“We’re fine with corruption if comes with terrorizing brown people.” Really sums up the MAGA punditocracy.

While we support the freedom to use TikTok, we don’t feel USA will use data any more responsibly than China. Therefore, we are giving traveling Terns and Skuas complimentary access to ICE-Blok, our new dual feature social media and anti-Gestapo app.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

TRUMP: That's why I sued the New York Times two days ago for a lot of money KARL: A judge just threw that out TRUMP: I'm winning. I'm winning the cases.

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@kenwhite.bsky.social I just got done listening to Serious Trouble on a flight and was thinking of your comments about how time consuming it was going to be to go through claims in the Trump defamation lawsuit, so you can imagine my surprise and delight to turn my phone back on and find it dismissed

When you meet someone who wants you to be institutionalized, prosecuted, or killed, you should be asking yourself: what do I have in common with this person? Tomorrow from Ezra Klein

they’re such comic book villains

Antifa used to go well with truth, justice and the American way.

jimmy kimmels time slot replaced with reruns of jimmy fallon playfully ruffling trumps hair

This is eliminationist, genocidal rhetoric. There’s nothing ambiguous about it. And it didn’t come from a random Bluesky account with 28 followers. It came from a sitting member of Congress. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

Yes. The rest of us can learn that if one keeps repeating the same absurd maxim, backed up with plausible-sounding pseudoscience, we too can transform ourselves into a marketing vehicle potent enough to overcome both common sense and toxic workplace allegations and achieve sustained press coverage

Walz on Trump saying he's not familiar with Melissa Hortman's assassination: "Nothing surprises me. There's no compassion, there's no empathy in this man, and there's no sense of governing for the whole country ... he's doing nothing to improve people's lives."

imagine believing this childish shit is strong leadership

I'm starting to think the Daleks had a point.

The Democrats pushed for gun control instead of praying, so now I am a Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/14/o...

@kenwhite.bsky.social Oh no! It’s the RICO!

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I am appalled that so many people are questioning the ability of this man to efficiently and wisely lead the FBI.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.

lol at the audacity of someone starting a business automating AI-generated 3,000 podcasts a week for $1 a pop to call anyone else lazy

Mild take: The vilification of "virtue signalling" was a political project designed to make even the most subtle reminders of what decency is uncouth and it fucking worked.

jfc

Everything that is wrong in one neat picture: A billionaire propagandist talking to a regime loyalist how people should not trust their own eyes and ears when an unprecedented assault on law, democracy and human rights is happening from a fascist movement. Sponsored promotion on X, of course.

Can’t express in words how big this rally in Chicago is. The president’s fascist goon squad is not welcome here.

Would a passenger who wrestled with a pilot, tried to shut off the engines and tried to pull the emergency handle *after* being subdued be give a sentence of 50 days in jail if their excuse was they were on mushrooms? I think they’d be charged as a domestic terrorist. www.bbc.com/news/article...

/3 ….among the leadership, the elite. It requires someone to push back against populist scorn for civilization. When we lose the critical mass of leaders who support civilization, and when other leaders are too weak to fight, we get barbarism.

Websites: "Verify you're a human... No, try again. No, try again. You must verify you're a real person." The same websites: "You can only make a complaint via Billy, our AI assistant, who will connect you to one of our customer support operatives, Misha, who seems to be human but is in fact a bot"

Remember when Hillary coughed and the media were practically writing her obituary?

The police version of the crash, as relayed by a local Manchester reporter, is unsurprisingly quite different from what Giuliani's spokesman says. The whole thing is even more murky now, however. manchester.inklink.news/rudy-giulian...

This is the peak Axios AI story. Workers are getting stressed because they’re under pressure to find something useful to do with AI. If they don’t investors will have bought into a bubble. Why do workers hate investors?

Listening to season 2 of Snafu which first went out last year and it’s clear to me that Trump is all the worst elements of Hoover distilled and dialed up to 11. www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

Narrator: turns out the sandwich was crow.

Almost every day there’s a Trump scandal that skates by that in any other moment of presidential history would launch endless follow-up stories, congressional investigations, and sink an administration. I zeroed in on just two of them from this week: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/a-watergat...

LAPD choppers are a malignant nuisance. They're harbingers of surveillance, operated *continuously*—yet the city's own data show they raise stress, impair cognition and burn 100,000s of gallons of gas. The best part? there's no evidence they deter or reduce crime at all. It's time to ground them.

Stephen Miller is completely full of shit, and he knows it. He's selling hatred of cities to people who do not live in cities and are scared of them.

New at The Watch: radleybalko.substack.com/p/a-warning-...

Clear-eyed and important article from Garrett M Graff who’s not afraid to say what is really going on. How can all of Trump’s bullshittery over decades have numbed us so much that we don’t even flinch at the martial law and deep, deep corruption? Where are the Democrats?

Over an hour of questions today. None about this.

This is not a well man. How many weeks has he been trying to hide the IV bruises?

"we need to focus on kitchen-table issues" hey wtf are you talking about at your kitchen table, if not the military being deployed to your cities and your family members being kidnapped by ICE and the genocide in Gaza going on two years and states maneuvering to make elections less democratic and

The cruelty is the point: ICE releases woman it had locked up for 10 days by shoving her out the door of its Burlington hole in the pouring rain, with no phone, 30 miles from home; she walked over to the Burlington Mall and begged for help at the Cheesecake Factory. www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...

We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it. If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.

TIL Iowa gets most of its electricity from renewables. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/kilowatt-m...

They’re mobilizing National Guard troops in 19 red states to send into blue cities. They’re preparing for an occupation. www.foxnews.com/politics/nat...