Where were *you* when Cambodia invaded Armenia? Personally—and I’m ashamed to admit this—I can’t remember where I was. But I do know that the first time I heard of the long, bloody war between Cambodia and Armenia was tonight—when Trump boasted of negotiating the armistice that ended the conflict.

Major media's urgency level remains at ZERO

America just witnessed perhaps the most hateful and disturbing public rally since the 1930s and this was the milquetoast CNN coverage of it Major media has helped destroy this country almost as much as MAGA has

I have never seen a festival of hate like what is happening in Arizona today Every speaker sounds like they want to genocide more than half of America

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

BREAKING: Donald Trump has nominated yet another one of his personal lawyers to oversee the prosecution of a personal enemy. How are there not 1,000+ major-media reports on how Trump has made the most powerful law enforcement agents in America *people he is in an attorney-client relationship with*.

This is incredible. h/t: @jessedamiani.bsky.social

Comedy may no longer be legal, but far-right crime and corruption definitely is.

They are f*cking lunatics

They are f*cking lunatics

President Donald Trump doubled down on his administration’s brazen attacks against free speech in a Friday afternoon press conference, telling reporters that publishing negative stories about him is “really illegal.”

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

We have gotten the whole Jimmy Kimmel imbroglio wrong. Desperately wrong.

Thank God we have a Putinist in charge of the US, I'm sure he'll now inquire of his generals whether it's possible to roll a red carpet from Washington to the Kremlin so Putin can come and embarrass us again Meanwhile, Estonia has invoked NATO's Article 4

Everyone needs to think carefully about their primary ancestry—because as you see in the racist screed below, in which the president falsely calls an American citizen a national of the nation of her ancestry, when *you* displease him he will threaten to deport you to where *your* people came from.

This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.

What the hell is going on inside MAGA... Jesus

Refuse to bring a sham criminal prosecution against a civil servant the president hates after he’s ordered you to charge her with crimes she didn’t commit and you get fired. That’s just how a democracy works, folks. Any MAGA wearing a TRUMP 2028 hoodie can explain it to you.

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

One of my favorite comedians right now, and one of many reasons TikTok has become increasingly politically essential for those who love democracy (fully appreciating the irony of this given the backroom issues surrounding TikTok—none of which touch its clear utility as a post-Twitter rallying space)

OMG LOL

We have gotten the whole Jimmy Kimmel imbroglio wrong. Desperately wrong.

Jimmy cracked the code—every MAGA needs to watch this and stay away from Pringles

How can it be wrong to say these people hate America when every day they proudly declare their opposition to a pillar of American jurisprudence? This is not me saying they hate the America I created in my head—or that I falsely believe the Founders wanted—this is them hating *basic* American shit.

Sen. Chris Murphy: "Trump's FCC forced a major network to pull a loud Trump critic, Jimmy Kimmel, off the air — essentially saying that any media actor that doesn't say what Trump wants them to say...is going to be silenced. That's censorship. That's not America."

Suggestion: A strike of musicians, writers, hosts, actors, lighting, electricians--everyone, shutting down all TV studios, until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. This is the kind of action we need, instead of sitting around just waiting to be gutted.

America is not a free country.

When martial law is declared just before Election Day 2026, ICE will be the repressive domestic military force that keeps us in line as our centuries of elections come to a close. Under the guise of fighting an immigration emergency that doesn't exist, Trump will build one of Earth's largest armies.

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This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

NBC: Do you think it's appropriate for Brendan Carr to threaten companies if they didn't take action? JOHN THUNE: *walks away*

I haven't formed an opinion of it, but the number of smart people who believe the Robinson-Twiggs text exchange Trump lawyer Kash Patel released as part of his operation to convince America Robinson was a leftist militant is bullshit and artificial is *very* high. I'm even seeing attorneys say this.

Standing against fascism is now domestic terrorism—by presidential decree. Anyone committed to fighting fascism can now be deemed an enemy of the state, arrested, and held—possibly without full due process—on the claim that they're a "terrorist." Just like that, we lost America.

There's no purpose in me doing a blow-by-blow of the testimony Kash Patel gave today on the Epstein Files. Every word was a lie or evasion. Everyone watching knew they were seeing a Trump lawyer pretending to be the FBI director but actually trying to aid a client. You want the truth? It is here:

Someone told me to listen again to Kimmel's remarks, and indeed he *didn't* comment on Robinson or his family but MAGAs' aim of identifying Robinson as anything *but* MAGA—which MAGAs must admit is their line (e.g., they don't want anyone discussing how his formative years were in a MAGA household.)

Has anyone seen any evidence Kirk had a moral compass? I've been watching clips of Kirk since he died—clips posted by people on the left and clips posted by people on the right—and I can't detect anything I'd refer to as a moral compass. He sounds like a used car salesman for Christian nationalism.

Virtually all incitement to political violence comes from the right. Virtually all political violence comes from the right. The right made a felon and rapist POTUS. Meanwhile, the left keeps nominating for POTUS lawyers who believe in rule of law. Do *not* let this timeline gaslight you. Ever.

If you have a problem with ABC's Jimmy Kimmel *correctly observing* that the guy who fired at Charlie Kirk was raised his whole life in a far-right—and eventually MAGA—family, but have no problem with Fox News' Brian Kilmeade saying that all homeless people should "just be killed," FUUUUUUUUUCK YOU.

I'm telling you as a Trump biographer that the man has no intention of there being a free and fair election in 14 months. Things are accelerating—and accelerating for a reason. By the time Fall 2026 begins, Trump needs America to have no expectation whatsoever of a meaningful midterm election.

It's easy to scoff at Trump designating as a "terrorist organization" something that's not an *organization* at all. I have different view. When you declare an idea rather than an organization to be terrorism, you can declare *anyone* a terrorist. And that is what he will do. This is horrifying.

I'll say again: not a democracy. Robinson was raised by MAGAs and steeped in MAGA culture. He then entered the sinister alt-right digital ecosystem. He happens to be gay, but the presumption that that means he's a leftist is virulently homophobic. Kimmel gets this, and was suspended for saying it.

What I've gradually learned over the last decade is that at any given moment you can count on American businesses and institutions to do whatever the most cowardly fucking thing is When America collapses, as it now seems it will, I hope to God historians recall and write about this cowardice first

Trump has murdered 14 people in international waters in the last week and Vance is publicly telling jokes about it. So the Right will now call his employer and get him fired for making light of murder, right? MAGAs can get as many folks fired as they like, but he world knows *exactly* what they are.

I'll say again: not a democracy. Robinson was raised by MAGAs and steeped in MAGA culture. He then entered the sinister alt-right digital ecosystem. He happens to be gay, but the presumption that that means he's a leftist is virulently homophobic. Kimmel gets this, and was suspended for saying it.

There's no purpose in me doing a blow-by-blow of the testimony Kash Patel gave today on the Epstein Files. Every word was a lie or evasion. Everyone watching knew they were seeing a Trump lawyer pretending to be the FBI director but actually trying to aid a client. You want the truth? It is here:

Kash Patel is a lunatic. He's making statements about the Epstein case, court orders, subpoenas and more that have no basis in fact—or any relationship to the practice of law in the United States. No man in American history besides Donald Trump has been more desperate to hide child sex trafficking.