Chris Lovell

It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.

And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.

Isn’t the 9th Circuit of Appeals likely to overturn this?

Reminds me of this classic: “Q. Can the president eat a baby?
A. If that baby has suspected ties to al Qaeda, then it's the president's duty to eat it…[he]
doesn't want to eat sweet, delicious babies. He just wants to protect America…” fafblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/q-ou...

dementia *is* a Latin term!

If @jay.bsky.team actually believes there should be no Caesars, she would un-suspend Link tonight

wizard frog is insane

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

This sounds amazing and I'm kind of upset I have to wait until May 2026 to read it!

I’m Ta-Nehisi Coates, I’m the writer, I’m the individual, right? But I am part of something larger, and I’ve always felt myself as part of something larger. I have a tradition, I have ancestry, I have heritage. What that means is that I do whatever I do within the time that I have in my life, whatever time I’m gifted with, and much of what I do is built on what other people did before them. Then, after that, I leave the struggle where I leave it, and hopefully, it’s in a better place. Oftentimes it’s not. That’s the history in fact. And then my progeny, they pick it up, and they keep it going. I am descended from people who, in their lifetime, fought with all their might for the destruction of chattel slavery in this country. And they never saw it. They never saw it. In my personal belief system, they died in defeat, in darkness. So I guess the privilege that I draw out of this, the honor that I draw out of this, is not that things will necessarily be better in my lifetime, but that I will make the contribution that I am supposed to make.

Ta-Nehisi Coates dropping such a beautiful articulation of a sense of #history and struggle that, I think, minority communities understand way more than, say, your average white American.

"I will make the contribution that I am supposed to make."

Write that on my classroom wall. 🗺️

trump's numbers on economic policy are worse than bush/obama's during the financial crisis

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Maybe they should form an organization so they could advocate for their interests all together! They could call it a collective, or a union…

I can’t fucking believe I lived to see pro- and anti-regime Man Show hosts

This is extra wild when you remember that Tori Branum, the white woman who called ICE, did so because she claimed the 450+ workers were here illegally and they were trafficked and suffering human rights abuses, and she saved their lives.

Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete.

Brilliant: arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/e...

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

This is getting to points of obscenity.
1) BRAZIL HAS INDEPENDENT COURTS AND YOU ARE DOING PROPAGANDA FOR JOHN ROBERTS
2) This trial happened the same number of years after the coup that Trump's trial would have happened BUT FOR JOHN ROBERTS

Ezra- Your piece on the death of Charlie Kirk was reckless, insulting, condescending, and worst of all, a piece of hagiography. For someone who claims to honor history and context in your work, it reads as if it was written by someone who respects neither of those things.  What does it mean to practice politics in the "right way"? For whom does a "taste for disagreement" benefit? Certainly not the vulnerable populations—trans people, Black women, and more—who Kirk routinely targeted with hate speech and calls for violence.  When I was a college intern at NBC News Washington in 2008, I would watch your MSNBC appearances on the monitor in our office. At that point I could only dream of having a platform like yours, which has grown exponentially since then. Now that I have a platform (albeit it much, much smaller than yours) and I couldn't fathom using it to gaslight the country into believing a hateful man stood for a public good. Maybe it's time to consider how you're using yours.  Marisa

i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social

It’s so bizarre that everyone wants to blame Garland. The Supreme Court’s immunity decision derailed the insurrection case and Aileen Cannon drew Out the documents case so long it couldn’t be prosecuted…it’s the Republican judiciary’s fault, not Garland’s!

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

I can’t believe how many liberals take this stupid person seriously

You know there would be a pretty good line the media could draw between these appalling comments and Trump's well-documented history of sexual assault and alleged domestic abuse and turn it into something they cover scandalously, but they choose not to do that. Choose. A choice they make every day

The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain

you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later

To my 10th grade English teacher, who said, “Make the conclusion count.”

I remember smirking at the Butlerian Jihad when I read Dune as a teen. Religious fundamentalism against AI? Sounds pretty extreme! Anyway I get it now and also I’m ready to join up

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.