“Our journalism is intentionally nonpartisan, aimed at ensuring all perspectives are considered.” When one of the major parties has explicitly become hostile to the basic premises of electoral democracy, adopting a stance of “non-partisan” journalism is a cowardly dereliction of professional duty.

Pay attention -- what he means is allowing Democrats to win a free and fair election.

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

“The Daily Stormer, an American neo-Nazi site, has a ‘Style Guide’ making it clear that the ‘unindoctrinated should not be able to tell if we are joking or not’ and openly admitting the goal is to ‘dehumanize the enemy, to the point where people are ready to laugh at their deaths.’” 10/21/25

Republicans on the Supreme Court are poised to gut the law that finally ended Jim Crow, and Southern Republicans are eager to gerrymander Black voters out of representation like it’s 1925 again

Making Argentina Great Again. Indefensible.

I’ve written about people who were exonerated after being imprisoned for 20, 30, and 40-plus years. Some were nearly executed. None of them ever saw anything near $320 million. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Does seem like there’s a non-zero chance that the shutdown never really ends and that Congress has already abolished itself.

you know it is not at all difficult to acknowledge the legitimate concerns about the tattoo and still make a case for the candidate. but this would require maturity, a perspective outside ones own and a willingness to lose a little face, which means it won’t happen.

The president should not be able to transfer millions of taxpayer dollars into his personal bank account. No government officials should be able to steal from the public like that. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

It seems Glenn Beck and his ilk are preparing their followers for two possible futures: a) permanent and complete GOP control of the federal government or b) massive resistance to a Democratic victory that will make J6 look like a garden party. One thing they’re not prepping folks for is democracy.

Just a bunch of normal Oregon conservatives out here reporting on the chaos of leftist Portland for the benefit of the good citizens of Twitter. Oh wait, who’s that friend of theirs who seems to be flashing the white power symbol….

The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable. Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.

From today’s Russian papers: “There isn’t a single reason Moscow should agree to a ceasefire [in Ukraine].” Same paper accuses Trump of “intellectual laziness.” Another: “Everything we’ve seen suggests [Trump] is not ready to take tough measures against Russia.” #ReadingRussia

He is literally not paying for it. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Friends: I just put together a website dedicated to "Silicon Valley pro-extinctionism." It includes a list of articles that I've recently published on the topic. In my view, this is one of the most important issues that almost no one is talking about. See the link below!

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

That clampdown on the Pentagon press corps has done wonders. 🤡 @jamiedupree.bsky.social www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

Pardoned Capitol rioter arrested on charge that he threatened to kill Hakeem Jeffries | CNN Politics www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/p...

It’s such an odd coincidence that so many people in and around the Trump admin have insanely racist things surface.

But what if they hate minorities a lot? Like a lot, a lot? Can that counterbalance not being able to do a pull up?

How to Join ICE theonion.com/how-to-join-...

We love and support you, traitor killing our business.

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works (15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

You know it’s bad when this is like the 4th or 5th worst Republican scandal of the day.

"It's important for people to put themselves out there and say no, this is a moral sacrifice I cannot make anymore. Otherwise people get cozy. People who know better just go well, this is how life is now." It's okay to break with Trump *now.* @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:

Sure is weird that the GOP keeps having all these Nazis outed. I wonder if we can infer anything about the party's politics from this fact?

The truth about Emil Bove's conduct at DOJ would not have been fully known, if it weren't for a whistleblower. As this administration makes a habit of misleading the courts, and ignoring court orders, speaking up could mean exposing real lawlessness.

South Park: 🎶 Peter Thiel knows about the Antichrist 😂

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Over 500,000 views before the Community Note fact check.

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

When Trump announced 4 days ago randomly that India agreed to stop buying Russia oil, I was surprised because Russia is their largest supplier, we are still in a trade war with India, and their govt has said nothing about it. Turns out he just lied and made it up. Shocker.

NEW. Powerful piece by Miles Bruner. "I know the thought of walking away from your career and your social network is terrifying...I urge you to recognize that our nation is heading down a very dark path. But it’s not too late to change direction...Take a stand." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

“Is it any wonder that members of a generation that grew up with Jan. 6 .. are more likely to tolerate political violence ..? They don’t know that politics — as imperfect as it’s always been — can be much more decent than it is right now.” @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/o...

In both the Philippines and El Salvador, right wing leaders began just murdering people they said were drug dealers. Even though the population knew they were making a lot of mistakes, it was still very popular. Trump has praised both of these countries as models.

The "it's a republic not a democracy" crowd is really leaning into "he won an election so he can't be doing anything wrong."

This, for example, is how one of the propaganda mouthpieces of the administration with 2.5 million FB followers is framing the actions of ~7 million peaceful protesters on Saturday. “This wasn’t free speech. This is a call to murder.” It’s pure Radio Rwanda shit.

Thinking sex is “gay” but rape is “epic” is about a viewpoint that sees the other not as a partner but an object for domination. This is a supremacist worldview, and it’s the political frame for many young men on the MAGA right.

Yikes — WP reports Rubio turned over gang informants to El Salvador to get that deal to let Trump send immigrants to their hard labor prison without due process. A lawless regime. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

DC J6: 1.500 arrests DC No Kings: zero Tell me again which side is violent?

🧑‍🌾 “What do you say to farmers who feel the $40 BILLION BAILOUT is benefitting Argentina more than them?” TRUMP: *LASHES OUT AT THE REPORTER* (“you don’t know anything about it… nothing’s benefitting Argentina 🤔… I happen to like the president…”) So corrupt.

Prime example of white privilege in plain sight. Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.

Mike Johnson’s Bible apparently has Jesus encouraging lying as often as possible as the pathway to heaven. Must be a Trump Bible.

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

She alleged in the past that it was former Israeli PM Ehud Barak but we can’t know that for sure because Trump, Bondi, Patel and Johnson are hiding this person’s identity from the public by blocking release of the Epstein files. Whoever it is. For some reason.

Pete Hegseth conducted a live fire exercise over I-5 as part of a made-for-Fox stunt for him and Vance which had a misfire that struck a Highway Patrol vehicle and could have killed people? Who could have foreseen this?

A mere 19 months ago, Trump’s net worth was $2.6B, and he owed hundreds of millions in civil penalties. Today, Trump is worth $7.1B, and most of the civil penalties have been tossed out. Presidential politics is by far the most lucrative business venture of Trump’s career. trib.al/XjAdogE

"Person impeached for insurrection sends billions to Argentina during US gov't shutdown" and "Felon convicted of fraud pardons felon convicted of fraud" and "Long-time Epstein associate posts video depicting himself as a king dumping diarrhea on Americans from a fighter jet" are factual statements