The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

[email protected] is right. @weissmann.substack.com needs to STOP saying "this is not the way it works, it's abnormal." No shit, Andrew. Catch up! Say, "it's different now. Now it's politicized, etc." Andrew seems caught in the past. It's frustrating. @nicollewallace.bsky.social

Serendipity: watched replay of Warriors game, and then this came on. A paean to Casablanca. No matter its universal acclaim, I still have the feeling that Casablanca belongs to me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED3l...

Hey, there! Wazzup?

.@msnbc Alex Wagner has become terrific. She didn't do well as anchor - she shouldn't try. Her current niche is perfect for her. She is becoming more and more eloquent. Go, Alex! @wagnertonight.msnbc.com

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

ICE spotting app has been curtailed by Apple on governmental request, and by Google by obeying in advance. Apple and Google are part of the plutocracy, traitors to America. Google revoked the Don't Be Evil banner long ago. Traitors! Big Tech is part of the oppression. Monopolists all.

AOC Just mocked Trump’s ignorant attempts at fascism.

I don't agree that we are on downward spiral, necessarily. It comes from choices, and new choices can clean us up, reverse income inequality, clean energy, use tech wisely. But that presupposes emergence of new political forces. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...

Watching All that Jazz, where Joe has cardiac problems. It was 1979 - he's hospitalized for a long time with no intervention - because none was available. Today, it would be so different. buddshenkin.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...

I don’t have a crystal ball, but I have a good idea how this shutdown ends. Trump and Republicans will cave (he won’t admit he’s caving, of course, but he will cave). Here’s why: Air traffic controllers.

Why can't we have an @msnbc special: The Looting of Donald J. Trump. Just list every single step. Rachel is good at that. We need concentrated efforts, not diffuse ones. Nail it down.

With everything that the Trump administration is doing, the fire hose, you would think that the Democratic leadership would organize a campaign of voter education on each violation, and I would emphasize the looting - Trump family to take over Gaza Yet, they minimize to health insurance Inadequate

Much rather watch Bonnie and Clyde than Trump Is A Prick TV - or Diddy Goes To Jail. My God, is it good. Talk about great - genius all around. Vs. idiot Trump.

Some of us were talking about both subjects before it was cool.

Regrets: When my wife did old-style wifey things, like when she called the plumber and got the faucet fixed, I wish I hadn't taken that for granted. I wish I had said, Thanks for doing that. And thanks for doing the laundry. And thanks for planning the vacation. And thanks for everything you did.

So, Trump's numbers are stable. To me, that stability is another indictment of Democrats, who appear feckless rather than steady and serious and convincing. Collectively, they can not persuade, they do not follow leaders like Newsom and JP. What a futile party. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/p...

The time when a well-regulated militia will need to be called to protect states against federal troops is drawing closer.

This is what fascism sounds like, from major POS Bondi, courtesy of Steve Schmidt. She will need to face Nuremberg. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqTk...

The Trump accession is a national illness. One just hopes that we recover fully, with new antibodies gained to protect us from reinfection in the future. But first we have to get over this illness, and get rid of the agents. There are plenty of them. Hope it's a virus and not a cancer.

For some unknown reason, for the first time in my life, I find myself rooting for the NY Giants. IDK why; I'm from Philly originally, hate the Giants starting with Sam Huff. But new QB, like their vibe somehow. Or maybe I'm sick. IDK. Life is strange. Maybe it's temporary.

"But I think this book reveals that the truth is that she’s a kind of bog-standard politician who just doesn’t really have a lot of ideas and worked her way up inside the technocratic machine that is the contemporary Democratic Party." Exactly. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...

Ultimately, Trump is leading a looting of the government. Ultimately, Trump has a lifelong condition called oppositional-defiant syndrome. Destruction makes him feel good, defying authorities makes him feel good. Add in greed. It is folly to hope for something good from a person like this.

This is how a leader speaks

The Trump brown shirts and SS is fully funded.

We’re at a point where ICE is the President’s personal secret police, the DOJ is the President’s personal inquisitor & tormentor of his enemies & the National Guard is the President’s personal army to occupy Black & brown communities. 2025 America

"the Europeans persuaded Mr. Trump to flip his view on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. After months of saying Ukraine should give up land to strike a peace deal with Russia, Mr. Trump on Tuesday said he believed Ukraine, with the help of NATO, could win the war. " Could this hold?? Hoping!

How do I love the Brits, let me count the ways...

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

Not content to completely screwing up the COVID response, Trump now extends into autism. Who will rid us of this malignant priest? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

Some of us do.

Silver makes sense to me - fight over tariffs, not health care. The dissatisfaction with rising premiums will take care of itself, don't diffuse it as an issue. Schumer is just hopeless. Put him in the back bench and beat him in the primary next year. RENEW! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

The pool game scene in A Shot in the Dark has the physical comedy of Peter Sellers on a par with any of the greats. Plus the rest. Honestly, I think it's genius.

@maddow.msnbc.com interview of Kamala: she evades questions (about failing to stop Biden until too late,) she goes onto Dem talking points about kitchen table, she continues not to have a vision. She evades Mamdani question. "He's the Democratic candidate." Evades Dem gerontocracy. Uninspiring.

Rally like it's 1938

The problem with Kamala is that she really has no vision. She never has had that capacity, in all her races, and in her jobs. She's right, Biden shafted her (and us), but there are some things you can't cure, because they're just inherent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Jesus Christ, "teeters?" DOJ might be politicized? Talk about being so cautious as to be irrelevant, and let's face it, wrong. Where you been? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

When authoritarianism is on the rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men on the planet to be the biggest cowards.

Dems should reup their efforts on gun control. Feature Charlie Kirk as the latest victim. A political hate story? Maybe. But I think it's more a gun control story. But Dems will stick to key issue of health insurance premiums - so sexy.

I don’t usually recommend using AI tools, but this summary of Juan Linz’s definition of fascism - standard on this - is actually pretty good.

This is Hollywood's McCarthy Moment. This is the litmus test. Learn from history. Who will step up and fight? Who will bend the knee and be complicit? History will remember.

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

ABC, Disney are fascists. MSM is an agent of a fascist government. "The decision to suspend “Jimmy Kimmel Live” was made by Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, and Dana Walden, the company’s television chief." These people are fascists. Fascist, fascist, fascist. America is now fascist.

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"