A good illustration of how traditional journalistic neutrality runs into trouble with Trump, these people are required to live in a Trumpist halluciniation that demands they invent and believe total fictions to remain in good standing bsky.app/profile/mmas...

“They should accept it because they looked a little Mexican. It’s the price of a free society.” Kavanaugh, J., concurring.

Trump has seized investigative and prosecutorial weapons that, in order to safeguard the rule of law, have traditionally been walled off from the president. SCOTUS handed him these loaded weapons.

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

In private conversations in recent years, Trump has referenced the opening scene of the de Palma movie SCARFACE in discussing his claims that foreign governments are nowadays loading caravans and what not with criminally insane & violent people; no I’m not kidding

Lol. Lmao

Republican opposition to political violence still going strong on regime outlets bsky.app/profile/acyn...

It’s oddly comforting when people who push deeply immoral public policy are shown to be horrible people generally. Like, it would be unsettling if Homan were a straight arrow who paid for operations for orphans.

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

“Stop the Count”: food-insecurity version. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Republicans think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/npr....

I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.

I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.

spinning this as anything other than a fraudulent investigation and an assault on institutional autonomy is wholly unserious.

Obsolete Joke: An American tells a Russian that people in USA have the freedom of speech and that he even could go to the White House and shout: "Go to hell, Ronald Reagan!" The Russian answers: "Oh, we also have freedom of speech. I, too, can go to Kremlin and shout:" Go to hell, Ronald Reagan!"

Worth noting that Khalil (and others) who have everything to lose, have shown more bravery and commitment to free speech than elites across academia, corporate America, culture and politics bsky.app/profile/josh...

9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year: “Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”

Free speech is when conservatives can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/tani...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

The kid mystery episode of Poker Face is amazing

Alarming reports that the Trump admin is trying to silence history at the National Park at Harper’s Ferry—where abolitionist John Brown led a raid seeking to arm slaves for a revolt. Signs being targeted include those that refer to “racial discrimination.” archive.is/gGV2d

This left wing political correctness is getting out of control bsky.app/profile/kiss...

I don’t think any country in the history of the world has ever done anything as stupidly self destructive as what Trump and RFK jr are doing with vaccines.

Mark A. Welsh III resigned as president of the Texas A&M University flagship on Thursday in a stunning fallout that comes a week after a viral “whistleblower” video circulated that raised questions about a professor’s teaching on gender identity issues. bit.ly/4mrwjVD

Oh. My. God. Profoundly twisted framing from @nytimes.com The casual reader of this hed and subhed would have exactly zero inkling that this is likely corrupt or even illegal or unconstitutional. Euphemistic to the point of absurdity.

You threaten to conquer a country a whole bunch of times and all of a sudden people get all mad bsky.app/profile/step...

If you’ve ever wondered why crime is higher in majority-Black, Democrat-controlled cities, you can just look at the data. Spoiler alert: it’s not.

Eggsy is growing more egg shaped (he’s perfect)

Free speech is when Trump can say what he wants and when you can say what Trump wants. bsky.app/profile/twse...

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Orbanization of America… “Two independent journalistic voices, CBS News and CNN, could soon be combined into something potentially almost unrecognizable, something way too close to what is served up on a daily basis by the Murdochs.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

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Eggsy is growing more egg shaped (he’s perfect)

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.

"Skeletor Announces His Endorsement of Darth Vader"

Don't be chickenshit.

This is what I wrote four years ago during the "Woke Capital" nonsense. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Decent start, now also explain how you're going to break up the TV-station conglomerates that gave Carr the leverage

Free idea that literally every Democrat in Congress could and should get behind today: Impeach Brendan Carr.

The loser energy that radiates off "it's illegal not to like me" shit like this is palpable bsky.app/profile/zack...

Firing me is fascism, but firing you? That's freedom, baby bsky.app/profile/joel...

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

Wonder if it’s sinking yet for all the shitty comedians who backed Trump because some libs hurt their feelings.

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

The incentive structure here is pretty bad since they get paid no matter the results bsky.app/profile/dari...

The idea that the alleged killer in the Kirk case was a right winger is really not borne out by the evidence submitted in the indictment yesterday and people should stop saying that.

Silksong is wild because the game is so well made but also i want to die every time i reach a boss

Oh a forced sale to regime allies? Shocker.