This is the part of my I-was-a-teenage-right-wing-activist phase that's always been hardest for me to talk about, because even people who've written about and researched anti-abortion violence weren't insiders in a world where middle schoolers were talking about the ethics of justifiable homicide.

This chaos also speaks to the growing awareness of the profound corruption of the Supreme Court. The excessive H1B fee is clearly illegal according to the text of the applicable statute. But no one can have any confidence anymore that it will ultimately be thrown out.

Go Birds.

It strikes me that quite a lot of people knew for the last year that the guy running our horrific deportation squads took a bag with $50k in cash from undercover FBI agents investigating corruption, and it didn’t get out until now.

In 1995 at a part-time bookstore job a customer wanted to special order “88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988.” It was out of print. Customer: Out of print? But it’s such a good book. Me: It’s 1995, sir. C: But it’s a good— Me: NINETEEN. NINETY— My Boss: OK, let me handle this one.

In 1995 at a part-time bookstore job a customer wanted to special order “88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988.” It was out of print. Customer: Out of print? But it’s such a good book. Me: It’s 1995, sir. C: But it’s a good— Me: NINETEEN. NINETY— My Boss: OK, let me handle this one.

Bonkers anti-biblical folklore nonsense, yes, but I can’t help but think that this poor woman has put more thought into “prep” than Rayford Steele, Bruce Barnes, Buck Williams, and the rest of the “Tribulation Force” ever managed to do.

Anyone who signs this pledge is not a journalist.

What the Ezra Klein brigade always misses is that if the only way “we can all live together” is to sacrifice the rights and dignity of huge swaths of Americans to appease far right reactionaries (who won’t be appeased anyway)… we actually can’t all live together!

It’s Forer Effect. Also sometimes called “Barnum effect,” if you’re wondering where this is heading.

You know who I don’t much care for? Collaborators. I mean, yeah, OK, I know … EVERYBODY hates collaborators, but, like, me too. Ugh.

As a member of the Oversight Committee, I just questioned Alex Acosta, the US Attorney who negotiated Epstein’s sweetheart plea deal. His answers were evasive and non-credible. What is clear is that there is A LOT they are hiding. I won’t stop until the full Epstein files are released.

OK, before we get into our Bible study, I just want to say again that we value civility and kindness even when we disagree, and that we condemn political violence as always absolutely unacceptable. Now let’s turn in our Bibles to the story of Elijah and the priests of Baal. …

Thinking of starting a tour of college campuses where I sit at a table with a sign reading: “Proverbs 26:4-5 are a koan, not a contradiction. Prove me wrong, bro.”

that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks

“KIM-WITTED” is a very clever pun, combining “dim-witted” and “Kim” from Kim Jong Un, our revered and glorious leader, who ordered the TV comic fired for questioning our great Lord’s all-knowing benevolence.

"We're going to keep showing up until they stop abducting our neighbors"

Big brass balls. If there’s some “crisis of masculinity” in America, it boils down to man-children who lack the cojones of this polite, soft-spoken, badass accountant and therefore fail to understand that “showing up for our neighbors” is what being a man means if it means anything.

today in "articles it would be fun to go back in time and show myself in the middle of the Bush administration and hide the name of the author and make 2005!JC guess who wrote it"

If I went to an evangelical church to advocate for abortion rights I would risk physical violence.

Every argument in favor of this sounds exactly like something Humbert Humbert would say. It’s creepy af. Just really gross and creepy.

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

Interesting polling data: Those with unfavorable views of Donald Trump are the LEAST LIKELY to support political violence.

The broader project is pretty obviously fash, but from one moment to the next the model is clearly running the whole country like an unusually insane HOA.

It is always important to cite someone’s apparently inflammatory or hateful comments in their full context. In this case, the full context is a guy who talked like this for years, and who literally made a career out of saying such things and supporting others saying (and doing) even worse things.

Sometimes I inadvertently tell people on the phone “love you, bye” when I hang up and today I’d like to congratulate the guy I scheduled my oil change with

This is one of the best distillations of Groyper ideology, accelerationism, and meme culture:

The best and most accessible explanation I’ve seen about some of the far-right subcultures and how they operate and communicate is this TikTok by @cybelecanterel.bsky.social. It’s 8 minutes long—so I can’t post it—and it’s worth every minute. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6E36akE/

I think it's a sign of how cowed the American media is that we're getting pieces like "you have to understand, in Korean culture, it's considered very rude for someone to lock you in a brutal prison camp for a week for no reason." Like yeah, any free people would be offended by that?

The guy on the right is trying hard not to march in step, but John Williams isn’t making it easy for him.

Mr. O’Neill was seated a few rows behind Hitler’s entourage that day in Berlin and he took that photo himself. He showed it to me when he taught me how to bowl at Green Brook Lanes in, like, 1975. An hour of Jesse Owens stories and “keep your thumb straight” & “use the arrows” & more Jesse stories.

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

It’s like they’re defending R. Kelly because the only thing they know about him is “I Believe I Can Fly.”

So, like, imagine your whole identity, self-esteem, and meaning in life is wrapped up in one mortal man who is nearly 80 years old and looking wobbly. You’re dreading something you can’t even allow yourself to articulate as a recognizable thought because it’s just too unbearable, too terrifying.

civility is when a white guy calls for minorities to be eliminated in a calm voice while wearing an expensive suit

I like and admire critical thinkers just as I like and admire saints. But if someone announces themself in their bio as a “critical thinker” I will block them just as fast as I block anyone who announces to others that they are a saint.

The pundits who think what Kirk was doing on campuses was open dialogue also probably think Draft Kings should let you bet on WWE.

Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

I'm also obsessed with this tidbit from Washington Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, who used to be undocumented: “This issue for me is very, very personal. Because I was a stranger, and you welcomed me,” he said. “Do you know who else said that? My boss,” he said, referencing Jesus.

This is all from the same people who want to put “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor” on the wall of every public school classroom. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The undifferentiated conspiratorial “they” ultimately always has one of two implicit antecedents. It either refers to “The Man” — i.e., The Powers That Be — or else it refers to “The Jews.” Mike Lee won’t ever be forced to say who he imagines “they” are, but I doubt he means The Man.

“Our employers told us it was ok… I will never visit 🇺🇸 again. It feels good to be free.” Hundreds of South Korean workers detained in shackles landed home, met by family who tearfully hugged them. Arrested building a factory to employ thousands. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...

Cautiously avoiding precision so as to avoid imprecision, just in case the murderer turns out to be some kind of centrist 4channer.

Horribly misleading headline. Irresponsible. religionnews.com/2025/09/12/s...

you could write an entire book about this post and I will for the right price

Maybe true that TP is the leading religious right group now, but that ain’t what it used to be. The RR & the churches that support it are now just wholly owned subsidiaries of the MAGA GOP. They take and follow orders and will continue to do so no matter what. That’s not influence.

“She said yes.”