Wow, Leavitt, one of the most dishonest people in the world, actually speaks a true word, possibly for the first time.

I switched to Mango from Duolingo for precisely this reason. I'm paying for it because I'm too itinerant to provide the kind of documentation you need to get a library card, but if it's available, it's a definite step up.

This has me thinking about the scolds these days who insist that we shouldn't call the current crop of the GOP fascists for the same reasons that calling Bush a Nazi was a wild over-exaggeration and like, no, they are definitely fascists

it has only very recently started sinking in with my friends who probably share the rough politics of OP’s friend here that trump really *is* evil at an entirely different order of magnitude than any republican who came before him in living memory, but at least it *is* starting to sink in

As @dandrezner.bsky.social notes, we must highlight where Trump's authoritarianism is failing, too. "Civil resistance works. Combined with the inevitable economic downturn, it is what will bring his regime crashing down to Earth." (cites my piece on this) danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-weakne...

26,000 YouTube views for Sinclair’s Charlie Kirk tribute special. Just for comparison, Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue on any average Wednesday will get between two and four MILLION YouTube views. Right wing culture is fringe stuff. It is not American culture by any stretch.

Ethan Hawke and Sterlin Harjo?! Wow, shame about it being on Hulu, I’ll have to find another way to watch it, I guess

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

It really can’t be overstated the level of corruption the Supreme Court has enabled, arguably because of the corrupt behavior of its own members

It's particularly the case among the Americans who are paid to decide which news is important, and who despite everything still can't bring themselves to accurately describe the fact that the president is serially murdering people and our systems are unable to stop him

Fascists control a lot, but we should do our best not to let them control how we feel day to day. We can and we must do what we can to stop them, and we can't help but be affected by the awful things they do, but we can't let every word out of their mouths control us. Don't let them in your head.

Every municipality needs to understand that data center jobs do not exist. There are no people in data centers. When people need to go to data centers they usually come from some big tech company HQ, or from some contractor hired to shove servers into racks. They are built by nonlocal specialists.

I mean they know damn well what penny ante bullshit these strikes are, you don’t need DESTROYERS and F-35s for them, and they obviously don’t dent any drug traffickers business. Which begs the question, why aren’t clearly illegal orders being disobeyed?

elite impunity is the single biggest threat facing America. and ... one of the most solvable (in theory).

“This is not just a warning. It should be a call to action…It may seem impossible to unravel an expanding mafia state, but let’s not give up our belief that when the majority fights back, such lawlessness and hostility can’t endure.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

Got some time and I've got #FilmspottingMadness homework to do, so tonight, it's Black Narcissus

i think"getting them to stay home" is an easier and more feasible objective than "getting them to change their minds"

Wait, what?! First of all, that's not true of Kirk, but also, the fucking President of the United States said this out loud and on camera?!?

I was not convinced by the DROP trailers, but Rotten Tomatoes is VERY high on this film and it's on Peacock, so what the hell, why not?

BASEBALL, BABYYYYYYYYY

It’s the aristocracy, it takes different forms depending on is social context, but it’s always the aristocracy, and you must learn to hate it as much as it hates you.

I just worked on a show about a woman dealing with her mother’s progression through Alzheimer’s and that’s exactly what this sounds like, dude can’t tell fiction from fact and is rapidly losing his filter

I am so fucking glad someone on the global stage has said this out loud, jeebus

There should be accountability for the wanton cruelty of this utterly out of control agency, #AbolishICE is now the bare minimum of what should happen

Republicans were running anti trans ads against other republicans in Oklahoma. No amount of transphobic vitriol is ever enough. www.oudaily.com/news/anti-tr...

As an aside, if you're not tuning into @sarahtaber.bsky.social 's videos and posts, you're missing out, I think. Her insights on who actually lives in rural America (American farmers are mostly not poor!) and why the think what they do are really valuable.

One of the lessons we learn when players have the right to choose their teams (as we now are seeing in college sports) is that players create wins. Coaches do not. For coaches to win, they have to acquire the right players. And if the right players don't like you, you get to lose.

Anyway, back to the football and the second half of Arsenal, where Arteta has thrown Eze and Saka on the field because he clearly wants to win this match, so it should be interesting at least

One of the weirdest things about the Trump II era is that so many companies whose allegiance should be to profit are showing excessive deference to a buffoon addicted to ruinous economic concepts

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Wrote about The Heritage Foundation's plan to weaponize the FBI against transgender people's existence, which includes banning me from saying that's what they're doing

There is some real petulant shit happening at the end of the first half of Arsenal v Man City (men)

Good news, better shamefully late than never. Everything is far far far too slow but the once solid wall of western support for Israel by default is eroding brick by brick for many months now.

It’s just shocking how many military resources ICE has been able to take advantage, an absolute stain on the services that’s going to have be examined

More Arendt for the moment re Disney/ABC et al: “It was precisely the members of respectable society, who had not been touched by the intellectual and moral upheaval in the early stages of the Nazi period, who were the first to yield. They simply exchanged one system of values against another”

I take issue with the word “deliberately” because that’s an anthropomorphization too far, but disturbing behavior nonetheless

Settling in with Manchester United v Arsenal, the most interesting fixture in the WSL and maybe all of football this weekend* *I am a Manchester United supporter, YMMV

This is the thing the bugs me the most about Klein’s batshit column on Kirk and the dumb as hell follow up with Shapiro - he was speaking from an alternate universe and the willingness to go through that portal is a sign that he is cooked

Mix in a “racism over,” and you’ve got a very cool highest court in the land right there

Add one more to the list of Bove's articles of impeachment, which should be filed at the start of every Congress going forward cc: @housedemocrats.bsky.social

This is the same read I had on the GOP’s treatment of Charlie Kirk. Not a Reichstag fire moment but still a play from the Nazi handbook

Wait Matt Beard DIED?!

Someone--it wasn't me, dammit--called it a circle Kirk.

Tech has slowed for me so I’ve got evenings free again and I am STOKED to be able to watch this Thorns match against the Wave

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Against defeatism.

This post has now been deleted. Suggesting it really was a DM to Bondi, violating presidential Records Act, and basically all national security protocols. But who cares. All the laws are for trampling now.

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

Wild combo of events in Houston tonight: a religious revival shutting down a bunch of roads downtown for a march, a Laufey concert at the Toyota Center, Flea by Night at Discovery Green, an Astros Game. Quite the experience to walk through all these crowds

Sooo, this seems like a good example of these dipshits saying things out loud that would have been way more effective if they could just shut up