Paul Thomas Anderson must have been wiping sweat off his brow after One Battle After Another premiered. If he'd tried to make that one microsecond later, absolutely no chance it would ever have existed.

If Democrats are going to keep declaring everything a distraction from healthcare, I'm bare minimum going to have to insist that they all back single-payer.

How hard is it to say “invading an American city with the US military is treason and the second we have power we will prosecute anyone who gave or obeyed an illegal order”

Never been easier to know who the bad guys are.

A reminder -- not that you need one -- of which party's electeds are routinely calling for political violence. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

begging democrats to fight right now like portland is as important as jimmy kimmel

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

Anyway, there are sincere pundits who get paid lots of money to argue that these folks *aren’t* primarily motivated by racism.

Sure seems like the president just instructed the military to use lethal force against US citizens.

This incident in Katy, Texas has been shown to be an accident involving illegal hunting on a nearby property. Yet this is how DHS describes it. And that description was amplified by Fox News reporter Bill Melugin. Second pic unrelated.

We currently have a Supreme Court that seriously claims (with no explanation) that the current occupant of the Presidency suffers irreparable harm by having to follow existing law, the constitutionality of which has never before been in doubt or even questioned.

There is no argument against birthright citizenship other than “I am incredibly racist and don’t like it” It is clearly and simply spelled out in the 14th amendment - if you are born here, you are an American citizen.

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

the next Dem congress should reassert the power of the purse, specifically over the Supreme Court’s budget no, you cannot have money for staplers until you start respecting the constitution again

Remember how lefties used to say "abolish ICE" back in the 2010s, and got roundly scolded by the centrists for it ever since, and now events have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were 1000% on the correct side of history, but somehow they're still being scolded? Fun.

All these folks fired for posting facts, doing mockery, or sharing political cartoons after Charlie Kirk’s murder. Meanwhile Fox & Friends suggested killing homeless people, and The Daily Caller is explicitly calling for bloodshed. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

Disbanding ICE and prosecuting everyone who led and worked for it is, in fact, the moderate position.

so it looks like we're going the Big Important Man route this time

The problem with statistics about political violence right now (other than the obvious) is that the right is running the government which means that the legacy media now considers its violence legitimate and unworthy of study.

We’ve demonstrated we’re happy to just straight up murder entire boats full of people suspected of trafficking drugs. Seems like that might complicate matters for, say, the Coast Guard.

We’ve made it clear, for instance, that the downside consequences of being stopped by ICE are no longer “deportation after being afforded due process” but “vanishing into some torture gulag without trial.” And then they act surprised there’s an uptick in assaults.

This is going to kill people. And to be honest I think that’s part of the point.

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

very cool that trump is singularly dedicated to making everything in your life more expensive

Just a bunch of powerful folks laughing heartily at the president’s racist comments about black congresswomen, including a threat to deport one of them, who is a U.S. citizen, all while he signs a corrupt order to break up a foreign company and give pieces of it to his biggest political donors.

the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

The people “enforcing” immigration law under this administration understand what their real job is but we’re all supposed to pretend it’s something else

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.

We don’t call everyone who disagrees with us a Nazi, JD, just the ones doing Nazi shit like: -masked secret police kidnapping people off the street -creating concentration camps -attempting to eradicate trans people -banning/burning LGBTQ/opposing viewpoint books -murdering fishermen in open waters

It’s pretty clear by now that I could illustrate this in crayon and Republicans still wouldn’t get it because they’re thinking with their resentment and privilege, not their brains, but I’m going to take one last stab at it anyway: That thing you guys termed “cancel culture?” That IS free speech.

this exact dynamic - where trump says or does something awful, everyone spends days downplaying it, and then he loudly doubles down - has played out roughly 7000 times and it’s why I have exactly zero patience for anyone who tries to sanitize his nonsense

One of America's two viable political parties, and the one that completely controls its government right now, has gone stark raving mad.

would be funny if disney was like fine we’re yanking sports off your affiliates this weekend sorry

All your media is state run

'Trump Says' or 'White House Says' instead of telling the truth. The hallmark of bitchmade journalism

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Pritzer gets the mechanics of authoritarianism – systemic intimidation, seizing control of elections, etc. – in a way others in national democratic leadership don't or won't say out loud.

I would die a happy man if I never had to read the words “raising questions” in another headline again.

Republican Sunday: YOU HAVE AWAKENED A DRAGON OF WHITE RAGE WE WILL SWIM IN THE BLOOD OF OUR TERRORIST ENEMIES AS THEIR CHILDREN WORK OUR SLAVE CANPS Republican Monday: we’re sweet widdle puddy tats what never hurted a fly and the mean man’s post fwightened us so bad we cwosed up our widdle eyes

So cool they discovered the cause of autism on basically day they guessed they would. I’m also glad they are withholding this information for a few days to prep for a WrestleMania-style announcement. This is how science works.

It fucking rules that they did all the idiot gloating about this because if they’d had even an ounce of discretion about it it wouldn’t be a public loss of face like this, just behind the scenes pressure that they could deny. But now their options are obvious retaliation or backing down.

All that’s left is letting trump wear their robes and hold the gavel

One thing Disney hopefully learned from this but most likely did not is that it will make extraordinary amounts of money if it immediately pivots to giving everything it produces Andor vibes.

It is representative of a *profound* failure of a country that this group of people are up there talking about medicine and science at all

my hot take on the humphrey's executor news is that it's probably good to get them on the record with formally overturning it it's obviously a terrible decision in the making but at least this way the next dem president can fire everyone he's appointed immediately

hey look at that, the opposing political party rose as one and made a huge stink and the people followed with action and then there were results

“What is alarming today is the emerging pattern of shadowy deportations of people who have not had access to a court or any meaningful form of due process — removals that bear the hallmarks of forced disappearances under international law." Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...