I would suggest staying away from the strong action verbs to describe Trump's actions. The story is less the degree of energy in his assertions than the catastrophically dangerous policies he is pursuing. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Again has no one at NYT ever watched the sopranos. This is a threat to use force.

The Democratic leaders in Congress have repeatedly shown that they have no interest in leading an effective opposition. They have no appetite for the legislative trench warfare this moment requires. They don't even have the will to speak about it clearly. They just want to be left alone.

@larryglickman.bsky.social what do you suppose “tame” is meant to mean here?

"Trump Heckles Europe" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/w...

Let's remember that MLK was assassinated while in Memphis supporting African American sanitation workers who were, despite CNN's weird definition, actually members of the working class.

"The Road to Conquest" wtf is this David Brooks's book of pick-up lines dear lord

Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota

This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.

If he wants to declare martial law, he will. It won't be based on reality. I don't know why some people continue to say: "be peaceful or he'll invoke martial law." Are you all living in this country in 2026???? Haven't you seen them make things up out of whole cloth???? Are you 10 years old?

Steven Miller is a dangerous far-right extremist, as are several other key members of the Trump administration. Perhaps the media could cover him as such?

@larryglickman.bsky.social “foray” put to heavy work here as new euphemism for imperialism.

The dictator's feelings must be taken as facts, or else

Read the whole thread. Gregg is right. It’s NOT a question of “experts disagree.” I’ve been working in medicine, medical journalism or global health for 32 years & know a LOT of health professionals—I do not know a *single one* who supports RFK Jr’s dangerous dismantling of the US vaccine system.

Trump’s imperialistic fantasy of the rapid takeover of multiple countries (some of them allies) is the foreign policy analogue of the DOGE shock and awe effort at the beginning of his second term, and, if he attempts this, will also end in failure, but with much infinitely more collateral damage.

The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza. The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds

The fascism does not get more in-your-face than this

This is the language of dictators.

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

This excellent column by @jamellebouie.net reminds me how much the "national conservatives" sound like the segregationists of the civil rights era, who, like Senator Schmitt, also dismissed the Declaration of Independence.

sounds bad when you put it this way

no surprised that brett ”almost certainly flunked his remedial classes” kavanaugh thinks the constitution authorizes a race-based federal “papers please” regime. quick, someone ask him what he thinks of the fugitive slave act.

Being lawless does not make Trump omnipotent – nor can he just snap his fingers and make all his authoritarian desires a reality. America is in an acutely dangerous situation. But obscuring those distinctions is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.

in a very literal, word and sentence structure sense, what does "pushing the boundaries" mean here? which boundaries? how are they being pushed? like, is "not doing it anymore" what it means to push a boundary?

Classic NYT. NYT should marry Susan Collins. Then together they could be “alarmed” as the end of public health, growth of Facism, and wanton cruelty “pushes boundaries”

Fascism is a behaviour thing. It doesn’t matter what you think you are or what tattoos you have or who you quote in defence of your repugnant beliefs. If you talk or act like a fascist then you are fascist.

How is the president seeing "dollar signs" and using the money for his pet programs a legal predicate for punishing universities? If Joe Biden "saw dollars signs" in car dealerships and demanded that they pay fines to fund green energy programs, would the Times cover it this way?

I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally

Land of the free.

imagining "Big Balls Beatdown" in a middle-school social studies textbook

Unusual language here in the New York Times’ claim that the Trump administration is trying to “reshape institutions that it views as cathedrals of liberalism.” What is the definition of a “cathedral of liberalism” and what right does Trump have to “reshape” it?

for many of the worst people in our politics, the only real belief they have is that it should be illegal for us not to like them

I feel horrible for the excellent faculty, staff and students there, not just because their ostensible leadership has sold them out but because their actions will put the university into a death spiral. What families will pay a fortune to subject their children to a school like this?

Who is “widening the attack”? Who is placing the president of George Mason University “under fire? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...

Much of what Mamdani proposes happened in the U.S. during the period we know as the "New Deal Order." Portraying a left New Dealism, even one under the banner of democratic socialism, that emphasizes affordability, better public goods, and experimentation as "burning it all down" seems extreme.

Not seeing any news in the west yet about Saif Al-Din Muslat, a 23-year old U.S. citizen, being beaten to death in occupied Palestine yesterday by settlers. I think if an Israeli-American were beaten to death by Palestinians, the NYT would be on it www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Fascism. Call it what it is.