He’s just now knowing and fully understanding the Ukraine/Russia situation??

If i'm being honest the Kissinger stuff isn't the worst part of the interview. Sure, it makes Sunstein seem like a moral vacuum but the stuff where he considers Rothbard, Reagan and Alito part of the liberal tradition despite their very obvious and acted-upon racism makes him seem Actually Stupid.

If Dems want to pivot to "kitchen table issue" in their messaging this is the one! Say he has to come to congress for a vote on the tariffs or you don't vote for government funding bill.

Donald Sterling handled his deposition with more aplomb.

Pritzer gets the mechanics of authoritarianism – systemic intimidation, seizing control of elections, etc. – in a way others in national democratic leadership don't or won't say out loud.

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Telling a bunch of foreign leaders you might kidnap and disappear their citizens AT THE U FUCKING N is wild

everyone in the assembly looks miserable and the murmur that erupts for every insane thing he says... these are world leaders, we are just pariahs at this point

Kind of surreal that a government official was caught taking a $50,000 cash bribe and there's not even a question that he will continue serving as it nothing ever happened. Like even the most basic standards of public accountability are a joke.

RFK being more of a lunatic than Trump was a key political advantage to building the MAGA/MAHA coalition.

a really fucking exhausting thing about this current moment is that any good faith efforts to reform or acknowledge short comings of knowledge producing and sense making institutions is promptly weaponized by people who want to burn the entire thing down and drown us in avalanche of bullshit

The President sounds like this all the time these days and is clearly non compos mentis but it just gets a pass from Congress, from the courts, from the media, from Wall Street, from every institution, because it's Trump.

This makes so much more sense than the health care strategy they have been talking about, which is a) a demand that actually helps Republicans politically if implemented and b) is totally untethered from the ongoing demolition of democracy

dudes rock

Expand the court, yes, but also make the court into rotating terms drawn from the circuits, panels of 5-7 justices that are determined after cert is granted so petitioners don't know their judges in advance and so can enforce ethics recusals.

Tracking down owners of forsaken money has been a passion of Hall’s for 40 years.

we already give Messi a hundred mill to walk around the pitch in Cincinnati what more do they want

The cream cheese pricing at Call Your Mother is quite a racket they’ve got going

one of the reasons they are invulnerable to criticism is that an entirely neutral description of their personal conduct, and their conduct in office, sounds like deranged slander.

So Trump is announcing on TV his intention to indiscriminately murder anyone - without evidence, investigation, or legal authority - who happens to be in boats off the Venezuelan coast. In a long list of lawless things Trump has said, this is near the top in its brazen, murderous criminality.

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"Democrats should simply reverse decades of systemic political momentum by [magical thinking]"

so the president just tweeted out an offense worse than watergate, we all realize that right?

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

Illegal, vulgar, crass, and narcissistic all at once.

this exists it is called thinking

is this popularism

Miguel Cairo is so painfully not the Nats manager of the future.

They killed Google Reader.

“Reading Ben Shapiro wrestle with ideas greater than Cardi B’s WAP, you’re constantly reminded that this is a grown man who still makes his name “battling” anxious teenage freshmen in YouTube videos.”

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

Does Klein earnestly believe the reason you don't see progressives tour conservative evangelical churches to defend abortion or some such is that progressives are dispositionally less interested in debate and civil discourse than the right? Genuinely? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

another related thing is that part of the reason why schumer and jeffires are really failing to meet the moment is because they still primarily see themselves and are acting as legislative leaders, and the situation we're in right now demands a lot more than that

I think Obama very clearly wants to be a party elder on Mount Olympus, keeping his powder dry so when he hurls down a thunderbolt it has the most impact/salience but not exactly surprised to see that strategy crumble if other party leaders aren't pulling their weight

Jennings: He does not have a right to have a TV show where he lies his ass off to the American people and attacks half this country on a nightly basis Phillip: There are plenty of people over on another network who lied about the last election, who denigrate half the country every single night.

it's 2004, im babysitting and the baby is asleep so i watch that new show "the apprentice" and then the "man show" suddenly, an older version of myself bursts into the room and goes "i have something i need to tell you about the future"

Tucker Carlson doing better than Chuck Schumer on this one if anyone still wants to sell me on the current Democratic Party

What’s the reasonable-centrist way to oppose the annihilation of the first amendment?

A good day to launch a Democratic Party-aligned think tank devoted to attacking the ACLU.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people

I think what is most upsetting right now is that this administration has not had the skill to do much of anything they are trying to do. They crumple and scurry away when people stand up strongly to them. And most of the richest & most powerful people in this country just rolled over like cowards.

Imagine capitulating to a president that is so underwater that he doesn't even have 50% approval with white people as a white supremacist

if you want Liberal Joe Rogan this is one way you get Liberal Joe Rogan

that’s one option. an alternative currently being pursued by the incumbent administration is killing and deporting as many of its opponents as possible, and violently intimidating the rest into silence

The basic problem here is that fascists do not want to live with you. This all presupposes democratic politics that they do not want to practice. There will be no reciprocity here, and if you act as if there will be if you avoid calling them fascists and venerate their martyrs, you‘ll get crushed.

The Deputy AG of the United States is conducting a RICO investigation into the woman yelling at Trump in the restaurant. We’ve come a long way from the statute being used to take down the Gambino crime family.

It is genuinely humiliating as an America to have this sour, cowardly, narcissistic lout represent us and to know that so many Americans applaud conduct like this. Just deeply embarrassing.