The United States is no longer negotiating with Canada because the America's Republican President does not understand his predecessor's view of tariffs. Forget the clip that worries the President. Reagan was consistent, and here's a different speech where he made his case.

Nothing is real to MAGA, that's what you need to understand. Everything can be true or false at any time, or even the same time, depending on what they need to believe in order to feel catharsis. They have created vast, insular social environments for the purpose of endless emotional indulgence.

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

This is the most important politics story in a long time. Twitter has radicalized the young GOP into overt Nazism and white supremacy and the news has spent years pretending not to see. It’s a gleefully racist and antisemitic party now. Stop pretending otherwise www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

All these "Happy Heavenly Birthday, Charlie Kirk" Christians really haven't read their own Bible. He'd have hated Jesus... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-shamef...

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There is no leader of Antifa. There is no girlfriend of the leader of Antifa. They are creating imaginary people so they can justify going after real people.

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

Kills me how little people who attend "Bible-believing" churches, even for decades, know about the Bible. The message John cites here about the poor, oppressed and sick also was the first public message Jesus gave, which emphasizes its importance to the gospel writers.

Exactly right, why complaining about hypocrisy is counterproductive.

The unconstitutional expansion of detention is the quintessential GOP combination: racism and corruption on behalf of corporate interests (here, private detention companies).

Amen. The media and Democrats have to come to grips with the decades-long bad faith of every Republican or freedom will be destroyed.

Truly bizarre to see people attacked, shamed, and disciplined for saying things about Charlie Kirk that are 1000x less offensive than what Charlie Kirk said about people

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

Nobody who voted to confirm RFK is fit to hold public office

This entire farce lays bare the abject poverty & uselessness of Senate's advice & consent in this form. We should simply abolish confirmation hearings/votes, & these sham Q&A sessions, if malevolently incompetent people can just performatively lie & face no consequences. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

Trump is destroying the parts of the economy that have made us the most prosperous nation on earth.

Sure, let’s roll the dice with the nation’s public health by putting a former heroin addict/sexual deviant & overall quack who’s not a physician and not a scientist in charge. How’s it “playing out?” Shame on both Cassidy & Tillis.

Wish I could like this thread 100x. The biggest problem our politics faces is the refusal of Democrats and media to acknowledge that Republicans act 100% in bad faith 100% of the time. Klein's attempt to sound reasonable twists himself in silly knots harm the cause he pretends to care about.

1000%. Why does the press and anyone with a voice not scream bloody murder about this all day? Media mocks those who say Trump is beholden to Putin, but he proves he is over and over and their cool-kids scorn is despicable.

Rule of law is critical to a healthy business environment and economic growth. Every minute companies waste trying to appease, or avoid angering, a fickle president is time they don’t spend improving their operations or figuring out how to appeal to customers. www.axios.com/2025/08/15/w...

this is just straight-up dictatorship and it’s repulsive and pathetic our newspapers and TV stations still won’t say so. there is no emergency. there is no precedent for this in US history. Trump is establishing military and paramilitary control of the capital

Trump is a bigoted fascist operating at a third-grade reading level whose policies are completely incoherent. He believes in absolutely nothing but attention, wealth and power. the closest the NYT can get to explaining this to readers is to proclaim "this isn't your grandpa's republican party"

Trump is functionally ending our democracy by escalating military occupations of Democratic cities and NYT is just out there amplifying his lies about why he doing it. No different than if they published that Hitler is imposing fascism on Germany because a dirty Jew burned down the Reichstag.

Exactly, tariffs 100% are about soliciting bribes, but no media dares report truth.

not to be hyperbolic but this is legitimately one of the greatest strikes i’ve ever seen

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

Yes, the purpose of the less fortunate is to do their bidding. Anyone else is extraneous and they're happy to have them die. And the insane thing is ihat includes their own supporters. Dems must get this idea across.

LA: “Your children will one day grow up and know their fathers or mothers were kidnappers against our own people.”

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MAGA represents the opposite of every one of these qualities.

The willingness by so many to turn the Bible on its head and turn Christianity into a force for evil is in one sense unbelievable, yet at the same time it's been repeated through history. Warnock reads the Bible the way I do.

Trump: "I actually shot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue today. I hit them in the gut. It was a slow, painful death." Media * shrugs *

Thanks to seeping entertainment culture, too many people think they need to be "fans" of politicians (or the opposite). But politicians are the *last* people we should be fans of. We can basically like them (well, a few) but the relationship should be somewhat adversarial, no matter who they are.

So now we’re here—on the brink of war—because a 78-year-old human root canal with impulse control issues got his ego dinged online and thought imperiling millions of lives was a fair trade for not being the butt of a trending hashtag. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

its helpful to understand that right now the white house is the equivalent of the branch davidian compound or the jonestown temple

Demented diaper-wearing king has had a lifetime of cruel stupidity and now his mental state has devolved into toddler tantrums with bombs. And an entire political party protects him.

The whole idea of "antiwar" Trump has long rested on a confused reading of his hatred of multilateralism, the international order, and the Deep State. He doesn't hate those things for "dovish" reasons. He hates them for degenerate/corrupt reasons. Thoughts on that: newrepublic.com/article/1969...

Also exactly the type of person / personality who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a position of power. In a somewhat healthy political culture, a party that elevates such a person to the presidency shouldn’t be considered a valid option for anyone but the extremist fringe.

Literal Russian spy running government personnel.

FINALLY Democrats are putting out HARD-HITTING ads. WATCH AND SHARE: #MAGAKidnappers

Facts (1) FBI has directed resources away from right-wing terrorism for decades because it is too close to Republican Elite, Trump has fully deemphasized resources as it pivots to kidnapping immigrants (2) Republicans have normalized & celebrated violence against Democrats, including last week in CA

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@governorwalz.mn.gov: "The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting."

Newsom on Trump: "He's lost it. He hasn't lost a step. And I saw him trip on the steps today. This is serious. He is not the same person that I dealt with just four years ago. And he's incapable now of even a train of thought. He's making things up and he's putting people's lives at risk."

These people don’t want to make housing or health care more affordable, they don’t want to raise wages, they want to never again see kendrick lamar at the superbowl, ibram kendi on the bestseller list, ryan coogler at the oscars or ketanji brown jackson on the supreme court bsky.app/profile/kati...