The key here is we just need to make sure Zelenskyy is always the last guy Trump talks to.

47 year old Robert Redford & 49 year old Wilford Brimley in "The Natural" (1984)

Once more: the best evidence shows that Tylenol taken during pregnancy is not harmful. **This question is settled.** The benefit of reducing discomfort and fever is extremely important at a time when the fetus is developing. Pregnant women - Tylenol is safe. sciencebasedmedicine.org/tylenol-and-...

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

The problem is not their ideology. Ideological compromise is necessary. The problem is that the current generation of leadership never wanted fighting Trump and cleaning up after him to be their main job. They have no stomach for the style of politics that is now necessary.

Jimmy Kimmel's show involves comedy and satire. It is not news. It is not meant to inform the public about a newsworthy event. No FCC rules were violated. The FCC has no business threatening broadcasters or censoring speech it does not like.

Many of us are numb to it, but almost every day he publicly confesses that he is at war with our laws and Constitution.

The comical thing here is @semafor.com still calling these "free speech Republicans" without any scare quotes. If you're down with this you never supported free speech which was frankly obvious all along.

There are people who want to create an authoritarian system & they’re trying to do it using Trump. But mostly this presidency is about making Donald Trump feel good, making people he perceives his enemies feel bad, & making billions for him, Uday, & Qusay.

A fragile democracy like Brazil’s has managed to hold its insurrectionist former president accountable. Our old and proud one has reelected its who then tried to undermine Brazil's efforts at accountability. Still, Brazil prevailed. Bravo! At @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/brazil-rej...

I don’t think any country in the history of the world has ever done anything as stupidly self destructive as what Trump and RFK jr are doing with vaccines.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

Cowards. Shameless, morally bankrupt cowards.

The Deputy Attorney General of the United States, who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, just directly suggested that protesting the president should be illegal. No one would be confused about what is happening if they saw it in another country.

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Good cities can't exist without public order

when your wars are too crimey even for john yoo, boy howdy

Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages). The United States sits alone in the bottom right area due to its very high spending rate and below-average life expectancy. More www.oecd.org/en/publicati... 🧪

White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... Open authoritarianism. Happening right in front of us.

Stephen Miler is open about what's coming: a federal law enforcement crackdown on its political opponents

Posting a criticism of Charlie Kirk - much less noting something outrageous he himself said - is not “celebrating” his murder. Nor is it condoning his murder. It is simply saying that his political career and legacy are not something to be celebrated. And that is not the same thing at all.

The GOP nominee in a Virginia state House race this fall has dropped out. He says he lost his government contracting job and has no income, so he's had to take a job out of state & move away. That's... literally what Dems are campaigning on to win VA. www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/gop-nom...

Remember, if you encounter what seems like an implausible survey finding, ask: 1. Were survey respondents selected randomly or was this an opt-in poll? 2. Could the results, especially for young adults, be driven by bogus respondents? Keep this post in mind: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪

We're about to experience the first modern recession caused substantially, and perhaps primarily, by racism.

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.

The blast radius of that Georgia raid has already reached Tennessee

So: a) none of political assassins were students, or even shared a coherent ideology - shameful to blame universities b) Trump is already engaged in the attack on campus speech the Free Press wants c) I worry a lot more about the animosity to campus The Free Press is fueling than any of my students

It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches."

For the 2,300 National Guard troops in D.C., it's a lot picking up trash and spreading mulch, costing taxpayers more than $1 million a day www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

"I remain critical of much that Kirk said and did. And—I do not say but, I say and—I denounce his killing without equivocation or reservation, and offer condolences to his family and friends." www.thebulwark.com/p/kirk-killi...

for all the talk about the university as a temple of inquiry, free thought, and diversity of perspectives helping society converge toward truth, this crowd has exactly one (1) take.

Is criticizing the victim of an assassination - or refusing to lionize them - "celebrating" it? I don't think so. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/u...

“The bishop advised Catholics considering joining ICE that ‘you can never attempt to turn off your conscience.’”

A sneering midwit with inherited wealth got the facts wrong, and accused an honest public servant—Lisa Cook—of fraud. His meddling created a crisis well beyond his portfolio, undermining the Fed. Bill Pulte can do the right thing and resign. If merit still matters, he should be fired.

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

South Korean businesses have suspended at least 22 U.S. projects after an ICE raid on a Hyundai Motor factory site in Georgia detained hundreds of South Korean workers.Some 475 employees, including...

It’s not simply important to denounce political violence because it looks bad not to. It’s the right thing to do on the merits. Even more specifically to this moment it’s important because the forces of fascism are inherently better at political violence than the forces of civic democracy.

Support for political violence is at a modern high in America. This is a symptom of sick political institutions and a culture of out-party hate. The ease at which someone can buy a gun makes these risk more pronounced, but culture is the problem. Many have stoked the fire www.npr.org/2023/10/25/1...

Charlie Kirk being gunned down in cold blood is horrifying and the worst possible road for society to go down. We make it way too easy for mentally ill people to get guns. Combine that with a rise in political violence and a woefully inadequate mental health system, and you get *very* bad outcomes.

Agreed. This study also has a particular, erm, national dimension...

This incredibly detailed disassembly of a popular "sweetener study" validates my prior belief that the only place where junk science gains more popular traction than education is nutrition.

"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds" Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"... www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

Proof that there is literally no cost to the pundits who get things absolutely wrong. We are STILL interviewing Feldman about the implications of SCOTUS outcomes. THIS Feldman.

In 2019, 70% of Republicans said science has had a mostly positive effect on society. A few years later, fewer than half of Republicans (47%) said so. www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐

it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.

Someone needs to tell CBS that at some point you bend the knee so far that you are just kneeling.

The world is full of young men who lived dissolute lives, who think as they approach middle age, that ideological rigidity and moral posturing are the path back to self-respect and redemption.