Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

This was the strategy in LA, lots of videos of mariachi bands and dance parties, people enjoying tacos and street dogs, posted and shared all over social media. It was a powerful disruption of the regime's narrative.

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.” I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt. And that’s wrong.

“Steve Held, the journalist arrested tonight and taken to a so far undisclosed location, was part of the reporting team that exposed the falsity of ICE’s official narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas González. His work speaks for itself.”

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

Really important to internalize that the president of the United States is ordering troops into major population centers precisely to create violent confrontations, for the sole purpose of intimidating, criminalizing and disabling opposition

I don't think you need complex political triangulation when the president is shrieking "I am sending in the WAR DEPARTMENT because Portland is AT WAR!" You should just keep saying that he should be removed from office because he is plainly insane

Revisited this spectacular Kaleb Horton paragraph about crows this morning. "I have met crows that should be in jail" is one of those sentences that's so good you're initially furious you didn't write it yourself before circling back around to just being glad you got to read it.

Yes, Dems should go to war agst Supreme Court. But more broadly, they should seek to end unqualified judicial supremacy. Congress should re-discover its own authority to interpret the Constitution, and make those interpretations count by legislating them and stripping courts' jurisdiction to review.

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

“The larger pattern, researchers say, points in the opposite direction: White supremacist, anti-government, and misogynist beliefs account for the lion’s share of ideologically motivated gun violence.”

Weird how the trial for the pro-Trump, white nationalist mass shooter who is accused of murdering two students at Florida State University (FSU) is about to start and hardly any news is talking about it. www.msn.com/en-us/crime/...

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

This has just explained my whole life to me.

The annual pumpkin display at the entrance of Governor Pritzker’s personal residence on Astor Street. He is the pumpkin king. Illinois produces the most pumpkins, including canned, than any other state in the U.S., twice as many as the next five states combined.

you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils

As I was saying…

Stephen Colbert tonight: "I want to say thanks to everybody in here and to everybody watching from home, which might be just my wife Evie. Because everybody else is probably watching ABC. "

Looks like it's about to break a million views in just one hour... So much for low ratings.

big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters

[The longest longest sigh of my life] TACO tuesday www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

They’ve caved.

I confess I become increasingly irritated with Brits who inform me in what kind of deep trouble my country is in, and how blind we are supposedly to this, at a time when right wing nationalism is surging in Britain and NATO is hanging by a thread. My Friends. We are in the same boat.

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Exactly this

Someone show this to Keir Starmer.

I watched Kimmel's three most recent monologues, convinced I had missed the thing MAGA was outraged about. But it looks like this is it. It has to be more than this, right? There's just no way this is it.

It was that. It's what I've been pointing out all day. He didn't say anything bad at all. They just made it up out of nothing and now they got all these headlines saying he was fired "for what he said about Charlie Kirk" even though he didn't say anything at all.

Stark. When the defence of a state visit becomes all about very large companies moving piles of money around then it shouldn't be a surprise that so many people think politics and economics is broken and not about them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump welcomed to UK with WORLD'S LARGEST Epstein photo

But the beginning is verbatim Trump. Magnificent real estate achievements, top-rated shows of all time, winning presidency AGAIN! No one’s ever done that before. Certainly not Obama. Not even Lincoln! Then they put it through ChatGTP to get sui generis charisma, business acumen, and zeitgeist.

It is absolutely insane to me that we're having a debate over whether or not the rightwing deploys violent rhetoric within days of a Fox News personality calling for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. There is no excuse for this obliviousness. It's unacceptable.

If you ever had any doubt that rightwing media is just official state propaganda at this point, consider that Charlie Kirk was replaced on his show by the sitting Republican vice president who ‘interviewed’ White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. Independent media!

Its pretty great that the NYT political section has treated Donald Trumps feelings as the most important thing in any story and here comes Trump saying "I'm suing you all bc you hurt my feelings"

Interesting article that does not disclose that Oracle's CEO is on the board of CBS's parent company, and that Paramount's CEO is the Oracle chairman's son www.cbsnews.com/news/oracle-...

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Is there any chance I can persuade you to write an FT piece about how weird it is that Grok stands up to Musk more often than our government?

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson. Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word. This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

Reform finished 4th in that seat last year. There should be a recall option if your MP switches parties.

This weekend saw Britain’s largest far-right demonstration with extremist views on full display. Many of us felt unsafe to be in London. The Government’s response has been wholly inadequate. They must condemn these views for what they are, racist and dangerous. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1. At Charlie Kirk's vigil just now, DNI Tulsi Gabbard just invoked MLK Jr.'s line, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that." She insisted Kirk "lived" by that line. Unclear how Kirk would've felt about that comparison, since he decried MLK as “awful” and "not a good person."

I plan to post this ABC News supercut video of Trump calling Harris and Democrats "fascists" (and "communists"!) everytime I see a Republican on TV whining about Trump being called a "fascist" by the left. Oh, the hypocrisy! Oh, the gaslighting!

These guys are claiming Kirk as a nazi. I'm curious, from the right's perspective, is this unacceptable criticism, of the type that's getting liberals fired from their jobs, or is this honoring his legacy?

trumpism has its roots in the idea that bush only failed, that obama only happened, because the right failed to submit entirely to its id. it's no coincidence that his administration is full of Fox hosts: his administration is Fox. that's the entire ideology.

Hey, Mike, quick question -- if *Republicans* call the other side communists and socialists and enemies of the state, are they also responsible for some deranged people in our society who will take that as a cue to act? Or is this a responsibility only Democrats have?

I know all the rightwingers are still sephiroth posting about how kirk's death is the signal to let slip the dogs of war but one thing hindering that from becoming reality is that their dear leader absolutely does not give a shit

Just because I saw someone mention it: There’s no reason to think that TPUSA/Kirk had a significant effect on the 2024 election. The turnout operation was non-existent and claims that they/he are the central (or even a major) cause of young voters moving right aren’t backed by any actual evidence.

I hope I have given fidelity, and that everyone viscerally understands: You will have to come through me.

An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"