Who has watched the 24 hour live stream so far that the house Dems are doing on the shutdown????? This should be the biggest story right now and literally 45 people are watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrBY...

Trump’s approval in the swing states is abysmal open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

Today I spoke with a neighbor (a reliable Democratic voter) about Prop 50. She was dead set against it, but I was able to change her mind. She didn't understand that Republicans are stealing Democratic Congressional seats across the country. Talk to your friends & tell them to vote YES on Prop50!

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

The US wine industry today employs more people than coal did at its peak a century ago

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

“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.

Mornin, @thehill.com

She was definitely right about everything she predicted Trump would do.

Brilliant businessman accidentally gives employees 7-month paid vacation.

In case there’s any interest in what ACTUAL psychiatric physicians have to say about autism, vaccines, acetaminophen, and Leucovorin. Can we stop playing MAGA games with children’s health? www.psychiatry.org/news-room/ne...

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

This is a good start on Sinclair/Nextstar, but I don’t think it goes far enough:

Charlie Kirk on Pope Francis:

⚠️This is the Jimmy Kimmel monologue that got his show pulled. Not hate. Not celebration of death. Just the truth: Republicans rushed to blame the left before any facts about the shooter or motive were known. Keep sharing it. Spread the truth.

ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

One pretty foolproof way to know your government is fascist is when your government tries to punish you for calling it fascist.

Yeah they’ll turn all the expertise of FBI leadership on you

It should be way bigger news that Trump effectively killed any attempt by foreign countries to build new factories in the United States with this idiotic ICE move. Just incalculable long term damage. Trump just killed his "build America" push www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

Mix of stupidity & absurdity & horror: Trump just cost US $billions in trade & high-skilled immigration & tourism so his paramilitary could enjoy a few days of torturing innocent *legal* *temp* foreign workers.

This is unhinged, dangerous, and reckless. At this point I don't know how you conclude anything other than that Musk is trying to foment pogroms against immigrants across the west.

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

Pie: cherry Ice cream: something with caramel Donut: glazed Bar: blueberry crumble Cake:coconut Other: Kugelhopf aux Lardons

NEW: The inscriptions on bullets recovered near the scene of Charlie Kirk's murder appear to reference video games like Helldivers 2 and online furry roleplay, not a legible political ideology.

Can we all agree now on how short-sighted and foolish Stephen Miller and his ilk are? This is not some operation by brilliant fascist technocrats. This was an operation by thugs trying to meet arbitrary quotas that serve no purpose newrepublic.com/post/200295/...

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.

Sigh.

This contrast says it all: On one side, Trump is buffoonishly boasting of his highest poll numbers ever while obsequious Republicans applaud the two-bit tinpot's self-flattery. On the other side, he's tanking on all major issues. citing @gelliottmorris.com data 6/

My take on this “What is an American nonsense”:

Via this freely available review of political science literature on democratic backsliding: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

“The Department of Justice's acting deputy chief was caught on a hidden camera saying that the government will ‘redact every Republican’ from an Epstein client list.” 🧐

We put a lot of muscle—reporting, editing, fact checking, designing, engineering—into this very deep dive on Wikipedia, which is now threatened by Trump, tech billionaires, and AI

“.. Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.)” (via @yarotrof.bsky.social)

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

One thing I believe is that the sheer material affluence of the United States is part of the reason why we're in this mess (belief that water comes from the tap and that things really can't get that much worse) is also another reason why this administration is sowing the seeds of its destruction

The best part of this photo — which is a good example of how photographers make art — is the slogan “American workers first” on the banner observed by troops who’ve been forced to pick up trash and do landscaping because the president on the banner illegally fired the American workers who did that.

Striking: New Quinnipiac poll finds 56% of voters nationally oppose Trump's sending of National Guard into DC. Only 41% support it. Independents oppose it by 61-34. Trump's overall approval on crime is cratering at 42-54. That sound you hear is a lot of dimwitted pundit narratives imploding.

Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?

Earlier this year, SCOTUS tried to construct a stupid legal framework where the President was allowed to destroy basically all independent institutions except for the Federal Reserve, which was deemed too economically important. Unsurprisingly, even that was not enough for Trump.

Quislings.

TRUMP: *Signs order to put congressional Democrats in front of a firing squad" NYT: President Trump took the extraordinary step of moving to reduce number of Democratic votes in a legally dubious maneuver that could undermine the independence of the Congress.

It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

"build more housing" is the single most important thing we can do to combat a further rightward drift of the electorate what do you think is going to happen as climate migration accelerates

MPD, FBI, and others with non-agency specific gear arresting a guy for — get this — smoking weed on U Street.