What Erika Kirk said was extraordinary and she deserves respect for saying it. What Trump said was despicable in ANY context, but in this one it was openly disrespectful of her. What an awful excuse for a human being he is.

Resignations assist autocrats — remain on duty until fired, and contesting the firing. Make it harder.

Nichols is incapable of admitting that he played any role at all in the rise of Trump. Unlike Stuart Stevens, he wants to believe it was a hostile takeover of the GOP. But he and other “moderate” Republicans openly courted the illiberal “rubes,” thinking they could control them. They couldn’t.

There's so much to unpack -- his childish understanding of the world, his raw nerve of grievances, his sociopathy -- but I can't get past what a whiny, pathetic loser you'd have to be as president to stamp your little feet and cry that the media isn't "allowed" to be mean to you. Mom said so guys!

I really wish the history of the 1930s was not so damned relevant to this present moment. But it is. Most Americans don’t know who Horst Wessel was. I guarantee you, Stephen Miller in the White House does. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

Exactly. They start by criticizing egregious statements by a few people online, ones that most reasonable people find objectionable, and then extend the objection to any observation even tangentially related to the topic.

Let's say it again: 1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off. 2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off. It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.

Or ever, really. Someone on social media expressed a desire to interview me about my book, so I sent him a PDF of it, and he ghosted me.

As hard as it is to look past the utter vapid stupidity of this statement, it might be worth remembering what happened one year after the War Department was named the Defense Department: Truman desegregated the military. Maybe that’s what the moron and chief means by “wokey.”

Not a double—Trump would insist on one better looking than that.

It isn't until the 26th paragraph that there is mention that what Trump is doing is being challenged as illegal. And it accepts Trump's stated rationale to act. Here is what I think: Trump is illegally deploying the military in blue cities to set the stage to interfere with the 2026 elections.

The largest current Cong. district is over 1 M & the smallest is 520,000. That is unacceptably disproportionate. Every state is guaranteed a rep, & the smallest state is WY with 580,000 people, so that should be the baseline with some flexibility, say +\- 20%, around that. Increase total accordingly

Over the weekend, Governor Henry McMaster authorized the deployment of 200 S.C. National Guard troops to participate in President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C. We condemn this blatant intimidation tactic by an authoritarian administration. www.aclusc.org/en/press-rel...

An administration that both restores Confederate monuments that glorify people who fought to preserve slavery and whines about museums that talk about “how bad Slavery was” is overtly a white supremacist and pro-slavery administration.

Yesterday’s sunset in Edisto.

From 1999 visit to the FDR memorial in DC. "They who seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order."

Before the election, anyone who said that anything like this would happen would have been disparaged as suffering Trump derangement syndrome. Yet here we are.

What’s to learn? Every new month will see a new record for new jobs created under the brilliant guidance of Comrade Trump. Easy!

It is true that Trump didn’t win their support by lifting weights. But it’s also not just about “meeting them where they are.“ It is about validating their retrograde opinions. Trump told men that they are victims. He promised to bring back an age of male privilege, e.g., Hegseth’s purge of women.

Not hard to imagine the play here. 1. Trump miscalculates that he could bury the Epstein case files and no one would care. 2. His orders to supporters to just stop talking about it fail. 3. The WSJ publishes a story adding another piece to the story of his creepy friendship with Epstein.

And Nixon released the transcripts of the White House tapes.

It’s that, and more. They also have the New Deal and Progressive era in their sights.

Yup.

Trump saying the Democrats “created” the Epstein files has me—for the first time—thinking there really might be something incredibly damning in them about him.

As national economic policy, Trump’s erratic yo-yo-ing on tariffs makes absolutely no sense. But if, as this suggests, someone is making huge profits off of prior knowledge of these wild policy swings, it makes perfect sense.

I have no idea what the truth is regarding the existence of a “list.” I do know that the sitting AG of the US publicly stated, without equivocation, that such a list existed and was on her desk, and is now saying the list does not exist. One of those times she flat-out lied to the American people.

If only there were some crack investigative journalist like Jake Tapper to tackle this mystery and reveal the cover-up.

Same for some Never Trumpers, who want to pretend that Trump represents a hostile takeover of the party. This is the culmination of what Reagan began in the 1980 campaign.

He should have made the board fire him. I am sick to death of people just surrendering to these fascist demands. Do not cooperate. Force them to show their authoritarian faces. 

Damn near everything Republicans have done in the last six months has made crystal clear that they have no intention of ever giving up control of the White House, come what may.

Well, this is in “Dewey Defeats Truman” territory.

All I want to hear out of Democrats is that we had a deal and no bomb. Then Trump tore it up and he is now putting American lives in danger. That’s it.

NEW: Pope Leo’s newly appointed Bishop, Michael Pham, outside the court in San Diego: “We need to speak up for the voiceless in our society - and we will.” The video then shows masked ICE agents leaving without snatching anyone today. More of this resistance nationwide! 👏 (🎥 PSL San Diego)

This perfectly captures my horror at the impact of generative AI on education. “if we get dazzled by new-fangled tools to the extent that we fail to understand the importance of language and cognitive development, we risk destroying the essence of what makes us special.”

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy. The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

Yes, but that was before North Carolinians elected a Democratic governor. In Trump’s mind, they must be punished for that.

If there are people around Trump smart enough to understand this, I am confident they consider it a feature and not a bug. The larger project on the right since the 1960s has been to destroy liberal arts education and reduced college to little more than technical job training.

Typical Trump. He is saying this in public because he thinks it makes him look like he’s getting tough on Putin, when in fact it he admits he has been protecting Putin—which anyone with eyes to see already knew.

If your “business model“ depends on theft to succeed, then you don’t have a business. You have a criminal enterprise. 

This guy is unquestionably a fascist. And given what a lazy, doting fool Trump is, I suspect he’s effectively running the White House right now. He explicitly says that if the courts don’t allow them to violate the Constitution, they will suspend the writ of habeas corpus.

Amidst the blizzard of aggressively stupid things that come from this ignoramus, this is relatively unimportant, but “World War II” for the United States went on well after May 8, 1945, until the Japanese surrender in August.

“Marisa said the agents tore apart every square inch of the house and what few belongings they had, seizing their phones, laptops and their life savings in cash as ‘evidence.’” And this is BEFORE Trump’s promise to “unleash” law “enforcement.”

“AI is good for your dog” is likely to be the most compelling possible argument one could make to me, yet I remain unconvinced.

Historians agree. They are grabbing people off the street They are disappearing them They are savaging gov't institutions They are laughing at guardrails & ethics. They are scoffing at the rule of law. They are threatening members of Congress into silence & compliance They are destroying democracy

This is the sort of thing that happens when an unqualified hack is put in an incredibly important and sensitive position. The only reason Hegseth was nominated is his slavish loyalty to Trump.

It could not happen to a more deserving obsequious sycophant.