SCOOP --> Major new Bidenworld autopsy just dropped: 45 former Biden officials candidly assess their mistakes and failings in new Roosevelt Institute report. They lay out the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda to reverse authoritarian tide. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2023...

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

Two months after the Aug. 27 mass shooting that left the Twin Cities shaken, five first responders shared, for the first time, their accounts from that chaotic day.

Godfrey doing his Trump impression with Dr. Dre in the studio 🤣💀

Hat, I had insomnia last night and found myself rereading your "And yet it moves" essay to try to get to sleep (didn't work). It's really good. Particularly found of the "fuck civility" section. Amazingly prescient.

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns’s new PBS series, “The American Revolution,” tells the nation’s founding story. Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg asks Burns: What would the Founding Fathers make of this political moment in America? Watch the full discussion: https://bit.ly/3J6Yqfc

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Hope to see more of this there, bc it’s very funny.

THIS SHOULD BE CONCERNING TO EVERYONE

Here’s my cliff notes summary of Pete Hegseth’s big military address today

As we were saying less than a year ago 👉

"That phrase—taking them to the stables—is more befitting a cowboy movie than a national security meeting, and it truthfully sparked unease among those who have actually led soldiers into combat over the last twenty years." www.thebulwark.com/p/what-to-ex...

Now this is Content

This, on the other hand, is good

remember when near five hundred people got shot in vegas and the FBI concluded that it was weird for sure but probably nothing to worry about

marco rubio trying to impose sanctions on brazil but he can't because his propeller beanie keeps falling off and getting caught in his tricycle

From my latest Q & A, on Epstein, Maxwell, and Israel: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...

Please Trust the Scientists youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w...

Well, the cell block of accused murderers in a women’s prison receives a new inmate whose luck turns when she’s represented by a lawyer who understands the system and . . . oh.

Gonzalez: I don't care what your job is. I don't care what part of the state you live in. I don't care where you came from. You have more in common with an undocumented farm worker than you did with the fucking billionaires who are causing this problem in the first place

@wkamaubell.bsky.social is correct. Sucks I know. Doesn’t make him wrong. Because he’s not.

But as I travel’d hither through the land, I find the people strangely fantasied, Possess’d with rumors, full of idle dreams, Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear.

“It’s so cheap to build a solar panel now. It’s cheaper than producing a plank of wood…But we’ve swaddled this engineering miracle in rolls and rolls of red tape to make it too expensive for American families.”

Big fan of democracy but we'll have to admit it's an L of historic proportions to get subverted and destroyed not by some strategic genius but by possibly the dumbest man on earth

The rise of people like Lander and Walz, whose ideologies don't exactly match mine but have the exact right combination of "love thy neighbor" and "fuck you, asshole" attitudes, is massive positive for people who care about left of center politics

Thread. 🙇‍♂️

the neighbour who was here yesterday pitching a fit over the length of my lawn came back 10 min ago to tell me that he's been watching news and I should not worry & long as he lives here they will have to go through him first and thing is, it wasn't just Walt Whitman who contained multitudes

i explained the whole tom homan is a bitch thing to my parents and they’re really proud

By popular request, linking Mikie Sherrill's "3 kinds of incompetence," which is also superb. Best part is she dings him for his Fox News tactics and then ... those Fox News tactics fail. Second best part is this kicks off her Gubernatorial campaign against a MAGAt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fup...

Saw this on Instagram and dug it. #NoKings

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:

Who is this “god” they worship? This god of guns but not of grace. This god of greed but not generosity. This god of the womb but not of the woman. This god who cannot hear children cry. This god who fears dark skin. This god of America but not all of America? That's the Devil, yo.

ICYMI, investigative journalism prompts good news: Connecticut Legislature Approves Towing Law Reforms

This is his pardon, purchas’d by such sin For which the pardoner himself is in. Hence hath offense his quick celerity, When it is borne in high authority.

This is how the news should report Trump’s rants. If news networks won’t do their job, I guess I’ll have to do it for them. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Well tha- Hey

“He also provides a much needed voice for those on the margins of this life, those for whom the American dream never worked out and perhaps never will, and the shared responsibility we all have in their fate.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...

Dodgers broadcast was discussing the science behind the perception of time between children and adults. After hearing the explanation, the color commentator pauses and asks, "Am I gonna feel any better?" Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.

"We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, we must go against the prevailing wind. We must dissent from the indifference..

Republicans can’t even defend their cruel & partisan cuts to SNAP. They’ve had nothing to say during the first 3 hrs of this markup. While pushing work requirements for vulnerable Americans- most R’s have left Cmte and gone to bed for the night while Dems are still here fighting to feed people.

Going to keep documenting history, even when they cut my mic.

Explosive original reporting about Trump's plans to drastically restructure domestic law enforcement to target immigrants en masse and crack down on opponents.

This is high art

🚨 If you’re continuously stunned by the behavior of gerrymandered GOP representatives in the world of Citizens United, don’t be. Here’s how to think of them: They are no longer public servants. Improving public outcomes is not their goal. Nor do they do better in life… 1/

"Hell is here, in Boston, in the way a woman’s voice goes unnaturally high as she strangles a shriek when surrounded by six masked people in plainclothes who claim to be police. Hell inhabits the place in your heart where you feel her fear."