👇🏻 This is the story… We just spent four years hand-wringing about the cognitive steadiness of the last guy. Well *this* president is obviously and utterly disconnected from reality, and is making dangerous decisions based on innuendo and deluded paranoia. The story is about him. Not Portland.

I suppose he can try, but the Ducks will probably stuff them too.

Think about the type of guy who is this comfortable physically assaulting a woman. Now think about your tax dollars paying his salary.

Now that we’re all experts on the statute of limitations as it pertains to alleged lying to Congress, RFK Jr. may want to start finding a lawyer who isn’t a roadkilled baby bear…

“My ‘anti-ICE’ bullets have people asking a lot of questions already answered by my bullets…”

It cannot be said enough… “Free speech” doesn’t mean that you can’t or won’t be booed for telling bad jokes.

This very helpfully reminded me to donate again to Graham Platner, who is not 77… www.grahamforsenate.com

What a fucking whining loser. Our very special boy doesn’t think the mean comedians are being nice enough to him. Poor buddy.

If Joe Biden said this, it would have been immediately derided as the deranged rantings of a senile mind. His fitness to continue serving would immediately be called into question. But Joe Biden didn’t say this. And never would have. Because on his worst day, he still believes in the Constitution.

I’ve never been much of an “Eat the Rich” guy, but fuck it. Smash it. Smash it all.

Counterpoint: They are, in fact, allowed to do that. And have been for 249 years. The narcissistic rantings of the Mad King don’t change the law.

It’s been said before but worth saying again: None of this is suggestive of a party or political movement that expects to ever peaceably cede power

This won’t stop with late night comedians. I hope everybody realizes that.

You just know that every time one of these corporate institutions gives into him, some million dollar C-Suite schmuck is going, “Well, maybe if we do it this one time, he’ll leave us alone…” No, he won’t. Not ever. Now he thinks you’re a mark, you feckless wimps. And he’s right!

But, wait, I thought cancel culture was bad?

249 years. For 249 years we were a thriving (if imperfect) democracy, rooted in fundamental human rights and shared ideals. Rule of Law. Free speech. Limited government. Checks and balances. We liberated Europe. Fed the poor. Put a man on the moon. Stopped COVID. And in just eight months… *poof*

We’re well past “it can happen here”. It’s time to acknowledge that it already has.

New Halloween costume idea just dropped

File it away for next time: Do not put a sociopath in charge of the country’s healthcare.

In an administration where everyone gets fired for everything, nobody has been fired for this idiotic decision, which has caused a no-shit diplomatic crisis with an important economic and security ally.

Is making fun of Charlie Kirk the new “Quiet Quitting”?

I have to say, the sweeping capture of media institutions by regime-allied elites is breathtaking in its speed and scope. It’s going to come at the expense of our constitutional democracy, and usher in an era of corporatist technofascism, but impressive at some level nonetheless.

For a generation, Democrats have assumed we were all playing a good-natured, good-faith game of “Keepy-uppy”. All the while, Republicans were playing a vicious, one-sided game of dodgeball.

If you’re wondering how the National Guard deployment is going this week, they’re blowing leaves in a seldom-used picnic area down by the river.

Laser focused on the big issues facing our country, as usual… What a colossal waste of time and your tax dollars.

This just isn’t remotely true. See, for example, the Right’s embrace of Kyle Rittenhouse.

It needs to be said: “The Left” isn’t fomenting violence. There is no “both sides” to political violence in this country. The violence is only running in one direction.

It’s worth reiterating: these folks didn’t break any laws. They were here legally, on a business trip, helping to build a factory that would have employed 1000s of Americans. They were not arrested or subjected to legal imprisonment. This was an entirely extra-judicial human rights violation.

Wow, I’m shocked that the nihilistic, gun-obsessed online conspiracy group chat masquerading as a political movement has once again brought us to the brink of crisis. Who would have guessed?

Goddammit, I’ve had “Bella ciao” stuck in my head all afternoon because of this bullshit.

They sent a twenty-person armed tactical team, and a film crew, to apprehend the Sandwich Guy, who had already offered to turn himself in.

When the “the Left” behaves badly, it’s the Left’s fault. When “the Right” behaves badly, that’s *also* the Left’s fault. That’s how this works, you see?

Here’s why that’s a problem for Democrats… @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

So Tyler Robinson, Charlie Kirk’s killer, is neither a Democrat, nor transgender, nor an immigrant, but instead a 22-year-old white guy from a Republican family in Utah who loves guns and wore a Donald Trump costume on Halloween. — Did I get that right?

Welp, we’re all about to learn about the consequences of having deeply politicized federal law enforcement agencies…

I’d think what you’d want during a highly volatile, politically polarized time marked by violence is a president who can appeal to our common values and humanity and inspire calm and unity, rather than promising revenge. If you cared about the collective well-being of the country, that is

Have Republicans condemned the murder of the Minnesota House speaker and her husband yet? Just wondering, as I watch Democrats line up to condemn violence.

Congrats to @microsoft.com, which hid its workday applications behind an AI interface that has less agentic functionality than MS DOS…

Democrats should be absolutely *hammering* Trump for being soft on crime.

Incidentally, “Walkinshaw” is also something that Stephen Miller is too afraid to do. #FreeDC

Donald Trump should probably resign.

Folks.

Blue States vs Red States, in a nutshell…

More like SE Oklahoma State, amirite?! #GoDucks

I’m not a political scientist, but I wonder if there’s a word or phrase that they’d use to describe a country where the regime goes to war against its citizens…

I was about to post a whole high-minded thing about how the whole “Department of War” thing was in tension with the increased use of the military in domestic security, because you can’t be at war with American cities. Oops! Guess I was wrong!

This is the shittiest Hamilton rendition I’ve ever heard

I mean, just as a sign of how far off the reservation we are, this is the President of the United States claiming that a major American city has been destroyed. And, that is… not remotely true? Why isn’t this a scandal? Is he up to the job?