases against Epstein's estate, and directs parties, including Boies Schiller, to propose trial dates for an early 2026 trial.

Yesterday, a late-night show vanished with a simple directive from 2 of the largest media companies you’ve never heard of (Nexstar & Sinclair), backed by the FCC. That’s not “the market at work.” It’s concentrated corporate power cooperating with an authoritarian. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

This data about the highly partisan nature of the Roberts Court's manipulation of the shadow docket won't be surprising to honest Court watchers, but it's good to have it presented this clearly to a mainstream audience, which happens less than it should www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/empi...

Thanks for saying both of these out loud!!!

ned is exactly right. the challenge is reconnecting the democratic party to a mass constituency and building real affinity between voters and the party. it would be more worthwhole to put $10 million into piloting democratic clubs and associated newspapers bsky.app/profile/resn...

Aside from the fact that there is no such thing as “antifa”

Same.

"Jebb drafted the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child, advocating that children should be protected, fed and housed, and the document was adopted in 1924 by the League of Nations, a precursor to the United Nations. The U.N. in 1989 adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child."

Imagine how relieved the World Bank is that they don't do an "ease of doing business" report anymore and thus don't have to work out how to factor in the possibility of having your tech specialists manacled hand and foot into the US score.

Let's just go with @whitehouse.senate.gov 's poster, which says it all.

We're about to experience the first modern recession caused substantially, and perhaps primarily, by racism.

Regret, huh??

Incompetence, ignorance, racism, nihilism . . .

This is what other detainees have been reporting. Time for someone to start listening. All our tax money is going to creating/paying for these sickening, inhumane conditions of humiliation, deprivation and filth for our fellow human beings.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

A section so special we need to cancel it, sorry www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/i...

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Read this and weep.

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

Just a reminder that Kirk strongly opposed gun regulation even though he acknowledged that one or two people might get killed along the way.

A Practicing Sadist.

The Nazi extermination programs didn’t begin with Jews. It began in September 1939 with the involuntary euthanasia of people with disabilities and the mentally ill under the Aktion T4 program. That’s how they developed their techniques of mass extermination.

The wait for disaster declarations has spiked as Trump's administration reexamined the role of FEMA. A recently published letter from current and former FEMA employees warned that the cuts could become debilitating if faced with a large-enough disaster.

Today, I'm breaking down everything you need to know about how Trump and the Republicans plan to interfere with the 2026 and 2028 elections. I hope you watch, subscribe and share. youtu.be/7PXQfDHr9Aw

The reason for this is that media and political leadership soft-pedaled right wing terrorism then and continue to do so now (abortion clinic bombings, Oklahoma City, creepy militia compounds, the rapid memory-holing of the Minnesota murders and the currently ongoing memory-holing of Kirk's murder).

Read @brianbeutler.bsky.social because he is a brilliant thinker and a generous person, but let’s also remember that Kirk strongly opposed gun regulation even though he acknowledged that one or two people might get killed along the way.

Guys, I know you all still cling to conspiracy theories about Merrick Garland bc ... well, you watch too many TV lawyers who knew fuckall about the investigation. But this is a fact. A trial was scheduled to happen 3 years after Jan6, just like Bolsonaro got. Who killed it? John Roberts.

Important acknowledgment. Officer Rose died to save public servants at the CDC. *All* of these gunshot victims were working in service of others.

Lest we forget who this guy actually was.

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. -Charlie Kirk

In a suit filed earlier today by three fired FBI officials, Patel and Bongino are portrayed as being so obsessed with social media that it could “risk outweighing more deliberate analyses of investigations."

"You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death. ... But I think it's worth it ... to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."

I call on media to REFUSE the framing pushed by right wing chaos agents like Cernovitch & Rufo on this act of what appears to be political violence. The Democratic former Speaker of the Minnesota House was assasinated along with/her husband. The killers was hunting Dems. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Mommy, what is a Pyrrhic victory??

This is what the United States government is doing.

"The reassignments are huge numbers...It includes one in five US marshals (650 of 3,892), one in five FBI agents (2,840 of 13,700), half of DEA agents (2,181 of 4,620), over two-thirds of the ATF (1,778 of 2,572), and nearly 90 percent of Homeland Security Investigations (6,198 of 7,100).”

Why give a dog all of that sugar??

Remember what depreciation is as Epstein associates use it to describe a young girl: the systematic allocation of the cost of a tangible asset over its useful life, accounting for its gradual loss of value due to wear and tear, age, or obsolescence.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

I appreciated this comparison in particular.

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