we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

Hegseth is ignorant of even recent history. We did not pamper any terrorists in Iraq. We tortured people. That's how we created ISIS. What will we create this time?

It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration. But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants. The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.

Mark Kelly voted for 9 of Trump's cabinet nominees. He has chosen a centrist tack in this time of rising fascism. If the fascism comes for him, I think it's kind of fitting.

With all the media outlets folding to fascism, this is really nice to see.

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

Cartoon by David Horsey.

No liberal should ever even consider voting for AIPAC candidates for POTUS.

Marjorie is going really hard to try and rehab her image right now. But this can't be rehabilitated:

Trump’s gold bling in the WH reminded me of a clip I posted 5 years ago of Charlie Sheen in the UK telling a story of the time Trump gave him a wedding gift.

About god damned time

Why is Sleepy Joe like this?

Nothing has ever proved the damaging nature of corporations better than the 2nd Trump presidency. I mean, they are the real reason we have a deranged imbecile for a president in the first place.

Interesting that he points out the propaganda regarding the Pledge of Allegiance, but doesn't mention that the pledge itself is propaganda, and the insertion of the word "god" is additional propaganda.

Chimps can reason. Maybe they can teach MAGA.

If it's illegal to be 100 percent anti-Trump, then I'm gonna be breaking the law every second of my life until I die. Cue the Judas Priest.

Oh, and BTW, we paid for it. Great journalism.

This is the most obscenely wealthy, grotesquely cruel, offensively under qualified and incompetent, outrageously & blatantly corrupt, callously indifferent, brazenly self-serving, shamelessly deceitful administration in our country’s history. A hollow gold-plated autocracy destined to collapse.

You almost wish Rand Paul would wake up from all the other nonsense he believes and tell the truth like this about everything. He presents very compelling arguments. Unfortunately, this is only a rare instance of those compelling arguments being used for good.

Hasan: The UK still has a king. King Charles III, but he has less gold in his palace then Donald Trump in the oval office right now. King Charles has more respect for democratic norms than the whiny manchild trying to send his troops into as many blue cities as he can.

It's a nice thing to say, but let's face it, if Democrats were going to hold Republicans accountable when they're in power, Donald Trump would be in prison right now.

This can't be defeated peacefully.

What the ever loving fuck?

Seems strange to focus on healthcare, no matter how important, when there's an authoritarian take over of the country in progress.

Stuff that happens in shithole countries:

When the government doesn't have to obey its own laws, that's fascism.

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

RIP Jane Goodall. One of the most inspirational people I've ever known of. Even the chimps know it. Watch the way this one hugs her before heading off to life in the wild. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mw8...

The GOP defunds public media, but public media will still give you MAXIMUM "both sides bias." Crazy how this bias has not changed any minds on the right, but only serves to alienate rational people.

Nate Silver is the hackiest of hacks and also a fine representation of how our society never fails to elevate the wrong people. You can be wrong OVER AND OVER AND OVER again, and the media will still act like you're the Oracle of Delphi.

As I've been saying.

I'd add Katie Phang. Not black, but a minority and a woman who was cancelled during the same purge of minorities and women that took Joy Reid at MSNBC. Coincidentally, one less truth telling voice on the tele.

I've been saying this since the day Trump was re-elected. Good to hear it from someone people actually listen to.

Democrats should not be trying to help fund the government that is doing nothing but evil.

Deport Melania!

Why doesn't the left have its own equivalents of these foundations and societies?

I'm not willing to call it great news without knowing what Kimmel agreed to.

Tim Kaine voted to honor Charlie Kirk. So, when he speaks against Brian Kilmeade's rhetoric, know that he just voted to honor similar rhetoric and is therefore full of shit. Just a slimy politician trying to say what you want to hear.

Any Democrat that voted to honor this Nazi needs to be voted out.

The media bends over backwards to paint this clown as "pragmatic."

On the one hand, it's great that she recognizes this huge failing of the Biden administration. In fact, she's the only person in Congress I've heard ever mention it. But, also disappointing that she doesn't have a problem with the funding of genocide and the lying the administration did about it.

You are here. (h/t @seanhowe.bsky.social)

She'd easily have my vote, but the next presidential election is going to be rigged so that Dems won't have any chance of winning it.

At some point maybe people will wake up and realize that those of us who have been screaming into the void that Republicans were fascists for the past several decades are the ones who were right all along. By then, they won't have the freedom to say so though, so we'll never get to hear them tell us

This is the moment! There is no free speech, there is no first amendment for all American citizen anymore! Only the fascist are free to say and write what they want, without any consequences! Welcome to fascism!

Also, Jimmy Kimme's comments weren't even about Charlie Kirk himself, but the reaction of the right to his murder. But this distinction between government intervention and a company's own choices is the most important thing to keep in mind:

Last night in Minneapolis, seven people were critically injured in a mass shooting at a homeless encampment. Meanwhile, Brian Kilmeade still has a job at Fox News.

coates is genuinely a generational writer