One thing remains a constant: conservative or note, Marc A. Thiessen remains profoundly untalented and an exhausting nit.

"The right loves the accounts, which often rail against supposed voter fraud. They’re run by a Macedonian who illegally donated to a U.S. House candidate." Yes indeed. MAGA doesn't care, even when they learn the truth. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Donnie Littlehands has secured an indictment of Attorney General Letitia James. She has responded in a statement—a Big, Beautiful Statement, a statement Magnificent in its Wisdom and Insight, a statement that Shines a Spotlight on her Puny and Pathetic attacker. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

I am really glad that @jeremymberg.bsky.social wrote this. Everybody who cares about science, and about knowledge generation and civil society generally, should read and share with their favorite administrator. Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

“Now Trump has secured an indictment of Attorney General James. She responded in a statement…” ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

In the eight days since the government shut down, President Donald Trump and his allies have engaged in a furious public campaign against Democrats. But behind the scenes, Trump and his aides have still not engaged with Democrats at all.

There’s a reason academics universally rejected the initial push to canonize Charlie Kirk as a saint devoted to free speech. We know all too well that’s the exact opposite of reality.

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

One of the first tests of mettle for Bari Weiss as Editor-in-Chief will be the way it handles those "nightmares of urban dystopia based on conservative media doom loops" and injected into public discourse by the President himself. When asked about it, how will she deal with lying the size of a city?

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The entitled jerks at the top of every hierarchy do not want anybody thinking about “class war”. #JerkedAround

A lot of newspapers printed and distributed their own products. Until the bottom fell out of the industry.

Yeah cool. Pull even more federal agents off counterterrorism, child porn, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, and fraud investigations to do absolutely nothing.

I think we are well past the point where future historians look at us and say that civil war could not be averted.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Abusive people don't feel bad for hurting you, but they feel bad when you tell others what they did to you because it damages their reputation.

"everybody has a smartphone these days lol" false. that's something you made up. only 91% of Americans have smartphones. those last 9% are still people who deserve services (and probably need them more than anybody else). that's still like 30.6 million people

It's inspiring that a person can start a Substack and with nothing more than strong ideas, hard work, and the support of a few billionaires plus a corrupt FCC merger review process achieve a lucrative exit plus power over a television network.

I've been trying to put my finger on why ICE/DHS lies feel so much more outrageous than normal cop lies, and I think it's because they don't lie like cops, they lie like aggressively stupid criminals

“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

California is the manufacturing capital of America, period. We create more jobs, produce more goods, and drive more innovation than anywhere else in the country — because what gets built in California shapes the future and powers the U.S. economy.

Ah. We appear to be minus a government.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

Hands down @oliverdarcy.bsky.social is the main must read in media reporting www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

This is remarkable, if the title is a bit misleading. It's about way, way more than venture capital fascists and their projects. Not sure who's behind it, but it's worth at least a look. Valuable resource...

Am I correct that the only Americans to get any benefit from the WH this year who isn’t in the Administration (or a relative) are Ghislaine Maxwell and the 1/6 insurrectionists?

Blue states need to band together to protect immigrants, science, health, and our values. Some of this is happening already, we just need to face what more we can and must do www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

An Australian media observer caught one of the Murdoch family's right-wing propaganda arms being its regular shitty self, and the outlet's "excuse" would have to improve to be pathetic.

Trump’s order to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Chicago is illegal, immoral, and must be stopped by the courts. ICE is already wreaking havoc in our communities. Let’s call this what it is: an invasion by out-of-state troops coming here only with the purpose of tormenting Chicagoans.

October 5, 2025

“hard-right Christian nationalist” = psychopath; one example: Russell Vought

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

I posted this one week after the election in 2024. Holds up.

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

I mean, obviously. The correct thing to do when DHS or ICE or any of these thugs makes a claim like this one -- the only thing to do, really -- is presume they are lying. Because they always are. They are state-sponsored Klan members, and should be treated accordingly.

“Authoritarianism feels surprisingly normal – until it doesn’t.” — Gisela Salim-Peyer

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

The one positive from the past two weeks is that also the establishment "moderates" are being exposed, revealed, and rejected by the majority. Includes Van Jones, Ezra Klein, The Abundance Crew, Friedman, Maher, Yglesias, and on...

What the fuck is the matter with 340 million humans living in siloed echo chambers, trying to tread water while the bullshit keeps flooding in . . . Nothing good ever came from fascism, America.

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files. But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

Too many people waste far too much of their lives on received nonsense.

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

"Fuck ICE" is a patriotic sentiment. Perhaps the most patriotic in this moment.

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

January 6 was basically a training session for upcoming ICE agents.