Just following orders. Hmmm. Where have I heard that before?

"First they fascinate the fools. Then they muzzle the intelligent." - Bertrand Russell on how fascism starts. Good grief, is this ever true given all that's happened to me.

Great piece by @hencarnell.bsky.social at @motherjones.com on the SEGM-McMaster controversy. Evidence-based medicine founder @guyattgh.bsky.social calls SEGM an “extremist” organization that “behaved very badly.” Ouch! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Gessen is spot on here. Things are coming apart, and most Americans can't recognize it because they've never seen it happen up close before.

I love BG3. I hated Elden Ring. It's the only game I've asked for a refund on via Steam. My biggest issues was there was no identifiable plot hooks, just run around randomly and get killed / kill stuff, and it was unplayable on PC without using a game controller (I don't use a game controller).

Officially at punishing University professors for wrongthink

"FICO found that 14% of Gen Zers have had a large credit score decline of 50 points or more in the past year — more than any other year and double the decline of 2021" Economy is tanking, and Trumps BLS is hiding the numbers. www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/e...

Fires at sunset.

If an authoritarian party is governing in ways that suggest it doesn't care about how the next election will play out, perhaps we should more seriously consider that they don't expect there to be another election that could remove them from power.

The bill would also define anything related to transgender people as inherently pornographic.

They're calling for Aktion T4 here. It's a short hop to rounding up trans people and euthanized them the "stop the spread of the social contagion".

Appropos of the second picture, I once again state: share.google/bSwpxzV3NCh9...

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

Have you read this analysis? I can't imagine many in the media, mainstream or otherwise, are prepared to deal with extremely online violent meme culture. www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

The Suns are going to be BAD next year. www.brightsideofthesun.com/suns-analysi...

So... Aktion T4. You're explicitly calling for Aktion T4.

The new answer here ("I'm not saying the documents are a hoax") is getting close to the "yeah he did it, so what?" phase of the Trump narrative cycle.

These are all straight up Kremlin talking points.

Please read and share this gutting, urgent piece by one of DAME's most searing writers. @brynntannehill.bsky.social is one of our "Cassandras" who has been warning us for years about the devastating impact this administration would have on trans people. Tragically, she's been right every time.

Remember in Little Sisters when SCOTUS ruled that signing a piece of paper acknowledging that as a religious organization you would not be providing birth control to employees because it was such a horrible unconstitutional burden and inconvenience? But now spending a month in a cooler is okay.

The path the US is charting for trans people closely follows a well established template: the exclusion of Jews from German society and legal protections between 1933-1939. Countries need to recognize the US is on a speed run to genocide. www.damemagazine.com/2025/09/08/t...

In her 1990 divorce deposition, Trump’s first wife, the late Ivana Trump, accused Trump of having assaulted her, including pulling out handfuls of her hair, pushing her to the floor, and raping her.

Nothing sums up America under Republican rule like turning a place of history and strength into a strip mall food court.

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Yes, by all means bypass safety to get back to the moon. That way we can all re-live our astronauts screaming in agony as they're burned alive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rpC...

Usually they're right when they think they'll never face justice. Germany was the exception, not the rule. If Germany had thousands of nukes, they probably would regard Hitler as a national hero today.

Graham Linehan:

Yale Law is like Hogwarts for supervillains.

"Worry" is carrying a lot of load here that it can't sustain. We know exactly how it will go, because they've already done it to health care for trans people.

Adding this to my list of clear analogies between laws and policies targeting Jews between 1933-1939, and what the Trump admin is doing to trans people today.

It would be funny for the stupidity, but it makes me so angry. Parvo, rabies, and Feline Leukemia are all slow, excruciating deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️

"Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body?" [stares directly at the camera]

Shades of "Coming to America" brain washed subservient sex slave. youtu.be/ptz4vng6HX0?...

The GOP actively caters to the most reality-challenged among us. These people get angry when they fail to deliver the impossible or imaginary) www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinio...

1/3 20 years ago today, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, I wrote a piece called "Being Poor," to answer, in a way that I hoped would stick, why so many people stayed in New Orleans to face the storm. It was and remains one of the best things I've ever written. whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/b...

This is not normal. The legal way, that has been in place for decades, is to have a USCG sniper shoot out the engine from a helicopter and then board the vessel. Nuking it with what I presume to be an AGM-114 hellfire missile is a violation of international law.

<all together now>

Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...

Turns out the announcement, after 7 days of near silence from Trump, is about moving the Space Force HQ from Colorado to Alabama. We can all stand down from DEFCON 2. apnews.com/article/spac...

Trump is holding a televised news conference to make a speech tomorrow at 2 PM. No announcement what it is about Three possibilities strike me as top contenders 1. Martial law in major cities in blue states (NYC, Chicago) 2. EO targeting trans people after shooting 3. Health update (least likely)

Kind of funny how these folks only win in court when it's Republicans in front of Trump appointed judges.

So, who here is down for some "Death of Stalin" style hijinks?

There was a joke back in the 80s when three Soviet leaders died in rapid succession: we called it the Andropov syndrome: first you disappear from public for six months, then they bury you. After putting swan lake on the telly on loop for hours on end.

If Trump is actually ill, I truly hope that he's getting the best medical attention that RFK Jr. can offer.