No cuffs and no sleeves.
I wrote a book called Unraptured. And another one called Godbreathed. The first time around Trump blocked me on Twitter. We’ll see what happens this time.
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No cuffs and no sleeves.
Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up on.ft.com/46g7Iyd
Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.
Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactic.
Newsom responds to Trump’s odd post announcing he is going to bed early
Somebody should write a musical about him
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
This is what happens when you obliterate the presumption of regularity. Endless homework assignments because the court can't trust the government to follow orders in good faith.
I drove the Avenue of the Giants today. It was spectacular. And yes. Yes, I did pretend like I was Luke Skywalker driving a speeder bike through the woods of Endor which made it all the more spectacular.
No Democrat should even be able to run for president if they don’t first commit to dismantling this terrorist organization and holding everyone involved truly accountable.
Because we are among the world's biggest human rights violators now. And allied with not one but two ajudicated war criminals. Well done, maga. You ended the empire.
Media should hound him at least half as much as they hounded Biden. But they won’t.
Donald Trump’s rumored death raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health
CNN: “At least 47 killed in Gaza City on Saturday, 6 children… footage showed a row of dead children shrouded in floral blankets… Video from after the attack showed numerous children wandering dazed, covered in blood and dust…” www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/m...
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
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Aquaman: Thr Lost Kingdom is on my hotel TV right now and I thought for sure it wouldn’t be as bad as I remembered it. It’s not. It’s worse. Sooo much worse. Like I know it wasn’t, but if you told me this movie alone is what ended the DCEU I would say, “Yeah, that makes sense.”
The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight. Hello? How does this “Make America Healthy Again”?
Ah yes, the guy with absolutely no medical education or public health experience or medical training of any kind whatsoever is definitely one of the world’s foremost experts on public health. That’s definitely how expertise works.
Every time Republicans spew this disgustingly disingenuous bs the immediate follow up should be “The rest of the world doesn’t have regular school shootings, so what is uniquely wrong about the hearts and mental health of Americans?”
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
When Donald Trump drags me and my family into the gas chamber, at least I’ll be able to say that I was always non-partisan and gave him the benefit of the doubt.
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid. It's guns.”
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Between their ongoing coverup of the Epstein files, their gutting of Medicare, SNAP benefits, and cancer research, and ambivalence about yet another school shooting, it should be crystal clear the Republican Party doesn’t give a shit about children.
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight. In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well. Here are from two of the resignations:
Hard to argue. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
They’re never looking to actually tackle the challenge of homelessness, much less make it a goal to care for the unhoused. They just want to “drive it out” and go back to ignoring the problem. Every single one of them is a walking 80s movie villain.
People who murder children in their classrooms are unspeakably evil. And so are the people who enable them by fighting against any and all forms of gun control that could actually do something to stop the neverending school shootings in this country.
Breathtaking lack of self-awareness from non-Emmy winner Donald Trump to Emmy winner Seth Meyers.
The only thing more disgraceful than having groveling cabinet members so willing to debase themselves in this shameless way is having such a damaged, insecure, and needy president that they know desperately needs to hear this BS.
It is quite an accomplishment to be the biggest idiot in the Trump Administration (outside of Trump himself, of course).
A judge once said any good prosecutor could indict a sandwich. Well, the Trump DOJ just failed to indict someone for throwing one.
Didn’t last long, just long enough to snap a quick pic of the gorgeous purple lightning that lit up the night sky.
The craziest thing happened in Chico last night: it rained! I know that might not sound crazy, but it doesn’t rain in Chico in the summer. At all. It hasn’t rained since at least May and I wasn’t expecting to see any rain till October but we got a full blown thunderstorm last night.
Charlie should Google “Scooter Braun” to see what happen the last time a man tried to tell Taylor Swift she wasn’t in charge.
No one is saying this except Trump.
Constituent: I've heard President Trump say more than once that he's lowered drug prices by 1500%. I'm not sure how that works
The idea that Taylor Swift would ever take advice from Charlie Kirk is funny enough, but I can’t stop laughing at the idea that Taylor should “submit” because she’s “not in charge.” The arrogance of misogynistic clowns like Charlie Kirk is absolutely hilarious.
well he does like to treat children as adults
Blaming a country that’s been invaded for defending itself against invasion is either wildly incompetent or intentional propaganda on behalf of the invader. With Trump, it’s entirely possible it’s both incompetence and complicity.
An absolute embarrassment of historic proportions
the united states government's social media accounts are just third tier comments on 4chan /pol/
Utterly depraved.
UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
The Florida panther, whooping crane, and manatee are some of America’s most vulnerable species, Lois Parshley reports. Now the Trump administration's proposed changes may drive them to extinction.
According to Sarah Huckabee Sanders, states run by Democrats are overrun by crime because their governors are incapable of doing their jobs. According to Wikipedia, her state has one of the highest crime rates in the country.
Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.
“HOW CAN THEY NOT FEED THE KIDS? While last year Tennessee and Indiana joined the Summer EBT program, this year their Republican governors chose to opt out of the federal program.” Hey @GovBillLee, quick question — how do you sleep at night? capitalandmain.com/how-can-they...
Here's two men, one of whom is swimming in sewage and destroying national health infrastructure and one of whom is a sweaty, drunken tool firing most of our nation's experienced military leaders while being a one-man security risk. Here's the only story we at the Times could come up with, though.
The government is controlling the means of production via tariffs and taking ownership of private enterprises…and the anti-commies are nowhere to be found.
1) ABC/NBC should lose license or pay hefty fees because their reporting is mean to him. 2) MD should maybe lose bridge repair funds because Wes Moore was mean to him. 3) The feds should investigate Chris Christie for Bridgegate because he was mean to him.
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
This popped up in my high school’s alumni Facebook group a few years ago and it still cracks me up.
Once again, Trump ignores the Republican states with the highest homicide rates, and instead targets blue states, blue cities, and Black leaders. Trump hasn’t threatened to bring his authoritarian spectacle to any red states. If this was truly about crime, he’d start there.
Defeating fascism in Europe in 1945 was a historical mistake. It’s time to compensate the victims. by JD Vance
Yeah they shouldn't be sending Jim Jordan out to do spin on the molestation of young people I am just saying.
Go home, Mother Nature, you’re drunk.
This is really worth a read, especially if, like me, you’d all but given up hope that anyone in govt was doing anything meaningful to really push back against the fascist regime in the White House It’s crazy that’s it’s come to this, and more than a bit scary, but this give me a glimpse of hope too
Has the @wsj.com admitted its source for the Epstein stories was Gislaine Maxwell yet? The leaks stopped after she got her sex offender status waived and she was moved to club fed after meeting with Trump’s fixer Todd Blanche.
ROBINSON: “Trump loathes cities, his rants are often indistinguishable from Travis Bickle’s unhinged monologues in Taxi Driver… his actions aren’t about crime, it’s an escalation of his war against 🇺🇸 cities — And racism is at the core of it.” www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-raci...
Pray for me. I’m currently sitting in the Kpop Demon Hunters Sing Along movie with my daughters and their friend. I don’t know if I will make it out with my sanity intact.
The WaPo is a fascist-apologist paper. Inexcusable.
Hard to see how an ethical district court judge could accept a plea as voluntary under these circumstances.
FWIW, "yours for the restoration of the Republic" was a common salutation American fascists gave to each other in the 1950s and 1960s. This is from a 1952 letter by Ohio white supremacist terrorist Peter Xavier. The rest of the rhetoric here might be familiar too.
Trump is about to put me in jail for no reason. But I’m still proud that I wrote in Dwight Eisenhower instead of voting for Kamala Harris
Obviously Ghislaine Maxwell was never going to implicate the one man who can get her out of prison (and who has already had her moved to a cushier prison for her exonerating “testimony”), but claiming everyone who was buddies with Epstein was also innocent is, to use a technical term, hilarious.
He was never a very stable genius, but Trump has gone completely insane.
@adamkinzinger.substack.com: "So by pretending there is some major violation by Bolton re classified they are also admitting that what Trump did was a major violation then."
@davidfrum.bsky.social: "Trump uses the actual crimes he committed and for which was duly convicted as his inspiration for the fictitious crimes for which he wields vindictive state power against American patriots exercising their rights and doing their jobs."
I knew Byron Donalds’ testimony sounded familiar…
Seems bad and yet not nearly enough
Wearing your own merch that says you were right about everything is something psychopaths do, not presidents.
“The judge gave both branches of the government 60 days to move out existing detainees and begin to remove fencing, lighting, power generators and other materials. The order also prohibits any new construction at the site.” (🎁 link)
I can’t believe how insane this redistricting thing is. There is no Historical precedent for a president calling a governor and saying you need to get me five seats. We are now in a literal arms race for the House of Representatives. Trump knows what he’s doing is not popular and he knows this is….
Usually, I am no fan of gerrymandering by either party, but I am tired of fighting with one hand tied behind my back. Tired of bringing balloons to a gun fight. Tired of playing by the rules when one party stopped doing that decades ago. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
“Patriotism is being carried to insane excess. I know men who do not love God because he is a foreigner.” - Mark Twain
Congrats to the 3 people who care about this!
The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery. Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
@juliettekayyem.bsky.social: "Under what theory of crime control is a MRAP necessary? This is an occupation, not a strategy."
If anyone tries to steal your joy today, gently remind them that celebrating the death of evil men like James Dobson is your biblical responsibility.
James Dobson has died. The generational damage he inflicted on countless American evangelical kids, teens, and families is hard to overstate.
“I DON’T CARE [ABOUT] ANYONE ELSE" nicely summarizes MAGA wapo.st/3UEEym6
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This is from the Sermon on the Mount, right?
Former PM of Australia 🇦🇺: “I’ve been with Trump and Putin. Trump is in awe of Putin… it’s like the 12 Year-old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. ‘My hero’.”
well holy sh*t 👉 www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
The Sacred Valley of Peru (Which, according to our guide, is just a marketing term somebody came up with in the 1960s, although an admittedly brilliant one)
For once, I actually agree with Donald Trump.
Trump is literally telling you that he's willing to go full fascist and is open to implementing martial law to stay in power. The establishment is still suffering from cowardice and a failure of imagination.
NEWS: A federal judge GRANTED a request by USAID workers to certify a class action to pursue their arguments that Elon Musk made the decision to shut down the agency in violation of the Constitution's Appointments Clause. Ruling storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Those six famous wars everyone knows about
It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump behind closed doors to launch an assault on mail-in voting in elections administered by the states, and Trump immediately set about mobilizing federal power to do it… but that is literally Trump’s account of what happened.
