Virgil Starkwell

How can Texas Christian nationalists manage their cognitive dissonance over this guy? A crook, liar, philanderer, cheat, and bigot, but they still are willing to live with him. We need the devil to show up to see the limits.

Israel specializes in collective punishment. More war crimes.

For fuck’s sake

Feels like 1914 all over again.

With or without his pension? Will he be de-certified and barred from law enforcement for life? With his pension intact and with the opportunity to work again in law enforcement, he is getting away with murder.

Verizon: Are you watching?

Hegseth’s enlisting Israel to animate a new wave of violence against Iran puts American weakness on display. It also shows desperation and stupidity. It won’t turn the war and may cost Republicans a few house seats in the elections in either country.

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.

Vance is numb to child predation? incest? family disintegration? Wow.

like vance, ramaswamy is a hateful, resentful orc of a human being, and the reason i think this will hurt him politically — where this stuff didn’t hurt trump — is that ramaswamy, like vance, is also profoundly unlikeable. he has no charm or charisma or anything. just a dipshit.

CARTOON OF THE DAY H/T @sketchyrepublic.bsky.social

Calling Putin a ‘Humanitarian,’ Witkoff Thanks Him for Releasing American prisoner.

Bless him

Most modern First Amendment violations would have mystified the Constitution's framers. Not this one. Federal functionaries threatening the licenses of journalists who publish news of the president's unpopularity is as core to the amendment's prohibitions as one can get.

WATCH: “Trump’s favorite pastime is taking credit for something Biden did.” @debunktionjunction.bsky.social shows Trump is taking credit for a manufacturing surge that happened under Biden… that again went DOWN under Trump. In case facts still matter.

“we all lose when the president commandeers a public institution and turns it into a monument to himself — particularly when he does it using taxpayer dollars and without congressional authorization.” @lizdye.bsky.social x @atrupar.com open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

In case facts still matter — we have abandoned Ukraine in favor of Putin Russia was never a hoax

Good that they resigned, but were they decertified as police officers, and banned from future work in law-enforcement? Unlikely.

WATCH: “A good hangin’ right here on the public square.”😕 Republican Rep. Paul Sherrell - who once apologized for calling for bringing back “lynchings” - now backs public executions and tells opponent Samantha Petit (D) he wants to bring back public hangings and firing squads.

Aren't they supposed to be neutral? Dark turn at ZBS News.

Straight line of anti-Muslim ‘journalism’ from Bari Weis to CBS legal affairs correspondent Ian Crawford. Bigotry at high levels of the Tiffany Network.

Watching Rams lose to Cards' buzzerbeater. Greg Olsen is sooo much better than Brady. He talked the progression in strategy and execution in the last minute with precision. Kenny Albert pretty good too.

He'll screw it up, everything he touches turns to merde. See, viz, the reflecting pool, the Kennedy Center, FEMA, et al. The judge will tie his hands, and Trump will run out of time.

A complete disaster in less than two years. He squandered the post-Covid recovery in Biden's last two years. Together with his evisceration of our democracy, and the disabling of the government, and the failures in war, and his surrender to Putin and Xi, Trump is the kiss of death for America.

the big thing the rise of LLMs has revealed to me is that there is a not insignificant chunk of the population that considers cognition itself to be a frustrating and unnecessary burden

Absolutely!

ADAM JOHNSON: “The raid on @repilhan’s home has thus far received zero of the above media interventions. No editorials, no opinion columns in the Times, Post, or Journal…” theintercept.com/2026/10/15/i...

Texas is a cesspool.

Dear rest of the world, If you want to know why the US elected Trump given all the things you know about him, the reason is that America has tens of millions of people as ignorant as this. We just aren't a very smart country as a whole. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I love it when they give us ready-made ads.

We at @zeteo.com, including @premthakker.bsky.social, @andrewperez.bsky.social and me are doing a new series of very Zeteo-y profiles, Tuesday - Friday this week, on the Four Horsemen of the Trump-ocalypse (the working title was: The Warmongers) Here’s the first horseman zeteo.com/p/stephen-mi...

It was hard to look the other way with Dolan as Knick frontman. This is too much. He's messing with our wellbeing.

The Art of the Deal updated.

Trump just made a deal with Putin. He’s going to buy Russian oil instead of ours. And these Alberta idiots think they want to be American.Trump will take all he can from Alberta and leave them for dead 💀 ~ Never 51 (FB)

Donald Trump’s plan to buy diesel and gas from Russia is just as insane roar as his plan from the Treason Summit in Helsinki to turn over America’s cyber defenses to Putin. He’s the first American President to be a vassal of another country’s dictator.

The deal doesn’t just align the United States against Ukraine, it positions us in opposition to every democratic government on the planet, to every institution of international law, and our own commitments and signed agreements. It is abominable.

Didn't know JDV was so smooth!

I read these stories and wonder how Republicans can play so fast and loose with people's lives. And how anyone with a below median income would vote for them. Religion? Race? Rage?

Foley Square demonstration tomorrow?

Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...

ICE's recruitment of thugs, paper thin training, and absence of discipline produced this violence. A massive demonstration in front of 26 Fed Plaza needs to happen. The endangerment of the child is criminal, and typical of ICE.

They all knew, but sucked-up anyway...