Vance and Miller are going to see who can ban inflatable frog suits, aren't they?

But is it a willful triumph?

One thing I hate about posts like this (besides the bad history) is that in a time of rising fascism its a bad strategy to dismiss, downplay or even lie about the one time America allied itself with communists to kill fascists with bullets and bombs.

My favorite part of social media is getting deeply invested in things I knew nothing about 27 minutes ago just because it is fun to experience big events with other people 😂

oh you want me to get excited because they have 2 on and nobody out lol it's like you think I haven't watched the last 13 innings

Meanwhile in #Portland

JD Vance wants to use the 25th Amendment to become president. Stephen Miller wants to exploit Trump’s dementia to run the country himself. Call it the new checks and balances.

Blue Hour Chrysler #NewYorkCity #FridayPhoto 🗃️📷📸

Once again: Hegseth is the exact type of guy The Art of War was written for, which means he will never read it

Wild stuff — nuking a portion of your website because MAGA got mad at you for it. jewishinsider.com/2025/09/adl-...

I don't think the people expressing surprise about things the Trump administration is doing understand how absolutely fucking crazymaking each of your posts is for Black and Indigenous folks who called *all of this* and sat through people talking about "respecting norms" for years

i was invited to a gathering tonight and initially wasn’t gonna go because every extra thing feels like so much these days but i made myself go and i’m so glad i did because it turns out community is so fucking important right now

I get furious when I hear people say they didn't know he would do this stuff. Black people knew. Indigenous people knew. LGBTQ+ people knew. Latinos knew. Environmentalists knew. You didn't know because you didn't want to know and didn't want to listen to the ones who did know.

Even a passing knowledge of Black history will make clear that not only was this level of destruction possible, it was inevitable. “Did you know they’d shut down US AID?” I mean these are the same people who closed all public schools in a county rather than desegregate. Yes. Yes I did.

God damn, I have been copying and pasting the second paragraph into text messages all afternoon. "The Randy Newman of maximalism" is one of the*several* gems here.

i will not give up hope and neither will you

I’m not saying that there’s a @paranoiacs.bsky.social song in this statement somewhere, but I’m saying it’s would fit pretty well as a lyric.

Around Mount Hood today, near war-torn Portland.

I don’t even dislike Tim Kaine, but is it too much to ask my own party to stop exuding weakness at every single turn.

2020: Biden, 51.3% popular vote, 306 EV; Trump, 46.8%, 232 EV 2024: Trump, 49.7% popular vote, 312 EV; Harris, 48.2%, 226 EV

separate from everything, the idea that 2020 was a squeaker but 2024 represents a historical mandate will simply be the death of me

I hope we get put in the same reeducation camp so I can ask him to elaborate

Imagine living in a country as diverse as this one and hating it. Weird stuff.

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

after his weird obsession with shower water pressure, and now screaming about bathroom vanities, I do feel like we have a clear sense of the room in the house where he spends the most time

CHOTINER: You enjoy a late night snack. ME: *chuckles* guilty as charged CHOTINER: You mentioned previously that plums are a favourite. ME: Oh. This. CHOTINER: Straight out of the icebox. ME: I can assure you that I was not aware that they were for breakfast. CHOTINER: okay, but this note...

CHOTINER: Just once I wanted someone to interview *me* DOCTOR: Oh I know just the person, the interviewer Issac Chotiner is in town, I have his phone number right here CHOTINER: (sobbing) but doctor, I *am* Chotiner

reichstag fire but not a one of these goons can keep a match lit

Today's gem: a survey question posed as an either or, with answer options of yes/no.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Absolute desperation to turn a podcaster into a white MLK

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

i will concede that if you want to influence other people addicted to X, X is worth using. but if you want to influence the actual public, text-based social media is a fool's errand.

i dont care how purple your district is. hell i dont care if youre a democrat in a blood red district. there's no reason to "honor" someone who said THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO SERVE ON THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT WAS AN UNQUALIFIED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HIRE. period.

They're attacking popular things, publicly brutalizing everyday people, and alienating even Trump-appointed judges. It'll get worse before it gets better, and we can't rely on almost any elected official to lead, but we can push their goons out of our communities and out of office. We can end this.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

for sale: institutional spines. never used.

Putting away all the "CIVIL WAR NOW" banners at the news station and bringing out the "Mental Health Crisis in America" banners with a heavy sigh

going back in time and telling our ten year old self that as an adult we'll have a pocket telephone within reach at all times "Oh cool, so my friends can call any time they want?" "no actually, anyone who calls you isn't your friend"

Let's say it again: 1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off. 2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off. It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.

The plot has been completely lost. It feels parodic at this point. Like someone is trying to force a mass delusion. No thank you.

I did a minor good deed this morning, which made me miss my subway train, so I took an expensive cab instead. I briefly (sarcastically) thought: "I will never help anyone ever again." And then I realized that's the full sincere thought process of like 50% of newspaper op-ed columnists.

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

What centrist libs can't seem to internalize is that the US contains a large, longstanding, well-funded political movement that *wants political violence and authoritarianism*. It does not need to be provoked in any way in order to pursue those goals.

An economy that is turning towards almost exclusively graft, speculation, fraud and gambling to obtain wealth, which is basically what we currently have, is going to only create more conditions that lead to social isolation and violence.

The reason these stochastic violence types are rarely if ever from "the left" is because left vs. right is meaningless now and has been for some time, just like Dem vs. GOP. It's people who want violence and power vs. people who want to live their lives and be left alone, maybe get a little weird

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

One of the most disappointing things is how many people are cowards.

I can see the 9/11 memorial lights clearly from my living room in Brooklyn. That day really did change everything. May the memories of all the innocent who died — on that day and in the decades of related wars that have followed— be blessings. May we build a kinder world.