More on this…. Kinda amazing that this is the moment we are in.

What a sad state our country is in when we see a message like, “The only thing more powerful than hate is love,” and we all immediately know it’s about the President of the United States.

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

Leaders of the so-called “pro-life, small government” party who relentlessly warn of tyranny are standing by as masked agents roam the country and brutalize its people. The hypocrisy isn’t surprising — but it’s staggering. Remember this.

i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices

We live in a new age of monsters. A very small number of people could fix this. Today. And yet… slavish fealty, to something I cannot fathom, is the GOP norm.

It keeps getting worse. He is blaming Norway for forcing him to invade Greenland. How is this real life. The timing of his Davos trip could not be more unfortunate. He’s gonna go berserk in Switzerland.

My god I had no idea that this history echos so loudly. Really shocked that this thing which sounds totally made up turns out to be true. Cite: www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-...

The goal of doubling down on violence and gaslighting in Minnesota is exactly this: martial law, suspension of rights in civil society, and an avoidance of the accountability of free and fair elections. That’s the through-line: everything else is a distraction.

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. And if all others accepted the lie, if all records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. George Orwell, 1984

I admit it: I was a weird kid.

After the tragic murder of a beloved and long time Hollywood luminary and his wife… our sociopath-in-chief pens this most sociopathic thing possible. And his supporters cheer him on. What monsters we have become!

Northern lights visible in the the middle latitudes tonight!

I was in Portland just last week. We had a nice stroll through Powell’s bookstore (largest independent bookstore in the world, and an overall amazing place with a funky vibe.). The city is beautiful: don’t let anyone gaslight otherwise. And now the Trumpists are making war (again.)

I’ve been in the woods for a few weeks. Anything much happen while I was gone?

Despite the headline, he’s never going to any heaven that you ever read about, and Hell won’t have him because Lucifer won’t deal have such a rival. So, he’s like a struldbrug (you’re welcome) and will be here forever with a center of gravity and little else. And his shitshow circus will continue.

Speculating on a Vance regime: I think more of the same, with less accountability, and using all the iconography of the current movement. /1

He won’t suddenly become his “own man” in office: he instead will keep the cult going, allied with the same wrecking crew of Miller and Noem and Zeldin and Hegseth and even the shittiest Kennedy. /2

Because - he has no other path to keep power. He’s as charming as a ziplock bag with a broken zipper, and without Uncle Palantir’s zillions, he’d be a derpy private citizen. /3

Of course, I am ready to discount any rumors. Like Dick Cheney, Trump is never going to heaven, but he’s so bad that the Devil doesn’t want the competition in Hell. So - he persists. /fin

Trying to create a contract which has some out-year pricing actions tied to the Bureau of Labor Statistics-produced Producer’s Price Index, which… might get cooked by the new guy. So / one more bedrock thing in American data turns out to be as solid as an armload of gravy. Winning.

The EU needs to place the US in the naughty chair for the next few years, & realize they are on their own since our Russian-aligned regime is no longer relevant. Happy that EU leaders are accompanying Zelenskyy to DC tomorrow, & hope it isn’t the “sellout summit” I fear. We need a free Ukraine!

I truly don’t think Ukraine survives another meeting with Trump (now Monday?) Zelenskyy has nothing to offer the mob boss, & he’s smart enough to know that he’s not at the table: he’s on the table. Stating the obvious might help: our regime is aligned with a war criminal & no talks change that.

There’s no bottom with this regime. None with respect to law, statecraft, norms, humanity, science, or… respect. I would love someone to convince me it’s not a $hitshow from top to bottom, or to help me understand where the bottom even is.

This article was a supreme delight: grab a cup of tea, set aside 10 or 15 minutes, and enjoy this story about The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan. aresluna.org/the-hardest-... (via @ferociousj.bsky.social)

“A destination is optional: a direction is mandatory.” This seems not to be always obvious to the opposition… which happens to be our last hope of liberal democracy on the planet. Josh Foster nailed it here: join TPM if you can and support work like this. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...

What’s astounding to me is that Tim Cook is transparently bribing the President in return for preferential treatment. There’s not even a suggestion of the National Archives “owning” this artifact vs. it being the President’s personal property. And yet - this One Special Boy gets away with it.

For those folks at home keeping score, it’s been six months of this nonsense before someone got a regime official to admit that the Americans pay the import tax. Let’s do better! Let’s ask this same question a hundred times until everyone in the regime has to say it’s so: make this barbarism end!

I deal with tariffs for a living, and wish I didn’t have to. We are trying hard to keep jobs in the US but the economics just got way worse. Who the fck cares about workers anyway? (Answer: lots of Americans. But - not that Trump guy: he don’t give a $hit as long as you’re not talking Epstein.)

Today’s reminder: tariffs are stupid job killers, and yet Trump’s gaslighting goes unchallenged in the press: AMERICANS pay these tariffs. We sighted the iceberg in November, but stupidly decided to aim at it. Now we’re pretending everything’s OK while the engine room and lower decks are awash.

Reposted just for the awesome shirt!!

If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.

These guys won’t stop at immigrants: once power is given it will not be given back. I only hope the states are as creative with legal contortions as the regime is. For the record: when the new department was named after 9/11, to me it was a fascist project, and I feared then what it could become.

"For my friends, everything, for my enemies, the law." While Bondi is dismissing charges against an anti-vaccine fraudster, her US attorney in NJ is subpoenaing the state's governor, a Democrat, over political speech: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/n... The rule of law dies a little more every day.

When I was a kid the GOP believed in science. What the HELL happened to us?

For anyone who’s told us to stop worrying about the rise of an American christofascist/white supremacy state under Trump - you can fck all the waaay off. This, BTW, was released under an official US Department of Homeland Security account.

Charlie, I would like to personally and specifically like to invite you to go fuck yourself. Until you've done my job, I don't want to hear a single word out of your idiotic mouth. I've worked to support a community after 6 deaths in a single day, and that was hard enough. So fuck all the way off.

Press: Stop saying Tariffs are on “a” country: instead say tariffs are on “this” country. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

And this is why we can’t have nice things in America anymore.

I know we don't feel like there's much to celebrate this July 4th. It's been a rough several years. So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.

1/What I wrote in response to my GOP congressman’s triumphant braying about the big fascist bill. “The cruelty and brutality in this bill offsets any of the goodies you’ve cherry-picked in your announcement.

2/You’ve given us a new domestic standing army complete with lawless concentration camps: this force will soon enough be turned on American citizens since power, once given, is never returned. You handed over this power. Shame.

Happy Canada Day to those freedom-loving cool people north of here, who have a ringside seat to the destruction of America. Not much to celebrate on our Independence Day, as the worst people on earth cut the ribbon on a concentration camp in the Florida swamps…so I’m celebrating your day instead.

This tells me that it’s tariffs all the way down with Canada, and their completely understandable retaliatory surtax which is already costing US jobs… and - at some point - we will see the longest defended border in the world. Can’t tell you how awful this makes 49.9% of America feel.

I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

Well played.

It’s December 1941, and we’re Japan with shittier leaders and a cosplaying Emperor. What could possibly go wrong?

President Obama reportedly asked a question after someone pitched him on a strategy or an action. “And then what happens? No one in charge of our fcking nuclear arsenal seems capable of asking this simple question. Welcome to a war - run by idiots - on Iran, a country of 90+ million people.

Hope the video works now…