Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

"Watching the wrecking ball that is RFK Jr. in charge of Health and Human Services in the United States is like watching a slasher film in which the killer wanders the streets in daylight murdering everyone he can, while no one stops him." Andrea Pitzer on the few bad men dismantling America.

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

These folks have been protesting every week for 6 months.

My latest installment in a series I should start calling "Thanks John Roberts" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Last month, I wrote about Angel Minguela Palacios, who was arrested by Border Patrol while delivering strawberries. On Thursday, I was with his partner and their three kids when they welcomed him home after he spent more than a month in ICE detention www.latimes.com/california/s...

Buried details: the 18% of kids whose identities shifted over the course of the study were overwhelmingly between binary trans and non-binary or vice versa. The number who shifted between binary cis and trans was very low indeed - out of a subset of 254, precisely *one* kid shifted in this way.

The top MAGA decision-makers are angry and scared about Kirk's assassination and because he was a big deal to them, they're acting as if everyone cares as much as they do. But we don't and they can't make us.

Trump grew up a power of positive thinking cultist and man did those teachings ever take. He truly believes that as president he can just say shit and it will happen, material reality be damned.

Ppl getting fired for “celebrating Kirk’s death” and these people are literally shooting fireworks

Turning everything into content was the kind of world historical error that has made a spectacle like this possible

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

And of course, I'll believe it when I see it. But Putin, like Netanyahu, isn't going to let Trump out of his vice.

STALIN : LYSENKO :: Trump : Bobby Jr.

I'm afraid we have to defund everyone who was at this event for antisemitism. Thems the rules.

Democrats should become the anti-corruption party. 72% of voters think a member of Congress would likely accept a bribe if offered one. 80% say donors run DC. The solution isn’t left vs right, it’s clean vs corrupt. But first, Democrats must reform themselves and reject big money.

It’s cruel to women. Wildly offensive to people with autism. And generally offensive to anyone with a brain or a heart. He needs to resign or be removed immediately.

This is a marked turn by Trump that would be very welcome, given that his weakness helped provoke Putin's escalation.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Lord, can you believe what Loomer said about Charlie Kirk in the middle of Tucker Carlson's speech?

4. Abraham Lincoln called these Republicans that wanted true equality between white and Black people "Radical Republicans." It was not intended as a compliment. It basically meant "n-word lover." 5. Ulysses S Grant alligned much more with the Radical Republicans than the Moderate Republicans.

Went to Scattery Island today instead of [waves hands]. This is Church of the Dead. You can see the plant that no longer burns coal, and the turbines that made that possible. 15km to Doonbeg which is one reason Trump hates wind power.

I wonder how this compares to the conduct of the catchers of the enslaved. They would have had to have more sense.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I see they've found another way to break the Good Friday Agreement.

Kirk hits the three things all Christian Nationalists know about Jesus: 1. He’s white. 2. He’s a man. 3. He believes whatever Republicans believe.

JD Vance came to San Diego and shut down a strip mall to get BAGELS instead of the Cotijas (iykyk) taco place across the street, so I don’t think he should be allowed to vote

This is exactly backwards. From the beginning, Kirk was the beneficiary of a large and highly organized network of dark money donors who were looking for a spokesman. No way he would have done what he did without patrons like Montgomery and Uihlein. Kirk didn't make money - money made Kirk.

The idea that if you make Dems a little more Republican, Republicans will vote Dem is what’s breaking us. And it doesn’t even work!

They always wanted to end free speech and they were looking for a pretext. But I think that real fear and anger is distorting their judgement. They think America gives a shit about Charlie Kirk, but his favorables are still slightly underwater despite over a week of unhinged hagiography.

Brad Lander is a true leader, who has huge work ahead of him!

I'll remind you that my theory is that the only poll that Trump really cares about is the stock market averages. Yet, the polls may be reading the economy more accurately than the market is.

Sinking Polls Drive Trump’s Fascist Panic @gilduran.com went and said it.

Imagine if O'Connor were hailed as a patron saint of kids, rather than from the crest of one of the sickest patriarchies in human history. Anyway, for no particular reason, I'm thinking about what Charlie Kirk said about the Pope and how differently the two were treated. For no particular reason.

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

Do you ever think about what Sinead O’Connor was trying to expose on national television in 1992? Most punk rock moment in human history?

Great thread on the case for Trump’s weakness. I think Trump is rapidly consolidating power because his team has a plan and is willing to act like Trump, as if they will always outlive the consequences. But: 1. He’s much better at getting out of trouble than his people are. 2. He’s really old.

Trump attempts to project a resistance-is-futile aura. trib.al/DWi3eU1 His most deranged displays—claims about crowd sizes, dumb imagery of his face attached to cartoonishly steroidal bodies, ineffectual occupation of U.S. cities—have a quality seemingly designed to be overbearing.

A bit underplayed that the Homan sting didn't reportedly come out of a public corruption investigation, it was a counter-intelligence one. Which means they somehow made the not-very-far leap to him from initially targeting a foreign and almost certainly state actor.

this, too, is political violence

Elon Musk did this

I’m at a community meeting about resisting ICE in Chicago. There are about 400 people in this high school auditorium. Chicago is showing up.

"The war on science is a war on facts, on any outside authority, and on the regulatory state—-all of which demand accountability to something outside the Leader and his circle. The process is a classic one: discredit other leaders and dismantle institutions until they’re safely under your control."

At the library, I was reminded of the 90s-00s movie genre of Two Dopey Guys Do Silly Things For Some Reason. I guess it became podcasts.

If I’m ever killed in an act of political gun violence, please don’t turn my funeral into a celebration of political gun violence.

And this is wrong! Trump lost his Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube accounts WHILE HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s Idea of the Criminal Left Is a Fiction. A Coordinated Defense Against His Fascism Shouldn’t Be. Don't miss this one by @natashalennard.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/09/19/t...