Our Navy is assassinating civilians on boats in international waters on direct orders from the President alone and I hope every person involved in this terror campaign is tried for war crimes.

The State Department sends out these obnoxious statements without attribution, possibly because whoever is making them still feels shame, on some level, so there’s that.

In Nicaragua, longtime regime loyalists have been purged, shoring up Rosario Murillo’s power, likely to help her fully take over if her husband, longtime President Daniel Ortega, resigns or dies. I spoke with Frances Robles from the @nytimes.com about the crackdown www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/w...

My latest for @salon.com: A beloved Cincinnati imam was released from ICE detention after 72 days in the Butler County Jail. On Friday, the government suddenly dropped his case and reinstated his asylum status. www.salon.com/2025/09/20/d...

The opposition party must say what it would do if they are handed with power. It's fine and dandy to call for civil society to act. But what would the Democrats do to corporations like Disney that are bending the knee to the President?

It's grimly funny that people were doing free PR for the Senate Democratic caucus — "actually none of them bothered to oppose honoring a white nationalist; that's different!" — just as a majority of House Democrats were voting for their own chamber's version of it.

"With the exception of Netflix, a hugely profitable public company without apparent immediate need for government favor, every studio is either already compromised or about to be." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

we knew this from the data but there really is nothing these freaks love to do more than assault women

“Antifa is indeed a terrorist organization,” Orbán said. “In Hungary, too, the time has come for us to classify organizations such as antifa as terrorist organizations, following the American model.” apnews.com/article/hung...

50% of Americans still support the First Amendment 🇺🇸 🦅

Cope, 2024: “the debate wasn’t really that bad” Cope, 2025: “the Nazi regime only lasted 12 years”

As a Bluesky moderate, I don't think we are destined to live under a thousand-year MAGA Reich, and I don't think every demonstration of arbitrary and capricious state power is #actually a sign of weakness and imminent regime collapse. This means I am annoyed all the time.

[Just voted for Charlie Kirk Day.]

at the zenith of RFK Jr. breaking medicine, science and trust forever, Olivia Nuzzi is named West Coast Editor of Vanity Fair.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day was voted on 15 years after the assassination and 22 senators voted "no."

Charlie Kirk called for the execution of Joe Biden in 2023.

The public mourning of Charlie Kirk is more about Donald Trump than the deceased.

"Possible slogans that Pentagon leaders have discussed include 'Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors,' according to the officials." www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Maybe the political system can deliver cities not occupied by hostile military force?

I'm less concerned with people who think American democracy is permanently irrecoverable (tho I've yet to see anyone actually say this), and more concerned with those who still think America is currently a democracy.

Senior officials at Trump's SBA and USTR are working behind the scenes to help MAGA-friendly businesses owned by Trump donors: www.salon.com/2025/09/18/e...

"That negative development — each demonstration of an unchecked executive's tyrannical influence on every aspect of American society, while soldiers occupy cities and masked agents throw people in unmarked vans — is actually a sign that the regime is collapsing." Hey, maybe!

Damn dude that sucks

Bruh. It's the First Amendment... www.politico.com/playbook

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

The difference now is he has Kash Patel and not Christopher Wray.

Again, I knew society was fucked when my dad, during COVID, clearly described a goth teenager picking up a DoorDash order and claimed he had seen "Antifa" in the Philadelphia suburbs.

They're only consolidating power and purging all their critics from public life because they know they're losing. Now let's talk about the price of eggs.

My contribution to anti-wokeness is that I think it was okay to refer to Donald Trump as a "convicted felon" and that going with the tortured "man convicted of 34 felonies" phrasing doesn't do much, materially, to help someone who might have been unjustly convicted of a drug offense.

A complete collapse of political norms around virtue and ethics since 2016. This celebration of cruelty and violence, and the encouragement of the public to take joy in violence against others, is very unhealthy for society.

We are witnessing a swift and sweeping consolidation of media (traditional and social) into the hands of a small number of billionaires who are actively aligned/aligning (both via free will and coercion) with Trump and his right wing political party. This is (I’ll say it) a fascist project.

September 2025 and we still have folks talking about “bipartisan immigration reform”: www.salon.com/2025/09/15/a...

The performative subservience of everything and everyone from NFL teams to Democratic governors to university administrators is a dark commentary on the state of American democracy. www.salon.com/2025/09/17/t...

As GOP leaders round up immigrants without warrants, occupy cities with troops, and argue for putting all transgender women in concentration camps, Dem leaders are negotiating with the GOP...for a small extension of tax credits for health care. www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/r...

Tips from an 83-year-old man on the bus in Vienna today: Keep your passport in the inside pocket of your jacket, and make lots of friends.

Government funding is the one card congressional Democrats have to play, and one they could and should use to push back against Trump's authoritarianism. What's their big demand? RFK Jr's resignation? Reforms in ICE? Stand down of National Guard? NOPE. "Obamacare enhanced premium tax credits"

A story no one is talking about - last week's high school shooting in Denver. 16-year-old white boy radicalized online and promoting white supremacist and anti-Semitic conspiracies, inspired by - and a fan of - terrorists who promoted replacement theory. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The performative subservience of everything and everyone from NFL teams to Democratic governors to university administrators is a dark commentary on the state of American democracy. www.salon.com/2025/09/17/t...

The President of Barnard College calls for more controversial speakers like the late Kirk (without citing any of his controversial views), a position at odds with what Barnard colleagues describe as a track record of censoring events and speakers on Palestine. (1/4) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

— Wilhelm Reich, “The Mass Psychology of Fascism”

Functional democracies don’t do this.

Look, I know people say this, but I really am not sure what evidence they're using for that claim. Dictators are, generally speaking, pretty unpopular! They don't need mass buy-in - only enough guys with guns to back up their words and shoot anyone who disagrees.

“We are going to have to live here with one another” is a noble goal, but there is a political movement whose leaders are telling you they are not interested in that. Adjust accordingly

Kirk tried to blame Tim Walz for the shooting!

If you murder Democrats you get coverage like this in right-wing media.

As a life-long, landless renter, I actually do believe three-time Trump voters should lose their farms; a "not my problem" situation. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

This is the leader of the Democratic opposition, under fascism.

"Shahnaz delivered their baby girl in the car. Shortly after, she died, bleeding profusely. A few hours later, before she could be named, their baby also died." www.bbc.com/news/article...

These are some of his worst comments about LGBTQ+ people made by Charlie Kirk.

Austrian little libraries aren’t fucking around.