Delight Hates Fascists

It's tempting to see Trump's Alaskan adventure as more electoral skullduggery. But it's a dangerous escalation of his attacks on democracy. He's not trying to suppress votes, he's trying to steal votes that have already been cast. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Bad night for Trump and the global ethno nationalist right. Couldn't happen to a more deserving group of villains.

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

My favorite part of this Trump mega-rant about Bill Maher is when he writes, “Who cares?” Well, probably you, dude, but hardly anyone else.

It’s peak Trumpism when Republicans blow up a school full of Iranian Muslim girls and then call an American politician a terrorist because he’s Muslim.

Abolish ICE.

The evolution of JD Vance’s political mindset, in 4 steps: 1. This guy Trump seems like Hitler. 2. He sure is popular. 3. I want to be popular too. 4. I want to be Hitler too.

TMFRH used to snort coke off of toilet seats but do go on

Blanche is not the people's attorney general. He's Trump's fascist enforcer.

Todd Blanche wants us to shove the Jan. 6 insurrection into a vault as ancient history alongside the Tilden-Hayes Compromise of 1877. But it was only 5 years ago that Trump tried to steal an election!

Going through old notes today, I was reminded that the NY Times' Peter Baker wrote in January that Trump had "changed the definition of normal." It helps us understand NYT's shortcomings when we realize it accepts the idea that Trump gets to decide what's normal.

News just broke that Elon Musk made a $1 billion investment in the Ellison family's Skydance, which owns CBS and CNN. Anoher step toward right-wing "media capture," as I wrote about recently in my Stop the Presses newsletter.

this is why you don't comply in the first place because nothing is ever enough for this dipshit of a human. pretty soon he's going to want to rename earth "planet trump"

Of course, the sexual predator in chief defends mocking 12 year old rape victims

Dear reporters: Please stop asking if they're going to do things that are illegal. It's not helping at all.

I have been praying for this kind of pushback from Democrats against Elon Musk for a long time now and I am thrilled that the Talarico camp is leaning into it. Light. Him. Up.

Democrats need to run against Elon Musk. Bravo to Talarico for doing it.

You know what pissed me off about the Ramaswamy ad beyond the obvious grotesqueries? There’s no EVIDENCE disputing Acton’s life story. There are court proceedings backing up her story. And all Ramaswamy’s got is the (accused) mother saying “nu uh” and somehow that’s enough? FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

In case you're wondering why Democratic leadership is a collection of spineless, worthless, timid clowns allowing the country to be swallowed by fascism...................the people they listen to all think like Yglesias.

Dr. King had something to say about the white moderate being ain't shit. (I'm paraphrasing.)

Trump thinks he gets to decide who serves in his Congress. Let's disabuse him of that notion.

Newsletter is up. Turns out, I don’t like ads. I don’t like campaign ads mocking rape victims. I don’t like AI ads. Uhh, like and subscribe… because i don’t like ads :)

A legitimate president would answer reporters’ questions instead of demanding they identify what outlet they’re from and then hurling insults at them. But a criminal who ran for president to avoid going to prison would act the way Trump acts.

Russia was never a hoax. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/w...

Putin and his oligarch buddies must be laughing their asses off at how Trump’s “art of the deal” led to the United States’ humiliating surrender to them.

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This is awful, but I appreciate how much the idiots in charge of CBS are doing to let the entire world know that they are no longer a legitimate news organization.

This is what "media capture" looks like.

Vivek Ramaswamy, at the last, has no decency.

This man: - Lost his green card at 21 because of a single drug possession conviction, but won protection against removal to Iran. - Checked in with ICE for 23 years. - Married a US citizen in 2016 - Was arrested at his home by ICE in 2025 so they could send him to a third country A broken system.

Noted radical... Hillary Clinton... now in favor of court expansion. :)

I wrote about a crucial Texas race you might not be paying attention to: who replaces Ken Paxton as Texas AG in one of the most influential such offices in the country, one Paxton has used to persecute whichever groups the GOP happens to be targeting www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

JD Vance says he doesn't care if the candidate he supports is exploiting a family tragedy in which a 12-year-old girl was raped.

As Ramaswamy doubles down on his new ad featuring a woman who chose her pedophile rapist husband over her own daughter, his victim, let me remind you that this story happened literally one week ago. They really, really, really want to lock up the pedophile vote.

Elon Musk has already declared war on Democrats and begun fighting it on several fronts. This fight is happening, whether or not some centrists want it. There's no real choice now but to make a clear case in the election and then go hard after him when they retake Congress.

That Vivek Ramaswamy ad drives home the point that Republican politicians think rape – even the rape of children – is no big deal. That disgusting ad is fully consistent with Republicans covering up the Epstein files.

Is it good when the vice president comes in to support your campaign and the resulting press coverage is all about how he says you are not a total shitbag for your ad featuring your opponent's mother who abandoned her after the mother's boyfriend was charged with sexually assaulting the daughter?

Microsoft literally told fragile white guys to use AI to compete with Black co-workers.

It’s been certified that Trump supporters are indeed tragically stupid. Stop expecting they’ll come to their senses. They’re hopelessly brain dead.

A third of Americans approve of Trump’s performance, according to this poll. Which means they’re either A) brain-damaged; B) lack self-respect and enjoy being victims, or C) think high prices are worth it as long as members of minority groups are treated like scum. Let me know if you have a D).

Republicans spent the last two years trying to rile up the MAGA base with red-meat attacks on different groups -- non-white immigrants, LGBTQ people, academics, etc etc -- but none of it resonated in a failing economy with gas and grocery prices spiking. All they did was motivate their opponents.

... the vice president, a veteran, didn't try to learn anything about how U.S. service members died due to the war his administration started?

With 15 days remaining before the midterm elections, the president has today posted about a) the Reflecting Pool b) East Potomac golf course in DC c) France d) Democrats appearing on Fox News.

This. Fucking. Guy

So JD Vance wants to play a game of Fact-Free Innuendo. That makes me wonder if Vance lost his conscience between the couch cushions.

Peter Thiel, the billionaire who owns majority stock in JD Vance, is gay. I wonder how he feels about his puppet's grade-school homophobia. Maybe he doesn't care. Maybe all that matters to Thiel is money and power, and it doesn't matter how you get it.

WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."

I assumed that had to be a badly photoshopped image and NOPE just more of the Mar-a-Lago cult's creepiness