Everyone: Hello, we would like society to improve. Billionaires: Too bad, go scream into the void instead. Everyone: Okay. Billionaires: Also, we have bought all the voids. It now costs $100 to scream into the void.

Happy October

This is an insightful thread. It’s a meme now but still true: these guys would do anything — kick the Sikhs and wimmins out of the army, fire everyone who reads above a 3rd grade level — instead of going to therapy.

Trump: I can’t wait to use the American military to invade American cities. Hegseth: Yeah! And no *hic* girls allowed neither!! WaPo:

This is an embarrassing way to frame a story about extrajudicial killings. Shame on @npr.org

I'm skimming, but this paragraph stood out:

Tubby told the brass he's going to use the military against American citizens and this is the best the Prestige Press can do.

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office. I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

i salute pete hegseth for ending woke and ensuring that the military will never use your "preferred pronouns." please make sure you call him the secretary of war and not use his deadname secretary of d*****e

[a republican has flame-broiled three abuelas with a space laser] If you're the president, you rule, and who is to say you can't have it your way? [democrats propose a 1% wealth tax] If liberty is the soul's right to breathe, then this be a prison of suffocation.

This is true. From the first day of his candidacy in 2015, we have failed to appreciate the depth and intensity of evil that expresses itself through him.

For those who were directly targeted by Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric, bipartisan tributes to him as a champion of free speech signal the mainstreaming of formerly extremist views, Nikole Hannah-Jones writes in an essay for The New York Times Magazine.

If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie; But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra

Eric Adams

im walking around looking like a whole ass richard nixon

thankfully for this gentleman your right to recover damages from federal actors who violate your rights is well estab-- *aide starts gesticulating wildly*

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

Yeah, unfortunately …

"Stuffed with rice pudding between the ears. Shortchanged by the lord and dumb as a jackass. All you gotta be is white in America to get whatever you want." youtu.be/SM8xUCQXcBk?...

"And they are adamantly opposed to recognizing bad faith, so they let themselves be used, over and over, in an endless attempt to find reasonable common ground with political forces bent on division."

A must-read —

We have no tolerance for violence or terrorism, which is why we are sending thousands of kidnapping brute terror squads to terrorize and kidnap you and your families friends and neighbors, and to brutalize anyone who questions them, and if you touch a hair on their perfect little heads I swear

Senator: (after spending 8 hours crafting the perfect tweet) Instead of acting illegally, the president should consider the price of turnips at the grocery

This is just pathetic.

Trump’s overly political prosecution of Jim Comey is unusual, experts say

The most fascinating thing about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart in 1937 is that Donald Trump and his Republican Party are doing everything possible to avoid the full and unabridged release of the Epstein files in 2025 and to make you think about anyfuckingthing else.

To show partiality is not good,  yet for a piece of bread a person may do wrong. ‍The miser is in a hurry to get rich  and does not know that loss is sure to come. —Proverbs 28

The brains behind this account

It took Trump 60 minutes to murmur out a wet "that's all, folks!" before the UN Tuesday. Given that he was talking to himself and no one outside the greater Trumpiverse can hear him, it's the only thing he could say.

I predict a troll two-step: this dipshit writes the column and then all the conservative outlets will run the next one bewailing how unfairly the column was treated and how the readings of it were in bad faith.

Reluctant to post this, but it’s worth remembering that “It was just a joke” is the abuser’s preferred justification. Enablers and fellow travelers love it too.

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A government that is closed for business is not available for a floor vote to release documents relating to the sexual abuse of children involving the nation's powerful people. These shitheels will close the doors on the United States and go home rather than spill out the dirt.

“We’ve got to figure out how we’re going to be in this for the long term,” said the Rev. Wes Granberg-Michaelson, author of the new book “The Soulwork of Justice.” religionnews.com/2025/09/24/a...

“I don’t know what you guys think about what happened last night, but I think it’s pretty frightening." —Bruce Springsteen, November 5, 1980

Will it be ever thus?

First of all, no he isn’t. Second, he’s right. Pretty weird to think that a country that can’t agree about whether the world is spherical should be in a position to guide it. We’ll be the UK of the 21st century, if we’re lucky.

This is a fantastic essay that speaks directly to the moment. Highly recommended! Bravo @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social.

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

Jimmy Kimmel’s “as I was saying” opener wasn’t random—it’s a callback to Jack Paar. In 1960 Paar walked off The Tonight Show after NBC cut a mild “WC” joke. 3 weeks later he returned, opening with the same line. Kimmel nodded to one of late night’s boldest moments. Brilliant bsky.app/profile/ever...

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/