It’s essential that you find common ground with Trump supporters. For instance, you know that you have many flaws, and they believe you are less than human. Work with that. —Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

If Bluesky goes belly up I'm not joining Threads or whatever comes next, I'll get a PO box and start exchanging handmade zines with folks over snailmail.

With the AI image and everything. This is the thing that's made me angriest about the wimpy Dem/elite response to this round of Trump shit: these people are absolute donkeys, they don't know how to DO anything. Jam them, challenge them, mock them, all they can do is fucking cry, sue, and post.

Novice here is *very charitable

Hey why haven’t I seen an all-hands press conference from democratic leadership saying the president must be impeached for threatening to use troops on US citizens? Like why aren’t 25 key Dems in a room right now with every camera in the country? @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ? @schumer.senate.gov ?

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.

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

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

I urge members of the public to remain calm, stay safe, and document what you see with your phones and cameras. My senior team has also asked legal organizations to support monitoring on the ground.

This would be a great time for protesters in Portland to take some time off. Give the troops nothing to do. Make them look ridiculous standing around with nothing to do. Restart the protests when the troops leave.

I expect to see every citizen of Portland running through teargas with Michael Clayton-level Gatling guns of baguettes under their arms on Fox News, and 24 hours later I want to see all of them AI'd into the Starship Troopers "I'M DOING MY PART" scene with boule-crust helmets and loaf rifles by God.

Speaker Mike Johnson is delaying the swearing in of newly elected Adelita Grijalva to stop the vote to release the Epstein Files www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Let’s call a lie a lie, shall we?

I really hate everyone

Everyone could use a reminder that the idea behind our system of government is that we cede some of our power to it in exchange for it working on our behalf. When it stops doing that it becomes illegitimate and must be changed. The idea that the people can "betray" a government organ is perverse

i'm stuck on the analysis that conservative media functions as a hyperreal simulacrum so that whenever anything real real (one of the fonts of hyperreal getting made dead) punches through it all just goes especially crazy

Philomena Cunk does.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

To our trans community: We know it’s been a long year, and that the news cycle and hateful attacks can take a toll. We feel it too. You are not alone. You are loved, you are seen, and we will never stop showing up for you.

I wrote about the leveling and deranging effects of the Trumpist snitchscape, and the awful content creation imperatives governing this awful moment. defector.com/the-united-s...

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

His brand of it is particularly garish but all authoritarianism is basically government by spoiled child. No capacity for or interest in any principles. People who are nice to me get treats, people who are mean to me get abuse. I get what I want or I cry and thrash. Embarrassing

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*. There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

Partial collection: the Magic of AI...

I just got the most unintentionally funny legal threat from a guy who sent me a harassing message on LINKEDIN (Lolol) and when I screencapped it and told his employer to “come get your guy” he sent me an email threatening to take me to court for tortious interference

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

We finally fixed illegal immigration (nobody wants to come here anymore)

The Hatfields keep blaming the McCoys every time a Hatfield shoots another Hatfield.

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ Trans people are "a vulnerable minority group that has been widely demonized. Any good journalistic practice would involve nailing down accuracy to avoid making things worse." – @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/politics/777...

Significant, on many levels.

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

Keep picturing Patel dropping the casings in terror after reading “if you read this youre gay”

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

13/Initial data is in. DC occupation = sudden stop to economy. Foot traffic, bike share usage, hotels all see fall. Some up to 20%. Mass scale deterrence scares people from engaging in daily life. Businesses and economy take the hit. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

pro-tip: this vegetarian red beans and rice recipe is killer. the use of white miso and soy sauce for umami is a great idea. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020...

how about you get bent you old toilet

no one is obliged to mourn someone who wanted them dead

These are all people who wanted to kill their enemies before Charlie Kirk was shot, are more vocal about it now, and will keep lusting for it long after Charlie Kirk has been buried. Today’s biggest event could have been a dog farting and they would have reacted by wanting you dead.

that book came out dude we know what they are trying to hide, the president molested a whole lot of teenagers in the 80s and 90s could you just say that now instead of this shit please

I have a mint Venus of Willendorf still in the original packaging.

Among myriad problems with this ruling, can we pause to appreciate the childlike naïveté exhibited by Cavanaugh on the barely-worth-mentioning inconvenience of being detained and interogated by ICE? We are approaching Plessy levels of obtuseness, or feigned obtuseness.

How embarrassing to work for the organized kidnapping ring known as "ICE." Rolling out of bed every day to be a brainless goon. You are lower than a worm to me

Anti-ICE/Gestapo protest - Chicago, IL Right now!

Would suck if at the US Open tomorrow chants of “Epstein” broke out while Trump was in the crowd.