She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

The White House is openly complaining that Trump didn't win a Nobel Peace Prize. This is a churlish response since they Nobel's just endorsed Trump's rush to war against Venezuela www.thenation.com/article/worl...

It kind of figures www.thefp.com/p/honestly-r...

Casually announcing plans to murder American citizens for wrongthink.

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

We really need to retire "contrarian" as a descriptor for Weiss immediately. The reason she is getting this job right now is because of her *non-contrarian* sensibilities. She espouses views that the US's current power structure likes.

‘The president is unhinged’: Trump’s online behavior grows increasingly odd

What a disappointment www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

JD Vance's Big Lie about undocumented immigrants and health care has been debunked a million times in a week. I unpack the deeper message of this lie. Vance is betting MAGA would rather lose their own health care than see a single immigrant get it. www.salon.com/2025/10/03/j...

My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0 www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

I think it is time to relaunch the bone spur ethos instead. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is one of the most demented things Trump has posted

White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse. Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.

Add Theo Von to the list of Trump-supporting comedians who are finally realizing that this brutal deportation campaign is indeed what they voted for. trib.al/ZzzxcyK

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Time to outlaw the "fa", maybe?

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What could go wrong

Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority, BBC understands

Three top Italian officials in Giorgia Meloni’s government helped a Libyan warlord escape justice earlier this year and concealed secret meetings about his case from parliament, according to a report to the legislature summarizing the prosecution’s case.

Meloni: "Israele a Gaza ha superato il limite". Che evidentemente era di 19.999 bambini uccisi. [ibico]

MAGA is fawning over Erika Kirk right now, but there's no way she can keep Charlie's audience. His bread and butter was sexualized humiliation of college girls — more "Girls Gone Wild" than doing politics the "right way." His followers won't hear it from a woman. www.salon.com/2025/09/24/d...

NEW: With @kieraevebutler.bsky.social, we wrote about the pseudoscience underpinning yesterday's chaotic, bizarre, disturbing autism announcement at the White House www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Can we please stop using this toxic rhetoric of stardom in academia?

The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization. This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

MOSKOWITZ: Will you be opening up an investigation into the Epstein state for putting out a fake document w/the president's signature linking him to the world's largest pedophile ring? PATEL: On what basis? M: They literally put out a fake document according to the president! P: Sure, I'll do it

Patel's hearings are a new entertainment genre.

If Trump wasn't in the Epstein files, Kash Patel would be happy to say so plainly. His evasiveness says plenty.

Patel is completely unhinged

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases

Raskin to Patel: "In a few short months, how did you go from being a crusader for accountability and transparency with the Epstein files to being part of the conspiracy and coverup? The answer is simple. You said it yourself -- because of who is on that list."

Ezra Klein, watch this.

The Party of European Socialists has voted to permanently kick out Slovakia’s Smer party, led by Prime Minister Robert Fico, according to two officials with knowledge of the decision.

This a.m. I spent 2 hours in a high powered international climate policy meeting focused on understanding mitigation narratives in advanced economies. Three personal and loosely elaborated thoughts on hearing the experts in the room (these are “technocrats” à la advisors in UNEP, EDF, etc).

The official language of Jamaica is....wait for it.... English. These performances truly are targeted only at the stupidest people alive

A reminder that Elon Musk is still a Fellow of the Royal Society. Surely THIS is the point at which he is expelled @royalsociety.org

before we even know the identity of Charlie Kirk's shooter, Joni Ernst blames "the left" for "silencing voices through violence"

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Nearly 50,000 Americans die by shooting every year and were now being asked to see the shooting of a guy who thought it was a price worth paying for freedom as some kind of horrendous injustice

it took the president more than 12 hours to come up with this

Another professor in Texas is fired, this time after a selectively edited video of a talk he gave was posted on X, with the bogus claim that he was inciting violence www.texastribune.org/2025/09/10/t...

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

Trump has made it quite clear that he is going to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as an opportunity to crush his perceived enemies. He’s already blaming the ‘radical left’ - even though we do not know the identity or motives of the shooter. Dangerous times for a president to play with fire

Extending what is happening in the federal government into higher ed: faculty being purged because they are disfavored by the new regime