JD Vance wants to use the 25th Amendment to become president. Stephen Miller wants to exploit Trump’s dementia to run the country himself. Call it the new checks and balances.

Neither blacks nor women nor poor people had a voice when the Constitution was framed. So it’s hard to see why we should tolerate all this whining. by Jonathan Turley

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

David Ellison, the head of Paramount/CBS, is a Nepo Baby son of billionaire psycho Larry Ellison, who just bought TikTok and wants to buy Warner Bros/Discovery (CNN, HBO). He's the biggest private donor to Israel, hard core right wing Zionist and Trump supporter. Bari Weiss is their Luca Brasi.

please wake it up for @suzietoot.bsky.social Sweet Charity because I am BESIDE myself

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

If you’re running for office and you cannot say that these criminals should be held responsible for their crimes and abuses then you are not worthy of being trusted with power. Period. End of story. This is the absolute baseline for everyone who wants to be a leader right now.

Happy Glynis Johns's birthday!

"Has had such a good life in this country," yes, ever since she was granted the privilege of coming here from her birth nation, Brooklyn.

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

The fascists basically control meta and Twitter/X. They’re about to control TikTok. Now they’re forcing tech company’s to delete apps they don’t like? This is your regular reminder to physically write things down. Document this time in history. Don’t rely on social media.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

The internet is designed to addict users by enabling them and creating narcissistic realities. MAGA supporters didn’t vote for Trump. They voted for authoritarianism that would twist the real world into their hateful, self-serving online fantasies. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-crisis-o...

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

just my personal observation I’ve come to realize that people like the weekends because those people don’t have to go to their jobs on the weekends. If you look, the pattern is consistent

I know most of my Jonathan Bailey content is just thirst posts, but I am genuinely invested in his success. He’s on the precipice of becoming a major star, which is incredible to be as an out gay man. I think that’s so vital, especially now, and means so much. I hope he does it.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Good thread about Vance. In JDV rant shown below, he treats Joy Reid as if she is in US on contingent basis. Should be "grateful" for its generosity. Reid was *born* in New York. Grew up there and Denver. Undergrad at Harvard. Hmmm, why might JDV view her as needing to show special 'gratitude'??

I’m probably not alone in my confusion about Marjorie Taylor Greene’s recent behavior. But my theory is that she knows — or assumes — that the Epstein files will bring down some GOP members, facilitating her own rise to power.

Man, seriously, fuck ICE

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

An excerpt from the transcript of CBS correspondent Edward R. Murrow's broadcast from Buchenwald, April 15, 1945 perspectives.ushmm.org/item/edward-...

Rest in peace, Patricia Routledge and thank you so much for making us laugh!

This is heinous, unforgivable behavior. This is systemic child abuse. This is flagrant disregard for children's humanity and fundamental rights. It is a policy that reveals the thoroughgoing moral depravity of its authors.

its weird that the president brags about inflicting pain on american citizens and cities right?

SCOTUS decisions are made to placate a convicted felon who happens to be a pedophile. This isn't a constitutional crisis; it's a goddamn crime wave.

MARY TYLER MOORE theme song writer/performer Sonny Curtis (1937-2025) will be remembered for asking “Who can turn the world on with her smile?”. But his season one lyrics cut deeper, reflecting the hopes and fears of a generation of young women who were asked “How will you make it on your own?”

Seek out, read and enjoy the current issue of the NEW YORKER containing a graceful profile of the beloved CAROL BURNETT. You'll read it twice. Especially touching are the comments of so many female comics who regard Burnett as an inspiration and a living legend.

The AMERICAN EXPERIENCE episode, HARD HAT RIOT has invaluable footage of a violent incident in 1970 on the streets of NYC. I am astonished no one was killed that day. Several participants on both sides of a familiar divide are interviewed and they still have strong emotions to this very day.

Make sure you see HARD HAT RIOT on AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. It is an informative account of how American labor drifted towards the GOP and forever changed the course of U.S. history. Looming in the background is crafty, conniving Richard Nixon...

Elizabeth Warren: "The president said 'I am going to impose a lot more pain on my fellow American citizens. I'm going to impose a lot more pain on people in NY who need to use those tunnels so I can get my way politically.' To me, that is a place to stop & say, then we're ready to fight about this"

One more thought on this... he's trying to provoke today's hippie punchers, the way Dick Nixon whipped them into a frenzy for the "hard hat riots"--a planned assault on protesters coordinated by Nixon himself. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hard...

Agree. Nixon also exploited protests of the Vietnam War (1970 hard hat riots in New York after the Kent State murders) … he capitalized on the construction workers patriotism, convincing them he was pro worker and acquired more power with them … this was a inflection point in the Republican Party

So the US Government is closed. Broadway actors are going to go on strike. Inflation is up. Today's job numbers are down. But Trump and his family are enriching themselves; according to Forbes, $4-5B in seven mos. How's that working out for you, America? www.reuters.com/business/wor...

Priorities.

Mike Johnson reminds me of a prissy third grader who will tattletell on you to the teacher.

If you’ve never seen Darling Lili may I suggest you keep it that way since nobody should have persuaded poor Julie Andrews to play a Nazi spy (honest) BUT… in it she sings this Henry Mancini/Johnny Mercer song exquisitely and today, for heaven’s sake, is her 90th birthday. youtu.be/0of8-MxqVRY

Big budget American action movies have jumped the shark so many times that they’ve lost the plot on how to make an entertaining b-story without being distasteful.

Many Evangelical Christians have no issue with a third-rate television repoter with no military experience and a draft doger lecturing our generals. Fine, how about this Sunday you put an atheist up on your stage to tell you how to live your faith.

I mean, my god...

I can't recall the last time I experienced such a high level of vicarious joy, seeing this photo of Sandy Duncan at @alexwinter.com's Waiting for Godot opening night.

Oh, nothing, just a copy of John Van Druten’s Behold, We Live inscribed “with love” to Ruth Chatterton.

I was not ready for Richard Linklater's wonderful Blue Moon, his sharp, sad portrait of the lyricist Lorenz Hart, at #NYFF. It's not a biopic but a night-in-the-life, single-location comedy-drama, and the contrivance totally works. Ethan Hawke is spectacular--it's maybe the performance of his life.

9:30 pm Shots ring out on Cape Fear River, NC. 3 dead, at least 5 injured. 2:22 am Shots ring out Bourbon Street, New Orleans. 1 dead, 3 injured. 10:25 am Shots ring out Mormon church, Michigan. 2 dead, 8 injured. All of this happened within 13 hours.

Carrie Coon just called me a gentleman