Can we get some focus on the perfidy of Speaker Mike Johnson? So much of Trump’s excesses are made possible because Johnson has disabled the House as a check on the President. He has handed Trump his gavel symbolically and in reality. We need to focus on Trump’s enablers.

Soybeans are (were) Tennessee’s #1 cash crop 🧑‍🌾 😕 Trump is crushing our farmers. Why don’t @GovBillLee @RepChrisTodd @rustygrills @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty @RepOgles @RepTimBurchett Sexton etc. care?

Probably worth noting that the person who wrote this article isn’t just an editor at the Daily Caller. He was their EIC for over eight years. His column is rather explicit.

The same scenario is playing out in the Portland invasion. Weird silence from the Dem leadership.

there's nothing dems can do to convince the reactionary centrists who dominate the media that they aren't the caricature painted by republicans you can debate whether the centrists believe this or are pretending to

Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this? A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?

“.. some in the entertainment business say he will be remembered in part as the leader who didn’t back one of Disney’s most prominent creative talents in a moment of crisis.” 👀 @wsj.com $DIS www.wsj.com/business/med...

He sure seemed chummy with Trump at the State of the Union. I wouldn't be surprised if he's worried about "woke" and "antifa" youtu.be/K-iEF5LXKOs...

Kennedy contributed more towards the current state of the nation than 99.9999% of the population. This is the America he worked for decades to create.

It is not appropriate to call fascists "fascist" until a secret moment where they are fascist ENOUGH for the self-appointed civility police And then once we hit that secret moment, the ACTUAL police will arrest you for saying it It's almost as if we're just never allowed to call fascists "fascist"

Tom Nichols, Jon Stewart, etc in 2024: "it's too early to call them fascists" Trump regime in 2025: "it is now illegal terrorism to call us fascists" Funny how the time window on that worked

Pushback works Complying doesn’t

Absolutely beyond parody that Dave Chappelle is headlining a comedy show for Saudi royalty after what, a decade of whining about cancel culture

Duck you, Trump.

Trump’s overly political prosecution of Jim Comey is unusual, experts say

The White House knows exactly what it was doing when they published a list of Democrats who have used their voice to call out Trump & Miller’s ICE abuses. The list is now being used by the far right as an enemies list. It’s reckless. It’s dangerous. And it puts lives at risk.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive." Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

Notable "you can't say anything anymore" comedians that seem cool with censorship are Louis CK & Dave Chapelle. This festival sounds absolutely awful beyond the whole being in Riyadh thing.

So the FBI is supposed to come knocking on your door for wrongthink and wrongthink is “I don’t like it when other people say I’m going to hell for all the things I like about myself”?

Trump is now threatening to prosecute his first hand-picked FBI director, Chris Wray

Ma’am, one of the greatest comedians of all time told a G rated joke about escalators decades ago that was so good that thousands of people immediately thought of it this week

One of the three women comics performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival

Gotta include the Maron reply

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

With Pete Davidson getting a big check to do the Riyadh Comedy Festival, the Saudis are finally paying reparations for 9/11. And jokes like that aren’t allowed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

Does this count as an official statement?

Unprompted, my 66 year old mother has now informed me that she thinks the entire democratic leadership structure should be fired, she loves David Hogg, and Jasmine Crockett is her favorite Democrat. I promise y’all it’s not just Bluesky.

“Democracy may not survive,” says the author of Citizens United. Yeah, well, you probably should have thought of that sooner. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

it is just a straightforward statement of fact to say that the trump administration sees any black student at an elite institution as one too many

The NSPM-7 is Trump's "antifa" order which they seem to be saying is defined this way. I guess we are all antifa now.

You can't joke about anything anymore. Because you signed a multi figure contract with the Saudi government that said they wouldn't pay you if you did.

the brain of the median voter needs to be studied for science

Would be great to see today statements denouncing the invasion of Portland by: - All Dem govs - All Dems AGs - Senate and House Dems We have to denounce, attack, challenge immediately and defend the American people from this dangerous man.

This. Where are their voices?

This is the OPPOSITE of how a newspaper (e.g, the @nytimes.com), should be reporting this. Instead, the headline/subhead should make clear this is a HUGE LIE by Trump - in fact, ICE facilities are NOT "under siege from domestic terrorists" in Portland or anywhere. bluevirginia.us/2025/09/satu...

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Portland is not "war ravaged." This is delusional and dangerous. Sending troops into American cities doesn't make our communities safer — it just stokes fear and stirs up chaos. Trump is plunging further into authoritarianism every single day.

Seems like Dem leadership should hold press conferences right now as Trump invades as U.S. city

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

Elon Musk: "Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED..."

Fleeing immoderately from suspicion of involvement, Musk crosses over to implying he knew enough of what was up on that island to “REFUSE” but told no one and did nothing to protect the victims.

Bondi said that they are going after billionaires who fund groups that tried to keep Trump out of office. It's illegal for groups to try to keep someone out of office? Who knew? Apparently, all of American politics are illegal.

Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland. Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming. No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

I guess my point here is that MAGA has become totally unashamed to admit that they are racist, but somehow the rest of society has become ashamed to call them racist. Which gives them this incredible advantage of being able to express openly racist ideas and never be called on it

Calling Ed “Zillow” Whalen a “communist” is wild. But it is also a good reminder to conservatives in power: the problem w personalist governance is that once you’ve disappeared enough other commissars, you may be the next one airbrushed out. No one is ever “inside” enough.

Unreal. The casual reader of this @nytimes.com hed and subhed will have no inkling whatsoever that Trump's "characterization" is wildly false and that it's a bad faith *pretext.* Time to get better at conveying the fundamentally pretextual nature of these authoritarian decrees already.

They’re talking about Lisa Kudrow’s show The Comeback which is getting a third season a decade later—this could be us, never give up!