Trump didn't demand Jimmy Kimmel's firing because he said mean things about Charlie Kirk.

Trump demanded Jimmy Kimmel be fired because said mean things about Donald Trump.

Trump tries to stick up The New York Times with a water gun The lawsuit is beyond parody, even by Trump's standards.

"The Times is unlikely to sacrifice its journalistic credibility because of a laughably tenuous lawsuit and a few mean social media posts. But if Trump wants to let the paper’s team of top-notch First Amendment lawyers depose Mark Burnett, who are we to complain?" — @lizdye.bsky.social

I have no idea why conservatives are worried about Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School. I studied Critical Theory as an undergrad. I really wanted to believe in it, but I ended up totally disillusioned. It’s worthless nonsense.

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America is so geographically large and disparately populated that it can be hard for average Americans living day-to-day lives to see that they are living under authoritarianism.

But we are living under authoritarianism.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:

Every authoritarian movement attracts wackos obsessed with various crackpot theories, because the social psychology of kooky conspiracism is adjacent to that of authoritarianism.

But the bizarre tangents shouldn’t obscure the core threat: They fear and hate free men and women.

While the rest of the world, especially China, continues to invest in the modernization of their electrical grids with clean, renewable energy technologies, our dipshit dumbass and his moronic cult are taking us back a century to near complete dependence on coal and fossil fuels.

Those of you making lists of Democrats that DOJ has arrested (usually via Kristi Noem's goons), I beg of you not to forget CA SEIU President David Huerta.

The pattern is the same, and in that case they charged a conspiracy which may be an effort to get inside SEIU's private records.

Thoughts on Israel’s Iran Campaign and Donald Trump I haven’t had a lot to say about Israel and Iran because...

Hard to overstate the degree to which there appears to be literally no one in the president's current circle who has any experience, even at a low level, managing ANY kind of national security crisis or even situation. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thoug...

“Santa Monica, not far from downtown Los Angeles” is the most hilarious phrase you can say to an Angeleno

Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him AUSTIN, TX—Stressing that the billionaire’s completely erratic behavior had strained the already fraught relationships, sources confirmed Thursday that a rift was widening between Elon Musk and anyone...

Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him

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Opinion | The Debate Over Transgender Rights Is a Liability for Democrats. Here’s How to Neutralize It. It’s time for real discussion, dissent and debate, without fear of being canceled.

Opinion: The debate over transgender rights is a liability for Democrats. Here’s how to neutralize it, writes @thirdway.bsky.social think tank co-founder Jonathan Cowan.

I have a liberal arts degree, but I’ve also realized that the companies who claim to like hiring liberal arts grads are usually finance/management consulting companies in New York. Like BlackRock.

Opinion | 7 Critical Things Trump Doesn’t Understand about Putin For the Russian strongman, the price of peace looks higher than the costs of war.

Opinion: Seven reasons Putin doesn’t want to end the war in Ukraine, according to Leon Aron, senior fellow at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute.

(Originally published in April.)

Hegseth Works Hard to Portray Himself as a Man of the Troops. They Might Not Be Buying It. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host and National Guardsman, has attempted to reframe the role of the Pentagon's top civilian leader during his first months on the job, casting himse...

Interesting.

Like, have they tried not escalating in the first place

-King Arthur
-Robin Hood

-Cinderella

-Mary Poppins

Re: Trump’s tariffs on “foreign” movies, i e. not America. These are all “foreign”:
-James Bond
-Harry Potter
-Lord of the Rings
-Godzilla
-King Kong
-Dracula
-Frankenstein
-Mummies
-Shakespeare
-Sherlock Holmes
-Every Bible movie

I don’t have enough information to make a judgement about that.

Swarthmore pro-Palestinian encampment disbanded; 9 people arrested For Swarthmore students, consequences could involve interim suspension and even expulsion, a school representative told the protesters.

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Swarthmore grad and longtime TPM reader here: I was very politically active while I was there, but this does not surprise me, and I fully support the College administration.

Trump's threat to arrest Governor Evers is a chilling attempt to normalize fascism & silence dissent.

They want to bully & intimidate anyone who doesn't conform to their ideology.

We will NOT be intimidated.

We will NOT be silenced.

We will DEFEND our freedom.

May Day and the intersection of civil rights and workers' rights It took a bit, but labor eventually got on board with protecting everyone's rights.

May Day and the intersection of civil rights and workers' rights... fascinating piece by the brilliant April Ryan open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Last line is the best.