How much ketchup is on the WH walls tonight?

Super gratifying to hear JD Vance’s brother lost his race to a Muslim. Congrats to Cincinatti Mayor Aftab Pureval!

Holding the people of Jamaica in my heart tonight.

I’m going to buy Virginia Giufree’s memoir tomorrow. Because I want that to be a smash best seller. But I don’t know if I have the courage to read it.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

The only way I’ll be disappointed with Bad Bunny hosting the Super Bowl halftime show is if he does not reprise his Tia Rosa character, with special guest Pedro Pascal as protective mother.

This is absolutely horrific. To attack a synagogue and kill people, and that too on Yom Kippur. Vile and inexcusable.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

This whole section really.

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May)

We need to take the nuclear football away from grandpa.

www.facebook.com/share/r/1A4G... Dear Ezra Klein….

We should protest like the Italians over the crumbling of our democracy

New in PN: Trump posts his Watergate tapes "People! The man literally used his social media platform to tweet out a demand that his attorney general prosecute his opponents, ones he’s already characterized as 'guilty as hell.' This isn’t 'venting.' It’s criminal."

"kristi noem and corey lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together" absolutely cursed sentence

Researching a newsletter item about Tom Homan and it's remarkable how this story from just last year was tossed down the memory hole www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Just curious, is it still legal in America to be against fascism? I do not support Hitler or Mussolini’s ideologies and they were fascist. So I guess I am anti-fascist? But now we can’t shorten that to anti-fa(scist) because that would get us investigated? Explain it like I’m in middle school….

now is the autumnal equinox of our discontent

The Supreme Court Just Knocked Down One of the Final Guardrails Against Dictatorship

The Christian right has become an increasingly powerful force in American politics at every level, from school boards to the presidency. Its roots trace back decades. (Published Oct. 2024) By @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social

GN 💚folks. We'll be dreaming sweet dreams about @lastweektonight.com "Look at some point, you're going to have to draw a line[...] instead of rolling over why not stand up and use four key words they don't tend to teach you in business school? [...] Fuck you. Make me." youtu.be/ohPToBog_-g?...

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

NEW POD: We thought Tom Homan was an extreme border hawk and ideologue. Now we know this powerful law enforcement official, who's depriving immigrants of their freedom, may also be a corrupt law-breaker! @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on the latest Bulwark Podcast:

The First Amendment Wins www.nbcnews.com/business/med...

"Antifa" is not, never was, and never will be an organization. It's a cause. Declaring "antifa" to be terrorism is making the viewpoint of being against fascism illegal. That includes anyone and everyone who opposes this administration. Things are about to get very very bad.

They are literally canceling culture

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

ICYMI: Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia grad student detained for more than three months before being freed, has been ordered deported to Syria or Algeria by a US immigration judge, per new court filing -- his lawyers say they'll keep fighting in fed court. From Patty Hurtado: buff.ly/lFGp3Fo

It has already started.

See how this works?

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

I humbly propose we start replying “Okay, groyper” to people who spew unhinged MAGA rhetoric.

So, we are supposed to believe that an Uber-conservative, gun-toting, extremely-online, young white adult male in *Utah* was radicalized by a a*leftist* dark web, because he loves an MTF roommate? Cool, cool. Also, where is this leftist dark web and how do I join? Lol

“But I am—I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.” - Charlie Kirk, 2025

Russian drones invade Poland’s airspace. A reminder that appeasement never brings peace from tyrants.

www.cnn.com/2025/09/06/p... A named threat to wage war on Americans. We wouldn’t accept this from a foreign leader. It’s unacceptable from a man who calls himself our President.

Governor Maura Healey is such a badass.

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

IDK man, but going full Lusitania on a Venezuelan civilian boat -possibly full of migrants, not drugs - doesn’t seem like the thing that earns one a Nobel Peace Prize….

This is a remarkable article. Federal judges are increasingly speaking out against SCOTUS’s approach to the shadow docket. This isn't typical & underscores the impossible position for lower courts when SCOTUS makes new law on its emergency docket – especially when it doesn’t explain its rulings. /1

I hope Senator Warren gives RKF Jr an aneurysm

What happens after CDC is the target of a terror attack inspired by RFK Jr? CDC staff are receiving calls from assholes who play audio of gun shots. We don’t know who these people are. But we know who inspires this behavior. It’s time to FIRE RFK Jr.

What’s next Trump? Ethiopia? The Sudatenland?

This is insane. Free Nicole! www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...

Dear NATO leaders and President Zelenskyy: Please share your thoughts on Trump’s mental acuity and cognitive capabilities. Please also compare/contrast Trump to President Biden c. 2024.

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Dear Ukraine, Sorry the orange idiot sold you out, and yeah, it's really humiliating to have a head of state like that. At least you have one with brains and guts. p.s. Middle screenshot is from the 2016 debate, where HRC noted that Putin wanted a puppet. He got one.

For those in DC.

Inca society kept records by encoding information into knotted cords called khipu. A new analysis of hair woven into these cords suggests this record-keeping was practiced by commoners as well as elites.