Republicans are the party of family values and patriotism—they just can't quite settle on the precise content of those values and patriotic convictions. It's tough to keep up!

This is a horror. If this makes you sick, come to the New Yorkers Against ICE rally TONIGHT at 6 pm at Foley Square!

But let’s be clear: every day, masked ICE agents are acting violently against our neighbors, illegally abducting them, holding them in cruel and inhumane conditions. Treating them as less-than-human, and not deserving due process.

We're in this mess because most people in our country will hear nothing about this outrage (in all its iterations), but will be convinced there's something fishy about an escalator malfunctioning when Trump was on it

Thomas has been an essential read the last several years. He presciently described the radicalization of the right (not just Trump, but the broader right) in clear terms and explained exactly why they would run an administration like this. I will subscribe to this and you should too!

(Jeff Bezos looks directly into your eyes as he pours a gallon of water onto the ground so a robot can tell you “the Pentagon Papers are papers from the Pentagon.”)

Love to start the morning with a good AAAUGHHH

a lot of people think maria from the sound of music is antifa, but she isn't, she just thinks its a long long way to run

@thecity.nyc is totally awesome. Extremely local news for news hungry New Yorkers. And, those of you who love NYC from afar. If you write to The City with story ideas, they even write back! Crazy, huh? It's all free, free, free! So, be a mensch and Follow: @thecity.nyc

The idea of not having Tylenol during pregnancy *and never giving it to children* is actually an entire nightmare. Fevers esp. in children are so dangerous, and we've gotten several generations removed so apparently have forgotten that fear. (Not if you've ever lain awake with a feverish infant)

If Obama (ha) said ANYTHING LIKE THIS ABOUT HIS "OPPONENTS' every newspaper in America would trip over themselves with an editorial saying: MR. PRESIDENT, YOUR OPPONENTS ARE AMERICANS. YOU ALSO WORK FOR THEM.

One could be forgiven for thinking that Trump's administration's foreign policy consists of blowing up civilians in a highly public manner to distract from its strategic retreats in Asia, the Middle East, and Ukraine.

I wish it was more complicated but: Elon won. Pundits, journalists and political elites uses Twitter to gauge popular discourse and identify stories, which was workable so long as it was moderated. He seized control, completely altered its normal mode, but none of them adapted.

My wife says I’m a cheater but I always tell her

The way the speed-track canonization of Carlo Acutis took all the attention away from Pier Giorgio Frassati this year was really unfortunate. But maybe it's a fantasy that pastors of fascist-curious congregations would have let Frassati's relevance come to the surface regardless.

There's a deeper absurdity here. Trump and Stephen Miller have been shrieking that Letitia James is corrupt. But James' team *did the actual work* necessary to *successfully* bring a case against Trump on the facts, and Trump is failing to do even that. newrepublic.com/article/2006...

The right's position on political violence has always been and will always be that it's wrong, unless it happens to people they don't like in which case it's hilarious and awesome

This is the 19th death of a person in custody of ICE since Trump turned it into a poorly-trained personal army of terror.

The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it. (Published Dec. 2024)

The best time to appoint a new bishop of the Archdiocese of New York was the day after Leo took office. The second-best time is today. FFS

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The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

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Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Look, another terrible thing, in ambiguous relationship with the terrible things you already know about but certainly awful in its own right

The defining political project of Trumpism is the promise to mobilize the coercive powers of the state and a constant threat of violent aggression to impose a reactionary orthodoxy on a changing, pluralizing society. That is the opposite of “agree to disagree.”

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

The limits of language and the dangers of its misuse are apparent. The Trump admin's threats to criminalize dissent are appalling. Some observations at a fraught moment. www.commonwealmagazine.org/preziosi-kir...

THREAD on yet another instance of Democrats' good policies getting no press, and Republicans' stripping of citizens' rights getting no attention

Ah, I see the president is operating under the Michael Scott definition of “hate speech.”

Donald Trump telling a reporter yesterday that he might come after him for hate speech because the reporter has hate in his heart for Trump is literally Michael Scott. The US is being run by the most evil version of Michael Scott 🤦‍♀️ youtu.be/Yx2cLl0pisQ?...

"The men who oversaw the implementation of the Council’s reforms did not make elevating women a priority, because most of them were—and here I will use a technical term—kind of weird about women." — @mollieoreilly.bsky.social www.commonwealmagazine.org/pope-leo-and...

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Ezra the point is they very much do not want to www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

My favorite Robert Redford movie was "Ordinary People," and I mean that as a sincere compliment!

More than anything right now I’d like the opponents of fascism to act like the regime is 20 points under water because they are and it’s not going to get better.

Wittgenstein: It is impossible to use words without making meaning. Vogue:

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

The president is boasting about how he has shut down boating and fishing in the Caribbean because everyone is afraid that he’ll murder them.

These guys are doing their best to make their rabid overreaction the story.

Sunday morning at #DelaneyHall GEO's for-profit migrant prison where cruelty seems to be the point. Visiting families forced to wait for hours outside on an active driveway as vans with new detainees drive by. 1/3

You will learn more from @ahilantoolong.bsky.social about last week's invisible ink order in Noem v. Vasquez-Perdomo, shrugging off racial profiling by roving ICE patrols than you could imagine possible. This week's episode is a masterclass on the shadow docket and immigration law

There's a fun fantasy Republicans participate in where the basically-global polarization on education is just downstream of university professors being really good at indoctrination. Are econ professors all Dems because they're pinkos or because Republicans keep coming up with dumb econ policies?

I do this to myself, in non-toxic ways—I find myself thinking, "Boy, a lot of people are talking about that new book!" when what I am seeing is all being put into my timeline by the author of said book, whom I chose to follow on here. We are all cheerfully warping our own sense of the zeitgeist.

Special thanks to all the worms in politics and media who tried to sell us “universally beloved saint Charlie Kirk” over the last few days. Sorry you failed but 1) not nearly as many people know him as you thought / hoped 2) he was deeply racist, like on a KKK level, and that’s kinda off-putting