Agreed. This ought to be examined immediately.

'out of the three mass shootings today'

Brett Kavanaugh: well, he is a brown-skinned delivery driver, so this is fine actually. This is the world we want to live in.

🚨BREAKING: Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe (R) signed House Bill 1 into law Sunday, approving a Trump-ordered gerrymander made to guarantee Republicans a 7-1 advantage in the state’s U.S. House delegation. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

"China’s move to stop buying US soybeans underscores how Trump’s ambitions to use tariffs as a lever with Beijing have repeatedly backfired... "Agriculture exports to China were down 53% in the first 7 months of 2025, compared with the same period last year" www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

"Because of changes that are starting to roll out from Trump's 'big, beautiful' bill... about 2.4 million people could lose access to the food stamps per month... "Millions more will see their monthly benefit amounts shrink because of changes mandated by the law... www.cbsnews.com/news/food-st...

that's so weird, john roberts assured me the immunity decision meant this would not happen??

Looks like Putin's attempt to bully Moldova has failed. With 90% of votes counted, the pro-European Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) has a 20 point lead over the Russian-funded Patriotic Bloc open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

ICE boats trawling the Chicago River. This is the DUMBEST thing I've seen in my entire life. No exaggeration. What's next? Humvees loaded with armed, masked agents patrolling Disney's Main Street U.S.A.? #Chicago

I still think it’s backwards that every mass shooter owning an AR-15 is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

that we have built an alternate media ecosystem in which every American city is an apocalyptic hellhole - completely unmoored from reality - and the political system has collapsed to the point that the president can use this fabrication to send troops against his own citizens is a staggering failure

Twenty-five years ago today, the FDA approved mifepristone for abortions. Now, it's more under threat than ever. I took a look at its history and the current efforts to restrict access to the abortion pills for @motherjones.com:

What would the reaction be if Democratic politicians went on TV every week to talk about how scary and dangerous Louisiana was, or how bleak and depressing life in rural Mississippi is, or how Oklahoma ranks last in education and “God, can you imagine being from there?”

separate from everything, the idea that 2020 was a squeaker but 2024 represents a historical mandate will simply be the death of me

This is a demonstration of how powerful the right wing misinformation machine is. They take a phrase or a word some Democrat said, attach the worst possible interpretation to it, and repeat their view of it THOUSANDS of times until even liberals remember it the way conservatives want them to.

Why are the richest people always so stupid? The billionaire mind virus is a real problem.

Think it’s very important we situate their claims to desire a “post-racial” nation within their demands to eliminate any policy which would actually address the material effects of racism. They’re wanted a code of silence around systemic racism, because Obama won an election.

Trump deleted his bizarre post featuring an AI video of him endorsing “medbeds,” which raises the question of whether he’s so confused that he thought it was a real video of him talking

"What matters most to Isabel isn’t finding someone to blame, since she likes herself the way she is. What matters to her is continuing to build a meaningful life with the social supports and opportunities that were unavailable to people with autism in the past." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Say this again: “they had every rule, filed every form, and spent every dollar.” It was never about “following the rules.”

They’re right (Obama drove them insane) but for the wrong reasons (being black and defying their expectations of black people was unforgiveable) bsky.app/profile/smot...

On CNN, Johnson spouts the latest bogus J6 conspiracy theory, ignoring Tapper's attempts to correct him. "Apparently, there were 274 FBI agents in the crowd," says Johnson. "Did they spur on the crowd? Did they open the gates to allow them in?" (Fact check here: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...)

“..Six months after the president’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs .., U.S. soybean farmers are learning that China — long the predominant market for their product — doesn’t need them anymore.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

I try to resist doomerism, but I have to admit that hearing Gen Z "conservatives" describe their media diets made me want to walk into the sea. Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson, etc. Ben Shapiro framed as a moderate. Bari Weiss as the go to for "liberal opinions." youtu.be/fpTXMVpdyRg?...

Actual White House quote: “go fuck yourself.” Its not being some pearl clutching prude to ask whether this is really how most Americans want their kids to see the seat of our government behave. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Republicans run the White House, Congress and Supreme Court on the principle that the only role Dems can play is bailing the GOP out from facing the consequences of their own actions. They expect Dems to clean up after them and save them from voters’ blame, and sadly some Dems want to do just that.

📣 NEW: How full of shit is this Hill Op-Ed? Let me count the ways: acasignups.net/25/09/28/how...

the brain of the median voter needs to be studied for science

Suzie MacKenzie, contemporary printmaker who lives and works in the northern highlands of Scotland #WomensArt

Trump posting an AI video of himself promising something that doesn’t exist should get the full failing Biden front page treatment but we know it won’t.

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.” I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt. And that’s wrong.

What level of Online Boomer Brain Damage is posting an obvious AI slop video in which YOU YOURSELF APPEAR?

Border Patrol agent talks about how he knows that the people he's arresting at this nutrition bar factory in NY are "literal street rats" who would "eat our kids"

WOW. This entire story is HORRIFIC. This is FOIA of a body cam from the raid in upstate New York the same day as the Hyundai plant. It catches a Border Patrol agent on camera only bragging about denying medical care to migrants detained at the border under Biden — who he says are all "animals." 1/3

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

"'I killed a baby,' [Lt. Nick] Goc whispered ... 'You're alright, you're OK,' Lieutenant Investigator Todd Tedrow said. 'We're gonna take care of this.'"

Due to a loophole in Georgia law, state officials have the power to nullify some elections that have already happened. Critics are slamming what they call a “dystopian” rule.

In this week's episode of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social, Professor Kate Shaw (@kateshaw.bsky.social) and her co-hosts take a look at the impact of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, three years into her time on the Supreme Court. https://penncareylaw.news/42N9G7d

'“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Hail to the thief

Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland. Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming. No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

I'm glad to see House Democrats are pressing to get Rep-Elect Grijalva seated, because the fight over this is just a prelude to what the House Republicans will try in January 2027, when charges of "voter fraud" will lead to "serious questions" that will delay the seating of several new Democrats.

News --> Steve Bannon tells me he fully expects Trump to use the Texas ICE office shooting as the hook to unleash law enforcement on liberal immigration groups by connecting political violence to anti-ICE rhetoric. This is going to get ugly. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2009...

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

trump's numbers on economic policy are worse than bush/obama's during the financial crisis

So top Portland cops wrote & *testified* that fed agents have been "instigating and causing" conflict. They said agents were firing pepper balls unprovoked and "without any apparent warning" When a Portland chief called a federal agent w/ Qs, the agent hung up. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

This bananapants Yarvin tweet is a perfect example of why it's more useful to think of the US right as a movement defined by emotions and imagination, more than it is a movement defined by anything we could reasonably call "ideas." Yarvin is a first-rate reactionary fabulist, and a 7th rate thinker.

I hate credulous headlines like this. It’s like saying Hitler is sending troops into Poland to address “border provocations.”

We can't afford 12 cents a day to keep HIV-positive children alive. We can't afford $2 mosquito nets to keep kids from dying of malaria. But we can afford $20 billion to bail out Trump's buddy in Argentina, and millions more to bring generals for a Hegseth pep talk. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...