"experts say" www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Trump wants the Taliban to give Bagram to the ghost of, like, Gorbachev???

NYT: “Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump’s border czar, was recorded in Sept 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover F.B.I. investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later shut down by Trump admin.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

One thing I wish all Democrats knew is that we don't expect you to be fearless. We expect you to be brave. Bravery is not the absence of fear. It is being afraid and moving ahead anyway. If you find that you are neither, then it is time to step aside. There are people who can do this job ably.

Patriot aired only 2 seasons on Amazon Prime and is one of the top 10 televisions ever produced.

Wild. The political murders of legislators in Minnesota were “killings.” The shooting of Kirk which cause is unknown is an “assassination.” They bend the knee without even being asked.

Just last month the FBI forced out its top agent in Salt Lake City, a Pakistani American woman whom a former FBI agent describes as a “legendary case agent who was involved in some of the most significant national security cases of the last two decades.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

Spencer Cox: "Our nation is broken. We had political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted assassination on the gov of Pennsylvania. And we had an attempted assassination on a president. Nothing I say can unite us as a country. Nothing I can say right now can fix what is broken"

Political violence tears at the fabric of our democracy. This is horrible and wrong. My thoughts are with Charlie Kirk and his family.

Experts Say The Gun is Smoking. These Trump Supporters Aren’t So Sure.

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

This is awfully ominous.

Two things are true: 1. This isn't an image DHS created. They're (troll-ing-ly) turning a Spectator cover *into* a recruitment poster here, which isn't indicated in the screenshot below. 2. Not sure why DHS would promote an image where the officers are wearing…historically distinctive…helmets.

THE ICE AGENTS ARE WEARING FUCKING NAZI STAHLHELMS WHAT THE FUCK COME ON, YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP

Not to mention Texas Democrats’ candidate for Governor.

“SEAL Team 6 launched a failed operation in a nuclear armed country run by a mad man, but don’t worry, nobody told me, the President, anything about it” — Trump’s reflexive denial not really doing him any favors here.

Credulous media will cost us the Republic

Also, no. The Dept of War was something entirely different — it was just the Army. There was a separate Dept of the Navy. (Also, it was never an agency.) The DoD brought together both and added the Air Force and the structure of the Joint Chiefs. This tweet is wrong in a bunch of ways that matter.

which is true? who can say, we're just a news outlet

apology on behalf of arch manning

there is an airline pilot sitting next to me on this flight and he’s currently alternating between watching racist videos on Twitter and sexting someone in like 40 point font

Southwest Airlines you suck so so so much.

EXCLUSIVE: Court docs appear to show that married Trump DoD appointee Anthony Tata had a 'casual sexual relationship as well as a professional relationship' with astrology influencer Amy Tripp, aka Starheal, investing in her company, Starheal LLC, for 5 percent equity. www.thecut.com/article/astr...

This is the key point lefties gotta embrace when it comes to building journalism/media projects. It’s not hacky to say abortion is healthcare, climate change is real, gun violence is bad, and queer people & immigrants are human beings, because those things are TRUE. And journalism should be true!

People who say that have never read a progressive media publication in their lives. I suggest you start here: TheBarbedWire.com

I really think we need to have some mechanism in place for being able to say, in print and in the media, that a problem with a public figure is that they are insane. Not in a hyperbolic way. RFK Jr is a maniac.

how to mute “swift” and “kelce” in work slack

I used to be very good at recruiting people to run for the Texas House. My closing line was that the TX House was the last home of representative democracy. That on the strength of your argument, procedural knowledge, and relationships, a member could still win a vote they were “supposed” to lose.

It sure seems like we are very, very close to Trump using the military to directly seize power away from Democratic elected officials. I hope I'm overreacting but I kind of think a lot of people are under-reacting right now.

“I’m not excusing what I said,” Van Dyke told reporter Steven Monacelli, who reports on extremism. “What happened is I lost my temper.” Nice repackaging of my recent story for @thebarbedwire.com in @dallasobserver.com this morning. www.dallasobserver.com/news/denton-...

Guys, I have a special & unusual request today. My cousin Sean is a union bus driver here in Los Angeles who was just FIRED in retaliation for saying he would not let masked ICE agents onto his bus to abduct riders. The fight is on to get his job back, you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...

This is basically an American version of the Al Qaeda monkey bars videos.

Thanks to @jacktwheatley.bsky.social for pointing out that Jason Lee Van Dyke, the subject of this story, posted “I am unapologetically fascist. I despise democracy" on X just a few months ago.

Huge @stevanzetti.bsky.social exclusive in @thebarbedwire.com this morning. A prominent lawyer for white nationalists and neo-nazis is working as a court appointed attorney in north Texas. Read and share!

How it started. How it’s going.

Not the main thing, but also not *not* the main thing: while Abbott further destroys democracy to protect Donald Trump, it’s pitiful that there isn’t a well-credentialed, funded, Democratic candidate for Governor of Texas.

Inbox: In a show of “unity and defiance against Republican intimidation tactics,” 8 Texas House Democrats will “Rip the Slip” – publicly tearing up the permission slips required by Republicans for members to leave the chamber. They’ll join Rep. Collier overnight ahead of tomorrow’s vote on the maps.

Rep. Nicole Collier files a state court application for a writ of habeas corpus concerning her detention in the Texas State Capitol. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...

Hands down, the best piece on the swirl of events around Rep. Nicole Collier, the threat to arrest her, and the wellspring of support that has emerged. From @thebarbedwire.com's @oliviamesser.bsky.social and @iamleslierangel.bsky.social

“My constituents sent me to Austin to protect their voices and rights,” said state Rep. Collier. “I refuse to sign away my dignity as a duly elected representative just so Republicans can control my movements and monitor me with police escorts.”

Hahahaha “the left”

The right spent decades building up Fox News and its ilk and liberals still seem to think the path forward is Wonk: The Journal for Wonks

By the way what the left doesn’t need is another twee journal read by 500 people. We need populist no paywall news framing daily events for a mass audience