Yes!

First, the leadership. The executive editor Joe Kahn has created an environment where he encourages and rewards bullshit stories that will outrage liberals; because his understanding of journalistic neutrality is that both sides have to be treated as the same irrespective of equivalence. 3/

Gotta say, it'll be hilarious (not to mention cosmically fitting) if the failed ousting of Jimmy Kimmel is the turning point that brings Trump/MAGA down.

The release of the video showing Tom Homan rejecting the $50k bribe from FBI agents has been scheduled alongside the release of Trump’s health care plan and news of all the successful trade deals, both of which will be released in two weeks.

Trade deals coming along nicely. 🇧🇷

Monday of UNGA high level week and there is, no joke, a giant oil leak on First Avenue ten blocks south from UNHQ

Tylenol does not cause autism but *not* taking Tylenol can cause women to be truly miserable during pregnancy so you can see why the GOP is so gung-ho about this line of argument.

Sure, it's fucked up, but what's she gonna say? "Daddy preached hate in the name of god & he reaped what he sowed?"

Another trademark Hakeem Jeffries non-answer.

Q: Can we just ask obsequious fake questions that we hope will save us from Trump hating us and shutting us down?

The memorial service the other day looks to me like an attempt to convey normal human emotions by a group of people who do not experience normal human emotions.

Shanah Tovah, New York City. Here's to a sweet and hopeful New Year.

The @haitianstudies.bsky.social will be screening a film on the Haitian debt/indemnity, next Fri. Oct. 3, 10 am, with Q&A with the director afterwards. RSVP here! FREE 🗃️📽️ Haiti, The Ransom for Independence (dir. Wandrille Lanos), in French with English subtitles. csusm.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The biggest takeaway I got from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social's book the Unaccountabilty Machine was POSIWID. The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does," a concept coined by Stafford Beer 1/n

No shit, Sherlock! If the shooter HAD had contact with left-wing groups he'd probably not felt so lacking in options that he resorted to murder.

If the Harpers letter upset you but you struggled with explaining why, this handles that & a whole range of inter-related mishigas.

Charlie Kirk rules: "Free speech for me, but not for thee!"

Oh, yeah! The infamous commie League of Women Voters! As a kid, I was ACUTELY aware of Walt Disney's rightwing politics. I looked for cartoon fun elsewhere. Overjoyed to find Jay Ward: Rocky & Bullwinkle, Fractured Fairytales, Dudley Doright. Then, decades later, Disney came for Winnie-The-Pooh.

Excellent analysis. "First Speaker Problem: it picks a speaker, treats that person’s speech as the speech that should concern us, and then applies a set of cultural norms and questions only to the responses to that speech." I prefer UDHR Article 19, focused on the rights to RECEIVE information.

If the facts are on your side, pound the facts... if the bible isn't on your side, through it out the window

Wishing them luck; this would be remarkable.

You know I’d heard a story in LA that there were other groups trying to resurrect the American Chestnut too, amazing to see the work continue

"Can a Family Resurrect the American Chestnut Tree in Appalachia?" My story for @barnraiser.bsky.social about one family carrying the torch. This is a story against the grain. A story of hope in a dark time. A story of long time horizons. 1/n barnraisingmedia.com/can-a-family...

Trump doesn't "negotiate," he lies. A quote that nails it, from a pal on Mastodon: "Trump ignores agreements he makes, as and when it suits him. That’s his MO. An agreement is simply Trump recognising and confirming where the other party’s weak points are."

🎯🧵"All in all, this is an extremely violent protest by Dutch standards and it is also an extremely large violent protest by Dutch standards. Downplaying its political content, or the level of organization as well as connection between violent and non-violent is dangerous and wrong."

Babylon & the Aztec Empire are next!

It's grey and raining and the days are getting shorter--I feel so energized and capable of getting things done! I don't know the weather equivalent of "introvert-extrovert" but I do know I am far at one end of the spectrum.

Can a Family Resurrect the American Chestnut Tree in Appalachia? There were once 4 billion of them. A blight obliterated almost all. Now there's hope of renewal. barnraisingmedia.com/can-a-family...

ICYMT: Ms. Magazine has a timely article on anti-abortion violence coming out in the print magazine laterthis month. It appears in four parts online: msmagazine.com/2025/09/16/a... msmagazine.com/2025/09/17/g... msmagazine.com/2025/09/18/r... msmagazine.com/2025/09/19/a...

Always always projection. Always.

Bye, Disney! (And I have 3 kids, but they'll be OK)

Idolatry is the new Prosperity Gospel. Little Golden Calves Everywhere

Literally his father took him to a church run by the author of The Power of Positive Thinking and it has shaped the way he interacts with everyone and everything.

This comment!!!👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾💯

Happening this week, starting tomorrow: Utah’s legislature is meeting to adopt a new congressional map after a court order. All five draft maps would transform a safely GOP seat into a swing district that’d be very winnable for Dems.

It's wild to me how many people who consider themselves incredibly sophisticated thinkers were convinced that class-based affirmative action would be immune from conservative political and legal attacks

DO WE THINK IT'S SMAUG

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

True/Not True. Little Marco act like an archivist? Would you like to buy a bridge???

🧵➡️➡️➡️"Trump wants to portray himself as an all-powerful dictator, but an all-powerful dictator does not beg and threaten his AG to prosecute his enemies in public."

So, who's going to be forced into exile under Trump if it comes to that? Chilling to think about. But we're at the point now where we can't afford not to.

Celebrating the fifth anniversary of installing solar panels on our church. We produce as much power as is used in 5 homes each year, save money, and provide clean power at a discount to a non-profit partner through community solar. So much winning!

Brazil’s great boomer pop stars Chico, Caetano and Gilberto, all of whom were forced into exile during their country’s dictatorship, now out front against parliamentary impunity for participation in Bolsonaro’s dud coup. Love these guys! 🎸🪘🇧🇷 #EstadoDeDireito

Next FBI head? Or SecDef?

Or as one podcaster (Ahem) has said many times, “when shareholder value is your only value, you will lose your company, and you deserve to.”

MAGA leaders want women to be modest and demure. Yet their women usually have bleached hair, extensions, breast implants, and giant black caterpillars glued to their eyelids. Just like Jesus wanted!

Just remember: No matter how shitty you are or someone accuses you of being, Trump will always be shittier.

Rightwingers bellyaching about being labeled a “fascist” have a way around it —stop acting like one.

Moreover, asking people to be unpaid Democratic party operatives when the rank-and-file trust is so low is guaranteed to piss people off. And doing this when Trump's and Republicans' numbers are cratering–for good reason–makes no sense. Sometimes, anger *is* the appropriate emotion.