The Mainstream Media Is Catastrophically Failing To Meet The Moment Earlier today we wrote about Trump's extraordinary admission that he was basing military deployment decisions on old Fox News footage and lies from his advisors. But there's an even more damning story here: how that revelation…

today in “a huge swath of America has completely lost its mind”

This meeting could have been a GI Joe coloring book

They don't want Dem votes because they need them to keep going on a tyrannical crime spree. It's because they're useful to pretend it's all normal and legal, that it's something other than a tyrannical crime spree. They want the appearance of legitimacy. Nothing is worth giving that to them.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

maybe behind the scenes Trump has gone back to ranting about annexing Canada, so they're going to make a show of abrogating the Rush-Bagot treaty as a sop to him

@scotusplaces.bsky.social this from the Ninth Circuit yesterday is just *screaming* for your invention

CHOTINER: Record shows you didn’t post a Chotiner meme until Thursday? ME: That’s correct. CHOTINER: That seems unusual. Wouldn’t you say you usually jump on all the viral ‘bits?’ ME: I’d say so, but I had lots of work to do yesterday. CHOTINER: So, that work is done now?

Trump, pounding shoe: "We will bury ourselves!"

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

Let me let you in on a secret, most federal judges don't believe that other federal judges higher up the food chain are one bit smarter, or any more faithful to the law, than they are. And yet, by and large, they fully accept the legitimacy of review and potential reversal of their decisions. Why?

OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8. Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

this is the thing, from top to bottom. we had maybe the best deal any country has had in history. our decline is a series of people voting to throw that away because they cannot understand that it is a good deal

MOSKOWITZ: Will you be opening up an investigation into the Epstein state for putting out a fake document w/the president's signature linking him to the world's largest pedophile ring? PATEL: On what basis? M: They literally put out a fake document according to the president! P: Sure, I'll do it

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

every single fuentes follower thinks this is a wink wink nod nod message, even if fuentes doesn’t

Coming to terms with the fact that one day I’m gonna open up this app and learn I have 5 minutes before the icbms hit

/7 SCOTUS, the Federalist Society, the entire academic and intellectual infrastructure that brought us here: they're nothing but pretentious Trumpers. At least the guy in the MAGA hat and "fuck your feelings" t-shirt is honest about who he is. These people are not.

If the only way to further reduce crime off its historic current low is by military occupation, i'd rather have the crime

The simplest explanation for why the right does not appear to care that Donald Trump is a sexual abuser and a pedophile is that they do not, in fact, care if he is a sexual abuser and a pedophile.

For most Americans, the date 1913 means nothing. For Americans on the far right fringes, 1913 has long been a date of great significance. Here’s a piece from the antisemitic rag “American Mercury” in 1957, for example. One of their writers at the time was George Lincoln Rockwell.

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

Actually, the rest of that section also screams "SCOTUS is losing legitimacy in the eyes of the District Courts"

Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the biggest scandal of the Obama administration.

This is such an embarrassing way to end a democracy.

a legitimate defense of "personal liberty" would be calling for Maryland's state police to use force to protect Kilmar Abrego Garcia from deportation. a legitimate defense of "free markets" would call Trump's theft of 10% of Intel the robbery it is.

Is it called a Hat Trick when you get no billed three times? Asking for Jeanine Pirro. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The transformation of the Washington Post editorial page appears to be complete.

Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."

I have never seen a video clip that looked more like a coup, including actual video's of a coup leader announcing a coup, then this. Grainy, poorly lit, with the "vice president" head of the military and the weird functional president surrounded by armed troops is a hell of a look.

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

this is good www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/m...

Stephen Miller Tears Up As Son Says First 14 Words

It's a lol, but it's also indicative of something you see all the time with these trends all the time: People aren't devoted at their core to an activity or concept, they just want to be violently anti-expertise and anti-conformity Have an edgelord propose a mainstream idea and it's suddenly good

The conservative assertion that there is a crisis of masculinity in America is best understood as a confession

IT'S CALLED JAYWALKING, COOP. REAL EPIDEMIC I'M TOLD. FOLKS CROSSING THE STREET EVERY WHICH WAY. AND THE BUREAU NEEDS YOU TO PUT A STOP TO IT.

Every city in America should shut down its Main Street every weekend and play jazz and let you have a glass of wine

Listening to Popehat here, or ElieNYC, or Barred and Boujee, will give you vastly clearer and more accurate insight on American law today and tomorrow than listening to the median Harvard law school constitutional law professor. That may sound like hyperbole but I promise you it is not meant to be.

Not sure why you're in journalism if you're doing shit like this with your life in this moment.

A Japanese propaganda cartoon from 1943 ridiculing the supposed excesses of American heavy-bomber design. "What on earth is this?" "It’s the control wheel for the newly built super-heavy bomber, the B-2X type."

I'll always remember the first time I was sitting on my couch next to my late & beloved dog when a minor earthquake happened; as I first sensed the quake I turned to look at her, then immediately realized she was turning to look at me at the exact same moment

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

This is the core proposition & selling point for reactionary thought: not that they are better, but simply that *everyone* is corrupt, everyone is a crook, everyone's just out for themselves, so you might as well get yours. That is the molten core of right-wing thought everywhere.

“By William Jennings Bryan … Tremendous Christian Statesman” Boy that’s downright Trumpian

"Right-wing operators in particular are groomed and trained to argue to embrace bad-faith argument as a tactic. And yet even in the Trump era, when the bad faith is so thinly veiled, liberals remain reluctant to treat it as disqualifying." Man oh man is @brianbeutler.bsky.social right about this.

So, the Eighth Circuit yesterday effectively vacated an arbitration award against Mike Lindell (My Pillow), saying that the arbitrators had exceeded their powers. I'm sure this decision won't get much scrutiny. But I am candidly a little bewildered. 1/ ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/25/07...

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