It's like Trump has a big stack of baseball cards listing each of our traditional allies, and he's rushing to see how much he can destroy not just that relationship but the goodwill citizens of those allies once had to the US.
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It's like Trump has a big stack of baseball cards listing each of our traditional allies, and he's rushing to see how much he can destroy not just that relationship but the goodwill citizens of those allies once had to the US.
I still can’t believe Laura Loomer got Charlie Kirk killed.
Actually it was two women people had to vote for to stop this: one in 2016, to gain a liberal SCOTUS, one in 2024, to save our democracy. Couldn’t do it. Preferred to lose jobs, services, even healthcare.
Recently I interviewed Lee Gelernt of the @aclu.org about the litigation he has led challenging Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation, including WMM/AARP, and JGG. (Also available as an audio @lawfaremedia.org podcast.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjFf...
All that sanewashing, all that bothsidesing, all that tiptoeing like frightened mice when the nation needed the truth….fools.
Congratulations and profound gratitude
But its legal for a bakery to refuse to bake a cake ‘for religious reasons’, in fact SCOTUS solicited that case.
‘Federalism’ turns out to be what it seemed to be from the beginning..a thin veil to cover white supremacy that we never should have taken seriously.
What is the point of the Washington Post opinion section other than to assure Jeff Bezos that Trump won’t get mad and stop him from collecting ever more billions of dollars?
What would prevent volunteers to hang out in front of the museums to do in-person education? [besides time and personnel considerations?]
There is no good place that this leads. It is inconsistent with democracy and must be condemned loudly and forcefully.
Pretty crazy how "America is a legit, no bullshit fascist country" is now a NYT headline.
Charlie Kirk invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when he was questioned by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack
Is the @aclu.org on this? I pray so.
Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired
Honestly I just want to adopt all the blue voters in these states.
The very definition of a police state: “A lot of the people that you would traditionally say are on the left, they're already under investigation," Trump said. www.huffpost.com/entry/charli...
The Scope of American Fascism and the Solidarity We Need to Fight It open.substack.com/pub/hjs24pea...
Thank you Senator!!
Every question from the WH press corps should be a question from the citizenship exam. Nothing else.
It's all hilarious until you realize that DC Guard troops have been taken away from their real jobs & all this fun is costing $1 million/day. Maybe Congress should give us the $1.1 billion it accidentally cut from our budget, our own tax money btw. Public safety cuts were just one result of that.
This absolutely.
The best response I’ve seen.
How would this be capitulation to the right? And when have Democrats capitulated to the right?
This.
They can’t wait to come back, I’m sure.
On Wednesday, Brian Kilmeade went on national television and called for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. "Just kill 'em," he said. There hasn't been one word about it in The New York Times or The Washington Post or USA Today.
Brian Kilmeade carefully considered the criticism of his stance and changed his mind, conceding that not all homeless people should be liquidated by lethal injection. That’s doing politics the right way. —Ezra Klein
Which came first, the move right, or the unpopularity?
Same, same
Plus, the Dem who was assassinated was elected by The People. The Rep who was murdered was a podcaster.
“In an era of deep polarization in American society, he rarely talks about healing. While other presidents have typically tried to lower the temperature in moments of national crisis, Mr. Trump turns up the flames” { gift link } : www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
Absolutely.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u... GOOD NEWS. There is some.
The race to claim pieces of Kirk’s mantle and TPUSA’s revenue stream is on and it’s as gory as you might imagine
It’s important to understand the extent of the digital bloodlust on X. They’re scraping data from social media sites—including Bsky—to create a searchable database targeting people for perceived thoughtcrimes related to CK. It has 40k names so far, and they’re sharing it with the federal government.
“What little we know so far about Kirk’s killer suggests that he was incredibly, terminally online.” www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-the-...
This is exactly what they want. There is zero mistake in this. They want their population in absolute terror that this might happen to them. This is about quelling dissent.
Okay, now can the people who quoted Charlie Kirk and were fired be restored to their jobs now?
In short, Trump and his goons have been lying, as they always do. www.npr.org/2025/09/13/n...
Meanwhile on they march to push teachers, military, etc., out of their jobs. Homelessness is going to get a lot worse under Trump.
Let's go, California! We can fund science that fuels our economy when Trump is trying to harm our great universities. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...
WaPo has a story mostly sourced to GOP Congressmen complaining that JD, not Trump himself, is selling Big Ugly Bill. Further down it explicitly compares how little Trump did to how much Biden did in 2021. This is the kind of story that can start a flood. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
![Nothing focuses attention — and potentially sways voters — quite like a president traveling into a state to tout his party’s policies. His allies are careful not to criticize Trump’s tactics, but some staunch supporters are giving gentle nudges that they would like to see Air Force One moving around more often. “We’d welcome him in Wyoming. I’d welcome him to go to many more states to talk about the advantages the American people are seeing,” Senate GOP Whip John Barrasso (Wyoming) said Wednesday. “There’s so many good things in this [legislation] that a lot of people aren’t aware of how many good things are in there.” Trump’s last departure from Washington to discuss domestic policy came on July 15, when he made a 30-minute appearance in Pittsburgh that focused on promoting energy production and AI technology. He has outsourced the traditional events that most presidents use to promote the passage of big laws to Vice President JD Vance and officials such as Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler. Some lawmakers, however, suggested voters don’t pay as much attention when subordinates show up to promote it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreib6xqqqmiqafzral7zuca5frg3gkpuraf4hzcxf75xt3pax6zp6va@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Murder. He’s calling for the murder of people, a significant percentage of whom are veterans who served in our country’s military.
@sallyjenx.bsky.social ... thoughts?
The old R’s were great!
50% of lifeguards should be people who can't swim.
and they complained about Covid (and now most) vaccines as being "involuntary" injections .. sick sick sick folks.
Why doesn't anyone just quietly start informing Tommy Robinson's goons how many South Asians Elon has imported into the US? That worked wonders to discredit him in the US. Seems it would work better in the UK.
I’ve stopped MSNBC long since. They were the best but even they were softpedaling fascism.
Thorough & devastating analysis from @stevevladeck.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
A lot of people are talking about the fact that Kilmeade won't be punished and you're all right but that's bc the left doesn't have the means to mob Fox and make them worry. Unless we start tagging their advertisers.
They got away with it by calling it Obamacare.
Their idea of ‘straight news’ appears to be different from mine.
@ezraklein.bsky.social @sallyjenx.bsky.social Yup. Politics done the "right" way is uniting, not splitting, dividing, denigrating.
Daily Dems doing the work making noise and fighting back day 229 Did you get the point of this video? There is a lot that is happening that is more than just messaging, but yeah a lot of what is happening is gonna be messaging.
FINALLY.
Corporate Media: every Democrat must denounce political violence in every post about Charlie Kirk, probably also defend his position that all Democrats (and Muslims, Blacks, women, immigrants) are horrible Corporate Media: we will amplify & legitimize Republican calls for violence against Democrats
I guess FOX doesn’t stand to make money from homeless people. And we’ve learned that @msnbc makes money from MAGA. Turn it off.
MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd for linking Charlie Kirk's murder to Kirk's hateful rhetoric, even though Dowd later apologized. Fox has taken no public action against Brian Kilmeade, who said mentally ill people who commit crimes should be killed by lethal injection – "Just kill them." No apology either.
Will is right about this. It is remarkable that many people are presenting that he said the wrong thing when he did exactly what so many people are asking politicians (especially Republican politicians) to say. Misrepresenting speech for clicks right now is really destructive.
chicagodefender.com/deputy-used-...
God's saving of Donald Trump, but refusing to save Charlie Kirk from an assassin's bullet shows that Kirk wasn't MAGA enough. by Nick Fuentes
Me, on the disjunct between enthusiasm for a shutdown and any strategy for fighting fascism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH7k...
I assume you’ve seen that CBS bought Weiss’ company for millions and she will be overseeing their ‘news’
How is the President falsely accusing Democrats of a crime his supporter committed, and demanding retribution against Democrats, not a story?!? This is insane.
Don Sosebee had never thought much about prisons, but that changed when Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced a new mega prison in his rural community. “They’re not taking care of us.”
Well, well, well, how about that: “Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as ‘vacation home,’ documents show” www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
@msnbc.com @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social
Tragic situation, and I hope for a swift recovery by the officer, who was reportedly struck and sustained "severe injuries." But this raises the obvious question; were the officers in uniforms and driving marked vehicles, or were they wearing plainclothes and facemasks and driving unmarked cars?
Exactly. Roberts sat on it while Garland has A FULL YEAR to prosecute. Then immunity. OF COURSE Trump thanked him.
Trump was indicted on 4 felony counts for his coup attempt Jan 6. SCOTUS gave him immunity instead of prosecuting. He pardon 100’s of assault and gun convictions from that day. Mentioned nowhere. People are losing jobs for describing Charlie Kirks loudly stated views. Its insane.
man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger
Ezra Klein is not our friend. Last week he was accusing Democrats of practicing politics the wrong way.
It might be useful, although difficult, to have a clear definition of political violence suited for a country where violence is so ubiquitous and politics is wrapped in the social fabric. 1/
Community is the only way.
Did you catch up with Tuesday's elections? Boston Mayor Michelle Wu finished well ahead in the primary round. Virginia Democrats held on to a congressional seat. Cleveland Heights, Ohio, recalled its mayor. And two Democrats advanced in a Tampa primary.
Kirk had a long-standing problem with the actual Nazis, and his recent flipflop on Epstein pissed off some QAnon types.
Do you think they Dems are simply trying to model humane speech and action? I do. I don't know what's strategic but I don't feel right celebrating anyone's death.
Media & Political Elite, including "center-left" Corporate Media & Democratic consultant class, are making it clear this morning that assassination & other violence against Democrats is acceptable & normalized & even mocked, but that assassination & other violence against Republicans is serious.
More tweets from Charlie Kirk over just the last few days. They are an impressive mix of hatred towards: Blacks, immigrants, women, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ, academics.
Here are some tweets from Charlie Kirk over just the last few days. They are an impressive mix of hatred towards: Blacks, immigrants, women, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ, academics.
Steve Scalise was chewed up by gunfire….he’s still a vicious gun nut.
What is the irreparable harm if these kids are allowed to stay? The hole in Trump’s ego.
Schumer: "It needs to be a bipartisan bill with real Democratic input. Why? Because the American people are hurting in terms of higher costs."
Wait until he gets to misogyny
It is worth dwelling on this, not only because of the loss of human life, but because it is an example of the further breakdown of the rule of law, in fact a flagrant disregard for it. We are headed down a path we may very much regret. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
Good. www.politico.com/live-updates...
Yeah, @jaywillis.net nails it: "One possible reason the conservative justices usually don’t explain their pro-Trump shadow docket opinions: Their pro-Trump shadow docket opinions might read like this."
Without the right wing they’d have no students so…
Yes, one reason why I contribute through you. As well as monthly to the DNC.
He knows one thing: how to farm clicks.
Hey @ezraklein.bsky.social, I heard you on your podcast calling Ken Martin a disaster. Do you not know that we’re over performing in most elections by over 20 points? Or do you not care? What exactly is your barometer for “has just been a disaster?” 1/
I believe they are the fascists leading the way. Vought, Miller may work with them. Trump is their court jester.
Blue states are under military attack by the US government, which is trying to crush our healthcare, universities, and businesses. We always take in the needy, but maybe red states could start voting against fascism.
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Good ol’ NYT. Time to take Grandpa’s keys away.
"As a professor, you want your students to be ethical citizens. To be leaders. To think beyond themselves and to stand for the greater good." open.substack.com/pub/ryandeno...
it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.
Can you imagine if Biden did this? Or Kamala?