They are not hiding it, people who don't see it at this point are choosing not to

The US is not one or two election cycles away from being OK even if they’re blowouts.

Yep. If you think any of these things about the Fairness Doctrine, you don't understand it.

Bold to just unleash his internal monologue like that; I hadn’t anticipated that level of self-awareness.

This is amazing, in a horrible way

The current FBI director’s stated position is that FBI recordings from last year by agents probably still working there are fake deep state fabrications

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

“No one is fighting back against one of the biggest threats to our very ability to fight back.”

Light in a dark time.

The past week really mattered in a way that I’m not sure has been totally processed yet

Oh FFS bsky.app/profile/samt.... Next they're going to be arresting children for possession of Thomas the Tank Engine

At least Trump's dropped the pretense that this is about Charlie Kirk and is instead really just about him not wanting to be made fun of.

It’s been sad this year watching how the White House press corps refuses to back each other up. Here a female journalist is insulted and denigrated and the next male reporter just moves on to a new question. You’re all in this together, folks. Time & again, they won’t stand up for their colleagues.

The whole point of “woke” as the right uses it is to be vague and undefinable. If you press them, it means HR training nonsense about how it’s white supremacy to expect employees to be on time. As actually deployed in the wild it means “this movie has black & queer people in.”

Trump is cutting America off from the world by degrees. The H-1B visa is for high-skilled specialists.

Trump's abuses lend additional weight to the great economist Ronald Coase's classic 1959 argument for abolishing the FCC. We don't need a govt agency that licenses broadcasters, and such an agency is inherently dangerous to liberty: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

He didn’t even toss it on the merits, but because they submitted a rambling, deranged blog post in lieu of a proper legal complaint. (It will certainly also get tossed on the merits if they manage to refile something saner.)

This usually only happens to crazy pro se clients, but the order from this district judge (Bush appointee, fwiw) is merciless, hilarious and clearly correct: this sounds like an *insane* complaint as prone to hyperbole and irrelevant self-aggrandizing tangents and taunts as the man himself.

The puzzle pieces are starting to fit together — Trump's individual authoritarian policies adding up to a concrete system that could render elections durably unfair www.vox.com/politics/462...

I saw, during my reporting in Hungary, how much putting friendly oligarchs in charge of the media matters in authoritarian consolidation. That's starting to happen in the United States. www.vox.com/politics/462...

Trying to wrap my head about how utterly brain poisoned one needs to be to make this comparison with a straight face.

Been trying to read more books in Spanish recently and one thing it really drives home is how much more expansive a literary vocabulary is than we use in everyday conversation. I think of myself as pretty fluent but encounter a word I need to look up on more pages of the novel I’m reading than not.

This is just doing ordinary law enforcement with murders instead of trials, with the weasel word “narcoterrorist” obscuring the fact that the targets are garden variety criminals.

This is a terrible idea for reasons I do not have time to elaborate, but @charliesavage.bsky.social‘s article gets at many of them bsky.app/profile/char...

The moment of truth for Senate Dems: continue to fund Trump's destruction of the Republic, or shut off the money spigot until he breaks & complies with the Constitution & federal laws. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social you have your work cut out for you re: your colleagues. Republic loyalists are with you.

BREAKING: Trump admin. may fire U.S. attorney over not bringing charges against NY AG James over alleged mortgage fraud @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social has the latest

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

This is a clearly impeachable offense he’s reportedly going to finish committing tomorrow. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...

They are allowed to do that. They are precisely allowed to do precisely that. Politicians from Left or Right who slobber after the power to suppress dissenting speech are—under our cherished Constitution—impotent.

“With an autocrat, you cannot give an inch,” Colbert said, criticizing ABC and CBS for their “weak” decisions to give in to Trump’s demands.

The WaPo’s law and politics columnist doesn’t understand that Murthy was a standing ruling— a decision fundamentally about states trying to intervene on behalf of alleged jawboning victims with a handful of individual plaintiffs thrown in as an afterthought— and ignores Vullo entirely. Yikes.

Does it sing “Oompa Loompa Doompety Doo”?

the most interesting part of this reporting is that they didn't pull him off the air for what he had *already* said, they pulled him off the air for what he was *going* to say, which, i expect, has them in quite the pickle now, because he's unlikely to be *more* conciliatory after this

Inside a tumultuous summer at xAI, in which Elon Musk's demands to make Grok less "woke" and more viral led to chaos: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t...

Add to the long list of harms that will take a generation to undo. Long after Trump is gone and competent doctors reverse the move, the fact that this was EVER the offical line will validate antivax paranoia in the eyes of many parents.

New reporting from CNN's Elizabeth Wagmeister: "ABC hopes to bring Jimmy Kimmel back, but temperature needs to be taken down under FCC threats"

First time as tragedy, second time as… well, farcical tragedy. McCarthyism was a psychotic overreaction to an actual threat. Now we have psychotic overreaction to purely imaginary threats.

I think this comparison is largely right. Yes, it’s a replay of McCarthyism’s ugliest aspects but that was fueled by a widespread sense that the country faced dire external dangers while this is about a deeply unpopular president’s grudges.

I can’t believe how bad this www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.

“That makes it even more egregious and more clear,” First Amendment lawyer @kenwhite.bsky.social tells me. "There’s a clear, obvious violation here. Kimmel could sue Carr and other government actors to get an order telling them to stop it."

Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.

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What the Gandy discourse demonstrates is how many people on here think effective protest looks like this. That's because they're online LARPers who think of mass movements as a kind of collective emotional catharsis, rather than something that is built over time, an institution with a structure.

Every accusation was a confession

Ah, the source of manpower for the domestic terror campaigns we were looking for

Trump’s FCC chair stooge acting like a middle school bully confirming they were lying all along as they distanced themselves from what was always the playbook

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".