I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

Winter is coming.

Amazing coverage as Sun Day weekend starts! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/c...

Just throw the majority of Democratic voters who are women (and others who believe women are people endowed with certain inalienable rights) under the bus = lose all principle in order to pursue a losing winning strategy?

“Cruz's unsubstantiated claim is part of a yearslong effort by the fossil-fuel industry and its allies to fight lawsuits that state and local governments have filed against oil and gas companies.”

"Which is to say that an old man, almost eighty, is still groveling and screaming for some kind of mommy-and-daddy approval he didn't get and never will and that's a major force in global politics."

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

Hell of a photo by my former Chicago Tribune colleague Stacey Wescott from a protest today at an ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs. Read the sign at the bottom. @staceywescott.bsky.social

"There will never really be enough silence and obedience and flattery for the insatiable ego of the misery-in-chief." Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/on-the-party...

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

Another way to put it is: they are obsessed with the idea that with enough repression and punishment, they can create their peaceable kingdom--on the corpses of their enemies and the corpse of the US Constitution. Behind that is the fantasy that a wholly homogenous USA can be created....

"First, for all of MAGA’s reverence for masculine self-determination, one of its central tenets is the blamelessness of its adherents. Whatever is going wrong in this country, it is not their fault." Those two sentences explain/define a whole lot.

The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today. Charlie Kirk was no exception.

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Orwell was the o.g. AntiFa.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

Democracy, more than anything is a practice. I always think that the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because from the Civil War black Americans built institutions: universities, fraternities and sororities, churches, that engaged them in democratic practice.

Kirk's murder is being weaponized to corral us into a smaller and smaller arena of speech, and it is our job to refuse to be confined, to keep speaking out, to keep making irreverent jokes, supporting progressive voices, chastising the high-profile cowards, and talking among ourselves.

The US Justice Department appears to have removed from its website a study into political violence in America by the National Institute of Justice, the Justice Department’s research agency, which concluded that far-right extremism outpaced “all other types of domestic violent extremism”.

Bill McKibben says it's down to 18 hours, thanks to China. Sun Day is coming. Sept. 21. sunday.earth

The solar revolution means that power can be decentralized, democratized, distributed far more justly. So it makes perfect and hideous sense, given the nostalgia of authoritarians for a golden age (of exclusion, exploitation, and inequality ), to tie themselves to all fossil fuel's problems.

folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse

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Gosh. "The Board asserted hypocritically and without evidence that President Trump would 'defy the norms and dismantle the institutions that have made our country strong.'"

Are you celebrating Sun Day in NYC? Join local climate leaders alongside @billmckibben.bsky.social for a rally at Stuyvesant Sq. Park at 3:30pm on 9/21 as we demand accelerated action on clean energy ☀️ This is part of the Sun Day Festival from 1-6pm: bit.ly/sdnycfest

This is out-Sovieting the Soviet Union. "You are free to express any opinion at all as long as it's the right one, and the consequences for all the others will be severe, and ratting out is an important part of our free society."

The Washington Post now has no Black Opinion columnists - none - at a time when white nationalism is ascendant in our nation. I am grateful to Karen for the truth and fearlessness her work has always shown. Keep shining that light, my friend.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

American soybean farmers don’t have a single order from China as they head into harvest season. China usually buys 25% of the entire crop. Crisis looms for the farmers and there’s only one man responsible.

ICYMI, regime change in Nepal after protests lead by its young people: www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/... “What this group is demanding is the end of corruption, good governance and economic equality,”

On every occasion over the past ten years, the New York Times has sought out conservative opinions as what we need to hear and respect. (Even if not in an Ohio diner, and yeah, fair and balanced would include some progressives saying "I was right about CK.")

Some people have wished I wrote more about the bad old days of silencing and gender violence since I put up that Guardian piece about how normalized it all was in the 1970s-1990s, and, well, I did: Recollections of My Nonexistence. Here are some excerpts.

Kirk, climate angle, from @Jane Mayer's excellent 2017 article on his organization: 'Turning Point distributed a guide for college students with a foreword by Kirk, titled “10 Ways Fossil Fuels Improve Our Daily Lives.”'

Instead of the media’s lazy posthumous takes, I am in favor of Kirk’s actual words being spread far and wide.

Thousands of women are sharing this and saying yes, this was their experience, many of them sharing their own horrific 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s experiences. (And almost everyone sharing it appears to be female.)

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches."

So "we are like that," right, governor?

Well if they would like to denounce political violence....

We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.

Congratulations to Brazil, joining South Korea among the countries who successfully did what the United States could not 🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

Whose life matters?

hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok

I wonder if all these threats to African American institutions are linked to the flood of Fox News personalities screaming “we need to fight back”? Eh, probably just a series of incredible coincidences