And let’s be clear: AGAIN AND AGAIN, this is the rung in the ladder of escalating resistance that we are missing. The population protests. Civil servants resign. Even media is (imperfectly) covering it all. It is Democratic leaders who take each and every opportunity to escalate… and feebly demur.

This, but every other issue too.

I can never quite get over the fact that Curtis Yarvin is objectively stupid. Just a guy who doesn’t know things.

I can never quite get over the fact that Curtis Yarvin is objectively stupid. Just a guy who doesn’t know things.

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

. @adamserwer.bsky.social is correct. A major difference between Trump I and II is that lots of people decided not to fight this time around. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

As a chronic observer of these things, my read has been that Trump realized he doesn’t have to put it any effort to keep the Christian nationalists in the coalition, so he stopped putting in effort. No more “2 Corinthians” and all that jazz. The transaction is understood by both parties now.

From yesterday and today: it certainly appears ICE in Chicago are wearing the Meta AI Ray-Ban glasses.

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.

TRUMP: All members of the radical left are hereby designated domestic terrorists. HAKEEM JEFFRIES: As it relates to the domestic terror label, in terms of Trump’s order, what we are witnessing, is, in fact, a deeply unserious exercise …

Turning Point USA announces the continuation of its campus tour. Governors, senators, Glenn Beck, and others with new stops. theturningpointtour.com

Likewise, you see a lot less hand-wringing from evangelicals trying to justify their support for the man. The kayfabe has largely fallen away on the Trump-evangelical alliance. Everyone is getting exactly what they want, no one feels the need to pretend anymore.

NEW from me: At Charlie Kirk's memorial, religion and MAGA politics combine —> religionnews.com/2025/09/22/a...

As a chronic observer of these things, my read has been that Trump realized he doesn’t have to put it any effort to keep the Christian nationalists in the coalition, so he stopped putting in effort. No more “2 Corinthians” and all that jazz. The transaction is understood by both parties now.

The video version of our excellent interview with @loganmdavis.bsky.social is now LIVE on YouTube! We discuss his latest investigation into Colorado's surprisingly effective right-wing infrastructure in a state they lost power in almost a decade ago. It's very much worth your time!

lol, lmao even

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

This could be “the largest public corruption scandal in the history of the United States"—amounting to a $2B bribe from an Emirati royal and the sale of the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence chips to the UAE, despite national security concern. trib.al/iZEOnGq

Framing this — state action to silence critics — as “cancel culture,” which was, if anything, a series of actions by private non-state actors… …is journalistic malpractice.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Would love to see "doughface" come back as a political insult. W. E. B. Du Bois, in a passage from the January 1913 Crisis that is remarkable for other reasons too: for example, he wasn't afraid of the word "oligarchic." hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.324...

Karl Rove — literally Karl Rove — is speaking more clearly against the right wing’s incitement to violence than any Dem leaders in DC.

Fire Chuck Schumer. This is not a serious person.

Jeffries and Schumer must go. They should be removed as leaders and resign their seats in Congress. They are not fit for the times, and the sooner we can leave them in our dust, the better things will be for everyone. Fire Democratic Leadership.

we need to actually run some primaries outside of Mamdani in NYC - which folks are spinning as hard as they can as "well Andrew Cuomo sucks" (he does) - the only place we see the depth of Dem discontent at the moment is polling throw a few of them out and it'll start to get real attention

This is not actually how democracy works.

Fire Democratic Leadership

Fire Democratic Leadership

Jeffries and Schumer must go. They should be removed as leaders and resign their seats in Congress. They are not fit for the times, and the sooner we can leave them in our dust, the better things will be for everyone. Fire Democratic Leadership.

I see a lot of "history won't be on your side" takes lately, and while that's true of Republicans, it's also true that history will look upon this group of Democrats as the weakest, most unserious caucus in modern history People like strength. And they're begging you to show some

GOP candidates for governor held the first forum of the 2026 campaign over the weekend. According to columnist @loganmdavis.bsky.social, the surreal showing was littered with Satanic panic, conspiracy theories, and the "vengeful fantasies of fevered minds." coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/09/davi...

In another portion of the forum, Baisley opined that “Black kids” might be struggling not because of the “melanonin” in their skin but because they “don’t have fathers in the house.”

At a gubernatorial candidate forum over the weekend, state Sen. Mark Baisley commented, at length, that his LGBTQ colleagues in the legislature have a "sickness in their minds" and are "in rebellion against God." This is, at the very least, cause for censure. @cosendem.bsky.social

Here's a sneak peek at Logan Davis' column on the Christian nationalist Truth & Liberty Conference that took place in Woodland Park over the weekend. It featured several Republican elected officials.

I think a huge part of this is that conservatism is so predicated on an absence of empathy that its adherents are unlikely to have an accurate view of their opposition — something which requires empathy. Instead, they just see us as a mirror of themselves. Every accusation truly is a confession.

Completely disqualifying

At a gubernatorial candidate forum over the weekend, state Sen. Mark Baisley commented, at length, that his LGBTQ colleagues in the legislature have a "sickness in their minds" and are "in rebellion against God." This is, at the very least, cause for censure. @cosendem.bsky.social

The Daily Signal wants people to know that JD Vance (Peter Thiel’s protégée) & Trump have “Orchestrated Deal to Save TikTok,” adding that the US-backed buyer has yet to be named. They omit that, as of June, one of the prospective buyers is a16z—founded by Thiel ally Marc Andreessen. 1/

Whole country decided being woke was corny and ridiculous and immediately fell into open white supremacy. Couldn’t make this shit up if you tried.

In case this happens to become relevant soon: Nick Fuentes’ Groypers have been beefing with Charlie Kirk and TPUSA for 6-7 years, with “Groyper War 2” having kicked off about a year ago. www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...

If you're going to moralize about budget demands, then your demands must include (1) restore USAID (2) fire RFK Jr (3) close the concentration camps. If not, then we're all in the realm of pragmatic politics, and "prioritizing Republican voters" is the path to everything getting worse for everyone.

all of these categories completely overlap

Trump just went on Fox and said radical right extremism is justified as a response to the left. If Trump wanted to explicitly encourage the right to wage violent open warfare on the left as payback for Kirk, he couldn't have done much better than that. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2004...

In case this happens to become relevant soon: Nick Fuentes’ Groypers have been beefing with Charlie Kirk and TPUSA for 6-7 years, with “Groyper War 2” having kicked off about a year ago. www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...

the groypers sure seem to think Charlie Kirk was killed by a groyper

Can't wait for everyone who's so vocally opposed to political violence to come out against this common form of it, as well as the people (both living and dead) who've delighted in carrying it out. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochas...

Wommack famously claims to have raised his own son from the dead (no evidence for this has been provided, of course). Last night, his followers were encouraging him to raise Charlie Kirk from the dead as well.

With no knowledge of the gunman’s identity or motives, Andrew Wommack’s ministry is now saying that “the liberal media” killed Kirk.

Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.