There’s going to have to be a massive campaign of retribution against every Trump administration official that’s doing this stuff one day. I do not think there can be any kind of national healing within these freaks facing serious jail time, financial ruin, or severe inescapable social sanction.

Strong contender for organization that has debased itself the most relative to where it was ten years ago I think.

it’s a great day to get off of twitter

If and when normal "rule of law" returns, any federal employee who follows this MAGA instruction would be vulnerable to prosecution under the Hatch Act. ("If and when" doing a lot of work here.) www.wired.com/story/govern...

These are all funny to me because it reminds everyone that the government is in control of partisan Republicans

This is good

If the point of this move is to ensure that every American blames Trump for everything bad that’s going to happen during the shutdown while they continue to experience the things they hated most about Trump’s policies from before the shutdown, then okay let’s do that. Political genius at work here.

Bin-go

There's no epidemic of political violence, but government overreach is a real threat | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

It’s still a decent deal for people who would otherwise buy a game every 1-2 months. But that’s just not most people.

you can't get just how lunatic and hateful UK media has been on this without knowing this. it is *astonishing* in both volume and spite.

A concern—not unreasonable!—that stopped Dems from packing the courts and adding states was “this is a break in the constitutional settlement, which might have bad knockdown effects.” But the Trump Republicans have now thoroughly shattered the existing constitutional order, we need a new one anyway

Senior military leaders are, overall, very smart Nearly all are broadly experienced, around the world. They have spent their careers in orgs more representative of the whole US than most corps, law firms, finance firms, univs, media orgs. They have learned to judge character. And honesty.

The moment where Hegseth ends his speech and not a single officer claps is the most hopeful thing I have seen in a long time.

These fucking people have enough money already to say no to this shit and they still do it.

BREAKING A federal judge that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment. His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response.

Trump wants to use the US military to attack Americans, "an invasion from within." This is what pretending Trump is normal gets you.

you, the reader, if you live in a blue district in a blue state, should learn about your state legislators. you will most likely hate them and should consider running against them.

Trump’s approval in the swing states is abysmal open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

Lol

📍 𝐃𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐘, 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐒: At the South Texas Family Residential Center, ICE is detaining children for weeks or months, denying them clean water, disrupting their sleep with constant lighting, and delaying medical treatment — all while treating them like prisoners. #AbuseofPowerWatch

Tbh beyond trans rights or anything id find this type of posting pretty hair raising if i was rebooting harry potter

Democrats are being asked to fund a government that just openly pledged to use the military to murder Democrats

Meanwhile, Trump and Hegseth are trying to turn the US military into a carbon copy of the Russian one that has failed so grievously in Ukraine--no independent thought among generals, admirals and enlisted leaders, the wrong priorities, terrible leadership at the top.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

I hope Murphy is blasting this message to Schumer’s face too

The legal risk for doing this sort of thing with US gov comms is clearly nowhere near high enough.

For that matter, they make extensive use of disabled personnel in support roles. Not because they want to, but because they have to. A lot of badly physically fucked up ppl (often as a result of combat against the Russians) can still do support roles that don't require running and gunning.

As a retired military officer, after watching Hegseth's "speech", I am 100% certain every single one of the generals in the audience were full of contempt for the stupid boy on the stage who knows nothing about soldiership, and is trying to cosplay a leader. What a pathetic idiot.

I can't get over how the right-wing doesn't understand modern militaries, with the majority serving non-combat roles. You think the best IT security & logistics personnel spends two hours in the gym every day to look like the cast of 300? They're at furry conventions and model train shows.

Don't think Trump isn't aware of how badly Hegseth bombed. It's all about ratings with Trump, and Hegseth's absurd jabbering had very low ratings.

Remember when these dipshits tried to construct a "conservapedia" and everyone just laughed at them? That's always the thing with reactionaries: they have nothing of their own. Their only function, the only thing they ever succeed at, is tearing down & corrupting things other people made.

Good omen

as a liberal who is seriously committed to the political project of establishing a vibrant multiracial and equitable democracy in the united states, i am a militantly committed accelerationist

Should Congress change hands, full bribery investigations should ensue.

So am I interpreting this video right? A delivery guy rides up on a bike, a bunch of goons hanging out in combat gear clock that he's not white, and try to jump him? I don't see any other reason for them to run him down like that.

This is true and also we should never accept that Trump v. United States is a valid precedent. It's not and as many justices should be removed and/or diluted with more seats and/or jurisdiction stripped as may be necessary, and eventually the repudiation of it should be codified by amendment.

under the law of the United States this man has committed a capital crime. the next president should ensure that he dies.

fun fact that while trump v. us says that the president cannot be held criminally liable for using his core powers, this does not extend to his officers

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

this is that thing i was saying last week about the loss of a moral element in politics - vavuely centrist people scared to ever say "I don't care how popular it is, it's still wrong"

Trump is building a personalist regime where every university must bend the knee or lose funding and every business must bend the knee or face tariffs, H-1B fees, and regulatory blackmail. You can't cover each domain in isolation; they are all the same story.

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Well at least I'm not tempted to spend $70 on Battlefield 6 anymore.

This statement is fucking pathetic.

Insane. Dems hire consultants who give them little keyword phrases. They believe if they repeat these phrases enough they’ll magically become popular and win elections: “Healthcare,” “grocery prices.” It’s actual cargo cult thinking, and actively encouraged by the highest echelons of the party.

And they have to anticipate and prebut the cries that calling for this reform is “changing the rules because they’re upset they lost a democratic election.” These reforms must happen specifically because the current SCOTUS majority has used their perch to rewrite the constitution itself.