Of course this is exactly right. If DOJ was serious about prosecuting they would have promptly indicted. But by October they already feared Trump, and in the absence of leadership were paralyzed. Had Harris won they could have continued prosecution, as the crime of conspiracy was already committed.

Sports talk radio and media have been cheerleading the DC Commanders stadium deal and jawboning the city council to back the Mayor and Commanders ownership to just approve it already, which happened. But this analysis pegs it as the worst public stadium deal in history. defector.com/the-commande...

Good shooter, bad shooter

30 years ago the FCC was struggling to limit the expression of a radio disc jockey for what some considered indecent expression. Today it cancels the most popular main stream comedians to please the president.

Implication is Texas A&M prez is forced out because he did Texas Republican and Trump bidding at the expense of free speech; but is it because he did not act aggressively enough to suppress course content? No one has any idea. www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/t...

DOJ, per MSNBC, has Trump border czar Homan on video accepting $50k greenbacks for his personal use in exchange for using his imminent public office to corruptly steer a government contract to the payor. But Biden's DOJ did not charge during Biden's term, and Trump's DOJ said nothing to see here.

Literally the first thing they did is gut the lawyers. It was illegal but there was no one to challenge it. No one even reported on it at the time.

Eisner can lead a shareholder movement to pressure Disney's Board to replace Eisner with someone who aligns Disney values with democratic ones.

Literally the first thing they did is gut the lawyers. It was illegal but there was no one to challenge it. No one even reported on it at the time.

Capitulation of the corporate parent has now also silenced Ben and Jerry's. Unilever's submission to Trumpism seems to have flown under the media radar.

One of the incisive points that Kasparov made on his cable news appearances is that mainstream media still falsely pushes on Americans that we will continue to have elections as we know them, including the midterms. 1/2

Aside from the fact that local tv stations never decided what the American people think, local tv stations were never subject to oligarchical control the way they are now.

Odd Democratic Senator fact: FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, the public architect of Kimmel's suspension and the subject of Democratic calls for resignation, was unanimously confirmed to another FCC term with proud Senate Democratic support in 2023. This was after Carr contributed to Project 2025.

"He was unaffiliated with a party and did not vote. Instead, he seems to have spent time in the corners of the internet where young men can become radicalized toward violence...he might ultimately be best understood as a participant in that warped online culture." www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

Democrats couldn't get Manchin or Sinema or a single Republican to carve out a limited anti-gerrymandering exception to the filibuster when Dems were in the majority. But now that Republicans are in the majority, Republicans are gashing the filibuster. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

The joke is on the public.

Billionaires are consolidating control over media platforms and the president is eager to help them do so, provided they shut down his critics. If they don’t, he brazenly threatens to use government to financially punish them. Though this seems patently unconstitutional, it is not challenged.

Kash Patel has never heard of Dylan Roof, even when prompted to put it in context of hate crimes.

Republican congressman from Alabama pressing Patel into investigating "Russia hoax" while decrying weaponization of FBI.

Ted Cruz uses his interview time with Kaitlan Collins to insist that almost all political violence is driven by "left-wing groups such as Antifa", that the Kirk shooting is part of this so-called movement, and that he is pushing legislation to designate "antifa" a terrorist organization.

Patel insists Bureau of Prisons unilaterally transferred Maxwell to a low security prison camp. Subpoena the BOP officers and documents.

"I like beer" deja vu. Kavanaugh was confirmed for the Supreme Court even after using his testimony to ask Amy Klobuchar if she had ever blacked out from a drinking binge. Patel is delivering the performance Trump demands and Republican Senators grovel before it.

Eric Trump tells quaking state media stooges that Donald Trump has not made a dime off the presidency so bugger off - and they do!

Once bitten twice shy

Trump strategy in a nutshell: Acclimate base to authoritarian non-rules based approach. And its working, increased numbers of his supporters are fine with him suspending the law. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell

"Let's put [Liz Cheney] with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face." — Donald Trump, October 31, 2024

The anti-Josh Shapiro/Ezra Klein, in the good sense.

Twitter and Grok still telling users that Kirk was shot by a leftist gunman.

One "pundit" notably not piling on to media and politician's canonizing Kirk is Nick Fuentes.

Among those to have been fired, suspended or censured in recent days for their opinions include teachers, firefighters, journalists, politicians, a Secret Service employee, a junior strategist at Nasdaq and a worker for a prominent NFL team. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

These highly skilled workers invited here to revitalize US manufacturing in a key sector - EV batteries - were improperly arrested summarily without process and the effort to grow manufacturing capacity is shown to be meaningless. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

This is a great song.

It took decades to get this anri-corruption measure passed and as soon as it took effect Republicans rolled it back.

Guessing that nonetheless we will not see the reconstitution of the specialized expertise in task forces on domestic extremism within the FBI, or the military, that Trump summarily disbanded. Even if there was a will the expertise has been driven out.

And now that we know the shooter was a Groyper, it's confirmed that this was a case of fascist on fascist violence. Or at the very least someone who was radicalized by and speaking the language of fascists online.

Remember when Tuberville placed a unilateral "hold" on hundreds of Dem military nominations for months, degrading US preparedness, and Repubs did nothing about it, citing tradition? But now when they are weaponizing this to force through their people, they tell gullible media to blame Democrats.

All signs indicate that Trump has bought Adams as well as Cuomo, and that Adams will do his part by clearing the field for Cuomo. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/n...

Under normal times measures such as court martials, personnel reviews, and civilian investigations would be conducted. Everyone involved knows that, and that under this administration that will not occur. And they know that if and when a change comes they are in peril, so now they will oppose that.

At least not alive. Seems so obvious that it might be the point.

This is a perceptive and obvious question that all competent reporters should be asking and reporting on. Traditional media has been co-opted. This follows MSNBC firing its correspondent for a similar observation.

It took decades to get this anri-corruption measure passed and as soon as it took effect Republicans rolled it back.

Thomas Massie, having been gored by the bull, gains perspective, at least for now.

MSNBC demonstrates that it is part of the problem.

Who is booking these guests and allowing this drivel to go unchallenged?

The "moderate" Republican credo is to never ever be the deciding vote against Trump. In exchange for that they are tolerated by Trump. They all live by that.

Even their GROK contradicts Trump/Fox messaging.

Whether it’s Republican politicians joking about the murder of Melissa Hortman or Democratic politicians expressing their condolences after the murder of Charlie Kirk, both parties have a extreme rhetoric problem.

Going to be a lot of questions about what happened in Utah, and the current iteration of the FBI may not inspire confidence in answering them.