During 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, he said: "I remember living, naked women being transported by trucks from the barracks to the gas chamber. I still hear their screams in my subconscious when I return in my thoughts to those events." His address: youtu.be/5X2UE8JOyLw

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

Our own Secretary of Defense is making the legal case for his own troops to be in the wrong in any situation. He's casting their role as lawless agressors.

It makes me so fucking mad that there was a right wing conspiracy theory that Biden’s FEMA was denying funds to North Carolina and then Trump gets into office and actually does it and…mostly silence.

Would this have gone differently if Trump hadn't gutted the Dept. of State? Would a competent diplomatic corps have salvaged some of our soybean sales to China?

This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

In her classic "famously potty mouthed" way @emptywheel.bsky.social reminds us that Jim Comey is not the only political prosecution of the moment. youtu.be/KBEgfIU8Oyg?...

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

"Yeah, so we know we're the ones in power, kidnapping in pursuit of a white christian nationalist agenda- making kids disappear, wearing masks and grabbing people off the street in broad daylight- but this is German... uh, germane to who we are. How dare you criticize us for our 'beliefs'!"

We need to build a new opposition movement. In this video, I lay out the challenge ahead and what I think we need to do to make it happen. Please watch, comment, and share. youtu.be/_GUgnpAYMCc

It's game over. The Republicans can't even hold on to a 96 year old christian great grandmother who's been voting for them her entire life. This is why they have to gerrymander. 2026 is going to be catastrophic for MAGA.

The SecDef wants all service commanders and their senior enlisted advisors to come to Quantico on short notice. It’s difficult to understand why. My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/hegseth-qu...

24. I’ll end with what I hope is a running theme – that the regime does not care about the truth behind its words, only whether those words can achieve a desired outcome. Noem said ICE agents are “simply enforcing the law” without saying they are also simply breaking it.

Vance: "If you're a man and you see the pleading eyes of a girl looking up for protection, then we have to protect our girls and our women in this country." Sure!

Why push this connection? Because it's strategic to make autism seem preventable. If it's preventable, then responsibility for prevention falls to moms. And if that responsibility is moms', then society doesn't need to spend public resources supporting autistic people and their families.

today i am challenging democratic politicians, for the rest of the week, to pick one (1) horrifying thing republicans are doing and pretend its as bad as jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended id suggest tom homan taking bribes, but theres a few things to pick from if they want

CLIP: “Figuring out ways to love my neighbor became so hard as a Republican.” Ex-GOP Lt. Gov. of GEORGIA Geoff Duncan, now running for Gov as a Dem, says others are having the same journey — and the “tone & tenor” inside the GOP chased him away. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DO9e6s2...

Let his own words and deeds define him

Charlie Kirk said it himself: he’s a bigot. This Roundup shows his uncut footage, proving the martyr myth is nothing but a self‑delusion. Time to face what the record reveals. https://lukium.substack.com/a-proper-memorial-for-charlie-kirk

Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.

Posobiec promoted the bonkers Pizzagate conspiracy that led to violence and wrote a book in which he called liberals “unhuman” and praised right-wing fascist dictators who detained, tortured, and killed leftists. So his theological bona fides are just right for MAGA.

I'm no "strategist," but it seems like a good idea for the Democrats to be united in restoring LAW AND ORDER by bringing criminals to justice. Trump wants to make it so the law is for you and everyone else, not for him and his friends. That sounds like a "kitchen-table issue" to me.

“A DESPERATE SITUATION” 🧑‍🌾 Trump’s trade war is crushing Tennessee soybean farmers, as China — their largest customer — buys NOTHING from them. Why don’t @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn @RepChrisTodd @rustygrills @CSexton25 @RepFaison @AndyOgles care? tennesseelookout.com/2025/09/15/t...

This is the other big story people aren't paying attention to but you really need to widen your lens. The broligarchy is coming for all of our milkshakes. fair.org/home/as-elli...

I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.

Well at least my job isn’t having Jeff Bezos’ opinions

Tangled web we weave

🧵This is a serious use of force violation. The violent attack of this woman must be prosecuted by Chicago/Illinois for violation of state’s rights. I’m going to break this down. You see her blocking the ICE van. Agents violently push her to the ground. Then you see 1 guy target her & choke her.

Fascism crept up on us when we let a very few immensely powerful people consolidate whole industries in very few hands. There are no longer meaningful competitive interests in healthcare, in housing, in broadcasting, in information services...

With the public firings of black and female military leadership, and the erasure of their courageous contributions to our society and institutions, I have to wonder what's happening in our military's various schools and training programs regarding minority and women's opportunities for advancement.

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social at #TAF25l: Donald Trump’s use of the military as his “personal militia” is “everything George Washington feared about what the U.S. military could become.” Watch more: bit.ly/3ItaNSB

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

so what happens next year when they completely rig the midterms? bc obviously no one is stopping them. feel like maybe we should plan ahead for that, maybe form a task force idk

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

I won’t be lectured about political violence by the party that incited an insurrection and mocked Melissa Hortman’s murder. Now they’re weaponizing Charlie Kirk’s death to silence dissent and fuel more hate. My latest on Endless Urgency. endlessurgency.com/p/i-wont-be-...

Karen Attiah, a black woman, got fired for A: accurately quoting what Charlie Kirk said about Black women B: Accurately observing that most white Americans seem permissive of white violence. It's bullshit, but almost expected in this white supremacist country.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

AND WHEN I SAY DOG WHISTLES THAT ARE FOG HORNS When Stand-Back-&-Stand-By (h/t @chriswarcraft.bsky.social) gets in the studio for a collab with Very-Fine-People ⬇️

Republicans still grouse about Harry Reid “going nuclear” ONCE, way back in 2013, to undo their blockade of D.C. Circuit judicial nominees. Supreme Court nominees were negotiated out of that. 🧵

If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.

heavy chains are being dragged along the deck

I have serious doubts as to whether, after all of its politically-motivated firings, the FBI has the capacity and expertise to actually investigate Kirk’s murder. The lawsuit filed today against Patel and the Bureau describes a complete clown show that leaves all of us less safe