I’m too old to remember when conservatives harshly criticized Obama for using executive orders. Now that Trump is issuing more executive orders than any president in modern history, Republicans in Congress are totally silent.

Twenty years after the comedy went silent, Russia is a sadistic, warmongering fascist regime run by a mad centibillionaire. That’s a future that could be ours — whole argument of "Road to Unfreedom" — but also one we can stop — see "On Tyranny" and "On Freedom." www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/w...

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

Welcome to Russia Trump’s weaponized agencies are trying to eliminate free speech and punish those who use it. Universities, media, Colbert, and now Jimmy Kimmel. This is just the beginning Shame on ABC for capitulating to thugs

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

This won’t be trickling down.

not to keep beating a dead horse, but if Biden told a reporter that 300 million Americans died from drugs last year, every media outlet would demand he resign and throw himself into a nursing home

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

“So they’ve killed Ferdinand,” said the charwoman to Mr. Schweik who.... was just rubbing his knees with embrocation. “Which Ferdinand, Mrs. Muller?” asked Schweik, continuing to massage his knees. “I know two Ferdinands..... 1/2

I am once again asking you to stop sending us money. But we do need your time. ⏰ zohranfornyc.com/events

America is getting the economy we voted for

Soybeans are collapsing because China isn’t buying them. The farm economy is in deep trouble. Because of our needless trade war that we are clearly losing. Maybe farmers will wake up

The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.

It was a big risk for the Yankees to send all that pitching to San Diego in a trade for the big outfielder, but it turns out that Trent Grisham was worth it.

HAPPENING NOW: CDC staff members are greeted by supporters as they stage a walkout at their headquarters in Atlanta in protest against the damage being done to the agency by conspiracy theorist RFK Jr. ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social

This both heart warming and a deep tragedy

The shooter at Annunciation Catholic School used an assault weapon to fire dozens of rounds through the stained glass windows of the school’s church—killing two children and wounding 17 others, including 14 children.

ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?

Trump just hung a giant portrait of himself over the Department of Labor building, claiming he puts "American Workers First." Take it from a former Secretary of Labor: Donald Trump doesn't give a shit about working people. https://youtu.be/ARL5VvYJUe8?feature=shared

Pretending not to hear the whole room chanting “shame” at her is the most Susan Collins things ever

BREAKING: Fed Governor Lisa Cook pushes back with a strong statement after Trump claimed to fire her: “President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign and will continue my work to support the U.S. economy”

It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

On the left, my warning from September 2024 about what Trump 2.0 would look like. On the right, recent headlines. I wish I'd been wrong. But because Trump is following a classic authoritarian playbook, it’s up to state and local governments to push back on this tyranny while it’s still possible.

⚡️Russia plans withdrawal from European Convention preventing torture. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Aug. 25 signed a resolution calling for Moscow to withdraw from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture.

I would really appreciate a day without 5-7 normally front page bad stories occurring

"Nothing that happened in medieval eastern Europe bound future states to make war against each other a thousand years later" My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war" www.ft.com/content/9731...

2/2. Everyone using the phrase "land swap" should please specify which Russian territory Ukraine would be getting. So far it’s a euphemism for forcing Ukraine to give things up to Russia.

1/2. The phrase "land swap" is being used to mean "Ukraine concedes land illegally occupied by Russia and also concedes territory that is not even occupied." That is not a swap.

Trump is sending armed troops into blue cities because he wants to shoot his political enemies, and the New York Times is busy telling us what an empathetic person he is

Please watch and share. Ukraine is winning Ukraine Is Beating Russia: What Putin Doesn't Want You to Know youtu.be/JThTysIZfFc

A brief summary of Ukraine's most significant victories in the war against Russia. These are just the major operarions, of course. #Ukraine stands. Ukraine fights against an enemy much larger and better armed⤵️

Donald flew to Alaska to meet me. Now he's flying back to DC to pass my offer to Zelensky. I have made the President of the United States my errand boy.

Abolishing ICE is the absolute least that needs to happen

Nothing says “I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize” like threatening an economic war if you don’t get it

"In the ancient world, people spoke of 'Ultima Thule,' a mythical land in the extreme north, the end of the earth. By venturing north to Alaska to meet Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump reaches his own Ultima Thule, the arctic endpoint of a foreign policy dreamworld." snyder.substack.com/p/ultima-thule

The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.

One of the guys who tried to overturn the government for accurately reporting the election numbers in 2020 is about to be in charge of making sure we stop accurately reporting the economic numbers in 2025. Bleak stuff.

He was taken prisoner in the Donetsk region back in 2014. ◾️Ukrainians who were captured&convicted by the Russians between 2016 and 2021 are also returning to Ukraine.Among those freed are three women from Donetsk and Luhansk regions.One of them is a primary school teacher who was imprisoned in 2019

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

I keep wondering and asking… if Trump were dead set on being an enemy of the US and the American people from the seat of the American presidency, what would he be doing differently?

TIL the thought I have been promoting for quite some time is actually not mine. It belongs to Hanna Arendt. "Law, on its own, is incapable of restraining political action." Only a power can check power. See this great lecture hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/h...

“Trump deploys national guard to D.C. to guard the Epstein files”

Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.

TIL: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine...