Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

It's not too much liquid It's not too many different things at too big a number It's not the size of this thing It's not 80 different vaccines None of this is true, but they will go after MMR based on this. The consequences are going to be massive measles outbreaks. Dead kids.

So. Would there be legitimate reasons for the Trump administration to decide not to charge Tom Homan for accepting a Cava bag with $50k in cash in exchange for the promise to influence the Trump administration? Actually, yes. /1

I do appreciate that he used a perfect Andor reference to troll Disney

James Longhurst with the observation of the day

Any reaction yet from Trump or Carr?

Mrs. Captain America is correct. They might start with the left. But anyone who opposes Trump will be labeled as “the left”. Conservative Never Trumpers? The left. Libertarians? The left. Free market opponents of tariffs? The left. It will be like the Niemöller poem, but dumber

This is the most common take so far

I've never prosecuted a counter intelligence case, but accepting 50 thousand dollars in cash in a paper bag sounds not great

Kimmel's show back on Wed

No criticism of Wang, who I don't know, but this has been a talking point for 20 years in China circles.

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

Via ABC: “President Donald Trump's assistant and former defense attorney Lindsey Halligan was sworn in today at the Justice Department as the interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.”

I appreciate them putting "China" as the first word here because this is the second case in 30 seconds of scrolling where I read about something repressive and might have wondered if it was in the U.S.

Took me a solid few seconds to decide this was in Georgia the country, not Georgia the state

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by Trumpian incompetence. But it is worth noting that, since 1975, the dollar has only seen a steeper year-to-date decline during the deliberate depreciation that followed the 1985 Plaza Accord:

Yeah, I had to try three sites to cancel Disney+ but the runaround only made me more determined to do it.

If you want to understand this Trump administration's rampant corruption ... you have to go back to Eric Adams, and how they made the case against him disappear. I got a bunch of new details on this deep dive for @nytimes.com ... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

A thread for our time. This is where we're headed

One of the threads for our time. It's where we are

Fantastic, sober, realistic thread. The James Baldwin quote deep in the thread is on point.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Apropos of....actually a lot of stuff, I am reminded this morning of the Anne Lamott quotation about how you know you've created God in your own image when your concept of God hates the same people as you do.

Meanwhile in print … bsky.app/profile/tomp...

Credit where it’s due — the NYT has Bondi and Homan at the top

Who could have imagined that a guy who uses the moniker “Ka$h” would take over the FBI and shut down the bribery investigations of his buddies?

If you agree that Kennedy needs to resign, then one thing you can do right now is contact your Members of Congress--its takes literally like a minute: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

A few Qs in this week's Kash hearings that ring differently know that we know Tom Homan took a bribe. 1) Kash was asked how many people triggered CI concerns in background checks. Homan investigation was a CI investigation. 2) Kash was asked WHY background checks were halted until he was confirmed.

One of my least intelligent habits is checking in on MAGA late at night. As punishment, tonight I got to read a bunch of them sounding off about how Pam Bondi should resign and be replaced by...Matt Gaetz

We have to get through a Sunday and a Monday AND a Tuesday before we even get to say “and it's only Tuesday”

Today was supposed to be a Saturday

I'm hoping Kelly Hayes is as principled as those who resigned over the corrupt handling of the Eric Adams case. Here's a nice piece about them from late April newrepublic.com/article/1997...

Every day there are like 3 new things that happen that 25 years ago would have instantly disqualified someone from public office.

If you’re watching us from outside the United States, it’s pretty much as bad as it looks.

Sure there is. The Russian world, for example

Everyone, keep Kelly Hayes in your thoughts. She's the prosecutor tasked with investigating Adam Schiff and John Bolton. She's told people she won't bring charges without evidence, and the thugocracy is already applying pressure. Let's hope she holds to her oath www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

When you're so unpopular you have to force positive stories...

"[L]ike the Watergate tapes but posted on social media" is good 👏👏👏

There’s another No Kings protest in October - it needs to massive.

Respectfully, this is so dumb that I'd have a hard time believing it was false

Another thing about Lindsey Halligan is that she has never prosecuted a case

Please don't say he's “politicized” the DOJ. That's not right. His DOJ will only work to support the GOP if it also helps him. The DOJ is now his DOJ, a weapon for him to send after his enemies. It's been weaponized, not “politicized.”

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

Geo Group and CoreCivic are cashing in on Trump’s immigration crackdown, reporting soaring profits as arrests and detentions rise. Both are expanding detention centers and electronic monitoring to keep up with demand, fueling the deportation-industrial complex. abcnews.go.com/US/top-priva...

Note: One reason Trump may be saying "we have to act fast." The comments Jim Comey made to Congress they want to prosecute were made on September 30, 2020. They've got 8 days to charge it.

A word about this. This was posted AFTER DHS took down 5 posts making false claims about @replamonica.bsky.social, after her attorneys asked for a gag. Note they repeated their slander of @carbajal.house.gov, which got taken down w/one of the McIver posts.

lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...