Soon there will be attestations of miracles. His tiny little face will appear on toast and pancakes. Virgins (and others) will claim to be bearing his child. #CharlieKirk

Mamdani Lands Endorsement From Kamala Harris, His Biggest Yet www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

Republicans were silent or evasive about the FCC chair issuing threats such as license revocation to a network if it didn’t fire a comedian. Then Ted Cruz stepped in to denounce such a move; now more senators are speaking up. A tale of political passivity and safety in numbers.

The Supreme Court issued an order allowing President Trump’s purported firing of a Democratic commissioner of a FTC commissioner to take effect while litigation proceeds, while stating that the court would take up a DoJ appeal to decide if a precedent that would bar firing her should be overturned.

I can’t think of anything we learned about him from access journalism that benefited us in any way other than entertainment. Not a thing.

Jon Hirshberg: Just as Mussolini and Hitler had done, the American fascist REICH desperately needs Christians in the U.S. to forget that Jesus was the most "WOKE" individual in recorded human history, one who taught that his God of mercy and love is one who champions DIVERSITY, EQUITY and INCLUSION.

I wouldn't repeat the lie in the headline (without doing "truth sandwich" construction that the Times doesn't use) but much much better than the Times normally does (via use of the accurate "rambling" descriptor)

President Xi Jinping’s export engine has proved unstoppable during five months of sky-high US tariffs, sending China toward a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus. Read more: bloom.bg/3IE4xaJ 📷️: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

I can’t stop thinking about the president saying aloud today that he heard a rumor that there’s no autism in cuba

Long-Term Unemployment A Warning Sign For Economy www.huffpost.com/entry/long-t...

Tylenol Remains Safe & Effective (Trump IS Hazardous To Your Health) www.patreon.com/posts/139510...

He betrayed his oath as a physician and sold out the country when he voted to confirm RFK Jr, knows damn well he’s a dangerous quack, but keeping Trump neutral in his primary is his highest priority.

Dammit

Trump's White House is silencing dissent.

LEAVITT on Homan taking $50,000 bribe: "Mr Homan did absolutely nothing wrong."

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

“Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.” www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Unnerving point from @bcfinucane.bsky.social: The White House appears to be quietly trying to get Republicans to formally turn over a large swath of Congress's warmaking powers to Trump. That's what this new draft bill would do. From our pod discussion: newrepublic.com/article/2007...

Remaining grounded in the reality of what we know about youth gender medicine and youth transgender identities in this climate of misunderstanding and distortion is such a challenge. What people say vs what actually is are wildly divergent.

WhatsApp reached 97 million unique monthly users in August, over three times more than the Kremlin-backed messenger Max.

SO happy my taxes are going to this

FBI Director Kash Patel vowed on Sunday to investigate every facet of Charlie Kirk's killing, and made a statement about a mystery airplane flight at the heart of numerous Charlie Kirk shooter conspiracy theories.

They keep throwing around this 100,000 number but that stadium seats about 64,000. Would love to know the actual figure and how many walked out during Trump’s speech lol

Priest attacked by ICE at Broadview facility.

This is how SCOTUS is treating POTUS

My latest installment in a series I should start calling "Thanks John Roberts" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The timeline: 1) Trump tweets out his DM but excludes Lindsey Halligan's last name, making it look like he was talking Graham 2) He deletes that and reposts w/her last name 3) He bridges from that to NOMINATING Halligan 4) He asserts he has APPOINTED Halligan

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there will be no Palestinian state, adding the act of recognition made by those leaders acts as a "reward to terrorism" following the deadly attack of October 7, 2023.

Trump Is Shutting Down the War on Cancer www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

‘These killings will go on for years’: murder of Ukrainian MP highlights shadow war of assassinations

Putin’s Secret Plan to Hack Moldova’s Pivotal Election www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Tucker Carlson tells a story that appears to blame Jews for killing Jesus (they didn’t) and also killing Charlie Kirk.

Asked by a reporter on Air Force One tonight if he plans to tie Tylenol to autism, Trump says he thinks “it’s a very big factor.” Trump also reiterates his criticism of vaccines but sidesteps question about possible vax announcement. He also cites autism rates that sound quite inflated to my ear.

U.S. President Donald Trump was spotted shaking hands with Elon Musk during slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk memorial. Trump was joined by members of his family and senior Republican leaders at the service in Glendale, Arizona.

Networks airing any portion of speeches by documented LIARS, who continue to tell even bigger LIES, and provide them a platform to tell those dangerous LIES to tens of millions of people....is not serious about democracy. They are PART of the attack on democracy. Plain and f*cking simple.

i suspect it's a lot like nixon's

UK explores plan to drop visa fees for top global talent on.ft.com/46stNZq

Note: Stealth NYT edit. (Thanks to the eagle-eyed reader who saw that!)

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James Webb Space Telescope: https://cnn.it/4nfn8sU

The US is currently in the throes of fascism, with a narcissistic dictator at the helm of a GOP cult.

Trump at Charlie Kirk's memorial service: "He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I HATE my opponents."

I Saw How Russia Killed Media Freedom open.substack.com/pub/thenextm...

it feels like there’s this big blaring red siren saying “they’re gonna do a trans genocide” and libs are seeing signs of it like censorship and health care changes and violent attacks but not connecting a single solitary dot

I agree that it is important to remember Charlie Kirk. He deserved to live. I am very sorry he was killed, and mourn for his family. If you want to remember him also for his views, here is one sampling: youtube.com/watch?v=6oVc...

Timeline right now is clips of government officials saying "We love God and we all must follow his Acts" intermixed with their actual "Acts" (children's mangled bodies; healthcare GoFundMe's; disregarded trafficking victims; masked agents ripping people away from their families)