Ty Cobb: "The simple theme is rewriting history. Trump wants to rewrite history so the next generation may not know that he incited a violent insurrection... America needs to learn from the mistakes that we've had. And one of the biggest mistakes that America ever had was reelecting President Trump"

I don't love using "blood libel" to describe anything other than the actual historical phenomenon of accusations against Jews of ritually killing Christian children. But if anything in modern political discourse structurally resembles a blood libel, it's Vance accusing Haitians of eating cats.

I stand with Ukraine. 💙💛💙💛

The same guy telling you Portland is war-ravaged, told you Mexico was going to pay for the wall and people were eating your pets in Ohio.

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

In other news, there are apparently Martians who believe Taylor Swift needs exposure.

Just the dumbest reason for your child to die. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

"These are people who stand to lose their homes, their freedom, their families, and they are showing more courage than people who have summer homes and trust funds." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I think if people want to stop being called Nazis they should stop being Nazis. I think that's a good way to go.

Bots on Facebook:

"For all of the worry that people had about changes years ago, things like the Fairness Doctrine, the one that really slipped by everyone that should have been a real worry was...allowing these large corporations to control lots of local TV stations." - @radiofreetom.bsky.social

everyone else in the admin over the last couple days: what are you talking about, there was no attempted government censorship, stop fearmongering trump: I’m gonna sue them for putting kimmel back on the air

Women of America: a series of leathery, uncannily colored old men who look like they’re being propped up with a series of wires and two by fours are here to tell you how to be healthier

“We need a left centrist to publicly pretend that state censorship is not more oppressive than the weight of public opinion. If they won’t cover our asses, we look like the naked hypocrites we are.”

David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel: "This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

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

The thing that really kills me about it isn't that they've got their finger to the wind -- it's that they keep sticking their fingers up, making a face, and then going and looking for a different breeze

Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."

Dooming is silly. You cannot know what will happen, except for this one thing: if no one fights against what's happening, then it will happen. The only thing to do is to fight against the evil you fear.

The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it

I've said this a few times but a lot of the "we must confront the excesses of left wing purity testing that silenced dissent" Pundit Centrism is just the least navel-gazey excuse to engage in even more ardent purity testing and demand even more self censorship

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

You should listen to the full response. There's a lot here.

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

Check out this article from Detroit Free Press: Gov. Whitmer to issue executive directive easing access to COVID-19 vaccines in Michigan www.freep.com/story/news/p...

I suppose I could support on a plan to "save healthcare" but none of these come close to that, everything Dems have proposed is a one-year band-aid that vanishes after the midterms and thus helps the GOP consolidate power to do more damage. It's nonsensical, it's exactly what GOP leadership needs.

It’s like when George Constanza tried to get everybody to nickname him T Bone, only with shame blaming, lying, and government threats and allocation of resources.

“We’re going to punish you for criticizing our free speech warrior” is a perfect encapsulation of how this country is deeply fucked in the head.

"There's no difference between the 2 major parties," said a person with their entire finger up their nostril, fingertip feeling the slight breeze from the air circulating through their empty skull

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

RADDATZ: You talked about Democrats who have been targeted. Trump said nothing about the political violence against Democrats. In fact, he blamed the radical left. What's your reaction to that? SPENCER COX: Well look, President Trump is very angry.

MARYLAND Senator Chris Van Hollen (D): “It’s spineless of Democratic leadership not to endorse Zohran. They need to get behind him.” @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social spokesman: “Chris Van Who?”🤔 Jeffries really doesn’t get it. Digging the hole deeper and deeper.

1. At Charlie Kirk's vigil just now, DNI Tulsi Gabbard just invoked MLK Jr.'s line, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that." She insisted Kirk "lived" by that line. Unclear how Kirk would've felt about that comparison, since he decried MLK as “awful” and "not a good person."

“If you can’t honor a man by quoting him directly because his own words seem disparaging to his legacy, then perhaps you shouldn’t try to honor him at all.” Watch my latest here: www.youtube.com/live/2Mv50KZ...

Notice the nose counting, this examination of who didn’t bend the knee. Freedom of expression also means the freedom to not pay tribute to people you dont want to honor.

To write him up as a champion of free speech requires the thinnest, most anemic understanding of what actually threatens free expression in this country.

We've got Gavin Newsom et al. eulogizing a version Charlie Kirk who did not exist, Trump et al. blaming his death on leftist violence that didnt happen, and the entire media apparatus denouncing Dems for dancing on his grave, something no Dems are doing. Has The Discourse ever felt more unmoored?

"The Professor Watchlist is a straightforward intimidation campaign, and you can draw a line directly from Kirk’s work attacking academics to the Trump administration's all-out war on American higher education, an assault on the right to speak freely and dissent." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”

So many people like that. “Fuck your feelings” always meant “Fuck YOUR feelings, mine are uber important!”

Special thanks to all the worms in politics and media who tried to sell us “universally beloved saint Charlie Kirk” over the last few days. Sorry you failed but 1) not nearly as many people know him as you thought / hoped 2) he was deeply racist, like on a KKK level, and that’s kinda off-putting