His ego is entirely out of control. The GOP needs to put country over party. He’ll burn the whole thing down and them along with it if they don’t.

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I share this w/ (for me) a surprising lack of embarrassment, but recently I’ve become a bit of a connoisseur of covers of Chappel Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” (which is 2nd only to “Smells Like Teen Spirit” for songs I knew the 1st time I heard them were the anthem of a specific time in our culture). /1

Mary Boone summarizing the grand, mostly unrealized until it's too late, truth about opening an art gallery, thinking you're a cultural custodian: "“The longer you have a business, the more it turns into a business.”

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.” - Leonard Cohen (who would have turned 91 yesterday).

So if the rapture happens tomorrow, that means most of Trump’s most righteous administration should be sucked up into heaven, right? And any of them who are not are lying when they claim to be good Christians, right? Looking at you Hegseth and Noem.

John Oliver: the four words that are the only thing that can genuinely make a bully go away: "Fuck you. Make me." #FYME

Can someone convince Jeffries and Schumer that Trump is actually a democratic socialist so they put up a real fight against him for once?

President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers: “It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”

FBI caught fascist Border Czar Tom Homan taking a $50K bribe ON CAMERA to funnel tax payer funded Govt contracts to his friends. Bondi & Patel knew & likely Trump knew—& killed the investigation Being undocumented is a civil offense. Taking bribes is a felony. So when does Homan go to El Salvador?🤔

Brendan Carr belongs behind bars for extortion.

The whole thing is brilliant, but Ronny Chieng’s “Is this your first dictator?” chide… Genius!

We can do this the easy way or the hard way. Surrender your balls/ovaries if you ever choose the former.

If the Trump administration wants citizens to stop comparing them to Nazis, they should just stop acting like them, eh?

This is why oligarchs cannot control all the major media in a democracy. Or any if it, really.

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC. If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.

Jimmy Kimmel… never thought Jimmy Kimmel would be the straw that broke Democracy’s back in the US. How fucking lame this country has become.

CBS and ABC…both media dinosaurs, gawking upward as the meteor that kills them hurtles toward earth.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

No, the side that violently attacked our Capitol because they were butthurt about losing an election do not get to assert that the left is the violent party in this country. Hundreds of them beat police, broke through barricades, smashed windows, ransacked offices, chanted for death. Just plain No!

“Prove me wrong” is a devious framework for a debate series, as it preemptively asserts that the subject’s opinion is generally accepted as correct, underhandedly putting anyone with a differing opinion in a minority starting position. A more honest framework would be “Persuade me I’m wrong.”

Mars [chanelling Lucy Lui] : “You didn’t think it was going to be that easy, did you?” youtu.be/SDTZ7iX4vTQ?...

So all the right-wing officials & influencers who declared revenge & civil war in the wake of Kirk’s death…they get a free pass on their support of political violence, right? It just the left that gets censored? Because that’s what this is: systemic censorship. SCOTUS? Got any value left at all?

There’s a lot that Kirk said I strongly disagree with, but I defend his right to have said all of it. I’m so sorry for his wife, children, family and fans. That said, no one in the government (or adjacent) will tell me what I can or cannot say about his life, rhetoric, or death. No one.

Self-declared free speech advocate’s murder changes his supporter’s belief in free speech. Interesting way to honor his life’s work. www.cnn.com/2025/09/13/b...

like this is the most irresponsible level of hysteria i’ve ever seen. most of these people are either paid by the republican party, or are high level advisors and allies. this is insane

wrote about the memes allegedly left by Kirk’s killer, the desire for a coherent narrative in a world without context, and the widening digital culture gap that’s going to make these very hard times even harder www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Can you guys please stop shitting yourselves? Okay, fine, we're all doomed. Now we're doomed and smell like poop. Really not helping the situation here at all.

Woke up this morning and for the first time in 24 years had to be reminded it was 9/11. The horrors I saw that day have finally, mercifully drifted into the corners of my mind. It’s not that I’ve forgotten (how could I?), just that apparently I’ve somewhat healed, for which I’m grateful.

Shorter Kavanaugh: You cannot help someone get ahead because of their race, but you can definitely harass them because of it.

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Summer is waning.

Again, SCOTUS is completely unnecessary in an authoritarian state. The conservative majority should simply resign and voluntarily dissolve their branch of government and save us all the pain of the details.

Since they’re more or less paving the way for total authoritarianism, I say we dispel with the formalities and just disband the Supreme court now.

This cosplaying, reality TV bullshit is NOT government. It’s theater. We deserve a serious government, not these Emmy- and Nobel Prize-desperate nonentities.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. Impressive move for an already impressive art fair.

The same folks on the right, who could clearly see his flaws, still argued “Well, let’s just give Trump a chance; nothing else is working,” but turn positively apocalyptic when the same is argued about Mamdani.

“Do you believe billionaires/trillionaires should exist?” is the wrong framing. It’s not about a benchmark, it’s about the “delta.” If the country’s GDP is a gazillion dollars, sure, it’s fine for trillionaires to exist. If, as is the case in US, it’s only $30 trillion, then a trillionaire 1/

The last bulwark against authoritarianism: the power of ordinary people. #giftarticle

MAGA aren’t anti-science as much as they are pro-conspiracy theories.

Who's going to get fired this time?

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/a...

Happy Labor Day to the true productive class! —Steelworker, Warren, Ohio

"Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped." —“The Martian,” Andy Weir Truer word have never been spoken.

A Team of Brown Nosers: The Emetic Subjugation of Donald Trump’s Cabinet

Something I’m just now starting to think about criticism, as an art form, is how the author needs to be conscious of their intentions. Plainly, do they want to improve the subject of their critique, or do they want to destroy it? Signaling they’re unsure about that only confuses their audience.