Since the start of July, there have been virtually as many carjackings in DC in the 41 days since the National Guard was deployed (21) as in the 41 days preceding that deployment (22).

This is Thomas Chatterton Williams's entire timeline right now.

I can explain the term "the woke right." The logic: 1) I denounced "wokeness" for years, proclaiming it dire threat to free speech, a civilizational danger 2) This fascism I was downplaying while focused on wokeness seems actually bad 3) Since I am by definition never wrong, the fascism is wokeness

For those of you who've wondered what's wrong with Ezra Klein, Karla nails it. He's aware enough to be truly distressed that the country is in crisis, but not yet able to take a can opener to his prior assumptions to figure out how we got here or what to do about it.

"The Democratic Party"

That's literally false. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that praising someone's death is protected speech, including in Snyder v Phelps (2011), where protesters at a soldier's funeral held signs that said "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" & "Thank God for 9/11" rollcall.com/2025/09/19/s...

announcing my new think tank, the "people hate inflation, that's like 90% of why harris lost" institute

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

under this language charlie kirk would not have been allowed to speak on clemson’s campus

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

so are democrats really just going to remain silent as republicans target half of the country for retribution over a crime they didnt commit? im being serious, when do democrats call out this bloodthirsty rampage for what it is

Karen was the last full-time Black opinion writer at the Washington Post. She was also one of the last courageous voices on an opinion page that has now been gutted of them. Supposed defenders of free speech are actively silencing anyone who disagrees with them.

Ol budget Lex Luthor looking ass

“The bishop advised Catholics considering joining ICE that ‘you can never attempt to turn off your conscience.’”

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

The thing that is hard to communicate is that that specific flavor of “brainrotted 4chan slug with incoherent beliefs” is also downstream of the right wing politics factories dumping glowing nuclear sludge into the river there’s a reason nihilism has risen and it wears Rush Limbaugh’s face

So, as always. It's the guns.

This is an amazing take-down of Debate Culture, which is the culture that leads pundits to say Kirk “did politics right.” This part here is … chef’s kiss. But the whole piece is fantastic.

Calling it "gamified conversation" gets at something important. In a conversation, the audience is the other person. In a debate, the interlocutor is not the audience, but the competition, and the audience is is external to the interaction. We need more conversation, and less debate.

If the federal show of force in Washington has had a deterrent effect on crime, it appears to have deterred entirely normal aspects of city life, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

I guess the main thing I’m learning this week is that lots of elite media people knew charlie kirk personally and didn’t know any minnesota state legislators

Bad Bunny, one of the biggest musical artists in the world, said he avoided the US in his tour because he thought ICE would set up ouside his shows.

Red cards should be ejections, but teams should only have to play down a player for short periods (sin bin). Suspensions should only come after the fact for especially dubious conduct.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.

would it shock you to learn that this story appears nowhere on the free press dot com, which decided the campus free speech crisis ended right around January 2025

/5 SCOTUS' discretionary intervention for President Trump to enable his unchecked powers -- combined with its non-discretionary expansion of his powers in cases like the immunity case -- have to me taken this beyond the space where tradition or politesse justifies making their arguments for them.

/4 SCOTUS has lost the presumption of regularity -- the mandate of the legal heavens -- through its shadow docket actions, which by invoking SCOTUS' equitable discretionary powers have obliterated the pretext that SCOTUS is merely calling balls and strikes, merely calling lines where they see them.

ATLANTA (AP) — Judge says he'll toss the racketeering case against 61 people tied to protests over a training center called “Cop City.”

"thermostatic opinion" is one of those buzz-phrases that got driven into the ground immediately upon discovery but this is very good proof that polling is flaky, capricious, and entirely shapeable. Popularists in shambles!

the results so far on congestion pricing in new york have been so outrageously good that opposition to it works as a convenient identifier of unserious buffoons www.reuters.com/world/us/new...

“Without the annoying inconvenience of facts justices can create the world that Kavanaugh so flagrantly manufactures. A world in which ICE agents respectfully ‘inquire’ about legal status during ‘brief stops.’”

The Supreme Court is going to need its own Reconstruction after this is all over.

If I were a Democrat in Congress I'd be introducing legislation to suspend the Supreme Court's upcoming term (it's happened before, in 1802). The suspension would be to give us time to figure out what to do with this dangerous, anti-democratic institution.

Justice Sotomayor, not mincing words, also says that today's decision will lead to the "creation of [] a second-class citizenship status" for Latinos, who now will have the burden to "carry enough documentation to prove that they deserve to walk freely."

the supreme court says you can never use race to help people but you can always use race to hurt people

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

If you’re going to the final, there’s only one solution to this, and that’s to boo him so loudly they hear you in Sacramento

How is this not a screaming massive headline across every news site? This is insane, a virtual declaration of civil war. We fought a revolution to not be subjected to this kind of tyranny

It was a real error not to make the US party to the Rome Statute. So many folks are going to need referral to the ICC.

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

I keep typing words and then deleting them because none of them are sufficient to capture how utterly fucked up and unacceptable this is. And yet it won't move a single Republican to give a damn.

Oh my days way to open your account Olivia Smith. #arsenal

had a conversation with a prominent pundit recently who did not seem to realize that the departments of the executive branch are congressional creations, so not surprised at this

Trump v. United States

Absolutely. I also want to note MPD was in my experiences there also acting poorly (including pulling up face gaiters and putting on gloves to confront people).

As someone who lives in the neighborhood it went all over the neighborhood and included similar harassment by the Metro with MPD and MTPD locking doors and running sirens in the night for no reason other than harassment.

This is honestly very very funny. Their lawyers are so bad.

The Supreme Court keeps yelling at the district courts for not understanding that the new rule is to decide in favor of the Trump administration and their allies in every case regardless of the facts or the substance of the law.

This is absolutely bananas. And entirely predictable. Federal law enforcement almost turned a high school football game into Waco. www.popville.com/2025/09/cool...