Explicitly targeting opposition speech, the conspiratorial talk of NGOs and foreign agents, the use of tax authority... This is the Putin/Orban playbook, pretty much verbatim.

Yes, this is really, really bad.

Trump just signed a an EO that allows the full power or the federal government to go after extremist groups. Stephen Miller predictably went on a rant about Antifa, but not a *single* reporter asked if they’d be going after right wing extremists too. Shameful.

There's a reason they seem to be mostly targeting women to beat up, and we all know what it is.

Weaponization of the National Archives now.

Next generation grift

This is very interesting. I think I will have to reread a few times to get the nuance, but I think this is an important point to be made as our social pendulum swings. More to say, but nothing eloquent.

Some great songs here. I still contend that Under Pressure is the best song either party concerned has ever produced

My take on "the male loneliness crisis" is that it is mostly a crisis of people not wanting to take any responsibility for their own lives because it's easier to bedrot, doomscroll, and complain than it is to do literally anything else. You can all yell at me now.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

Trump granddaughter (Don Jr's daughter) uses White House as the backdrop to shill her new clothing line.

We are bailing out Argentina while Argentina’s farmers sell soybeans to China in the place of American farmers which is putting them out of business, so now we also have to bail out American farmers while Argentinian farmers make bank. Trump’s America First Golden Age.

government backed political violence.

A mass firing would be an admission of profound weakness. Panic. Doesn’t mean it’s not harmful, it’s just not the act of a government that’s confident in itself. If Gen Caine presides, he’s worse than MacArthur in an afternoon. (Bonus: maybe the defense industry will stop speaking like it’s 2015)

The circumstances of Mr. Escobar's arrest are even worse than the brief summary above. He repeatedly tried to tell the immigration officials that he had papers while they were arresting him. In response, a federal agent said "No you don't. You are illegal," and "Shut up, bitch! You're illegal."

I think this interaction is important and possibly, a sign of change among younger voters. At least I hope so.

It’s wild to me that the Pentagon is just… fine with reporting that most of our senior military are going to be in the same location. Personal security nightmare.

The National Archives released a mostly unredacted version of Rep. Mikie Sherrill's military records to an ally of Jack Ciattarelli, her GOP opponent in the NJ governor's race. The disclosure potentially violates several U.S. privacy laws. www.cbsnews.com/news/nationa...

I’m hoping it’s not a coincidence that he just put a gag order on the pentagon press corps

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

It’s not debate. It’s trolling. This isn’t a platform for civic discourse. It’s turning the people into content to reinforce confirmation bias. Do not engage.

[taps 🎙️]: since the beginning of recorded time, disaffected young men have swooned to radical ideas like moths to a flame. What's unique in this moment is it's happening in a culture awash with 400,000,000 firearms.

The Trump regime is so intent on linking individual murderers to entire segments of the political spectrum that they’re in danger of screwing up the case against the actual murderer here.

the modal domestic terrorist over the next decade is going to be a terminally online 20-something who cooks their brain in irony-poisoned social media spaces and decides to kill a bunch of people as an elaborate shitpost

I spoke extensively with the Crimson reporter. She understood the strength of the evidence, and it shows. Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.

This is Blueskyism

Dear 2025…

Bessent is willing to bail out his friend in Argentina who is failing badly, but says he won’t help an American city if they get in trouble from bad policy. bsky.app/profile/atru...

A particular characteristic of fascism is the fetishization of masculinity and the subordination of women. Fascism is virulently male supremacist, uber machismo, and rife with sexual anxiety about gender roles. This is 100% Fascism.

78% of the votes!

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Bullet "evidence" startin' to get a little too specific and whatnot.

I agree with Trump. Whoever screwed up the escalator and teleprompter at the U.N. needs to be arrested. apnews.com/article/trum...

Hell is not hot enough.

Empire in decline.

Kimmel: "He might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this now."

Thune doesn’t back Trump up on FCC/free speech or the ridiculous Tylenol announcement. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Awful lot of firings at the GO level for you to assume that someone will be left to stand for institutional values.

The LAST person I want to hear from regarding nepotism is Meghan McCain. She can’t hold a conversation without mentioning her father.

JUST IN: The Trump administration's bid to coerce states to comply with immigration enforcement in order to receive disaster aid is illegal and unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled today. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

So Trump kills the farms with his tariffs. Farmers, who voted for him, are going under. Now we are going to bail them out? Socialism for the win.

"This isn’t normally a problem prosecutors face, as they start with a crime, then figure out whodunnit, rather than starting with a person and only then deciding whathedun. But Trump wants Comey charged and is convinced he’s guilty of something, and it’s your job now to figure out what."

Congrats again to the elites who told us this guy was a credible Treasury Secretary because he went to the right schools & cocktail parties (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) We have treaty obligations with our allies. Resign. Or start acting like an adult who swore an oath to country & Constitution.

After Trump’s first campaign kicked off with an escalator ride, the stalled escalator the moment he stepped on may presage the beginning of his political end. And early indications are that both that and the pre-rant teleprompter issues were his own team’s fault. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Old enough here that Republicans promoting state-owned enterprises and the guiding hand of government still jars like a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac

Friday: a prosecutor is forced to resign bc he concludes there's not enough evidence to go after Trump's perceived enemies Saturday: Trump makes public post asking Attorney General why she hasn't gone after his enemies Wednesday: DOJ says enemy indictment coming right up sir do I have that right?