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Kimmel and Comey Highlight the Trump Regime's Limitations Their desire for authoritarian abuse is bottomless, their ability to carry it out is not

"The Trump regime’s desire for cruelty, corruption, and criminality appears bottomless, but just because they want to doesn’t mean they can. Lacking capacity, they’re trying to bluster and meme their way into consolidated authoritarianism"

It's serious, but don't help them by falling for the trick.

👇🎯 Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"

The unbelievably unserious nature of how the 2024 presidential election was covered would be shocking, were it not exactly the same as how the 2020 & 2016 elections were covered.

It's never worth asking a shameless person whether they feel shame.

In all seriousness, I'd love to see a reporter try to get comments from all of these people about their initial impulse to declare a literal war on half of their fellow citizens and to see if any of them regret it, apologized for it or learned anything at all from it.

#UMich 👀

@weisenthal.bsky.social

Keep picturing Patel dropping the casings in terror after reading “if you read this youre gay”

A society in which even the message to get offline is expressed through a reference to meme language that assumes a high degree of familiarity with online lingo is not a society which is going to solve its problem with online irony poisoning any time soon.

Wait, LMAO doesn't mean Leninist-Marxist Arms Operator?

Bit, wet, out.

Charlie Kirk spent his last days manufacturing a lurid panic about “Black-on-White crime” and his final post on X was a call to politicize a murder. He was not “practicing politics the right way.“ You can oppose what happened yesterday without pretending he was One of the Good Ones.

yikes

De Gaulle might match Mandelson: his Workout in 1946 and his loss of the referendum in 1969, though arguably these were less ignominious resignations.

Churchill: Gallipoli 1915 > General Election 1945.

Here's to another one in 24 years 🥂

He espoused not just differences of opinion, but violent rhetoric about LGBTQ people, black people, women, Muslims, immigrants, etc. Those violent views were representative of what he wanted the government to *do* when the people he advocated for took power.

Starmer is still captive to Labour’s contradictions His challenges spring from unresolved tensions within his party and leadership

"Tony Blair was able to face down the left partly because MPs stayed confident he was a winner. To put it gently, this is not the median view of Starmer." Terrific column by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social:

As an aside, Sánchez remains one of the savviest leaders in modern European history

Spain's Partido Popular (PP) is learning what should be obvious: if you ally with and ape the policies and messaging of a fascist party, you only transfer your own votes to that party. Lessons for the Tories, Labour, and Democrats.
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This is one of the many, many reasons we should all condemn the celebration of political violence, as Kirk did here: You often don't get to decide when to dismount the tiger. It eats you first.

Screenshot of Elon Musk tweet from shortly after Charlie Kirk was shot. Elon says "The Left is the party of murder" and is quote tweeting a post from Shaun Maguire that reads: The Left lectured us for the last decade about the dangers of violence from the Right From the assassination attempts of President Trump To Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare CEO, being murdered Now to Charlie Kirk The danger was actually on the Left

I'll merely note that today, like all days, is a great day to stop posting on Twitter, a platform whose owner force feeds this slop into people's brains with an algorithm designed to boost his views and trample yours.

Nationwide Building Society online banking and app is down for at least some users. Not currently reflected on service status page.

it’s fascinating. majorities of americans oppose the military occupation of cities. a substantial number of those are fucking furious about it, but rather than lean into this anger and attack trump’s perception of strength, these “strategists” want democrats to avoid the confrontation entirely.

Rick Davies, Lead Singer of Supertramp, Dies at 81

One of the most underrated singer-songwriters of the 20th century www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/w...

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival