"Governments never announce that they have become fascist. They announce that the antifascists are now the enemy of the state"

This post wins the internet this week

Karen Attiah, a Washington Post opinion writer fired this month for her social media posts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, has filed a grievance arguing that she should have been allowed to share her views on news events under the company’s labor agreement and social media policy.

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

It really is always amazing to me that Trump and Republicans have it down to a science dangling a steady diet of culture war nonsense like Cracker Barrel, Bud Light & jeans ads to keep their supporters from noticing that everything they do is to enrich themselves & billionaires.

Here’s an idea. The west has held about $300 billion in Russian assets. They should release 2 billion a day to Ukraine until Russia stops the war, or they disperse it all. Then Russia will have to accept the war has an additional real cost per day

1939

The nicer concentration camps will have Blue Apron meals and Helix mattresses.

What a fucking fascist

From @economist.com

People killed in US boat strike were not Tren de Aragua, #Venezuela minister says. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

That’s a lovely thought. But it could never happen with Donald Trump serving as president, and would never have been necessary if he weren’t.

News just broke that the Venezuelan boat that Trump struck was not, in fact, headed to the U.S. with drugs. But this story is disturbing for other reasons, and you need to know why. It's another sign of Trump's growing lawlessness. And it's bad counter-narcotics strategy.

"Look at your reflection in the mirror. You're a creature of the night, Michael, just like out of a comic book!"

"You’ve got this guy—the Democratic candidate for the biggest city in the country—and they’re not endorsing him" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s actually just called straight up murder

Make it make sense… New reports show DHS is suspending investigations into crimes such as human trafficking, child exploitation, and terrorism to divert resources into arresting immigrants.

Our once-thriving (2024) economy is decimated… … but at least brown-skinned people are being indiscriminately rounded up, pedophiles are being protected, and our loved ones can once again die from preventable diseases—ain’t that right, MAGA? #winning

Way to go, MAGA.

i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this

did josh marshall respond

“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” This is on Trump. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Trump's splotchy hand and swollen ankles raise new questions about Joe Biden's health.

The FBI under Kash Patel is lowering recruiting standards and reducing training for new agents. Instead of 18 weeks of training, they’re only receiving 8. In a world with more complexity and more threats, this Administration is again wrecking the institutions that keep us safe.

Every Democratic member of Congress should be in the streets of DC saying this dangerous authoritarian escalation must stop. Do they not grasp what’s going on here?

A picture says it all.

This dictator will continue to manufacture fake emergencies under whose cover he seizes more authoritarian power until we are Russia. Or possibly worse. It is time for serious public discussions about what options remain.

Pay attention to Senators in the Republican Party attempting to move into Governor seats. Tommy Tuberville, Marsha Blackburn. Alabama and Tennessee. Nancy Mace in S.C. There's a political restructuring in the south. Senators shifting to positions of Governors for control of state military forces.

Pritzker: "It's cheating. Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes."

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "I led the effort to build the IL Holocaust Museum. What I know is that in 53 days, Nazis tore down the constitutional republic in Germany in the 1930s. It doesn't take much. We're seeing pieces of that sort of authoritarian activity happening right now in this country."

We need to be talking to Trump voters who thought he was going to upend the status quo, and show them how he is just protecting the powerful, corrupt, and lawless. “He lied to you,” we need to tell them. “And so it’s ok for you to walk away.”

We are pleased to report from the new MAGA Patriotic Bureau of Labor Statistics that thanks to Leader Trump employment is up 10 million jobs for the month of August.”

A group of federal #judges decried a series of politically charged attacks from the White House Thursday, saying the broadsides are emboldening bad actors and leading to death threats and political intimidation. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Gaza is this generation’s Vietnam. It’s a test of national morality that we are badly failing. We are NOT the good guys, and the whole world knows it.

Maybe Trump just bought Miss Teen USA because he enjoys competition.

Grassley even heard personally from 7 DOJ employees who confirmed that Erez Reuveni was a trustworthy and honorable man. And he went along with it anyway. Corruption pays.

Me too rabbit, me too

I kind of love that Trump just came off a little bit jealous and bitter about never going to the island. Even among the most disgusting pedophiles on the face of the Earth he’s the annoying one they don’t want around.

Of course! 🙄

Spending some time this morning imagining a better way to disagree… If anyone else is interested in joining, DM for the link