AWKWARD

There is an element of truth in the cartoon that makes the situation truly pathetic. Our sons and daughters are the cannon fodder for the sons and daughters of the oligarchs!

Mike Johnson's Institutional Betrayal The DHS shutdown is morphing into a constitutional crisis

New from me: The Senate offered a bipartisan solution to the growing airport crisis. Mike Johnson rejected it, empowering Trump to selectively grab more legislative powers by illegally paying TSA agents.
This is an actual constitutional crisis folks. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mike-johns...

In Rwanda in the early 90s the Hutu Power genocidal militia, the interahamwe targeted Hutu resistors as well as Tutsis just as Trump’s white supremacist interahamwe is doing here — the accompanying propaganda and impunity are also of a piece.

The mendacity of Kristi Noem is of world historical level - just a thoroughly vile and worthless henchwoman of evil.

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all:

The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

JD Vance Claims Renée Good Had No Authority To Be Alive In First Place

pretty much
theonion.com/jd-vance-cla...

Time to ask: In whose interests is American foreign policy being conducted?

What Is Steve Witkoff Trying to Do? Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war.

Steve Witkoff isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Here they are, the Senators that can sleep at night with their Cadillac healthcare plan while 42 million Americans are denied AFFORDABLE healthcare.

Fetterman we expect, but @kaine.senate.gov we supported him for VP!
He’s the most disappointing of them all!

if this is your introduction to baseball you may never see it this good again

but you’ll happily chase that high for the rest of your life

Blake Treinen in the bullpen watching a six-hour YouTube video about chemtrails and who REALLY profits from weather modification on his phone. This is part of his process. He can't give up three straight doubles unless he's in the right mindset.

the truth is that this isn't a theocracy and jesus isn't my fucking king

Soggy St. Louis shows up #nojunhs

Struggle cinema David Roth on 'One Battle After Another'

I made an extremely belated return to @flaminghydra.com with this bit about my long winter of depressing '70s cinema and the righteous and unreasonable defiance of One Battle After Another. flaminghydra.com/issue-416/

In the DC area, ABC did
NOT air Jimmy Kimmel Live last night. Here are the commercials that aired on ABC in Kimmel's time slot.
I won't be spending a single dollar on any of these products/services:
Wendy's
Sketchers
Kia
Jeep
Cirque du Soliel
Safestep Walk In Tubs
AMP Sales &
Marketing Solutions

Ultimately the below says a lot, about why we're here and how to get out.

Making TV networks bend the knee doesn't help folks pay the bills or the rent.

Petty billionaire tyrant vengeance is no substitute for improving people's lives, and that's where resistance focus needs to be.

Charles Koch and rightwing billionaires have funneled money to academics to study polarization over the past ten years exactly because they WANTED political science and elites to focus on polarization being bad—to distract from Republicans being bad.

Hoover ran “polarization“ fellowships.

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.

There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

this is just brutal and I'm old enough to know it's true

Photo of Melissa Hortman and family

They had kids, too.

Yes on 50 – The Election Rigging Response Act Trump and Texas Republicans are moving to rig the 2026 election — and other GOP states are joining in. If Californians don’t act now, they could seize Congress no matter how we vote.

Are you willing to help pass Prop 50 to SAVE DEMOCRACY. It's empowering to make these calls.

Volunteer or donate!

No matter what state you live in, we need your help calling California voters.

Many voters didn't know about Prop 50. I made the difference, and so can you.
stopelectionrigging.com

Charlie Kirk’s Murder Is a Tragedy and a Disaster The assassination of Charlie Kirk threatens to embolden the far right and provide Donald Trump with a pretext for crushing dissent. Escalating political violence corrodes democratic norms and poses a ...

I'm sorry @jacobinmag.bsky.social but this take, accusing fellow leftists of a "competitive lack of empathy" and "antimoral posturing" whilst saying Kirk "never laid a finger on anyone" is frankly afactual to the point of gaslighting.

jacobin.com/2025/09/char...

ok it is funny that they purged the federal security state of anyone with an IQ above 90 and now they cant protect their own partisans

Here's the final part of the Better Offline guide to arguing with AI boosters. I walk you through why gen AI is nothing like AWS, how the media misled the public about ChatGPT, and why its popularity doesn't mean it’s a mass-market product.

www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline

We are at the Missouri state capitol to support our Democratic caucus as they fight the theft of our votes for Donald Trump.

The citizens of Missouri are fed up with Gerrymandering! Thank you for showing up!!! Jefferson City Missouri

Missouri House enacts new US House maps that seek to erase a Democratic seat | CNN Politics The Missouri House voted Tuesday to approve a new congressional map that seeks to eliminate a Democratic-controlled US House seat, as Republicans around the country scramble to boost their chances of ...

And Missouri enters the gerrymandering stage
www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/p...

Very troubling stuff that I’m not seeing in the corporate media.