The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

I'll say this once more: @kairyssdal.bsky.social, of public radio (APM vs NPR), giving daily lessons on putting things clearly and honestly. Enough of this "falsely" and "without evidence" and "departure from norms" wiggle talk. The man lies. Is deluded. Steals. And constantly breaks the law

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

FTA: "My T.P.U.S.A. students have shown that people can hold strong political convictions while still having respectful conversations with those who disagree." THAT's how you change minds — and hearts. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

I think it would be helpful if DA Bragg charged a few of these assaults. If the agents think that federal law immunizes them for actions that would result in ordinary New Yorkers being charged, let them litigate it.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Trump pushed Kimmel into going full resistance lib for the biggest audience he will ever have. Another masterclass from the president.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

The period after "No." should be a comma, so people can end the sentence as they please with ", you [whatever]."

If you know about Korea, you know that people will tell this story for generations. Given the scale, tech savvy, cultural sway, strategic importance, and national pride of ROK, this might be *the* most lastingly damaging, idiotic move team MAGA has made. Blessed by SecState Marco.

Every word…

People have got to stop framing existential threats to our democracy in terms of simple policy disagreements

Ask Republicans if it would be OK for the Mexican military to blow up a US fishing boat because they believed it was smuggling deadly guns into Mexico and offered zero evidence. “It’s a ‘river of iron’ that has slaughtered hundreds of thousands!” Would that be acceptable to them? If not, WHY not?

When MAGA expresses anger at the state of things, the press and pundit class treat every utterance as the received wisdom of True America. When the left expresses anger, the press reaches for its pearls and smelling salts and bemoans the end of civility.

Everyone should be held to the same standards.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

I would like to remember Medgar Evers today. And Melissa Hortman. And RFK Senior. And Leo Ryan. And George Tiller. And Martin Luther King. And Gabe Zimmerman. And all the kids at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. And all the people at the Pulse nightclub. Sorry if I am leaving anyone out.

Exactly. You don't have to celebrate it, but the worst thing to do in this moment is to give in to the inevitable right-wing framing as benign paragons of morality beset by bloodthirsty liberal kooks. I mean J6 and Charlie Kirk's own celebration of Paul Pelosi's attacker are enough to prove that.

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Today we had a chance to stand with the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for this country in uniform. Ashli Babbitt is not that. She is a traitor. She will be a traitor. She died a traitor."

wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america

If I were a Democrat in Congress I'd be introducing legislation to suspend the Supreme Court's upcoming term (it's happened before, in 1802). The suspension would be to give us time to figure out what to do with this dangerous, anti-democratic institution.

We need to abolish the current form of the Supreme Court and reconstitute it from the ground up. The only Constitutionally required position is the chief Justice, everything else is made up by congress.

do you like values like fellowship, stewardship, wisdom, brotherhood, responsibility, coffee hour, British flags but not being all weird about them, and no king/queen shit whatsoever? The Episcopalians.

The Department of Homeland Security cowardly pushed people around at the Portland protest.

Tapping the sign

Despite what you may have heard from dark-money funded groups like Stop Houston Murders PAC, crime is actually DOWN in Harris County and continuing to fall. Join @seanteare.bsky.social, Chief Public Defender Genesis Draper, Judge Veronica Nelson, and Judge Shannon Baldwin on Sept 18 to learn why!

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me that Vance could legitimately wind up on trial with this tweet as Exhibit A.

At the first sign of weakness, Republicans will wedge Dems with votes on measures to build monuments in his honor. That is how, through evasiveness and passivity, Dems might allow a vile figure to become sainted. There are better ways to wage this (for now hypothetical) fight for historical memory.

I was all set to say that Trump was looking pretty strong — until he just wouldn't shut UP. (Why would I have expected him to be any different than before?) www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...

Greg Sargent: "So perhaps it’s time for news organizations to state unabashedly and affirmatively that they are not in the business of amplifying Trump officials’ lies and smears, and any official who feels entitled to such amplification can go stuff it." newrepublic.com/article/1998...

I don't like this new rule. I much preferred a presidency subject to checks and balances. But thanks to Trump and the Supreme Court, we don't have that anymore. And Democrats aren't going to get it back by acting like the adults in the room. They'll only wind up ceding more power to the arsonists.

The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?

Holy crap, NYT let Charles Munger Jr. write an op-ed opposing the California redistricting without disclosing that he's FUNDING the opposition to the California redistricting. I have 4 mailers he paid for in my house right now and that's just the beginning. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...

Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:

"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:

Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits

Hello, everyone. Today, thanks to @sbg1.bsky.social and @newyorker.com, I learned a new word. The word is: "butt-snorkeler."

I follow this journalist; I don't know much her but she's also followed by some pretty-serious people.

Yes, but it doesn’t matter. Even if we get a competent and trustworthy government again for some period, everyone should know that it can’t last unless structural and constitutional reforms are made. The fascists are among us and unless they are structurally disempowered, they’ll be back.

Republicans: Mass shootings: “it’s the price of freedom. Send thoughts and prayers” Homelessness: “Deploy the National Guard”