Honestly, everything went downhill after The Ghost and Molly McGee was cancelled.

A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold. Where are my Originalists at?

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

Portland should sue Fox for a billion dollars. Go for the full BBC.

I'm co-host a video game-nostalgia podcast called DIE OR PASS LEVEL that I'm terrible at promoting, but this week's ep is my favorite. I get a real education in Sonic lore?? If you're a @samcking.bsky.social fan (and who isn't) you're not gonna wanna miss this one! open.spotify.com/episode/5hCp...

The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

Pivotal moments — good ones like Tuesday in NYC, bad ones like the Senate capitulation tonight — hinge on the same thing: primary elections. 2026 will be won or lost in the spring.

Text from a friend:

This should be framed by Democrats as: the GOP has given a green light for the most violent criminals in the country to act with impunity.

We damn well better get a blizzard of "bad news for Republicans" pieces tomorrow.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

Not to be glib, but it was always going to trend this way. People hated Trump the first time and he's even less competent now. There was never a reason to think Rs would outperform 2018 Which is part of why the preemptive surrender of so many elites has been so f*cking annoying

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

The guy obsessed with Biden’s auto-pen has no clue who he’s pardoned.

Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism. bsky.app/profile/larr...

New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about. During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

My mom got me into Trek when I was a kid and most Trek fans I know/ encounter are women. And the lead of my Star Trek show was a woman, as was the captain of the ship. So shut the fuck up.

This is actually a perfect meme. Send this to anyone, at any time, for any reason!

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

Unprecedented corruption

The price increases will be staggering for millions of Americans. This is why I am standing strong in this fight.

The sheer incompetence of this administration…

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.

Just naked and brazen corruption. All states represented by Democrats in the Senate. Time to stiffen our spines and demand that we only fund a government that obeys the law.

Here, in my opinion, is how all honest pieces on the Hegseth/Trump disgrace should read: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social… as someone who has deeply studied the alleged mental deterioration of a President and their fitness to remain in office, how do you think we are doing right now?

“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.

Trump posting an AI video of himself promising something that doesn’t exist should get the full failing Biden front page treatment but we know it won’t.

this needs to be hammered into the skulls of every elite individual and institution on every measure - reputationally, financially, morally - you come out better if you fight the guy stand up! it’s the right thing to do and better for you in every way! how often does that happen?

Leading national political reporters vowed that never again would they look the other way when a president was showing every sign of being too debilitated to do the job

Jimmy Kimmel isn't returning to the airwaves because of "thoughtful conversations" with Disney executives. He's back because consumers sent Disney a clear message: selling out our fundamental rights is not an acceptable cost of doing business.

How is this not leading the news? He was caught taking $50K in cash!

Excellent explainer on why private industry and venture capital can’t replace government funded basic science research.

Assuming CDC formally adopts ACIP's recommendations, CVS tells me it will provide Covid vaccines without a prescription in all 50 states and won't require even self-attestation of a qualifying condition — "it’s up to the individual patient." No confirmation from Walgreens or Walmart yet.

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

The Third Reich had an agency called the Reichskulturkammer, "Reich Culture Chamber". All singers, writers, musicians, journalists, and actors had to apply for membership and were ideologically vetted. Expulsion or failure to gain admission resulted in an occupational ban. Jews were not admitted.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

There's no excuse for the Vice President of the United States to use a heinous killing as an occasion to baselessly frame political opponents as accomplices to murder while threatening to use the power of the government to attack them. This dangerous rhetoric will only fan the flames.

“Calling people a fascist is dangerous, violent rhetoric.” ... Here's a compilation of Trump doing precisely that: ht: @micaherfan.com

Just thinking about how ANDOR is, against all odds, one of the defining pieces of political art for capturing the mood and tenor of our moment for no particular reason this morning.

Universities are such magical places . . . (❤️ @alahav.bsky.social)

Same.

Three people, at least two of whom are students, were shot and critically injured at a high school outside Denver, Colorado, on Wednesday afternoon, the authorities said.