Going through another round of otherwise very smart people making very confident assertions about why voters vote the way they do and…no. No. We’ve been studying this for 75 years and unless you start with party first, second, and third, and then move onto the economy, none of you are right.

Trump trying to send a DM to Pam Bondi but actually posting it on TruthSocial instead raises new questions about Joe Biden's mental acuity.

sorry, but this is so sick. i know everything is bad and we’re numb to it, but what the hell!?

The University Democrats at UT-Austin, a longstanding student group, has been told that no guests, candidates, or speakers can speak at their meetings unless the administration approves them. Submitted speakers' lists have been ignored or summarily denied. Please HMU if you know a good 1A attorney

This post is bringing out the trolls.

Charlie Kirk devoted a significant chunk of his career to getting people like me fired.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

As much fun as it's been to watch Blake Teinen pitch like ass since he turned his cap into a Charlie Kirk tribute it would be nice if the Dodgers had a single bullpen arm they can rely on.

Posts claim Charlie Kirk once introduced Kyle Rittenhouse as "a hero to millions." That's true. ✅ www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...

I'd love to be a lawyer for Tylenol right now.

Holy shit.

Setting aside the perpetual confusion about who was president when, Trump wasn't banned by social media platforms because of political bias or to "censor" him. It was because he directly used their services to incite actual deadly violence. He committed literal violent crimes using their websites.

Y’all, I chose to be a Falcons fan. Voluntarily. As an adult.

We are a country with a violence problem and a political problem, and sometimes those overlap, and we don't always know whether they're overlapping." - Dr. Lilly Mason

Something a brilliant colleague said that I think has gotten lost in the Kirk conversation is that part of how he was able to build a following and inspire young conservatives was precisely *because* of the free speech tradition that IS honored on most college campuses. I recall back in …

The Washington Pravda

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

This chaos also speaks to the growing awareness of the profound corruption of the Supreme Court. The excessive H1B fee is clearly illegal according to the text of the applicable statute. But no one can have any confidence anymore that it will ultimately be thrown out.

One time, the Missouri Ethics Committee investigated me over a $30 donation…

You can spin this anyway you want, but it is as clear as it can get: Trump is directing the Attorney General to open investigations into his political opponents and officials that he hates. Period. End of story.

When Trump was first elected I told someone that by the time he was done he would make Nixon look like a choir boy. In hindsight I regret that I never posted it on social media so I could have a dated screenshot.

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

this is the second impeachable offense worse than watergate that we have read about *today*

1/3 There is an explanation, for anyone who cares. GOP voters, more than anything else, want their politicians to be loyal to the conservative cause. They care about loyalty more than policy outcomes or anything else a politician might deliver.

AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

There’s no hiding the political retaliation and weaponization. It’s all out in the open.

Never in our history, not even during Watergate, has a single news cycle so comprehensibly established the deep corruption and politicization of the Department of Justice

I think people in line for top government positions taking bribes to funnel government money to the bribers is corrupt and bad, not good. When law enforcement catches one taking bribes, they should prosecute that official rather than protect them. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

Honestly the only thing that’s surprising about this is how cheaply he was willing to sell himself.

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

This is the same guy who - thought stealth planes are literally invisible - thought you could stop a hurricane by nuking it - thinks a tariff is a direct payment from country to country - Interpreted "Altitude 38m" as "Population 38 million" on a wikipedia page - Recommended injecting bleach

Was listening to an nyt podcast on Kimmel firing last night, and Adam Liptak said something like Carr’s actions came “pretty close” to coercion. This tendency to imagine that we are “almost,” “on the road,” etc. to authoritarianism needs to be overcome. We’re in that space. Pretending doesn’t help.

Real talk, the only things I'll genuinely miss from Disney+ are Andor and Phineas and Ferb.

It’s the “Hamburger Helper” economy. Sales “up 14.5 percent .. “.. Distressed shoppers are also buying more cans of tuna, salmon and sardines.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...

This. No TT/non-TT/VAP job will be offered to an int'l candidate, since it requires an H1-B until the green card is issued. This process takes at least a couple of years.

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

Dems advertising that they are capitulating to threats of violence is not an especially smart plan even on narrow selfpreservation concerns

Oh Jesus Christ, we're doing this discourse again. The reason that Democrat lose in Red States more than they used to is educational polarization and nationalization reshaping coalitions. There were, in fact, many pro-life Democrats a decade ago, and they all got replaced by Republicans!

The Disney cancellation page is still down but you can cancel through Hulu. Which we just did.

HAHAHAHAHAHAH Kershaw has struck out more Giants than any other pitcher in baseball history.

By next spring, they'll be bragging about the passenger airliner they shot out of the sky because it was filled with "antifa commandos"

I hate the cloud and desperately miss the days when we just emailed files files to each other.

the H1-B thing seems unlikely to withstand a court challenge, but it's still deeply funny that it's basically a nuclear warhead aimed at businesses and executives who've been grandiosely and publicly kissing his fucking ass for nine months

And *this* is why "The View" didn't mention Jimmy Kimmel being forced out in violation of the First Amendment, even though it was the biggest news of the day. The hosts' paychecks will always come before informing you.

The H1B thing is impeachable too and is clearly setting up so he can extort favors, like warrantless surveillance, from tech companies. I think Democrats should be signaling they will end this shit.

He’s about 9 months behind but better late than never. Welcome aboard, Chuck.

Holy shit. Trust me you want to watch this.

I'm shocked that the guy who lies so often that it fries the circuits of any person or machine who tries to count the number of times he lies lied about this.