This on top of the LDS president dying? Smh no place in this country is safe.

So, a bit of news. I will be watching my beloved 🦅 from a different perch this year... I will be away at @ox.ac.uk on a fellowship to write and recoup from these awful (for me) last two years. I'm tired folks. profantheabutler.substack.com/p/im-back-so...

Thank You @nhannahjones.bsky.social gift artilce www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.” I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt. And that’s wrong.

Larry suggesting that the worst people will keep the rest of us on our best behavior...

This is fantastic by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social Articulates so well our (intentional?) societal regression

I still can not believe that universities are capitulating to Trump and fascism like this. It’s deranged. “Students objecting to the video say it equates criticism of Israel with antisemitism. At one point the narrator compares critics of Israel to former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke...”

Here's the operative portion of the memo. It is ominous but also vague, which will pressure admins towards overcompliance.

News --> Steve Bannon tells me he fully expects Trump to use the Texas ICE office shooting as the hook to unleash law enforcement on liberal immigration groups by connecting political violence to anti-ICE rhetoric. This is going to get ugly. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2009...

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I've covered multiple wars. I don't recall anything like this ever happening.

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Kimmel did a great job pushing back on Trump last night, but I was really glad to see he lit up Brendan Carr, using his own words against him. The lesser villains of this regime need to be called out by name and held accountable for the obscene things they're doing in their cult leader's name.

I regret to inform you that my ass is still here 😆. I got to give John Nelson Darby credit though. His grift is still working on folks!

“The truth on display at The President's House is that George Washington, a Founding Father and the first President, owned human beings, profited off their unpaid labor, and, when one of them made a break for freedom, tried for years to recapture them.” www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

As I was saying…

It gives me no pleasure to report that he does indeed have that shit on

I hope you can join us for the big book launch this Thursday evening, either in-person or online. Pls read & subscribe: johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/separation...

Incredible image. Also incredible that the vast majority of white Christians in this country align with the men in camo.

"Religious believers think the rapture is coming — and they’re asking if their dogs can come too" [tabloid] nypost.com/2025/09/21/l...

Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is.

You know I don't talk about my birthday very much but I got the best present today with the eagles winning and the cowboy's losing 😆😆😆😆😆😆

NFL star and noted activist Colin Kaepernick is paying for an independent second autopsy for a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree.

GOOOOOOO 🦅 I LOVE this team!!!!!

Ten years off my life today 🦅🦅🦅🦅

From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why fascist strongmen rely on women at home

I Look at This Country and I See a Stranger Masha Gessen examines the signs we aren’t supposed to acknowledge out loud. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

I truly don't understand how democratic leadership think they are going to move forward after voting to honor a white nationalist who essentially called Black women—the base of the party—stupid. It's insulting. I find it personally insulting.

Can always count on Philly to tell it like it is. (gift link) share.inquirer.com/I75bb0?utm_s...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

The idea that Kirk is a martyr is, at this point, ubiquitous in some evangelical communities — and was recently forwarded by the White House.

If I tell you NO, don't beg me. NO MEANS NO.There is a subtext to this so don't take it personally,haha.

The past week has shown us something scary — the concrete and specific outlines of a durable authoritarian state in America. Here's what this state would look like, and the precise policy levers Trump is pulling to get there from here. www.vox.com/politics/462...

JUST NOW: @aoc on the Republican Charlie Kirk resolution Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DOym49N...

the amount of times this month that I have written a post and scrubbed it before posting ......#infinite

Texas A&M president resigns amid uproar over professor’s gender identity lesson www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

from @jarvisdeberry.bsky.social

*looks directly at bsky devs*

Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.

ah, well

As we’ve reported before at @rollingstone.com, trump and his gang plotted to use the federal government against his enemies in late night tv even before he was reelected. Now…. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

In case you were wondering when the comedians and educators are silenced and under attack, that’s when you should be VERY worried

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

hey, if any religion profs want to talk to @religiondispatches.org about their experiences of being on this shitheel's Professor Watchlist, I feel a series of interviews coming on

Robert Redford, an actor and Oscar-winning director who founded one of the world’s most prominent film festivals, has died. He was 89. https://to.pbs.org/46mvirV 📸 Photo circa 1970 by Art Zelin/Getty Images

BREAKING: Justice Gregory Carro has dismissed the first degree murder charge against Luigi Mangione in his state case, finding the DA put legally insufficient evidence before the grand jury. More TK.

The University of Mississippi fired Lauren Stokes, the executive assistant to the vice chancellor, for sharing a post on social media that criticized Charlie Kirk’s views after his assassination. The post cited his views on race, guns and forcing child rape victims to carry pregnancies.