Hey @newsweek.com, what is this garbage? Maybe at least finish the sentence before you breathlessly throw shit out there without verifying it? www.newsweek.com/joshua-jahn-...

This is Trump’s America.

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

We really need to refocus on teaching the scientific process to people. The research review that triggered all of this did not come to the conclusion that Tylenol causes autism. At all.

Lord knows we don't want to offend the white supremacists by calling the racist losers. Right? Got to say, I'd love to return racism to being a shameful thing. Let's do that.

ICE agents grabbed a 5-year-old girl outside of her home and held her, screaming, to coerce her father, who has been in the US for 22 years, to be detained. This is cruel, disgusting, and must end. Trump is tearing families apart. www.nbcboston.com/news/local/i...

Here are two minutes of lowlights from Trump’s rambling, hour-long address to the UN General Assembly that Twitter is calling one of the most embarrassing moments in recent US history. Subscribe to zeteo.com for more.

This is, very unironically, a huge part of the explanation of how we got here. A class of elites who are so disconnected from world events, they simply aren't able to identify bad actors when they come calling.

So many coverups. Release the Epstein files. Release the Homan tapes. Release the Venezuelan fishing boats evidence.

This is something I observed in China: the political mediocrities were the most defensive, status-conscious and egotistical. The guys with actual talent didn’t demand respect - and also had other options.

TL;DR: Ross Douthat is a lying hack.

Still inaccurate, @nytimes.com. From what does the 1st Amendment protect us from? Social Media organizations? No. You know this. You choose to run horseshit anyways.

I told the Reverend he made me proud to be a Christian.

How does the @nytimes.com expect anyone to trust them if they don't fact check such an obvious lie?

Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"

Shit's weak, @schumer.senate.gov

"Despite congressional threat, National Academies releases new climate report" arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Our brains are not wired to comprehend presidential corruption on this scale. Nor is our government, I fear, equipped to address a financial scandal as enormous as the one. trib.al/84JYI0J

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.

the Will Smith track “Wild Wild West” just came on the radio and: 1) it was weird that for several years whenever Will made a tentpole movie he also rapped about it in partial character 2) we should make more actors do this

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

The fact that Charlie Kirk was viewed as some kind of a Titan of free speech and debate shows a bizarre trend where it somehow became acceptable for adult non student conservatives to invade college campuses and talk about why women and black people shouldn’t have basic civil liberties

This is utterly true. Government actions are not the same as private citizens trying to pressure an organization to moderate or change its stance or associations. It is THE difference here.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Does he think all those migrants are millionaires, buying up homes and outbidding Americans for... Groceries?

Tariffs strike again

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov if you two did this, your popularity would skyrocket.

Pew Research looks the same:

BS. Sen. Lummis feels the same way: speech she agrees with from people she likes must be free from verbal criticism she doesn’t like, while speech she doesn’t agree with should be unconstitutionally censored. The GOP has been remarkably consistent about that, even if it’s not how they worded it.

Let me just say a simple thing. Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy. If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

If you don't know the difference between using your speech to influence an organization you engage with and using government threats of retaliation to censor speech you don't like... Kindly stop throwing you ignorant thoughts about free speech out there. They're pretty useless.

If you spent even one second of the last decade indulging the free speech claims made by the American right in earnest, I genuinely think you're lacking in intelligence. I do not think you have what it takes to deliver sound commentary on American politics.

To actually believe this, you have to believe the following grievance is legitimate: "People don't like it when I say bigoted things. They even demand I stay away from them! This is the exact same as government oppression."

“A democratic society needs people in Ezra Klein’s position to treat Charlie Kirk’s anti-democracy stances as disqualifying, rather than pretend they’re just another policy opinion…” @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social w/an excellent critique of Kirk hagiography www.arcdigital.media/p/ezra-klein...

By making jokes about killing innocent brown people at a political rally, JD Vance is doing politics the right way. —Ezra Klein

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to -17 in our tracker, the worst of his second term www.economist.com/interactive/...

I think it's time to admit that the people we elect matter far more than the laws on the books. We hide behind laws thinking they keep us safe from people like Trump, but they do not. Only honest people with integrity can defend us against people like Trump.

Whenever I (or other shark conservation experts) say "Ocean Ramsey does not raise awareness, she says very wrong things about threats to sharks and their policy solutions," some people feel the need to say "but she taught me something" ...and what they say is always a very wrong thing!

On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city. This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.

Oh, would you look at that? open.substack.com/pub/jpaladin...

BREAKING: The DC Circuit has *rejected* Trump's bid to fire Lisa Cook from the Fed board, allowing her to participate in tomorrow's interest-rate setting meeting. Trump's last hope is a quick stay from SCOTUS. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It's honestly wild that all the people who spent years, more than a decade actually, losing their mind over "cancel culture" are now making parody of the excess of peak PC cancellations and at breakneck speed

Got fired from my job for saying that Samantha on Bewitched didn’t really wiggle her nose, she was just kind of twitching her mouth back and forth.

“Klein’s interest here isn’t honesty but flattery. It shows Klein isn’t writing about Kirk at all. He’s writing about himself and saying, ‘I’m doing politics the right way because I’m lauding someone who disagrees with me.’”

What happened after Canadian journalist @rachelgilmore.bsky.social posted about the potential repercussions of Kirk’s murder: doxxing and violent threats thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

Annnndddd, that's the ballgame! @chatterton.bsky.social you gonna comment and correct yourself? Or you gonna continue to be a sniveling coward?

Complete lies. The Republican party are traitors.