I've said this before, but one of the most important things people can do is acclimate to a new sense of timeframes in resistance. The Greek junta lasted 7 years. The Argentine Dirty War lasted 9. And those were the *unsuccessful* regimes.

The question everyone thinks about but no one wants to ask out loud is this: if, say, JB Pritzker ordered his National Guard to mobilize against ICE disappearances, would they listen to him, or would they listen to Trump? And no one wants to ask the question, because everyone knows the answer.

Russell Vought is from Connecticut, Stephen Miller is from California, and Donald Trump was born in Jamaica, Queens, so I tend to think this of this as a policy of personal revenge

Wow. How quickly we canceled Lydia Tár.

Is this good

Winning hearts and minds by kidnapping Americans from bleacher seats on live TV, because Latin rhythms are illegal

Republicans to America:

It's actually remarkable how this Trump regime really is just a replay of every war America waged since 1980, but enacted against ourselves

This would be a niche reference anywhere but here, but Mike Johnson is absolutely a Christmas Adventurer

Hey, this is funny. This guy can write funny.

Tonight I watched the 1986 film THE COLOR OF MONEY, but the standard audio track was defective, so I watched the whole thing in French with English subtitles and pretended it was a classy foreign film starring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise. Anyway, have a solemn Yom Kippur.

My grand theory about American politics - which encompasses both Medbeds and shitty AI videos about your specific puberty era - is that a year of Covid briefly made everyone aware of our fragile and vanishing mortality, and instead of talking about it we all decided to go insane

She's always been good at reading the room

Does anyone want a spare federal union I have lying around, because it feels like I'm using it less and less

I'm hearing Lachlan Murdoch just took a controlling stake in Quibi

Be extra nice to the ICE trooper beating you up outside the courthouse tomorrow, folks. This shutdown is a rough time for him, and he can't talk to his wife about it because she's a woman.

We'll complete our dumb reenactment of the Fall of Rome when the roving ICE hordes loot the Art Institute of Chicago for plunder

Retreating headlong into Dodgers fandom as my last and only joy on this earth

Just spitballing here, throwing things out there, thinking outside the box: DNC Chairman The Pope

Ironically, this makes it more likely people will find accurate info about Trump’s dementia

Weeping tears of patriotic joy because the Warfighter demanding my citizenship papers had to shave his beard

I exchanged text messages after the speech with a Democrat running for a swing Congressional seat, asking if he had a statement about the President ordering his generals to invade American cities. He told me it's the last day of the fundraising quarter, and he had to go.

They didn't even talk about it on cable news.

Not to beat a dead horse here, but if there's a way out of the suffocating and inescapable web of regime-friendly media backed by a combination of extortion and bribery, I'd be very pleasantly surprised

When it comes to ad-friendly blurbs, Gene Shalit's still got it!

Well, shit.

Whether there's any way to break out of a propaganda nexus controlled entirely by the richest and most unspeakably awful people on the face of the planet is a fascinating question we will all be answering together

The horrifying thing about Trump is that he is both the biggest conman and the biggest mark in America at the same time

You know how you'll hear a really terrible singer and think, "they must truly be horrible and have no idea, because no one faking it could be that bad, and anyone who knew would never perform in public"? That's what it's like whenever Hakeem Jeffries does politics.

It's too late for Adams to be removed from the ballot, and unfortunately it turns out 100% of his voters were likely to do it by accident anyway

"We're losing because there are always moments when we lose" is a lesson that Ta-Nahisi Coates understands intuitively, and that Ezra Klein has never had to, and that difference speaks volumes about American history.

They're going to settle for medbeds, aren't they

Modern Republican fascism stands at the nexus of three 1980's trends: high-tech utopianism, rancid government corruption, and evangelical faith-healing grifters. This post from Donald Trump (another 1980's relic) perfectly captures all three.

I can’t even come up with jokes about this anymore. It’s just the worst failure of leadership imaginable, at the moment we need leaders most of all.

How hard is it to say “invading an American city with the US military is treason and the second we have power we will prosecute anyone who gave or obeyed an illegal order”

Everyone keeps trying to invent liberalism from first principles, when Trump is out here doing exactly what Tsar Peter and George III did, and the answers are still the same as they were the first time

Also he did this exact same thing with Chicago like three weeks ago, and ended up skating on his ass over it

Just the president doing what he does every weekend, which is pick a new city full of Americans to shoot at

Sorry, I already have my warrior ethos

The Führer, in his virile, masculine wisdom, is making war on the three great enemies of the Republican Party: the pharmaceutical industry, the beer industry, and the FBI.

The FBI will chase us down the way they chase domestic terrorists: tackling the wrong guy, then waiting 24 hours for our roommate to turn us in

I'm sure there's nothing to be extraordinarily alarmed by here

Remember: Isaac Chotiner can't see your Isaac Chotiner interview parody, but your friend who just finished telling Isaac Chotiner about his chummy Colorado ski trip with Peter Thiel and a reincarnated LLM avatar of Richard Nixon can.

Night of the Long Knives but we're doing it with KFC plastic sporks

Disney shareholders mounting more effectual investigations into authoritarianism than the actual United States Congress

You never heard of him when he was alive, and you kind of hated him after he was dead, but can we interest you in never shutting up about him for the next 14 months?

Never has an effect been more profoundly Streisanded.

For the first time in my life, I am very, very happy to see that capitalism remains the most powerful force ever known to man