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So Hegseth’s missiles were fired at a boat: ✅ they had no idea where it was going ✅ they had no idea who was on it ✅ they had no established authority to act ✅ but definitely wanted to murder whoever was on it Everyone involved should rot in prison forever
After you scooped out all the seeds there's quite a bit of space in that pumpkin.
AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.
One more time: one of Trump's key lessons from the first administration is that he needed lawyers who would never say no. The whole administration never says no.
Step 1: murder a boat full of people. Step 2: tell the DoJ to find a reason you are legally allowed to murder those people.
Me: As a criminal defense attorney, I believe that our thirst for vengeance and punishment must be carefully restrained by rules, process, and most of all mercy. Also me: That bearded twat at the Mets game who sole the older guy’s foul ball should definitely have his life completely ruined.
Thinking about this moment ahead of RFK Jr's Senate hearing tomorrow.
The President is begging me to call him to bring in the National Guard. I’m not going to beg him for something we don’t want.
Honestly more mockery isn't just deserved but probably good policy. It's time to shame these assclowns in public as part of Plan A.
"It is past time for both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition... we all deserve better." I make the case, in my latest for The Guardian, for new leadership:
"Week after week, month after month, they embarrass themselves, undermine their colleagues and demoralize their voters. Theirs is a record of cowardice and capitulation."
Rep. Robert Garcia: "The Attorney General herself has said that President Trump is in the Epstein files."
A) If there were an actual emergency, one wouldn't be in the position of just picking and choosing. B) While there are serious federalism problems with invading a state without the consent of its government, there are other kinds of problems with governors inviting invasion cities in their states..
Guess they're gonna need to donate to Kristi's presidential library.
Shockingly, it turns out that when CBS handed $16 million over to Trump's "presidential library," it didn't placate him in the least. Kristi Noem has now used precisely the same scam, a phony accusation of deceptive editing, that Trump used to extort CBS last time! newrepublic.com/article/1998...
This is why you don’t surrender to fascists.
how are you even supposed to take spy movies seriously when laura loomer is making intelligence decisions oh, there’s an elaborate plot to steal the nation’s secrets? the ones being emailed to the lady who handcuffed herself to the twitter building? how dare they ruin one of the best genres
We've all been assuming this card would be played quite a bit. It's weird that it took this long.
For the last couple of years much of the media has had the most incredible unwillingness to learn literally anything about JD Vance. Never seen anything like it. Active resistance to learning anything about his ideas.
COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.
I complain about media outlets all the time, so credit where it's due to @wsj.com for this chart which says more than a thousand words could. There's no dancing around it, no explaining it away, there's just the ugly truth. www.wsj.com/wsjplus/dash...
Took a look at the scientists' rebuttal to the DOE. Here's one DOE CWG (Climate Working Group) assertion and the scientist's response.
Holy crap, NYT let Charles Munger Jr. write an op-ed opposing the California redistricting without disclosing that he's FUNDING the opposition to the California redistricting. I have 4 mailers he paid for in my house right now and that's just the beginning. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
“I keep seeing these memes where Indians are bragging about taking our tech jobs,” said Ely, 36. “So I said, ‘Oh yeah? Well I’m going to work with these guys that are going to arrest you, slam your face on the pavement and send you home.’” wapo.st/3VrzEJg
1. Monday was a landmark day in one of the most brazen political and economic grifts in history. It netted Trump, at least on paper, $3.4 BILLION. Follow this thread for details. 🧵
I remember early November 2023. I think I was the first person on US mainstream media, while at MSNBC/Peacock, to say the G-word on TV. On my show. It was seen as hugely controversial then. It's controversial no longer. It's undeniable, irrefutable, the consensus view.
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Three demential chess I tell you
They're racking up views because people haven't recalibrated. Spectacle and/or serendipity caught on camera used to sell, but once any asshole can create "T-Rex Taylor Swift blows up the sun on a motorcycle" while sitting on the toilet and throw it to the masses eventually we won't even notice.
"Siri, show me partisan voting patterns among Black women."
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
I fully agree with polarizing the hell out of this issue and debate. I am not a communication expert, but it seems to me that it’s not an uphill battle to polarize this debate by using RFK Jr’s own words and insanity against him & Trump.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
Raddatz asks how anyone could object to the National Guard in DC because carjackings are down 87%. Brilliant. If they hermetically sealed all DC residents inside their homes, they could get that stat down to nothing at all. Should we do that, Martha?
RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.
52 of 53 Republican senators voted to confirm him.
Not a very long path from "Why wouldn't you want the regime to deploy federal troops in your city when it reduces carjackings?" to "Why would you be opposed to the erection of internment camps for deviants when it reduces crime?" And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
Still stunned how Trump humiliated himself and the country—and the press couldn't manage 1% of the accuracy or outrage that occurred after his Helsinki flop, which wasn't nearly as consequential.
Is... is Marlon Wayans awesome?
It’s really hard to do insightful satire of right-wing weirdos because almost any ridiculous stance you can come up with, they’ll just express freely without a shred of irony.
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Seriously, fuck him. Tell this to the parents of the kid who died. www.wispolitics.com/2025/protect...
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
Well, he won't. Now what?
“The claim that trans people are disproportionately responsible for mass violence in America comes up every few months. It has never been true.” USA Today fact check from their extremism beat reporter www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Remember when Biden was working on National Plan to End Parkinson's bill, and was consulting with experts, and NYT ran this hit piece?
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
It doesn’t seem like it should be remotely controversial that if you’re killed by police while obviously storming the US Capitol that the military shouldn’t go out of its way years later to honor you, but then again Trump just rehung a portrait of Col. Robert E. Lee at West Point, so….
This guy could have denied unanimous consent every single time Republicans wanted to do anything or fricken cut off the lights in the Senate or pulled a fire alarm or done ANYTHING to slow down RFK, Jr.'s nomination. But as I recall, he didn't.
This rule would have meant I couldn't do my Ph.D. in America. I did do it in America. Became a professor. 12 thriving U.S. labs are now headed by trainees from my research lab. Like me, they are all working hard to enrich American knowledge and society. With this self-harming rule, none of that.
Retire
This is illegal. www.gao.gov/blog/what-po...
FFS www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
FOX: *plays clip of Gavin Newsom pointing out that crime is higher in Louisiana than in California* FOX: Your response? MIKE JOHNSON: He needs to go an govern his state and not be engaging in this
Michigan shows coming up.
A reminder that PhD students are also teachers. It'll be much harder to run undergraduate programs too with this change.
I think we have to withhold prayers until God starts doing what we want. He’s a fiend for prayers and I think he’s just used to getting them. Cut off the supply and draw him out
I honestly would buy that shirt if I saw it.
One of these days football is gonna fucking kill me.
“officer i was robbed! he said he was a wallet inspector”
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
Listening to a podcast where a well known tech world wannabe fascist calls journalism "nonconsensual invasion of privacy for profit" and thinks that's clever and my goodness does that reveal a lot of how completely brain wormed a bunch of these guys are once they faced a tiny bit of criticism.
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
One more time, shout out to the very serious people who suggested that RFK had some really good points about public health. No way to have predicted how things would turn out, except to look at his past record and everything he said about vaccines.
Rs have a ready (misleading) answer on higher energy prices: Biden did a green new deal and the prices are up but Trump is fixing that.
The shooter was trans. The shooter was a fan of Brenton Tarrant and Anders Breivik. One of these pieces of information hit the press and one of them didn't.
At the very least, pick an issue and die on the hill. It's a target-rich environment, he's doing tons of stuff that's already unpopular. Just fucking do something.
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
It is a tribute to our dysfunctional information environment that right-wingers can basically commit 99% of the domestic terrorism, for *decades*, and that simple fact never penetrates to the public. They pay zero political price.
Fucking WHAT
Striking: New Quinnipiac poll finds 56% of voters nationally oppose Trump's sending of National Guard into DC. Only 41% support it. Independents oppose it by 61-34. Trump's overall approval on crime is cratering at 42-54. That sound you hear is a lot of dimwitted pundit narratives imploding.
Remind me why we've turned DC into a police state again? The landscaping? Was that the problem?
You’re not dropping a single, asshole. If you’re actually knew anything, it would be criminal not to reveal it now. But of course, this is a bullshit publicity stunt.
FF VI or Chrono Trigger?
Travis Kelce originally planned to propose next week, but moved it forward to avoid the Silksong release window.
🚨WE HAVE A FLIP TO REPORT🚨 Democrat Catelin Drey has FLIPPED Iowa State Senate Seat 1 tonight! And in doing so, Democrats have ended the GOP Supermajority in the Iowa State Legislature! This was a Trump +11 district, and the Democrat is ahead by 9 points! A 20 point swing!
Pretending not to hear the whole room chanting “shame” at her is the most Susan Collins things ever
These meetings are the absolute fucking worst and if you participate in one you should never be allowed back into civilization.
MAHA was always a lie. RFK Junior and Trump are just trying to shift the money from one set of corporations to their preferred ones. Besides attacking vaccines, RFK Jr. has declared war on food safety regulations and monitoring. He cares nothing about health.
If you saw the clip, watch the whole 12 minutes. This is it. Electeds—everyone around Pritzker is knowingly putting themselves at risk—meeting the moment. It’s not glib, it’s not a meme, it’s clear-eyed, brave, & necessary. www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
“It’s never just Donald Trump or Trump blowing through the guardrails. It’s the fact that people - and institutions like the Republican-controlled Supreme Court - enabled him, often by eliminating or weakening the guardrails before he bulldozed right through them.” @leahlitman.bsky.social
Three failures to indict is indisputable proof of prosecutorial misconduct and should produce an automatic termination of every prosecutor involved plus civil liability for money damages.
Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain. Not this time. Not anymore.
Ominous: Trump and Stephen Miller are very clearly working to acclimate Americans to the spectacle of US troops in US cities, to the idea of the military carrying out domestic enforcement on US citizens. Harrowing stuff from @vermontgmg.bsky.social in this exchange: newrepublic.com/article/1995...
Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.
Oh you tried an egregious gerrymander that split the state’s largest city in half but instead you only replaced the purple parts of the suburbs with a rural deep red county that hasn’t been a part of the district in decades. Guess it’s not a gerrymander anymore.
BREAKING: In a massive win for democracy, a Utah judge struck down the GOP’s gerrymandered congressional map. Utah voters demanded fairer maps and politicians must now deliver.
This would be such a good time for leadership Dems to burn an American flag but they will probably just pray to one instead while softly crying