Very proud of my daughter.

I love the way Republicans run America. They have indeed Made America Great Again. How can so many people not see it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE8T...

“Charlie Kirk memorial to be on par with a state funeral…” - WaPo lead headline WaPo has nothing on “Border Csar” Tom Homan, FBI & $50,000 bribe, widely reported elsewhere.

It really is like Nixon live blogging Watergate and the journalism establishment saying eh, what can you do

The Pentagon’s new rulebook for the press states these 2 sentences, consecutively: “DoW remains committed to transparency to promote accountability.” And “DoW information must be approved for public release … before it is released, even if it is unclassified.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

The Western States of America has a nice ring to it. It would be one of the world's most productive nations, and be free of having to prop up a bunch of low productivity states. It would also have freedom of speech. One can dream. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/h...

Updated second link: blackzonemagazine.com/not-one-but-...

Trey Reed, found hanging in the middle of a college campus thegrio.com/2025/09/15/b...

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

Robert Redford has died. He was 89 years old. RIP. Just a few years ago, he had this to say:

This picture was taken in 2017 of Saffiya Khan confronting racists at a racist rally organised by the English defense league..... picture is as powerful now as it was then.....

@charles-ex.bsky.social @ginger146.bsky.social

The Trump adulation rag that was once the New York Times seems to overlook the fact that the young man in question confessed to a family member, who then informed the authorities. messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

The party us a cult. For today’s Republicans, the leader is a god. They don’t see what the rest of us do.

Lt. Governor and gubernatorial candidate in Michigan, Garlin Girlchrist, had to leave his home because of a bomb threat

just could not be clearer in moments like this that we’re all paying an army of psychopathic cowards specifically to harass black teenagers

it is bitterly funny that every other tax dollar in this country goes towards funding the most technologically advanced police state on the planet and yet they never have much pep in their step when it’s time to catch a murderer

This is not the message the country needs. We need unifying leadership to take down the temperature, not exploitative blame-seeking that falsely pins all political violence on one side of the spectrum to fit Trump’s narratives. Enough. Americans are tired of the divisiveness.

A real leader would remind us that the vast majority Americans do not hate each other. That what unites us is greater than what divides us. That violence is not a solution. But Trump is going to use this as an opportunity to suppress critics who had nothing to do with this crime and condemn it.

Yes. Yes, they are.

Senate Republicans just voted to block an amendment to release the Epstein files. What are they trying to hide and why?

The problem with stopping escalatory violence is that it requires political factions to see the other side as not an enemy. You can't only find violence targeted at yourself as abhorrent. Which is difficult to square with months of cheerleading for deploying the military to Democratic-run cities.

it’s stunning how passionately and viscerally a bunch of white guys with faces like thumbs hate Greta Thunberg

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a 20-year history of being an anti-vaccine propagandist, science denialist and conspiracy theorist."

When mathematics became a game; and changed the world. New "Devlin'sAngle" post for the #MAA maa.org/math-values/...

Where are the red Make America Great Again hats out in the fields? You know, the same people who swore immigrants were “taking their jobs.” Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.

When mathematics became a game; and changed the world. New "Devlin'sAngle" post for the #MAA maa.org/math-values/...

I don’t disagree with you but all good messaging starts with the base and works its way out. I think this demonstrates huge progress in that Walz isn’t afraid to tell it like it is. And I think the full video does articulate more of a policy vision - make the rich pay, stand up for rights, etc.

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Harvard is systematically removing all of the support for LGBTQ students like the craven cowards they are. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

‘America has become a country where armed officers of the state shout “Papers please!” on the street at men and women heading home from work, a vision we associate with the Gestapo in Nazi Germany or the KGB in Soviet Russia, where masked men abduct people without due process into unmarked vehicles’

Well, I guess you can call dropping an atomic bomb as "some kind of negotiation." The current POTUS probably sees it that way. 😳

Rural Sonoma County. I love it. No, that's not a truck; it's the front end of a truck turned into a garden ornament. Snapped this shot on my morning walk on a recent misty morning. I love the mist. It reminds me of English countryside and makes for great Pinot Noir.

CPD got called to an office where ICE was detaining people without warning, and officers instinctively took the side of ICE + helped them ferry detainees out of the building past protestors to vans waiting to bring them to detention facilities, despite city and state laws prohibiting collaboration.

"The content of this book is crucial, as it aims to shed light on the systemic failures that allow the trafficking of vulnerable individuals across borders. It is imperative that the truth is understood... The 400-page book will be released 21 October #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #Pinks bit.ly/3JPux31

When soldier carry guns, it's because they (or their commanders) anticipate having to kill people. In this case, the dead will be Americans. Bravo, Republicans. Make America WHAT Again?

I take that back. Rifles have now been spotted in Southwest D.C. (photo not mine).

NEW — A DC National Guard member spotted carrying an M17 pistol, as The Handbasket first reported they would. (Photo shared with me by @publius24.bsky.social)

Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."

Still waiting for someone of prominence to admit it was not about eggs.

Another product on Newsom's site is a simple tank with red text that reads, "TRUMP IS NOT HOT." 😁 #Pinks www.axios.com/2025/08/24/t...

I was captivated by the evening sky (over the Pacific Ocean 10 miles away from my Sonoma home), and took an iPhone pic before the moment passed. But as I did, I noticed something else. ... [to be continued]

Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States at the conclusion of his historic meeting with the President of Russia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJpv...

Take five minutes today to read this piece by the essential Radley Balko, which offers an excellent gloss on the quality of justice in America today.

“Fascists fear teachers because we create agency. We create opportunity. We help kids create critical thinking.” Missed this morning’s Coffee with the Contrarians featuring @rweingarten.bsky.social? Catch the livestream again on YouTube at 12:15pm ET // 9:15am PT www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLt2...