Be part of the global far-right agenda and you can expect the US government to back you up, regardless of your domestic failings.

I will not give up on wearing ties even if I am the only one left

I am thinking about the Kirk “funeral” in contrast with the public funeral for Fr. Daniel Berrigan. Berrigan - an irrepressibly political figure - was mourned with just communion & his niece’s encouragement to follow the steps of Elisha and ask for a double portion of the prophet’s power.

Again I will say it: based on the story we currently have, the deep irony is that if Robinson had been organized into a political trans rights group, Kirk would still be alive.

So Christian, these Christian nationalists.

my theory is it started with their nuclear fixation, which spread the idea that renewables were unreliable/too variable, and then switched over to gas when they realized nuclear was not a real option in the short term.

I would like to read a deep dive reported piece on how tech CEOs stopped being clean energy boosters and became fossil fuel promoters. It feels like it happened with the Silicon Valley radicalization, but saying that feels very squishy to me.

ICYMI: There is something to be learned, I think, from the example of those who came to quietly pay respects at the grave of a man forgotten and despised, to continue the “hopeless fight” for justice and freedom at a time when conventional wisdom and all the powers that be stood against them.

The strong social norms (and laws!) against this in Germany are quite refreshing, both in the extreme bad case and in the annoying case (far fewer influencers filming themselves walking down the street).

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

The thing about this is it costs nothing to simply not put your thoughts on the topic in your book, and anyone who is at all savvy will know that if you do, there *will* be a story about it in the political press.

If the socialists are the only one you see fighting for you, you’re going to go with the socialists. I’ve heard stories from friends of institutions’ endorsement discussions around Mamdani where the anti-communist inclination was totally overcome by people’s sense that he had their backs.

we're going to win

Signs of the times in New York.

Dems ought to be telling people now these letters are worth absolutely nothing.

I have two more things to say about the discourse du jour on here. One is that you have to be able to observe and understand what is actually happening. I am not talking about “is it fascism,” I am talking about “who is the government currently targeting *specifically* and how.”

Morning Spew for Night Owls—Will New York approve a gas pipeline to power AI data centers because Trump held its wind power hostage? Looks like it! What a world.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Hey chat if I slammed my forearm into a hard surface real bad and it’s a little swollen and I have tingling in my hand and it hurts when I bend my arm past 90 degrees what’s the chance I broke my arm Asking bc I don’t wanna deal with travel health insurance at urgent care?

U.S. leftists should read If We Burn and how globally all of the “leaderful”, decentralized protest movements of the 2010s mostly failed and members pretty uniformly wish they had been more centralized and organized and less anarchist

I have dear friends who were (are?) evangelical Christians and were driven out of their churches, often including formal processes for stripping them of leadership, for opposing Trump.

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

It's worth stressing how at odds Adams is here with established policy in New York. Students use whatever bathrooms and other facilities that are consistent with their expressed gender identity. This has been true for years and it's fine, honestly I'm not sure it's even controversial at this point.

Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

"Organize at a national level and also don't have any sort of way to contact people electronically" is completely nonsensical in the year 2025 The most charitable read is you could do it by rebuilding community institutions and great, that effort should bear fruit by the middle of the century maybe

I've lived in both a full blown autocracy (China) and one of the great resistance states (SK) a) if you were *actually* practicing security, none of this would be on this highly visible public platform. b) courage is an important part of resistance, organization is an even more important part

Of course it’s your job to put yourself at risk for democracy and human rights. You don’t have to do it for Indivisible, but most other options will come with *more* risk, not less.

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)

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Perhaps the concentration of wealth and economic power plus the consolidation of major industries *was* a problem for society and an existential threat to democracy. Oops!

Sinclair, run by right-wing media mogul David Smith, says suspending the Jimmy Kimmel show isn’t enough. It is going to run a tribute to Kirk during Kimmel’s time slot. Sinclair stations will run not consider putting Kimmel back on air until he apologizes and donates to Turning Point USA

I am reminded of how a jury of New Yorkers did their duty in convicting Donald Trump when Merrick Garland whiffed it.

It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious. @mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

LRT: for my money the Hyundai raid is the event with the highest potential consequence:level of discussion by US politicians ratio this year.

KCTU statement.

Unfortunately in our times the salience of this depends on whether politicians believe they will be blamed for it if they do not act to stop climate change.

This is how you know it is about flinching from right wing attacks rather than actually saying popular things.

ned is exactly right. the challenge is reconnecting the democratic party to a mass constituency and building real affinity between voters and the party. it would be more worthwhole to put $10 million into piloting democratic clubs and associated newspapers bsky.app/profile/resn...

As a parent I can definitely say that getting emotional and threatening more and more draconian punishment for smaller and smaller “offenses” is a sign of strength and definitely works if you push hard enough. Good job guys, the thousand year reich is right around the corner.

I know this isn’t typically how this works, but we’re in a big mess of Not Usually How This Works and I gotta think it’d at least be fun for a bunch of countries and corporations to insist on Stephen Miller’s firing as a precondition for further business investment.

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

the irony is that Robinson getting involved with the organized trans rights movement would likely have led to Kirk being alive today

gang I can’t be the only person who was raised conservative & indoctrinated with 2A stuff & then began to meet more types of people and shift who I thought needed protected etc. before my underlying structural & moral politics caught up and shifted left. i’m confused how this is confusing everyone

the irony is that Robinson getting involved with the organized trans rights movement would likely have led to Kirk being alive today

Biden should have enforced the TikTok ban

Oh a forced sale to regime allies? Shocker.

Imagining the paper trail and other evidence that would be involved if a leftist activist murdered Kirk because he was a hateful asshole makes it pretty clear how incongruent and incoherent his murder actually was.

Unfortunately this is bad news for the Amazon

I’m seeing “don’t give your information to indivisible and wear a mask to prevent surveillance” going around on socmed again and let me tell you: if we are in a position where publicly attending a march alongside a million+ people gets you specifically targeted, nothing else you do will save you.