Guys, have you seen the ads ICE has been airing in "sanctuary cities"? They're aimed at disgruntled cops—cops upset they've been "ordered to stand down"—trying to get them to quit and instead join ICE for a $50,000 signing bonus. www.reddit.com/r/Sacramento... www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/c...

NEW: Where have all the boycotts gone? Explaining one big difference between the opposition to Trump in his first term vs. his second. www.thebulwark.com/p/where-have...

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: I've been listening to Shostakovich lately, as the mood strikes, especially his 24 Preludes and Fugues (Op. 87), which have many little echoes of Bach. This is the sixteenth prelude, in B♭ minor, played by Igor Levit. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN29...

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: I've been listening to Shostakovich lately, as the mood strikes, especially his 24 Preludes and Fugues (Op. 87), which have many little echoes of Bach. This is the sixteenth prelude, in B♭ minor, played by Igor Levit. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN29...

Never in our history, not even during Watergate, has a single news cycle so comprehensibly established the deep corruption and politicization of the Department of Justice

In a normal government this guy would be fired instead of imprisoning people "It is still a crime for anyone to seek money to improperly influence federal contracts, the legal experts said, whether they are a public official or not, and whether they ever delivered on their promise or not."

"Homan…indicated he would facilitate securing contracts for them in exchange for money once he was in office.…On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills" Reporting by @carolleonnig.bsky.social & @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social

Important people who are nice to me get art whether they want it or not. A few more of you are getting dangerously close. You don’t know who you are.

my kids love cheerfully harassing the shelf-inventorying robot at BJ's...

Since comedy is now illegal in the United States, I will begin smuggling it in from abroad, taped across my body.

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: From the soundtrack to the 2005 movie 'Me and You and Everyone We Know,' here's a chill little musical cue called "Socks On Ears." See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlzD...

Do 2024 Trump voters and non-voters see what he’s wrought—what they’ve wrought—in the last 8 months? He still gets too much benefit of the doubt. What will it take? More inflation, job loss, disease and death? Maybe a government shutdown? It's all coming. My latest open.substack.com/pub/jilllawr...

This is insane and tech companies in particular are going to revolt.

THIS. 👉

You know what? Solidarity blows. It sucks that we have to team up with people we didn't like before, to fight for things many of us took for granted. Things like liberal democracy. But we gotta do it anyway. www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-ho...

NEW: A decade ago, Gawker founder Nick Denton famously captured an important truth of that era when he said "Hypocrisy is the only modern sin." Now, though? Donald Trump has brought us past that point. Even hypocrisy doesn't matter anymore. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-post-h...

LOL

If these were normal times, I would not be unsettled by the fact that, for more than half an hour this morning, the website of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture was inaccessible. I'd assume it was a glitch. These being Trumpian times, it was very unsettling.

"When you've lost John Yoo in the exercise of unilateral executive power, let’s just say you're way beyond the bounds of what can reasonably be defended." 👇

NEW: "The Pentagon has chosen to share almost no information on or justifications for these killings w/ Congress or the public. Instead, we have chest-beating statements from the president on down celebrating them while offering no legal rationale for the actions." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-dog-th...

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Since it's my birthday, here's something from my birth year—a 1977 live recording of Leon Redbone covering the Fats Waller classic "Ain't Misbehavin'." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg-N...

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Since it's my birthday, here's something from my birth year—a 1977 live recording of Leon Redbone covering the Fats Waller classic "Ain't Misbehavin'." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg-N...

NEW: The FCC chairman's actions leading to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel were "manifestly improper" and "antithetical to our history of constitutional freedom and free speech and the First Amendment." That's George Conway @gtconway.bsky.social talking to our JVL www.thebulwark.com/p/conway-des...

"A surprising assertion was made during a hearing last week. While discussing border disputes between China and India, Sen. Bill Hagerty claimed that five years ago, China 'used an electromagnetic weapon to literally melt Indian soldiers.'" "Literally melts"?! @cheetah.bsky.social figures it out:

"One thing to keep in mind about these capitulations is how they snowball. They have tended to come in bunches—when one law firm, one college, one media company rolls over for Trump, it compels others to do the same. Meanwhile, with every new capitulation, Trump grows bolder."

A ghoulish fight over the future of Charlie Kirk's enterprises has grown intense even before his funeral. The participants realize that having a claim to Kirk’s legacy is valuable—and will become even more so in the post-Trump media landscape: www.thebulwark.com/p/brutal-mag...

I tried to teach this song to the baby but she was having none of it

NEW: House Republicans have set up their own sham January 6th Committee. And of course they've stacked it with conspiracy theorists. Everything you need to know: www.thebulwark.com/p/january-6-...

Dad's birthday cake is good for eating but great for facepaint and hair conditioning.

It's my birthday—so it's time to kick off my annual reread of 'Middlemarch.'

Welp... here goes 48!

For those of you who enjoy seeing people you dislike squirm in embarrassment, here's an amazing three-minute video of Mark Zuckerberg failing in two product demos in a row and having no idea what to do with himself. www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

This is five kinds of fucked up: www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

"Blaming a murder victim for his own death." Charlie Kirk did that. "Comparing your opponents to Nazis." Charlie Kirk did that. "Advocating violence." Charlie Kirk did that, too. www.thebulwark.com/p/charlie-ki...

"The common thread is trust. In the West, Putin’s goal is to erode it. In Russia, Putin’s goal is to manufacture it. Both advance his strategic aim: weaken Western unity and strengthen authoritarian control." www.thebulwark.com/p/putins-bot...

NEW: The intra-MAGA fighting over Charlie Kirk's legacy is exactly as crazy as you might have imagined. www.thebulwark.com/p/brutal-mag...

NEW: Have you seen the bonkers trailers for this movie? "I applaud all involved for leaning into the outrageousness of the premise. It’s the sort of movie that seems destined for cult status." www.thebulwark.com/p/him-review

NEW from Bill Kristol: Yeah, sorry, JD Vance—we're gonna keep calling it fascism. Because that's what it is. www.thebulwark.com/p/yeah-its-f...

NEW: Republicans are going after people for saying about Charlie Kirk some of the same sorts of things that Charlie Kirk said about others. www.thebulwark.com/p/charlie-ki...

This article makes so many good points.

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: A September song if ever there was one—here's "Try to Remember" from 'The Fantasticks' as covered by the Kingston Trio. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWFB...

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: A September song if ever there was one—here's "Try to Remember" from 'The Fantasticks' as covered by the Kingston Trio. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWFB...

"You tell me who misled his audience more: Jimmy Kimmel the comedian, or JD Vance the vice president." www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

For the "Where's my flying car?!" crowd, the answer is apparently Alaska. www.reddit.com/r/aviation/c...

NEW: "First, they came for Jimmy Kimmel..." It's just after 11:30 in the East—about the time Jimmy Kimmel's show would be starting in the Eastern and Central time zones. But not tonight. "Do people understand *now* what the authoritarian project is aiming for?" www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Celebrate Constitution Day and commemorate the "miracle at Philadelphia" by getting pissed off about this:

No one has been more vindicated than normie resistance Dems, women’s marchers and never-Trump Republicans. They were right all along about the threat. The anti-anti-Trump Republicans and reactionary centrists, and the far left “it’s always been this bad” folks have been proved wrong over and over.

RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisory panel, stacked with anti-vaxxers he handpicked, is holding a two-day meeting in Atlanta starting tomorrow. The hepatitis B vaccine is on the agenda for day one. www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-ken...

Trump has already declared nine (!) national emergencies purporting to justify hundreds of questionable actions that would typically require congressional approval or lengthy regulatory review. www.thebulwark.com/p/reining-in...