I feel seen.

And one of our cacti flowering this morning.

Another garden shot.

Ernesto Ribberton in our back pond.

New statement from the House Dem leadership on Kimmel: “Brendan Carr, the so-called Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has engaged in the corrupt abuse of power. ... This will not be forgotten.”

Don’t you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.

The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.

Swollen. Unhealthy. Red. Thinning. Unkempt. Weak. Sad.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov Are you two hiding for some reason? After the EVENTS OF THE DAY, you have nothing substantive to say?

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You knew this was coming.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Zohran Mamdani and I will both be fearless in confronting Donald Trump’s extreme agenda — with urgency, conviction, and the defiance that defines New York” Gov. Kathy Hochul writes in an endorsement of the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City.

Whoa: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

COALITION WARSHIP ARCHER - But as the sun sets, the shadows cast by those columns and arcades weave together to form an intricate umbral lattice. When you see it, you suddenly understand: It was all built for you, for *this very moment*.

I hate this.

Liberals say the Supreme Court had destroyed our democracy. They're wrong—it has destroyed our Republic.

....how did they know my process?

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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released an image of a sexually suggestive note and drawing apparently bearing President Trump’s signature, taken from a 2003 book celebrating the 50th birthday of Jeffrey Epstein. Trump has insisted he never wrote such a note. nyti.ms/46kvJmW

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released an image purportedly of a drawing signed by Donald Trump as part of a “birthday book” they say was given to financier Jeffrey Epstein. Trump denies creating or signing the drawing. https://wapo.st/3JWgc4W

Well on our way to the usual 9-8 finish!

"Hey, look, dumb asshole Donald Trump can't even keep the government open" seems pretty solid

YOU - Suffering will only make me stronger. ENDURANCE - It's probably this way of thinking that got you where you are.

Ok, anyone else just watch the #orioles? That may be the craziest 9th inning I've ever seen. LET'S GO O'S!!!! (...and make the end of this season respectable...)

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Are you fucking kidding me?

I had to look this place up because I learned it as Swaziland, which further highlights the absurdity of us sending people there. What are we doing?

"We're gonna raise up warriors." Uh....

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As a governor who cares about the well-being of my people, I can’t live in a fantasy land where I pretend Trump is not tearing this country apart for personal greed and power.

I wrote the lede here a mere week ago, so clearly Jeffries is not listening to me. www.wonkette.com/p/anytime-ce...

Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

"To me, there are six clear reasons we should be talking about this more than we are and why the press corps should be digging more deeply and more seriously around this topic." — @vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett Graff on the health of the current president. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...

This is what happens when you obliterate the presumption of regularity. Endless homework assignments because the court can't trust the government to follow orders in good faith.

If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:

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YOU - (Look at your wrist.) “It's apocalypse o' clock. Time to commence the Gloaming.”

A sociological prophet: Peter L. Berger on the 1972 election (reviewing Lionel Trilling's "Sincerity and Authenticity").

70 years ago today, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. When you see “MAGA,” realize THAT was the America Trumpers are saying was “great.” I want a GREATER America than that. We all should.

To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.

Every time I see a cop driving a civilian car with Gadsden flag plates I have to laugh. My brother in Christ, you are the one who is treading.

DC statehood now.

Is your flight really 2.5 hours in the air or are you just taxiing at O’Hare.

That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.